Hi, OK I forgot to put the dvb: bit in there. Forgive my stupidity... I've amended the syntax and now my card is indeed probed but the FEC seems to not be read from the command line - the line I use to start up VLC is linux:~/vlc-0.7.2 # vlc -vvv dvb:adapter=0:frequency=50583333:program=258:fec=9:s-...