DVB-S scanning support for VLC

Originally published on the old depletionmode / 2of1 blog (archived copy).

I’ve started working on adding support for DVB-S scanning to VLC (as part of a general VLC/DVB update).

Currently, DVB-S scanning uses transponder lists and it seems to work quite well.

You can download the latest set of patches from github.

You’ll also need some transponder config files. You can use the ones that come with dvb-scan.
just put them in your vlc share directory(vlc/share or /usr/share/vlc) under dvb/dvb-s/.

To apply do the following:

cd <vlc source directory>
git apply *.patch

Now compile.

You can the run vlc with something like the following:

./vlc -vv dvb://frequency=0:satellite=hotbird13.0e

(The frequency=0 param tells the dvb module to perform a scan).

Please report back to me with any bugs – this is very experimental at the moment.