[vdr] Re: documentation

[Dennis Noordsij <dennis.noordsij@wiral.com>]

Hi Maarten,

VDR requires a certain DVB setup to be already configured. Most notably, 
/video/channels.conf

This file contains all frequencies and other details needed to tune in and 
watch/record.

The DVB stuff (start at www.linuxtv.org) has some documentation, but I agree 
it's not as easy as it could be, your best help will be the mailing list 
archives.

Basically - install the drivers, make sure they load properly and you see a 
(c) Convergence text on the tv-out when the driver is being loaded (this will 
disappear of course).

Then, start playing with dvbtune (search for dvbtools on sourceforge), give it 
a frequency, symbolrate, and whatever is needed for DVB-S (I only have 
experience with DVB-C).

Once it tunes in and shows you which audio/video streams there are, you are 
ready to create a channels.conf

Remember dvbtune can tell the DVB card which audio/video PID's you want to 
watch, so tv-out should already show that channel without using VDR just yet. 
This is a good way of finding out wether everything is working.

Then, you are ready for VDR :)

I'd recomment subscribing to the DVB mailinglist as well, and read all the 
docs you can find.

Cheers,
Dennis


On Wednesday 16 October 2002 14:50, Maarten van den Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do not want to ask questions that are answered adequately in the docs,
> but -sorry to say- I'm as yet unable to find extensive docs.
>
> Can someone point me to some sort of howto or documentation I overlooked,
> please ?  Just so that I don't miss anything.  This is what I have read:
>
> The included README, INSTALL and MANUAL files
> The http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/software.htm and
> http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/features.htm URLs
>
> And of course, I joined this mailinglist a few days ago.
>
> Somehow I don't really know where to start.  I have an output on the
> TV-out, the 'home' key gives a menu in which I can look around, but
> that's it. I do not receive anything, I'm not sure how to test whether my
> satellite dish is working at all, and I don't know what to do next...
>
> I have no other satellite-decoder, but I know the satellite dish is good
> since it has worked fine some time ago as internet-data-downlink.
>
> Where can I find info on how to proceed ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Maarten
>
> --
> This statement is either false or a paradox.

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