-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Krufky wrote: > Andy- > > Sorry for double email, I forgot to cc linux-dvb the first time. > > On 12/6/05, Andy Burns <linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Hi there, >> >>I'm just getting my htpc built, having used scan and tzap of course, >>before using xine for display so far. >> >>Currently the PC is connected to a fairly poor aerial, which of course >>complicates things, while I found tzap or femon could give useful >>information, reading a stream of hex digits while pointing an aerial and >> fiddling with an amplifier isn't necessarily the easiest thing to do, >>so I've cooked up gtzap which is a GTK version of tzap, with progress >>bars used as "meters" for signal/snr/ber which are easier to look at ;-) >> >>see http://adslpipe.co.uk/linuxhtpc/images/gtzap1.png >> >>It got me thinking, is there a wider need for a decent gui frontend >>which can guide a user through initial DVB setup? Or have I missed the >>fact that such a utility already exists ? >> >>It could handle detecting cards, channel scanning, either a full (slow) >>autoscan, or taking "seed" values like scan currently does, or perhaps >>even looking up tuning details from a central transmitter database which >>can be updated more frequently than the util/scan/dvb* files from CVS >>and displaying status information from the tuner. >> >>I'm happy to have a go at building such a utility, grabbing whatever >>bits are need from existing utilities where possible ... >> >>Thoughts? >> > > > Screenshot looks great to me.... Does your program depend on tzap to run, or > did you merge the tzap code into your own code? > > Can this gui be adapted (or does it need to be) to support azap, czap and > szap? > > It would be best if it could somehow use the code already present in Xzap, > and only behave as a frontend to the Xzap utility... Is this what you're > already doing? > > I think your proposal is a good one... Many dvb newbies (myself included, > when I first got started) don't know how to go through the process of > scanning for channels, and proper testing methods... I think you're onto > something good, and I don't think there is any easy-to-use utility already > out there... Does anybody else know different? > > Cheers, > Michael Krufky > > MythTV is pretty easy to set up now (as of 0.18) - it detects your DVB cards and has a channel scanner built in - of course, it only sets up MythTV - you'll have to extract the info you want from its database to use it in other apps - -- Simon Kilvington -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDlq2Dmt9ZifioJSwRAtfnAJ98r0VHArpMDt/bIZOVh//ceipKuACcCyVB NjvblvjpFBHGnDOkIs3Qsw4= =EODn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
