Using DVB-T on Raspberry Pi (was: Re: Up-to-date hardware recommendation (this time, USB DVB-T dongle)?)

[Shay Gover]

You can check if it's reception by taking it to work (Where you'll probably
have a usb for power and a monitor).

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:

> Few weeks ago I asked about recommendations for a USB DVB-T dongle.
> Meanwhile I ordered and received DVB-T+DAB+FM D037C-04.
>
> Now the task is to make it work with Raspberry Pi using Raspbian.
>
> According to the link
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/20204/which-application-do-you-recommend-for-watching-tv-dvb
> people recommend: vlc, kaffeine
> the following were mentioned, too: totem, gxine, mplayer
>
> The link
>
> http://www.howtoeverything.net/linux/hardware/making-dvb-usb-sticks-and-other-tv-cards-work-linux
> (Making DVB-USB-Sticks and other TV cards work with Linux)
> recommends to install kaffeine and libxine1-all-plugins
> Raspbian has libxine2-all-plugins instead.
>
> My experience was that the Raspbian installation (most up-to-date Jessie
> one) recognized the device without the need to install anything further.
>
> I got stuck at failing to find any channels when scanning. Not known
> whether it's a problem of bad reception or another problem.
>
> --- Omer
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