Add support for DiSEqC (Digital Satellite Equipment Control)

[imago]

DiSEqC is a communication bus between satellite receivers and peripheral equipment such a LNBs, switches, and antenna positioners. Dvb-apps scan already supports it:
[scan help]
-s N use DiSEqC switch position N (DVB-S only)

/imago

[Sebastian Pölsterl (sebp)]

GStreamer already supports DiSEqC, shouldn't be too hard to add. If you generated channels.conf with gnome-dvb-setup the third field (which is diseqc-source) is set to -1, if you change this number it should use a different source. Unfortunately, I can't test this myself, therefore could you please check if changing the value manually works.

[imago (imago54)]

Unfortunately I wasn't able to generate channels.conf with gnome-dvb-setup because it has no support for DiSEqC swich.
I've generated channels.conf using scan from dvb-apps using following command:
scan -a 0 -f 0 -d 0 -s 1 -l UNIVERSAL /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Hotbird-13.0E

It looks good - it seems to have all channels e.g.:

Fashion TV:10815:h:1:27500:2015:3015:17315

- but it doesn't work with GNOME DVB Daemon - every time I select channel I get following error:

** Message: Error: Could not open resource for reading and writing.
gstrtspsrc.c(5304): gst_rtspsrc_retrieve_sdp (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstRTSPSrc:source:
Failed to connect. (System error: Connection refused)

[Sebastian Pölsterl (sebp)]

Which version are you using, because 0.1.22 fixed a bug where Totem failed to tune to a channel? I highly recommend to update to the latest version.

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