I think I am 90% there. Thanks for your patience so far! I now have a file.ts with 20MB data in it. mplayer won't play it though, should it be able to with no arguments? Playing file.ts. Cache fill: 5.96% (499712 bytes) TS file format detected. DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1, PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0 NO VIDEO! NO AUDIO! NO SUBS (yet)! Opened TS demuxer, audio: ffffffff(pid -1), video: ffffffff(pid -1)...POS=0 No stream found. Thanks James On 6 May 2005, at 21:46, Nico Sabbi wrote: > James Pattinson wrote: > > >> Thanks! >> >> Well now szap gives me pids: >> >> calculon dvbstream-0.5 # szap -n 1 >> reading channels from file '/root/.szap/channels.conf' >> zapping to 1 'BBC 1 London': >> sat 0, frequency = 11739 MHz V, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = >> 0x0900, apid = 0x0902 >> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' >> status 01 | signal a533 | snr 7932 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | >> status 1f | signal b93e | snr c564 | ber 00000057 | unc 00000000 >> | FE_HAS_LOCK >> >> But dvbstream isn't being very helpful: >> >> calculon dvbstream-0.5 # ./dvbstream -o -ps 0x0900 0x0902 >> > > leave alone -ps, and _set_ the correct tuning parameters: > > dvbstream -f 11739 -p V -s 27500 -o 2304 2306 > file.ts > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb >