From: CityK <cityk@rogers.com>
To: Malte Gell <malte.gell@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dvb-t: searching for channels
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:25:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4968E810.2050307@rogers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901101645.51230.malte.gell@gmx.de>
Malte Gell wrote:
> 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.
>
For answers to some of your questions, see:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Scan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-10 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-10 15:45 dvb-t: searching for channels Malte Gell
2009-01-10 18:25 ` CityK [this message]
2009-01-10 19:40 ` Malte Gell
2009-01-11 18:02 ` CityK
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