Re: [gentoo-user] DVB-S2 channel scan tool scan-s2 on gentoo

[Tamer Higazi]

Hey Joost!
You are beautiful... Thank you very much.
I'll soon have TV on my Linuxbox !!!!  You are amazing!!!

Thank you very much.


best, Tamer

Am 28.10.2015 um 14:59 schrieb J. Roeleveld:
> On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 09:21:09 PM Tamer Higazi wrote:
>> Hi people!
>>
>> As I am running successfully (recently) my DVB-S2 board on Gentoo Linux,
>> I need to search for the DVB-S2 channels which only this application
>> "scan-s2" is able to accomplish.
>>
>> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Scan-s2
>>
>> Has anybody of you compiled this application successfully before ?
>>
>> I am not getting smart how to compile this application.
>>
>>
>> For any advise of you guys, I'd be happy to hear from you.
>>
>>
>>
>> best, Tamer
>
> That application is either deprecated or has only been moved.
> The download link points to a page telling you to move elsewhere. (Without a
> search option)
>
> The "backups" there point to code from 2012. (Old)
>
> Searching elsewhere for scan-2s points me to some git repository with a more
> recent version:
> https://bitbucket.org/CrazyCat/scan-s2/overview
>
> Compiling that one does seem to work. (I don't have the hardware, so can't
> test)
> I do see some compile warnings:
> atsc_psip_section.h:57:1: note: offset of packed bit-field ‘reserved2’ has
> changed in GCC 4.4
>
> Which again seems to indicate the code is not actively being maintained.
>
> Have you tried any of the other scan utilities listed on your original page
> which are actively maintained?
>
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequency_scan#Comparison_of_DVB_frequency_scanning_commandline_utilities
>
> --
> Joost
>