[vdr] Re: CHANNEL Scanner for Cable

[Achim_Lange@t-online.de (Achim Lange)]

Hi Alexander,


Am Freitag, 27.12.02 um 19:17 Uhr schrieb Alexander Damhuis:

> Hello all,
>
> I am searching for a tool/script to creat channel.conf file on a DVB-C 
> system.
> Just to complete everything, at the moment I really can live perfect 
> with the
> delivered files, but sometimes a freq changes here and there. Then I 
> need to
> crawl through web or use a Windows tool to scan (who really wants to 
> boot
> W2K??).
>
> So, this is what I found out:
>
> - DVBTUNE is not able to handle the QAM in Cable (or I am to dumb to
> configure), but I could creat a nice XML file and this can be ported to
> channels.conf structure
>
> - DVBSAK is in fact scanning cable frequencies, but I really didn't 
> find any
> documentation (wether in the tarballs nor on sourceforge, nor googling
> around). I found out how start the tool dvbscan (part of DVBSAK) and 
> let it
> print out the results, but there is a lot missing (PID, VID, ...)
>
> So, my question: Anyone out there, who has something like this for 
> DVB-C
> scripts for DVBSAK or another tool) ??? I would also support any 
> developer
> (of both tools) with information on cable network, DVB broadcasting 
> and I
> would do scripting and testing. Alas I am not a programmer :-( ...
>

Have you tried dtv_scan from DTV-package ( 
http://hesdvb.sourceforge.net/ )?

I don't know about QAM, but it worked fine here for DVB-S and DVB-C

HTH,

Ciao,

	Achim



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