On Sunday 06 March 2016 13:58:51 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 06 March 2016 08:36:19 Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > And I am still dead here,
> >
> > I have installed all the xawtv stuff only to find that no ATSC
> > functionaliy has been added. It can get the 1 signal from a 10 watt
> > translator about 20 miles away that is still broadcasting in NTSC
> > format, but at that distance and wattage, the signal to noise is about
> > 1/1 when conditions are good, perhaps 5% of the time.
> >
> > I have installed all the dvb_apps and friends, but  while it finds
> > the "Oren OR51132 VSB/QAM Frontend" doesnt support TERRCABLE_ATSC
> > apparently not finding the atsc list for std terrestrial broadcasting
> > in the US, so until I can find a configurator to tell it different,
> > thats out.
> >
> > That leaves kaffeine, whose scanner scans about 3 or 4 channels a
> > second, not giving this card adequate time to lock to the signal so it
> > registers.
> >
> > the KDE version of kaffeine did in fact work well with this card an
> > iteration or 2 back up the log, not too long before I installed TDE in
> > fact. However, I can find no means to slow its at least 10x too fast
> > channel scan that it does now. And the site it got program listngs
> > from seems to be defunct too.
> >
> > Is there not another application yet that will play ATSC broadcasts?
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> From a gentoo forum message, its both a module loading order problem, and
> a missing module problem. It seems one must unload cx88-dvb, at which
> point kaffeine loses its DVB button, and load cx88-atsc.  But that
> module does not exist on my system, and the synaptics search function is
> coming up empty.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=cx88-atsc&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

:-(

Lisi