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dvbzap is a little application that allows zapping and using the IR controller of the Pinnacle PCTV Sat dvb card. The homepage of dvbtv and the dvbzap application is at dvbtv.sourceforge.net
The dvbtv project is generously hosted by Sourceforge.
- --help
Show a little help for the command line options and the program usage.
- --channel-conf
Load a custom channel configuration file. The file must be in the format used by szap. The default file should be in ~/.szap/channels.conf.
- --channel
Specifies the first channels to tune to by name.
- --lirc-conf
Load a custom lirc configuration file. The default lirc file is pinnacle_lircrc and found in the src directory.
- --mplayer
Start the mplayer process with the given options. Example: --mplayer="-ao sdl -vo xv -nocache"
After loading the executable dvbzap automatically starts the first channel of the channels.conf file.
The following Buttons of the IR control are useable: The number buttons (0..9) tune to the equivalent channel 0 to 9. The channel+ button zaps to the next channel, channel- to the previous. The stop button kills the mplayer window, but does not kill the application. The quit button exits the application. The tv button kills a running xscreensaver.
There exists a german howto for the Pinnacle PCTV Sat cards, which is also hosted under the dvbtv project. An english translation will be added soon. German PCTV Sat Howto
Currently only Debian packages are provided at the files section .