LinuxTV dvb-apps: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:04, 23 April 2006

dvb-apps is a small set of utilities and tests around the dvb driver.

(Debian package name: dvb-utils.)

diseqc: Sends various diseqc sequences on a SAT frontend.
set22k: Legacy tone switching for SAT frontends.
setvoltage: Legacy voltage switching for SAT frontends.
setpid: Set video and audio PIDs in the demux (only for hardware MPEG decoder)
video: tiny video watching application
test_sections: Hex dump of section data from stream.
test_sec_ne: Like test_sections, but also test Not-Equal filter mode.
test_pes: Hex dump of PES data from stream.
test_tt: Demonstrate teletext decoding from PES data.
test_av: Test audio and video MPEG decoder API.
test_vevent: Test VIDEO_GET_EVENT and poll() for video events
test_stc: Test DMX_GET_STC.
test_stillimage: Display single iframes as stillimages
test_dvr: Record a partial transport stream of selected PIDs to a file or a full stream if supported by the hardware

loadkeys: a utility to setup IR control keymaps using /proc/av7110_ir interface
dvbdate
dvbnet
dvbtraffic
scan: utility to generate channel lists for the currently tuned frequency. Use something like this:

 scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-Oxford >my_list_that_tzap_can_use

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 ==Introduction==
 dvb-apps is a small set of utilities and tests around the dvb driver.
+(Debian package name: dvb-utils.)
 ==List of utilities==
 ===test===
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 *dvbnet
 *dvbtraffic
-*scan: utility to generate channel lists for the currently tuned frequency
+*scan: utility to generate channel lists for the currently tuned frequency. Use something like this:
+  scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-Oxford >my_list_that_tzap_can_use
 *{s,t,c}zap:  command line zapping for dvb-s, dvb-t, dvb-c