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

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Jan Ekholm wrote:

>On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
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>>Jan Ekholm wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jan Ekholm wrote:
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>>>>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!
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>>>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:
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>>>	% vlc dvb:frequency=538000000:fec=2
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>>Are you tuning DVB-T or DVB-S now? Do you have a log?
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>It was decided that DVB-t is what we should focus on at first, so DVB-t is
>what I use now.
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Could  you try with dvb-t: iso of dvb:?

>>>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?
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>>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.
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>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?
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VLC should tune to the right frequency. I think it is trying to use 
DVB-S iso DVB-T, because dvb: defaults to DVB-S tuning. This might 
explain this behaviour you noticed.

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

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Many greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman

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