Hi Patrick, Thanks very much for your help! Patrick Boettcher wrote: > Can you please try the following: > > run tzap -r "BBC One Scot" and let mplayer play /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > directly (you don't need dvbstream, when playing locally). > > When mplayer appears to have the blocky picture, try to run dvbscan -c, > while tzap is still running. OK, just tried this. Below is the output: [when working] matt@aragorn:~$ dvbscan -c using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' 0x0000 0x107c: pmt_pid 0x107c BBC -- BBC ONE Scot (???) 0x0000 0x10bc: pmt_pid 0x10bc BBC -- BBC TWO Scot (???) 0x0000 0x10fc: pmt_pid 0x10fc BBC -- BBC THREE (???) 0x0000 0x113c: pmt_pid 0x113c BBC -- BBC NEWS 24 (???) 0x0000 0x117c: pmt_pid 0x117c BBC -- BBCi (???) 0x0000 0x123c: pmt_pid 0x123c BBC -- CBBC Channel (???) 0x0000 0x183c: pmt_pid 0x183c BBC -- BBC R Scotland (???) 0x0000 0x187c: pmt_pid 0x187c BBC -- BBC R n Gaidheal (???) dumping lists (8 services) BBC R Scotland (0x183c) 02: PCR == A A 0x006b (eng) BBC R n Gaidheal (0x187c) 02: PCR == A A 0x00d3 (gae) BBC ONE Scot (0x107c) 01: PCR == V V 0x00c9 A 0x00ca (eng) 0x00ce (eng) SUB 0x00cd BBC TWO Scot (0x10bc) 01: PCR == V V 0x00dd A 0x00de (eng) 0x00e2 (eng) SUB 0x00e1 BBC THREE (0x10fc) 01: PCR 0x1fff BBC NEWS 24 (0x113c) 01: PCR == V V 0x0119 A 0x011a (eng) SUB 0x011d BBCi (0x117c) 01: PCR 0x1fff CBBC Channel (0x123c) 01: PCR == V V 0x00f1 A 0x00f2 (eng) SUB 0x00f5 Done. [when not working] matt@aragorn:~$ dvbscan -c using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011 dumping lists (8 services) [183c] (0x183c) 00: PCR == A A 0x006b (eng) [187c] (0x187c) 00: PCR == A A 0x00d3 (gae) [107c] (0x107c) 00: PCR == V V 0x00c9 A 0x00ca (eng) 0x00ce (eng) SUB 0x00cd [10bc] (0x10bc) 00: PCR == V V 0x00dd A 0x00de (eng) 0x00e2 (eng) SUB 0x00e1 [10fc] (0x10fc) 00: PCR 0x1fff [113c] (0x113c) 00: PCR == V V 0x0119 A 0x011a (eng) SUB 0x011d [117c] (0x117c) 00: PCR 0x1fff [123c] (0x123c) 00: PCR == V V 0x00f1 A 0x00f2 (eng) SUB 0x00f5 Done. > It if won't time out, but put out the channels of this frequency, than > the problem is probably the software-demuxer (unlikely), otherwise it is > a bug in the dvb-usb-framework... I'm guessing it's the latter then from the above output? > Sorry for this mess, Not at all, you guys are doing a great job! Thanks for all your efforts on DVB for linux. thanks, Matt.