Re: dvbv5-scan needs which channel file?

[David Liontooth <lionteeth@cogweb.net>]

OK, perfect; thank you. This should be documented in dvbv5-scan. And we 
should have a man page for it.

Cheers,
David

On 12/30/14, 5:15 AM, Olli Salonen wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Well, the initial scan files need to be supplied for dvbv5-scan somehow.
>
> The initial scan files that are maintained in the the git repo I
> posted earlier are updated by users who notice differencies. Basically
> I and some other users have created scripts that automatically
> generate the files for my country, so it's rather easy. I don't know
> how it works for other countries.
>
> Anyway, if you prefer to generate the data yourself you can use w_scan
> to generate it in DVBV3 format:
> w_scan -ft -c FI -x > ~/initial_v3.conf
>
> Then use the dvb-format-convert tool that comes in the v4l-utils package:
> dvb-format-convert -I CHANNEL -O DVBV5 ~/initial_v3.conf ~/initial_data_v5.conf
>
> Then you can run dvbv5-scan with this file:
> dvbv5-scan ~/initial_data_v5.conf
>
> Alternatively you can skip the whole conversion phase and run
> dvbv5-scan with the DVBV3 initial tuning data:
> dvbv5-scan -I CHANNEL ~/initial_v3.conf
>
> Cheers,
> -olli
>
> On 30 December 2014 at 10:23, David Liontooth <lionteeth@cogweb.net> wrote:
>> Ah, thank you Olli -- much appreciated!
>>
>> If dvbv5-scan expects the initial scan files in the new DVBV5 format, does
>> that mean that these still somewhat mysterious "initial scan files" have to
>> be supplied, as in the link to the dtv-scan-tables? How are these "initial
>> scan files" themselves generated?
>>
>> Surely there must be thousands of different dvb signal locations -- is
>> linux-tv going to try to maintain these thousands of scan tables for
>> download? What do users do when their particular location is not represented
>> in the dtv-scan-tables.git?
>>
>> Finally, I'm using gnutv to record television; I imagine it still only
>> accepts the old format? What's the new alternative?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>> On 12/29/14, 11:55 PM, Olli Salonen wrote:
>>> Hello David,
>>>
>>> Coincidentally I was just yesterday working with dvbv5-scan and the
>>> initial scan files. dvbv5-scan expects the initial scan files in the
>>> new DVBV5 format. w_scan is not producing results in this format.
>>>
>>> The scan tables at
>>> http://git.linuxtv.org/cgit.cgi/dtv-scan-tables.git/ are in the new
>>> format. Some of them are a bit outdated though (send in a patch if you
>>> can update it for your area).
>>>
>>> The v4l-utils package also includes tools to convert between the old
>>> and the new format.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -olli
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29 December 2014 at 22:09, David Liontooth <lionteeth@cogweb.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Greetings --
>>>>
>>>> How do you actually use dvbv5-scan? It seems to require some kind of
>>>> input
>>>> file but there is no man page and the --help screen doesn't say anything
>>>> about it.
>>>>
>>>> Could we document this? I tried
>>>>
>>>> $ dvbv5-scan
>>>> Usage: dvbv5-scan [OPTION...] <initial file>
>>>> scan DVB services using the channel file
>>>>
>>>> What is "the channel file"? Maybe the channels.conf file? (I created mine
>>>> using "w_scan -ft -A3 -X -cUS -o7 -a /dev/dvb/adapter0/")
>>>>
>>>> $ dvbv5-scan /etc/channels.conf
>>>> ERROR key/value without a channel group while parsing line 1 of
>>>> /etc/channels.conf
>>>>
>>>> So it knows what it wants -- but what is it? Or is this a matter of dvb
>>>> versions, and my /etc/channels.conf is in the older format?
>>>>
>>>> Very mysterious.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> David
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