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Start VLS server:

[root@linux dvb]# vls -vv -d udp:234.0.0.5 dvb:"ANSTV" --ttl 12
VideoLAN Server v 0.5.6 (Jul 20 2005) - (c)1999-2003 VideoLAN
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Module "channel:file" registered
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Module "channel:network" registered
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Module "mpegreader:file" registered
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Module "mpegconverter:ts2ts" registered
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Module "mpegconverter:ps2ts" registered
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Module "input:local" registered
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Module "input:video" registered
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Browsing modules in directory "."
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Browsing modules in directory "/usr/lib/videolan/vls"
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Module "mpegreader:dvb" registered
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Module "input:dvb" registered
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Module "mpegreader:dvd" registered
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Channel 'output1' created
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Starting input 'input1'
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/input1] DVB-S Card registered without decoder

Using default /root/.dvbrc
failed
Using default /etc/dvb/dvbrc

Reading original format . done
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/input1] Added program 'ANSTV'
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Input 'input1' sucessfully initialised
2005-08-12 00:11:29 [INFO/Vls] Executing command1 : 'start ANSTV output1 input1 '
Time out !
2005-08-12 00:11:43 [ERROR/input1] Read error for program "Input DVB input1"

Help me, Please!!

To use VLS, you need to create a .dvbrc file in the user directory. It seems that root hasn't this file so VLS uses the one in /etc/dvb and doesn't find the program ANSTV in the dvbrc example.

You can find examples of dvbrc in the libdvb directory and there's also the satscan script which can create this file.

You should try to use VLC instead of VLS which is not in developpement anymore. VLC has the same functions than VLS and even more. Have a look to the VLC documentation to use your dvb card.