[Mplayer-dvb] Getting dvbin to work

[Nico]

David Philippi wrote:

>Am Fre, 2003-08-22 um 20.09 schrieb Nico:
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>>this line:
>>Pro-7:12480:v:S19.2E:27500:255:256;257:32:0:898:0:0:0
>>contains 
>>1) a wrong diseqc indication: it should be 1 if Astra is at  position 1, 2 if at position 2, etc.
>>2) a wrong aid indication: 256;257: it should be 256 or 257; the rest is ignored
>>this is my pro-7 line: (with audio pid 257 as AC3 2.0, pid 256 seems to be mute):
>>Pro-7:12480:v:2:27500:255:257:0:0:0
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>>
>
>Seems like it's the same as the old vdr channels.conf format. I've found
>a list in the DVB drivers package which is much better because it works
>with MPlayer. :-)
>
>My new Pro-7 line is:
>ProSieben:12480:v:0:27500:255:256:1:898
>
you need a third trailing number (after 256), but  it isn't used.

>
>I didn't use scan so far as the documentation talks about DVB-T and
>DVB-C and more important, I tried the list supplied with the driver with
>success first. ;-)
>Can you tell me how to get it to use the AC3 audio? I don't think I'll
>ever need it but it could be that I'll sometime watch a film transmitted
>in Dolby Digital and I have -ac hwac3 working so why not use it? Would
>even save CPU power as long as I stay on ProSieben.
>
>Bye David
>  
>
Yes, it should work with Pro-7, too, but I don't have an hardware  AC3 
 implementation, so I never tried it.
Bye,
        Nico