DVB-T watching using VLC media player

[pietro83]

Hi all! I'm a newbie to this forum...
I've become a fan of VLC player since a little while, and as it's so great I'd like to watch my TV using it.
I have installed a Pinnacle Hybrid Pro stick with relative drivers and software (Pinnacle Media Center, PMC wich sucks pretty much...! ) under Win XP.
On the other hand I've just installed VLC 0.9.2; while playing and messing a little bit with the option "Open acquiring device..." (or something like that: I use Italian translated version...) I managed to watch a couple of channels from my dvb-t device... Problem is I had to manually input in the channel frequency, which I copied from the Pinnacle software... can anyone tell me whether there's a better way?
Thank you in advance and sorry for possibly broken English!!!

Bye
Pietro

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

DVB-T scanning is available from (as yet unreleased) version 1.0 only.

[pietro83]

Thanks a lot! And is there a way to select different DVB-T streams (channels) which are broadcast on the same frequency?
E.g.: in my area RAI Channels 1, 2, 3 and 4 share the 834 MHz frequency, but when I select that one I can only see Channel 4; how do I shift to others, if possible?
Tnx in advance!

Piè

[Lotesdelere]

Problem is I had to manually input in the channel frequency, which I copied from the Pinnacle software... can anyone tell me whether there's a better way?

We'll have the ability to use the playlist for this purpose, maybe in v0.9.3 if we are lucky, more likely in v0.9.4. See this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50436

And is there a way to select different DVB-T streams (channels) which are broadcast on the same frequency?
E.g.: in my area RAI Channels 1, 2, 3 and 4 share the 834 MHz frequency, but when I select that one I can only see Channel 4; how do I shift to others, if possible?

Menu Playback -> Program

[pietro83]

Thanks a lot! It did help me, pal...!
catch up soon...