
pscan:
pscan, channel scan for Hotbird and Astra satellites for the Technotrend
DVB-s PCI card using the dvb server.

pscan generates the following files in your home directory:
channels.conf	in VDR format, alphabetically sorted.
gvideorc	in gVideo format, alphabetically sorted.
		This you should copy to ~/.gvideorc after making a backup
		of the old .gvideorc

Note that gVideo does not display selection like RAI 1, RAI 2 from Hotbird.
Use the supplied program pview.
This is perhaps a bug in gVideo, as the entry in gvideorc seems correct.

pview
The program pview pops up a VDR format list, if you click left mouse on
an entry this station is selected.

The button at the bottom (only visible if you have the define enabled
in pscan.h) is for those who have a Philips PCTV1000 analog (not sat) TV
card, it switches the screen to that output.
With the output of the DVB-s card on the aux input of the Philips card,
you can have full screen on you monitor without those shifted lines
in horizontal motion, like a TV.
The quality is not that great, could not find the anti aliasing filter
in the PCTV1000 hardware, neither the input protection ciruit in the aux
input.


Thank all of you who send in bug reports.


Things may well completely change in future releases if there are any.


                                 ***
 ONLY if you have a Philips PCTV1000 analog terrestial TV card in the PC:
  uncomment (remove the '//' in front of) the line 
  // #define PCTV1000
  in pscan.h
  comment out the line (add  '//' at the beginning of the line) 
  #define HARDWARE_MODIFICATION
  in tv1000lib.h
                                 ***

To compile:
make

To install
make install

To make a Hotbird channel list
pscan -b

This creates ~/channels.conf in VDR (video recorder format), the list
will be alphabetically sorted.

Not tested (my dish is fixed on Hotbird now):
To make an alphabeticlaly sorted Astra channel list
pscan -a


Test function for me personally:
To get the menu:
pscan


To scan for frequency 11765 to 11780 polarity vertical, symbolrate 27500:
pscan -f 11765 -e 11780 -p v -s 27500 -d


You can sort an existing ~/channels.conf either alphabetically or on
frequency:

MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!
pscan -r alpha
or
pscan -r freq



Author:
jan@panteltje.demon.nl
