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Hi,

this are some trivial zapping applications explaining how to use the frontend
and demux API. They are also pretty useful to test your hardware.

For DVB-S, Astra Channel config file:

$ ./szap -c channels.conf-dvbs-astra n24

will tune to N24. For DVB-C, Berlin Cable channel config:

$ ./czap -c channels.conf-dvbc-berlin Arte

For DVB-T, Berlin Config:

$ ./czap -c channels.conf-dvbt-berlin phoenix

By default the MPEG stream is routed to a hardware decoder. If you want to 
record the stream to disk you will route it to the DVR device by using the 
'-r' option:

$ ./czap -c channels.conf-dvbt-berlin phoenix -r
[keep it running in one console]
$ cat /dev/dvr/adapter0/dvr0 > /tmp/recording.ts
[in a second console, will dump the MPEG transport stream to /tmp/recording.ts]

The status messages have the following meaning:

status 0x1f              --- The demodulator status bits.
			      0x1f means all bits set, everything ok.

signal [0x0000...0xffff] --- Signal Strength. Values above 0x8000 should be ok.

snr [0x0000...0xffff]    --- Signal/Noise Ratio. Values above 0x8000 are ok.

ber [0...0xffffffff]     --- Bit Error Rate. The less the better.

unc [0...0xffffffff]     --- Number of Uncorrectable Blocks.
			     Small numbers are Preferable.

If everything is alright and all frontend circuits are working stable 
(are locked) you should see a FE_HAS_LOCK in the rightmost line.

Good luck,

Holger
4-06-07[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-07 06:56:55 by reinelt]reinelt5-7/+149 added test plugin from Andy Baxter 2004-06-06[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-06 06:51:59 by reinelt]reinelt16-52/+135 do not display end splash screen if quiet=1 2004-06-05[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-05 14:56:48 by reinelt]reinelt3-24/+37 Cwlinux splash screen fixed USBLCD splash screen fixed plugin_i2c qprintf("%f") replaced with snprintf() 2004-06-05[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-05 06:41:39 by reinelt]reinelt11-42/+87 chancged splash screen again 2004-06-05[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-05 06:13:11 by reinelt]reinelt9-69/+327 splash screen for all text-based display drivers 2004-06-02[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-02 10:09:22 by reinelt]reinelt4-180/+183 splash screen for HD44780 2004-06-02[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-02 09:41:19 by reinelt]reinelt18-114/+211 prepared support for startup splash screen 2004-06-02[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-02 05:56:25 by reinelt]reinelt1-2/+6 extended contrast range for Crystalfontz 2004-06-02[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-02 05:35:55 by reinelt]reinelt1-0/+20 added i2c_sensors example to lcd4linux.conf.sample 2004-06-02[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-02 05:27:59 by reinelt]reinelt26-0/+2405 added documentation tree 2004-06-02[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-02 05:14:16 by reinelt]reinelt2-17/+31 fixed models listing for Beckmann+Egle driver some cosmetic changes 2004-06-01[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-01 06:45:28 by reinelt]reinelt18-71/+241 some Fixme's processed documented some code 2004-06-01[lcd4linux @ 2004-06-01 06:04:25 by reinelt]reinelt2-25/+25 made README.Plugins and plugin_sample up to date. 2004-05-31[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-31 21:23:16 by reinelt]reinelt1-37/+49 some cleanups in the MatrixOrbital driver 2004-05-31[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-31 21:05:13 by reinelt]reinelt5-77/+111 fixed lots of bugs in the Cwlinux driver do not emit EAGAIN error on the first retry made plugin_i2c_sensors a bit less 'chatty' moved init and exit functions to the bottom of plugin_pop3 2004-05-31[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-31 16:39:05 by reinelt]reinelt11-180/+535 added NULL display driver (for debugging/profiling purposes) added backlight/contrast initialisation for matrixOrbital added Backlight initialisation for Cwlinux 2004-05-31[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-31 06:27:34 by reinelt]reinelt1-0/+40 ChangeLog update 2004-05-31[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-31 06:24:42 by reinelt]reinelt2-7/+29 fixed symlink security issue with the image driver 2004-05-31[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-31 05:38:02 by reinelt]reinelt8-42/+94 fixed possible bugs with user-defined chars (clear high bits) thanks to Andy Baxter for debugging the MilfordInstruments driver! 2004-05-31[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-31 01:31:01 by andy-b]andy-b1-10/+12 fixed bug in Milford Instruments driver which drew extra graphics chars in odd places when drawing double bars. (the display doesn't like it if you put the escape character 0xfe inside a define char sequence). 2004-05-30[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-30 08:25:50 by reinelt]reinelt2-30/+92 Crystalfontz 631 driver finished 2004-05-29[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-29 23:30:20 by reinelt]reinelt1-1/+9 fixed a compiler issue with drv_Image.c (thanks to Frank Stratmann) 2004-05-29[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-29 15:53:28 by reinelt]reinelt3-9/+25 M50530: reset parport signals on exit plugin_ppp: ppp() has two parameters, not three lcd4linux.conf.sample: diskstats() corrected 2004-05-29[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-29 01:07:56 by reinelt]reinelt2-21/+25 bug in plugin_diskstats fixed 2004-05-29[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-29 00:27:14 by reinelt]reinelt8-11/+214 added plugin_diskstats.c 2004-05-28[lcd4linux @ 2004-05-28 14:38:10 by reinelt]reinelt2-1/+41 Status and Changelog Update