NAME¶

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

scan is a program to produce channels.conf files.

OPTIONS¶

-c [initial-tuning-data-file]

scan on currently tuned transponder only

-v

verbose (repeat for more)

-q

quiet (repeat for less)

-a N

use DVB /dev/dvb/adapterN/

-f N

use DVB /dev/dvb/adapter?/frontendN

-d N

use DVB /dev/dvb/adapter?/demuxN

-s N

use DiSEqC switch position N (DVB-S only)

-i N

spectral inversion setting (0: off, 1: on, 2: auto [default])

-n

evaluate NIT-other for full network scan (slow!)

-5

multiply all filter timeouts by factor 5 for non-DVB-compliant section repitition rates

-o fmt

output format: 'zap' (default), 'vdr' or 'pids' (default with -c)

-x N

Conditional Access, (default -1) N=0 gets only FTA channels N=-1 gets all channels N=xxx sets ca field in vdr output to :xxx:

-t N

Service select, Combined bitfield parameter. 1 = TV, 2 = Radio, 4 = Other, (default 7)

-p

for vdr output format: dump provider name

-e N

VDR version, default 3 for VDR-1.3.x and newer value 2 sets NIT and TID to zero Vdr version 1.3.x and up implies -p.

-l

lnb-type (DVB-S Only) (use -l help to print types) or

-l

low[,high[,switch]] in Mhz

-u

UK DVB-T Freeview channel numbering for VDR

-P

do not use ATSC PSIP tables for scanning (but only PAT and PMT) (applies for ATSC only)

-A N

check for ATSC 1=Terrestrial [default], 2=Cable or 3=both

-U

Uniquely name unknown services

This manual page was written by Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>.