[linux-dvb] airstar2 and EPG

[Patrick Boettcher]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Christian Schmitt wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> is the EPG functionality of my Airstar2 supposed to work with the 
> b2c2_flexcop driver? It didn't with the skystar2 driver and got no 
> better with the current one. I don't know if it is a driver or a 
> TV-application problem.

Definitely a TV-app problem.

> I'm using xine-ui and kaffeine and I get no EPG information for most of 
> the channels. Can I cat one of the devices in /dev/dvb to see if there 
> are any EPG-informations received?

Tune to a channel with tzap and run 'dvbsnoop 0x12'. (whereas PID 0x12 is 
EIT which contains the standard EPG if broadcasted)

regards
Patrick.

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