On Monday 02 Aug 2010 10:38:47 Basil Chupin wrote:
On 02/08/2010 16:19, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Monday 02 Aug 2010 01:39:33 Basil Chupin wrote:
On 02/08/2010 05:27, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Peter, I have to 'fess up - but which I didn't think I had to do, but now it seems that what you are using is not as "effective" as what I am using - and I don't mean in any shape or form to start a "war" by stating this.
I am using Ubuntu - switched over to it some months ago. By using Ubuntu I am also using the gnome desktop.
Until last week, my wife was still using openSUSE and the KDE4 desktop and she had nothing but hassles in recent weeks. Now that I switched her over to Ubuntu/gnome she has not had a single hassle - she is a "happy chappy" (and her cooking now reflects this :-) .)
I mention this NOT to start any flame war but simply stating the situation as it applies in this household.
So whatever I have said so far with respect to your problem has been from the point of view of me using Ubuntu - and I am *NOT* having the problems you appear to be having.
Having stated this, are you sure that you don't have any old, and useless, files hanging around and which are affecting your current installation of vlc?
As a possible indicator, in Ubuntu I have videolan.org as the source of the vlc application files - and which is why I had my vlc upgraded to 1.1.2.
However, irrespective of which distro you are using I cannot understand why you are having the hassles you say you are having.
Perhaps it has something to do with your local broadcasting bands which are in the process of being re-organised?
One of our ABC channels here in Australia changed their name to ABC Channel 24 last week - which also affected their other channels. (Which is why I find that w-scan is the best way to produce a 'channels.conf' rather that using the list of channels in xine (dvb-utils) or even kaffeine which appear to be 'static' in that that they are produced from info supplied by the author of the s/ware whereas w-scan scans what is actually available at any time in your locale.)
The other variable in all this is the fact that you are using a Hauppauge card - and I am using the German Technisat AirStar 2 DVB-T card. Is this the thing which is causing your problem? Dunno.
BC
Hi Basil there is one thing i wish would happen in the Linux community that is we stop this differing paths and the rest of it get to standards moan over for now !!! Well i am back to the VLC way of doing a channel scan again and it works once again i have used w_scan but it is not too good seems to include loads of stuff that i have not got the faintest where it finds it from . I have found an updated version to 1.1.2 and updated so lets see what transpires over the next couple of days ,It is just strange that it only ever effects the BBC channels still Cheers Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34-12-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4) "release 2" 13:21 up 5:23, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.14, 0.07 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org