Hi, I never used a file called dvb.tune. I found a channels.conf in the internet. I edited it so that all channels names do not have spaces. Maybe this i the crucial point. Hoever, oth xine and mplayer did not work stable wirh dvb on my machine. The sometimes stop playing and sometimes they stop for a few seconds and then continue playback. Also mplayer often lost a/v synchronisation. I found a very easy solution. I do not know why it works better but it does: run tzap -r <channel> in background to select a channel. While tzap is running, run this command: cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | xine --hide-gui stdin:// The same principle can be used to record a movie while watching: cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | tee -a movie.mpg | xine --hide-gui stdin:// In case of mplayer: cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | mplayer -really-quiet -framedrop -vf lavcdeint -dr - So what I like to say is that I do not use the dvb plugin of xine and mplayer. I use the /dev device and a pipe, playing the stream from stdin. Take a look at the attached shell scripts. They use this technique and kdialog to make it comfortable. The tvrec script also uses atd to schedule recordings. tv2dvd.sh need the current cvs version of mplayer (release 1.0-pre6 is to old!) to re-encode the movie and burn it onto a Video-DVD. Does that help you? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: tv.sh Type: application/x-shellscript Size: 526 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20050410/cbf8babf/tv.bin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: tvrec.sh Type: application/x-shellscript Size: 1993 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20050410/cbf8babf/tvrec.bin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: tv2dvd.sh Type: application/x-shellscript Size: 1486 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20050410/cbf8babf/tv2dvd.bin
