Eric Cronin wrote: > > On Apr 30, 2008, at 8:20 PM, Michael Krufky wrote: >> Eric Cronin wrote: >>> >>> On Apr 30, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Michael Krufky wrote: >>> >>>>> >>>>> Eric, >>>>> >>>>> When you use the scan command to scan for QAM channels, you must >>>>> specify -a2, to signify that you are scanning digital cable. >>>>> >>>>> Try that -- does that work? >>>> >>>> >>>> My bad -- I meant, "-A 2" (capitol A, space, 2) >> >> scan -A 2 -vvv dvb-apps/util/scan/atsc/us-Cable-Standard-whatever > >> channels.conf >> >> Is THAT what you're doing to scan ? >> >> >> It looks like what you were doing was scan a tuned frequency for pids. >> If you want to do THAT, then you must actually be tuned to the given >> frequency. you need to azap SOME_CHANNEL -r, and keep that running >> before attempting to run 'scan -c' ... I think you should try the scan >> command that I mentioned above. >> >> HTH, >> >> Mike >> > > > I was only using one -v, but the scan file isn't the problem. It is > just the single line out of > /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/atsc/us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256 > corresponding to a known good frequency. Otherwise it scans from 0-70 > which are all NTSC and gets annoying on repeated attempts... > > Adding two more -v's doesn't change anything, status is always 0x00 > and nothing gets written to STDOUT (channels.conf) > > ~$ scan -A 2 -vvv The -v is just for verbosity. My question should have been, "did you give it a chance to scan through the entire scan file? -Mike _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
