i asked the developer for help, he told me to use "qam" switch (not "quam") and frequencies in KHZ. the -a -v switches are for older dvb cards so just add the pids to the end of the command..
given this information dvbstream also works for me with dvb-c: $ dvbstream -c 0 -qam 256 -f 330000 -s 6900 2011 2001 dvbstream v0.7 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001-2004 Released under the GPL. Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/ Tuning to 330000 Hz Using DVB card "DRXK DVB-C DVB-T", freq=330000 tuning DVB-C to 330000000, srate=6900000 Getting frontend status Event: Frequency: 330000000 SymbolRate: 6900000 FEC_inner: 9 Bit error rate: 0 Signal strength: 0 SNR: 370 UNC: 15898 FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC dvbstream will stop after -1 seconds (71582788 minutes) Using 224.0.1.2:5004:2 version=2 Streaming 3 streams and then to watch it with mplayer: mplayer -cache 8192 rtp://224.0.1.2:5004 many thanks to dave chapman! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240072 Title: dvbstream seems to not work with dvb-c To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dvbstream/+bug/240072/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
