Comment 4 for bug 94377

Hi,

I recommend the following workaround procedure that I successfully tested on Kubuntu Hardy Heron (v8.04 final release).

1) Download http://mtrons.googlepages.com/w_scan-20080105.tar.bz2

http://edafe.org/vdr/wscan.html
http://mtrons.googlepages.com/w_scan-20080105.tar.bz2
http://mtrons.googlepages.com/kaffeine

2) unpack the contents of http://mtrons.googlepages.com/w_scan-20080105.tar.bz2 to /tmp

3) edit the file called scan.c (part of source package) and make sure you set the correct symbol rate values for parameter "param.u.qam.symbol_rate". The symbol rate value varies from cable company to cable company. You need to do a little searching (trial and error). Unfortunately, the author of the w_scan program decided to remove the -s (symbol rate argument) option in 2006. That is why you need to edit the source code and recompile, if you live in a different country and have a different cable company than the author of w_scan. ;-)

4) recompile http://mtrons.googlepages.com/w_scan-20080105.tar.bz2 :

go into directory where you unpacked the source package:

enter following commands

a) make
b) make install

5) launch w_scan using CORRECT arguments for your specific goal -> use http://edafe.org/vdr/wscan.html as a reference guide on starting w_scan

For example: if you want to automatically generate a valid channels.dvb file for kaffeine, you need to run the command
w_scan -fc -k > channels.dvb
and then copy the channels.dvb file to ~/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine so that kaffeine can see the newly generated list

So if scan.c is configured correctly, you only need to launch w_scan ONCE so that kaffeine receives a valid channels list file...

6) launch kaffeine

I have personally tried out a lot of DVB programs for Ubuntu and kaffeine was the only program that worked good enough for my purposes.

Hope this will help someone out there with similar issues....

Regards,

Mark Rijckenberg