NAME

dvbt-scan - Initialise DVBT channels

SYNOPSIS

dvbt-scan [options] frequency_file

Options:

-debug level         set debug level
-verbose level       set verbosity level
-help                brief help message
-man                 full documentation

OPTIONS

-help

Print a brief help message and exits.

-man

Prints the manual page and exits.

-verbose

Set verbosity level. Higher values show more information.

-debug

Set debug level. Higher levels show more debugging information (only really of any interest to developers!)

DESCRIPTION

Script that uses the perl Linux::DVB::DVBT package to provide DVB-T adapter functions.

Runs the frequency scanning function to search for Freeview channels. Stores the channel information into configuration files.

If this program is run as root then the configuration files are stored under /etc/dvb and are available for any user. Otherwise they are stored in $HOME/.tv for just the user.

The frequency file is usually something like: /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/uk-Oxford

The file contents should be something like:

# Oxford
# T freq bw fec_hi fec_lo mod transmission-mode guard-interval hierarchy
T 578000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 2k 1/32 NONE

NOTE: Frequency files are provided by the 'dvb' rpm package available for most distros

For full details of the DVBT functions, please see:

  perldoc Linux::DVB::DVBT