This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR). Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Winfried Koehler This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Written by: Winfried Koehler Project's homepage: wirbel.htpc-forum.de/wirbelscan/index2.html Latest version available at: see Projects homepage See the file COPYING for further license information. Description: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This plugin performs a channel scans for digital terrestrial and digital cable TV and analog ivtv cards, satellite is also supported. Requirements: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - VDR Version 1.6.x or - VDR developer versions newer than 1.7.3 Installation: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Install this plugin: unpack it into VDRs Plugin source folder and compile it as usual. Replace $VERSION with the actual plugins version like '0.0.1' and $SOURCEDIR with your path to the sources, usually /usr/src or similar: cp vdr-wirbelscan-$VERSION.tgz $SOURCEDIR/vdr-1.7.16/PLUGINS cd $SOURCEDIR/VDR/PLUGINS tar xfz vdr-wirbelscan-$VERSION.tgz ln -s wirbelscan-$VERSION wirbelscan cd $SOURCEDIR/VDR make plugins How To Use ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #0 open plugins setup menu page #1 adjust your country #2 define the search in the field 'Source Type' #3 MAKE SHURE, THAT YOU DONT HAVE TIMERS ON SCHEDULE. Otherwise you may loose them. #4 Start the scan with the GREEN key and wait. This will take some time, up to 30 min. Specific Problems: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - On some dvb cards, the I/Q inversion needs to be explicitly switched on or off. If you find cards *only* working with INVERSION = ON, please report those as *bug* to the linux-media dvb driver mailing list. - Hint: For experts: setting symbolrate and modulation to well known values will speed up the scan. Nevertheless - with wrong settings some or even all transponders will be lost. Some words of warning and information: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Reporting Bugs: - please send me a full log from the plugin with Verbosity = 3 setting from beginning of scan up to the point where your problem occurs - please include hardware details of your system and VDR's setup.conf * Version Numbering: - versions with 'X.Y.Z-pre-XX' are to be understood as Version before the version X.Y.Z; so 0.0.5-pre1 is *older* as 0.0.5 - there is no stable version up to now. * do NOT scan if you have some recording on your schedule. This plugin will steel you the dvb card, regardless wether your recording will break. * the plugin will add new channels - as vdr everytime does - at the end of the channels list, so if you have a timer on schedule it may cause problems. * pvrinput users need to add the command line option --use-pvrinput to enable pvrinput support. see you at vdr-portal.de -wirbel