[vlc] Re: How is DVB with VLC really used?

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Jan Ekholm wrote:

>On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jan Ekholm wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Btw, DVB-t seems to work better than DVB-s, I gave up on that a while ago.
>>Tuning is easier and there have been no failures so far, which is really
>>great!
>>    
>>
>
>Hm, no, it still tunes all over the map. It just tunes to whatever was
>last successfully tuned, totally ignoring any kind of frequency. Something
>like this (with a random amount of 0:s) should IMHO work to tune to
>538MHz:
>
>	% vlc dvb:frequency=538000000:fec=2
>  
>
Are you tuning DVB-T or DVB-S now? Do you have a log?

>But it tunes to 714Mhz which was what I had tuned to using dvbstream a
>while ago. Giving fec=9 or anything else makes no difference.
>
>Is there any reason why the tuning code from tzap, czap and szap is not
>silently lifted into VLC to do the tuning and have VLC use a normal
>channels.conf?
>
VLC now uses the same method for tuning as dvbstream. The previous code 
was using the same method as t/c/szap (an earlier version) by the way.

The channels.conf question. ... wel nobody had have time to do this 
uptill now, so feel free to start ;-).
Using channel names to tune to stations is more intuitive for 
non-technical users and would be a great addition to VLC.

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Many greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman

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