Hi all I am making slow progress and am still a good way off from having a working system What I have: [mythtv@f864office szap2]$ ./szap2 -c ../../channels.sat2 -t0 -n101 reading channels from file '../../channels.sat2' zapping to 101 'BBC NEWS 24;BSkyB': sat 0, frequency = 10773 MHz H, symbolrate 22000000, vpid = 0x1518, apid = 0x1519 sid = 0x151b Querying info .. Delivery system=DVB-S using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' ----------------------------------> Using 'STB0899 DVB-S' DVB-S do_tune: API version=3, delivery system = 0 do_tune: Frequency = 1023000, Srate = 22000000 do_tune: Frequency = 1023000, Srate = 22000000 status 00 | signal 0000 | snr 0004 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe | status 1e | signal 0136 | snr 005f | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1e | signal 0136 | snr 005f | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1e | signal 0136 | snr 0060 | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1e | signal 0136 | snr 005e | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1e | signal 0136 | snr 005e | ber 00000000 | unc fffffffe | FE_HAS_LOCK If I do cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dv0 > test.ts Then it remains empty Also the channel is locked but displaying very poor signal/snr Any help will be much appreciated Regards Mike Curtis _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb