hallo johannes, > > looking at the documentation is saw xine was mentioned, however, xine is > > used in a very akward way. recent xine releases have direct support for > > your driver and support szap-style channels.conf files. just copy your > > channels.conf to ~ /.xine/channels.conf and specify a dvb:// mrl on the > > command line, e.g. > > > > xine dvb:// > > gxine dvb:// > > > > alternatively you can select the dvb autoplay button/menu entry to start > > watching digital tv using xine. channel switching works using the numpad > > pgup/pgdown (NP9 / NP3) keys to scroll through the channel osd menu and > > pressing numpad-enter to switch to the selected channel. > > > > maybe the driver documentation could be updated a little here? > > I added it to the FAQ.
very nice - thank you :-) > But on my first attempt to use xine it failed miserably (I needed to > kill -9 it), just because it didn't like some of my channels.conf > entries (generated by scan on Astra). Maybe the xine folks could > improve their code a little. maybe you want to send a bug report to the xine-user mailing list? > Is there a way to reduce buffering to improve channel switching speed? well, reducing buffers is a bad idea imho as it will hurt performance, especially on low-end systems (i'm quite happy that xine can do dvb on my good old pII-400 here :) ). i think it would be a much better approach to flush buffers at the right time, this technique has also been used to improve dvd menu reaction times in xine > Does it also work for DVB-C and DVB-T? apparently yes, but i cannot test that best regards, guenter -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
