i have played w/ szap-s2 parameters and I got tuning, BUT not a picture yet, so that only means that it can tune in, as long as i have no picture and not a usable stream for dvb-s2 again, it means NOTHING. here the output of: ./szap-s2 -O 20 -C 23 -M 5 -S 1 -r -c ~/.mplayer/channels.conf "arte HD(ZDFvision)" .... zapping to 449 'arte HD(ZDFvision)': delivery DVB-S2, modulation 8PSK sat 0, frequency 11361 MHz H, symbolrate 22000000, coderate 2/3, rolloff 0.20 vpid 0x1842, apid 0x184d, sid 0x2b70 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' status 1f | signal dac0 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal dac0 | snr 0000 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal dac0 | snr fb33 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal dac0 | snr fb33 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal dac0 | snr fb33 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal dac0 | snr fb33 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal db40 | snr fb33 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal dac0 | snr fb33 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal dac0 | snr fccd | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal dac0 | snr fccd | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal dac0 | snr fccd | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal dac0 | snr fccd | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal dac0 | snr fccd | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal db40 | snr fccd | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK - and this coderate 2/3 setting was it that made the difference. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html