<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 14/09/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Chandler</b> <<a href="mailto:alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk">alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Gary Dawes writes:<br>><br>> have you tried tscan at a command prompt? cnnot remember the exact syntax,<br>> but you will need frequency and qam for you local transmitter. there is<br>> plenty of stuff on the net about using the dvb utils and mplayer etc to
<br>> scan<br>> tune, and then watch a dvb stream. try this site for information<br>> <a href="http://www.carfax.org.uk/docs/DVB/">http://www.carfax.org.uk/docs/DVB/</a><br>><br>> Also this site has channel details in for various transmitters
<br>> <a href="http://linux.mikeasoft.com/dvb.php">http://linux.mikeasoft.com/dvb.php</a>. What I had to do in myth was put the<br>> frequency and qam in for my local transmitter, before it would scan. the<br>> information you need is on the scan list for the transmitters. If the
<br>> entry<br>> for your local transmitter has a channel list, you could try downloading<br>> the channel list of that site, and importing it into myth.<br><br><br>I have tried scan (aka dvbscan - scan is Debian's name) but there is
<br>something I don't understand. If you look at the supplied transmitter files<br>(and if you look at the site references above) they only list one frequency.<br>My nearest transmitter, UK Crystal Palace transmits digital on 6
<br>frequencies, and the lowest of these frequencies is below the one in the<br>supplied file. So what does the transmitter file actually tell scan. I<br>can't find any explanation of this at all.<br><br><br><br><br> --
<br>Alan Chandler<br><a href="mailto:alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk">alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk</a><br>(via webmail - normally means I am not at my computer)<br><br></blockquote></div>when I did it both scan and myth seem to use the frequency listed as a start point for the scan, and they then work it out from there. I needed to put in extra information though, such as the qam. try putting in as much information as you can for a full scan
<br><br>try doing 2 scans one with the supplied frequency and one with the lowest you know about, and what the difference is. <br>