[MPlayer-users] dvb:// channel file

[Nico Sabbi]

David Highley wrote:

>I must have missed a turn in the software but have not been able to find
>the documentation of how things are supposed to work now. I'm running
>mplayer 1.0rc1-rpm.livna.org-4.1.1. Before this version I was able to
>do:
>mplayer dvb://8
>
>To tune to a channel using the ~/.mplayer/channels.conf file in the
>dvbstream tools format.
>
in ?zap format. dvbstream never read or written channels files

> Now using strace I find that it does not try to
>open that file. I tried putting one line from the channels.conf into
>the first file it tried to open ~/.mplayer/8.conf. But then I get the
>message:
>Loading config '/home/dhighley/.mplayer/8.conf'
>Option 8:555000000:QAM_256:2048:2049:5 needs a parameter at line 1
>
>It also seemed to try several files in ~/.mplayer/sub named; dvb.ifo,
>dvb:.rar, and dvb:.idx.
>  
>
dvb://8  tunes to program named "8" in 
~/.mplayer/channels.conf.(sat|ter|cab|atsc),
missing which mplayer will read ~/.mplayer/channels.conf