On 22/11/14 04:15, Doug wrote:
On 11/21/2014 01:46 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Can anyone please tell me how to create a list of terrestrial TV channels to be able to watch TV using VLC?
I have been using such a list for a very, very long time but two (2) days ago all our local channels changed frequencies following all the channels going digital (even though some were already digital, but now all are digital).
I created the list of channels for VLC way back in the "dim past" but now I cannot remember how I did it. I cannot see anywhere in the docs for VLC where this is covered.
So, if someone can help out here I would be grateful to hear from them.
(I also have Kaffeine installed and that has its own in-built channel scanner to create a list for itself but it does NOT pickup all the channels it previously did.
At the same time, all our normal TV sets/recorders have correctly scanned for all the (new) digital channel frequencies - only VLC and Kaffeine are out of the loop.)
BC
How are you receiving TV with VLC? Are you connecting a cable system to the computer? If so, you must have some kind of TV-receiver card in the computer. You can't just connect RF to a normal computer port. Please explain! Thanx--doug
Yes, you need a TV tuner to be able to pick up the TV channels. These tuners come in 2 forms: a USB v2.0 "stick", and a PCI card. These also come, in most cases, designed to work with DVB-T, or DVB-S, or DVB-C (Terrestrial, Satellite, Cable, respectively). You can see examples of both the USB "stick" and the PCI card tuners here: http://digitalnow.com.au/dvbtcards.html . I have a USB "stick" (but not the one, V3a, shown at that URL) for use on my laptop, and for the computer I have the Technisat AirStar 2 DVB-T card (made n Germany). The TV aerial plugs into either - just like it does on a normal television set. One can use either VLC or Kaffeine for TV viewing. I use VLC because it is more configurable and, in my opinion, produces a better picture. Kaffeine has a built-in scanner for channels while for VLC one has to produce a list manually (see previous posts in this thread on how to do this). BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.14.3 & kernel 3.17.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org