Linux watching dmb-th broadcasting

dmb-th is the digital TV broadcasting standard using in HK (China).  Recent linux kernel included support for these dmb-th device, such that, Linux could watching / capturing digital broadcasting TV stream in HK.

• hardware: Mygica X8506 DMB-TH
• OS: Slackware 13.37

Basically, standard installation could use the card without problem, except download dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw from internet and put into /lib/firmware for tuner working.

Channels.conf

A lot of dvb utilities/application require channels.conf, you may produce by following steps:

hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/dvb-apps
cd dvb-apps
make
sudo make install prefix=/usr/local/dvb-apps
scan /usr/local/dvb-apps/share/dvb/dvb-t/hk-HongKong > channels.conf

Other useful tools:

• dvbsnoop
• dvbtune
• dvbstream

Stream capturing

TBA