DVB and Mplayer

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, here is a quick run through of how to use Mplayer to view DVB channels.

Basically, you just need to generate a channels.conf file (see this article) and place it inside ~/.mplayer/. Then run mplayer dvb:// in a terminal window. You’ll get a video window appear, and the first channel within your channels.conf file will start playing. To switch up and down between channels, you can press h and k. There’s a bunch of other helpful keyboard commands though not all of them will work with DVB.

While using Mplayer this way isn’t very user friendly, it may be helpful for some.

2008-02-09 [freeview, howto, mplayer, tv, ubuntu]

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To play a given channel, you can do i.e.:

mplayer “dvb://RTL Television”
Renato Rodrigues

Hi david,

When I do scan to make my channels.conf I receive a message that say my channels are “scrambled”. Really, the majority of channels are scrambled, but not all.

I´m trying to set the satellite Amazonas-61W Ku Band to watch the chanel RedeTV.

Thank you!