scan - a program to produce channel.conf files.
This manual page documents briefly the scan commands.
scan is a program to produce channels.conf files.
- -c [initial-tuning-data-file]
- scan on currently tuned transponder only
- -v
- verbose (repeat for more)
- -q
- quiet (repeat for less)
- -a N
- use DVB /dev/dvb/adapterN/
- -f N
- use DVB /dev/dvb/adapter?/frontendN
- -d N
- use DVB /dev/dvb/adapter?/demuxN
- -s N
- use DiSEqC switch position N (DVB-S only)
- -i N
- spectral inversion setting (0: off, 1: on, 2: auto [default])
- -n
- evaluate NIT-other for full network scan (slow!)
- -5
- multiply all filter timeouts by factor 5 for non-DVB-compliant section
repitition rates
- -o fmt
- output format: 'zap' (default), 'vdr' or 'pids' (default with -c)
- -x N
- Conditional Access, (default -1) N=0 gets only FTA channels N=-1 gets
all channels N=xxx sets ca field in vdr output to :xxx:
- -t N
- Service select, Combined bitfield parameter. 1 = TV, 2 = Radio, 4 = Other,
(default 7)
- -p
- for vdr output format: dump provider name
- -e N
- VDR version, default 3 for VDR-1.3.x and newer value 2 sets NIT and TID
to zero Vdr version 1.3.x and up implies -p.
- -l
- lnb-type (DVB-S Only) (use -l help to print types) or
- -l
- low[,high[,switch]] in Mhz
- -u
- UK DVB-T Freeview channel numbering for VDR
- -P
- do not use ATSC PSIP tables for scanning (but only PAT and PMT) (applies
for ATSC only)
- -A N
- check for ATSC 1=Terrestrial [default], 2=Cable or 3=both
- -U
- Uniquely name unknown services
This manual page was written by Uwe Bugla
<uwe.bugla@gmx.de>.