tvtime-scannerSection: User Commands (1)Updated: July 2004 |
NAME
tvtime-scanner - an all-band scanner for tvtime to help users of European cable providers that do not use standard frequenciesSYNOPSIS
tvtime-scanner [ OPTION ] ...
DESCRIPTION
tvtime-scanner allows a user to scan all frequencies for stations. This is useful for European cable provides such as UPC or Casema which do not use standard frequency tables for their channels. tvtime-scanner checks for frequencies across the full band and writes it to your stationlist.xml file in a table called "Custom". This can be selected by running "tvtime --frequencies=custom" or by selecting the Custom frequency table within the OSD menu inside tvtime.
OPTIONS
- -h, --help
-
Show usage information.
- -F, --configfile=FILE
-
Additional config file to load settings from.
- -d, --device=NAME
-
video4linux device to use (defaults to
/dev/video0).
- -i, --input=INPUTNUM
-
video4linux input number (defaults to
0).
Cards commonly have a bunch
of sources, for example, on my WinTV card,
source 0
is my tuner and
source 1
is the composite input. The scanner requires using an input
that has a tuner.
- -n, --norm=NORM
-
The mode to set the tuner to (defaults to
NTSC).
Valid modes are:
* NTSC * PAL * SECAM * PAL-NC * PAL-M * PAL-N * NTSC-JP
AUTHORS
Billy Biggs.
SEE ALSO
tvtime(1), tvtime-configure(1), tvtime.xml(5),