Rob Shortt wrote: > Hi Dischi, I've had a chance to do an update and check some things out. > > Dirk Meyer wrote: >> Dirk Meyer wrote: >> >>>Only DVB is working right now, Rob needs to update ivtv >>>to the new style. Rob: to do that, I guess you need to integrate some >>>sort of scanner so you know what channels you have. Freevo-tvdev > > Ok, scanning analog channels may become a problem in some parts of the > world or there may be problems with some drivers implimenting the ioctl > calls we use. The current scanning produces an error on my ATI > TV-Wonder and finds no channels on my ivtv card. I am pretty sure that > the vbi calls in the ivtv driver don't conform to what's expected, and I > will be looking into this issue on the ivtv list.
There is a difference between detecting channels and using vbi. To detect a channel we need to tune to it (every card needs to support that) and read the signal strength (I hope very card can do that). The vbi stuff is only to detect channel names in Europe. If it fails for you, maybe we can deactivate it. > I would like to be able to fall back to using the regular chanlist > (us-cable, europe-west, etc) if scanning fails. [...] > (when scanning fails, which it will). See above, I'm sure scanning itself doesn't fail. > I'm not convinced that a channels.conf is required for tv and ivtv > devices, but maybe if scanning was reliable. Scanning for analog > channels is not a frequent practice (probably for that reason). I will > look into this more. It should be. Dischi -- In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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