Hi Alan! You are perfectly right! All my files look that way. -- Peter Fassberg On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am a bit puzzled over exactly what scan files (ie the driving file for the > scan program) should contain. > > In particular, with my Freecom usb pen drive (14aa:0225 ids), the scan file > for the UK Crystal Palace that is distributed with scan does not work. It > has the single line > > T 505833333 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE > > noting in particular the frequency of 505.83MHz, against the published > frequency for JUST ONE of the multiplexes at Crystal Palace of 506MHz. > > There was a post on this list that the Freecom device needed an exact > frequency because of a firmware bug, so I did create a new file with > > T 506000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE > > And it appears to find the channels on one of the multiplexes. > > But Crystal Palace has six multiplexes for digital terrestial TV, some with > frequencies above and below the 506MHz > > I had a poke around the code as to how it was finding frequencies to scan, but > couldn't really understand it. It appeared to be generating the next scan > frequency once it had done the initial tune, but it was too hard without > really getting down and understanding it. > > I have created a file with the following in, and it works (in the sense that > it scans the 6 frequencies mentioned and finds loads of channels, and then > starts looking at others and fails most of the time but does seem to pick up > some more) > > T 506000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE > T 482000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 2k 1/32 NONE > T 562000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 2k 1/32 NONE > T 530000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE > T 578000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE > T 538000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE > > So is this what the uk-CrystalPalace file _should_ look like, or have I > totally misunderstood what should happen > > > _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
