** Description changed: The packaging nor man-pages do not make clear that these tools only support a very old "legacy" tuner format (DVBv3) and as such fail to work using various instruction sources. The tuner files are installed via the dependency on 'dtv-scan-tables' and are predominantly DVBv5 format. For example, scan will fail with: $ scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/uk-XXXXXXXXX - scanning /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/uk-XXXXXXXXX - using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' - ERROR: cannot parse'[C49 BBC A] - ' - ERROR: cannot parse' DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBT - ' - ERROR: cannot parse' FREQUENCY = 698000000 + scanning /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/uk-XXXXXXXXX + using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' + ERROR: cannot parse'[C49 BBC A] + ' + ERROR: cannot parse' DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBT + ' + ERROR: cannot parse' FREQUENCY = 698000000 ' What is not made clear is that 'dtv-scan-tables' also installs the 'legacy' tables under /usr/share/dvb/dvb-legacy/ Where the equivalent for the command above would be: $ scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-legacy/dvb-t/uk-XXXXXXXXX However, the tools still fail to parse these files: - scanning /usr/share/dvb/dvb-legacy/dvb-t/uk-Waltham - using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' - initial transponder 698000000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 - initial transponder 737833000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 - ERROR: invalid enum value '5540' - ERROR: invalid enum value '0000' - ERROR: invalid enum value '0' + scanning /usr/share/dvb/dvb-legacy/dvb-t/uk-XXXXXXXX + using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' + initial transponder 698000000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 + initial transponder 737833000 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 + ERROR: invalid enum value '5540' + ERROR: invalid enum value '0000' + ERROR: invalid enum value '0' ERROR: invalid enum value '8MHz' ERROR: invalid enum value '2/3' ERROR: invalid enum value 'NONE' ERROR: invalid enum value 'QAM2' initial transponder 2 3 9 9 6 2 4 4 initial transponder 538000000 0 3 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 602000000 0 3 9 3 1 0 0 initial transponder 762000000 0 3 9 3 1 0 0 ERROR: invalid enum value '7700' ERROR: invalid enum value '0000' ERROR: invalid enum value '0' ERROR: invalid enum value '8MHz' ERROR: invalid enum value '2/3' ERROR: invalid enum value 'NONE' ERROR: invalid enum value 'QAM2' initial transponder 2 3 9 9 6 2 4 4 ERROR: invalid enum value '7540' ERROR: invalid enum value '0000' ERROR: invalid enum value '0' ERROR: invalid enum value '8MHz' ERROR: invalid enum value '2/3' ERROR: invalid enum value 'NONE' ERROR: invalid enum value 'QAM2' initial transponder 2 3 9 9 6 2 4 4 initial transponder 514000000 0 3 9 0 1 0 0 >>> tune to: 698000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_AUTO:QAM_64:TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
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