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

[Jan Ekholm]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:

>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?

It was decided that DVB-t is what we should focus on at first, so DVB-t is
what I use now.

>>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.

Hm, I wonder why I can always tune to an exact service (or even
mux/transponder) with dvbstream/zap, but not with VLC? I know that VLC
wouldn't have any idea what service I wanted unless I give exact pids or
some kind of --program info, but it should at least be able to tune to the
correct frequency, am I right?

>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.

I think something like this could be in the pipeline, but I'm not sure.


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