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8 1. With Digital TV, a single physical channel may have different
10 This is what a TV user would call "channel". So, in order to
14 a lot of information related to the media subsystem. If you
16 you'll be able to get something useful there. It is hosted
21 Some very frequently asked questions about Linux Digital TV support
23 1. The signal seems to die a few seconds after tuning.
28 is closed). The ``dvb-core`` module parameter ``dvb_shutdown_timeout``
29 allow you to change the timeout (default 5 seconds). Setting the
30 timeout to 0 disables the timeout feature.
34 Together with the Linux Kernel, the Digital TV developers support
36 and to demonstrate how the DVB API works. This is called DVB v5
37 tools and are grouped together with the ``v4l-utils`` git repository:
39 https://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git/
45 The first step is to get a list of services that are transmitted.
48 for example the ``dvbv5-scan`` tool. You can find more information
51 https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Dvbv5-scan
54 blind scan, trying hard to find all possible channels, but
55 those consumes a large amount of time to run.
60 to scan for services. So, you don't need to use an external
61 application to obtain such list.
65 maintain tables of Digital TV channel transponders, receiving
66 patches from the community to keep them updated.
70 https://git.linuxtv.org/dtv-scan-tables.git
80 transponders. If not, you may need to seek for such info at
83 knowing how to tune into a single channel is enough for the
84 scanning tool to identify the other channels. On some places,
87 Once you have a transponders list, you need to generate a services
88 list with a tool like ``dvbv5-scan``.
90 Almost all modern Digital TV cards don't have built-in hardware
91 MPEG-decoders. So, it is up to the application to get a MPEG-TS
95 3. Which Digital TV applications exist?
98 digital TV channels, including Kaffeine, Vlc, mplayer and MythTV.
100 Kaffeine aims to be very user-friendly, and it is maintained
110 KDE media player, focused on Digital TV support
116 Digital TV and other media-related applications and
117 Kernel drivers. The ``v4l-utils`` package there contains
118 several swiss knife tools for using with Digital TV.
144 MythTV - analog TV and digital TV PVR
147 DVB sniffer program to monitor, analyze, debug, dump
148 or view dvb/mpeg/dsm-cc/mhp stream information (TS,
153 That could be due to a lot of problems. On my personal experience,
155 sensitive to noise. So, perhaps you just need a better antenna or
158 For example, if you are using a Technotrend/Hauppauge DVB-C card
159 *without* analog module, you might have to use module parameter
160 adac=-1 (dvb-ttpci.o).
167 If that doesn't work, check at the linux-media ML archives, to
169 and/or digital TV service provider:
171 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/
173 If none of this works, you can try sending an e-mail to the
174 linux-media ML and see if someone else could shed some light.
175 The e-mail is linux-media AT vger.kernel.org.
186 which ``ifconfig`` or ``netstat -ni`` outputs. (Note: If the MAC
187 address is wrong, ``dvb_net`` won't get any input; thus you have to
190 then either the PID is wrong or the stream does not conform to
202 7. What are all those modules that need to be loaded?
204 In order to make it more flexible and support different hardware
207 So, besides the Digital TV hardware module for the main chipset,
208 it also needs to load a frontend driver, plus the Digital TV
212 core support for video4linux need to be loaded.
214 The actual module names are Linux-kernel version specific, as,
215 from time to time, things change, in order to make the media