On Tuesday 23 February 2016 09:17:34 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Tuesday 23 February 2016 09.27:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > > In the event that it works for HD with winderz but not linux, the > > list to ask next would be the v4l list on vger.kernel.org (I think, > > I've not been on it in a couple years) Some pretty sharp digital > > video folks hang out there. You'll need to show them the lspci or > > lsusb/lshw output so they can properly ID the chipset in the stick. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > I can confirm that it works with Windows (same stick, on the same > machine). There seem to be two problems: > > a) Can Kaffeine display HD TV? Yes, works well with the 4 signals, 8 "channels" that I can get off air here. > If not there's not much to do short of > looking for another program. > > b) How can I create a new program list, as w_scan crashes (so badly > that it locks the machine competely). I haven't encountered that, however, without a signal it marches right thru our american tv band reporting nothing found in nominally 1 minute. But it doesn't crash. Possibly a contaminated line in the standard file your locale would use? Guessing of course, aka known as a SWAG, for a Scientific Wild Assed Guess. ;-) Here, w_scan didn't ring any bells, so I did the usual search for likely suspects, and came up with this: gene@coyote:/usr/src/dvb-atsc-tools-1.0.8$ ls -l `locate w_scan` -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 810 Feb 11 06:16 /opt/trinity/lib/trinity/kview_scannerplugin.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28372 Feb 11 06:23 /opt/trinity/lib/trinity/kview_scannerplugin.so From those dates, its been updated recently, and while kaffiene still say's its 8.8, thats obviously been updated recently by TDE r14.0.3 here. Are you up to date? I'd mildly fault the kaffeine people for not configuring us a way to specify by manual entry, a channel vs frequency input. That might take technical info not at the average users fingertips. Perhaps it will happen eventually? > I'll take a look at the v4l list. thanks. > > Regards, > Thierry Take care, Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>