From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:37579 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752263AbZAJPpr (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:45:47 -0500 From: Malte Gell To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: dvb-t: searching for channels Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:45:50 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901101645.51230.malte.gell@gmx.de> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, I just purchased a Hauppauge Nova DVB-T USB stick and the kernel module and firmware recognizes it well. I have first used Kaffeine to search for channels, but it has found none. To be sure I even bought a better, an active dvb-t antenna with a 20dB amplifier. And now I used dvbscan to scan for channels, I invoked it like this: dvbscan -out channels /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/de-Mannheim Is this the better way? It takes now longer than 15 minutes, is this normal? Is dvbscan more reliable than kaffeine for searching for channels? If I still find no channels, what could be the cause? In my region dvb-t signals are said to be not too well. thanx Malte