I'm posting this on behalf of many North American dvb-s users... Greetings. For many years now we've been using dvbscan or an app called Nscan (written by Z`) for scanning NA satellites, both of which being problematic. Briefly, dvbscan has proven for many people to be very unreliable when it comes to diseqc switching, requires a list of transponders rather then grabbing the list from the sat when supplied with a single valid transponder, takes abnormally long to complete, and often times doesn't even complete at all or produces a bad or incomplete channel list. Nscan was a blessing when it came along because it scanned much much faster, was far more realiable, supported dishpro switches (which are easy to support and commonly used by NA users), but unfortunately still has bugs which put the app into endless loops or makes it ignore entire chunks of data. Nscan has not been maintained by its author in about 2 years with no plans or change in sight. In this time I've spoken with a couple of the dvb developers in hopes that the scanner provided in dvb-apps could be finally updated but unfortunately those attempts have been unsuccessful with no promising signs of change. Myself and several other NA users aren't sure how exactly to get this problem solved once and for all but the next thing to try is to actually pool money together and offer it as a paying project. We're naturally coming to you guys, the dvb developers, first since you are most familiar with dvb related things.. If anyone is interested, a group of us would like to offer to pay cash for someone to write a new dvb-s scanner from the ground up, which will resolve the NA issues once and for all. From my understanding this shouldn't be too difficult for anyone familiar with the dvb libraries and how to use them. I appreciate everyone who took the time to read this and give it some consideration! If you're interested, please reply here or email me directly. Many thanks! _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
