> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 01:50:00PM -0900, Roger wrote:
>/usr/bin/cx25840ctl
>/usr/bin/ivtv-radio
>/usr/bin/ivtv-mpegindex
>/usr/bin/ivtv-tun
>
>ie.
>
>$ ivtv-tune --freqtable=us-bcast --channel=16
>/dev/video0: 483.250 MHz
>
>
>Using either mplayer or cat on /dev/video0, I get a blip of gray static and 
>then the screen goes black.  I do have good audio so I can hear either the 
>static or the station broadcast.  Most I have here on analog TV freqs are 
>10-20 
>scrambled (over the air cable in Alaska here) and one standard TV channel 
>which 
>is poor in quality.

I'm guessing the black screen is something like macrovision, when the signal 
either gets strong enough or the macrovision is just on selected scrambled 
channels.

>From here, somebody could script together a channel scanner quite easily for 
scanning channels, wait for 3-5 seconds,  and while waiting/holding on a 
frequency/channel - checking for a signal.

ivtv-tune is probably a much better option then xawtv's scantv.  And for a 
viewer just use mplayer.

Cheers for getting me going into the correct direction!  I'll document on the 
Gentoo Wiki for others. ;-)

-- 
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
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