VDR Does not support ATSC at this time
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Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but here goes...
Running XBMC Frodo Nightly (currently 12.0-ALPHA7). Ubuntu 12.10, x64.
Want to get PVR working.
Doing my best to follow these directions: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR...stallation
They seem outdated. My first problem comes with VNSI and XVDR install as they are not found with the suggested PPA.
I do a bit of searching and find a couple repositories that have these plugins. They are:
PPA:wsnipex/xbmc-xvba-testing and PPA:thopiekar/quantal-dev
I use these and get the plugins installed.
Here's some versions:
vdr --version
vdr (1.7.28/1.7.28)
xvdr (0.9.5)
vnsiserver (0.9.0)
So I think I got that issue solved, but I put it here just in case it is related to my current problem.
Next on the list is to scan and create a .conf file.
It seems to be necessary to use sudo -s to get a root terminal as the suggested code with sudo failed. I run this:
Code:
root@an0n:~# scan -x 0 -o vdr -a 0 /usr/share/dvb/atsc/us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB > /var/lib/vdr/channels.conf
This creates a .conf file, here is the cat:
Code:
anon@an0n:~$ cat /var/lib/vdr/channels.conf
KBSV-TV;(null):479028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time49:52=eng,53=eng,52=eng,53=eng:0:0:3:0:0:0
Univision;(null):497028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time49:52=spa,53=spa,52=spa:0:0:1:0:0:0
64-2 KTFK.2;(null):497028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time65:68=eng,68=eng:0:0:2:0:0:0
KMAX-DT;(null):515028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time49:52=eng,53=spa,52=eng,53=spa:0:0:1:0:0:0
KOVR-DT;(null):539028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time49:52=eng,53=spa,52=eng,53=spa:0:0:1:0:0:0
Telefutura;(null):545028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time49:52=spa,52=spa,53=spa:0:0:1:0:0:0
KUVS.2 ;(null):545028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time65:68=eng,68=eng:0:0:2:0:0:0
TR3S;(null):557028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time4131:4129=eng,4129=eng:0:0:1:0:0:0
KCRA-TV;(null):599028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time49:52=eng,54=eng,52=eng,54=spa:0:0:1:0:0:0
ME TV;(null):599028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time65:68=eng,68:0:0:2:0:0:0
KTXL-TV;(null):629028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time49:52=eng,53=spa,52=eng,53=spa:0:0:3:0:0:0
Ant TV;(null):629028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time65:68=eng,68=eng:0:0:4:0:0:0
ION;(null):677028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time49:52=eng,52=eng:0:0:3:0:0:0
KSPX qubo;(null):677028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time65:68=eng,69=spa,68=eng,69=spa:0:0:4:0:0:0
KSPX ION Life;(null):677028:VDR does not support ATSC at this time81:84=eng,84=eng:0:0:5:0:0:0
So VDR does not support ATSC. This seems counter intuitive to me. I can not imagine that I am the only one that wants to get US OTA television in XBMC. Any ideas on how I can get around this issue?
I have tried starting vdr using:
Code:
sudo /etc/init.d/vdr start
then running xbmc, with the vdr Frontend, but I get no channels listed.
Thanks. SC

EDIT: I see that on the VDR wiki ( http://linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page ) the latest developer version of VDR is 1.7.29, while my version from the PPA (PPA:yavdr/unstable-vdr) is 1.7.28. I doubt this will make a difference, but you never know.
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#2
Try w_scan to create your channels.conf: http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/W_scan
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Thats all it needed. Thanks!
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