Now, watching TV with VLC is as easy as running the following command: $ vlc nfĪnd to create an entry in the (Xfce) applications menu, one can save the following file in ~/.local/share. Write the result of this scan to a file (i.e. Note that for your country/region the final part of the location string might be different than mine (i.e. Next, we will scan for the available channels. We will now install some utils that will help setting up the device: # pacman -S linuxtv-dvb-apps 'Dexatek DK mini DVB-T Dongle' successfully initialized and connected If everything is ok, somewhere in the final lines of the output, you should see the following line: 2.2 av1metadata Modify metadata embedded in an AV1 stream. Please note that it is auto-inserted for MP4A-LATM and MOV/MP4 and related formats. While I suggest the values above for audio as they are the most compressed, but we’ll use the old audio settings for better quality. This filter is required for example when copying an AAC stream from a raw ADTS AAC or an MPEG-TS container to MP4A-LATM, to an FLV file, or to MOV/MP4 files and related formats such as 3GP or M4A.

So connect the device to your box and run the following command: $ dmesg ffmpeg -i video.avi -ar 22050 -ab 32 -f flv -s 320x240 video.flv That’s generally how to convert a video.avi to video.flv with the audio sampling at 22050 & audio bit rate at 32, with the size 320×240. This is because from version 2.6.31 on, the kernel supports the device out of the box. With FFmpeg, users can do the following: Convert between different file formats and codecs (i.e. Watching TV on your (Arch) linux box using the Genius DVB-T usb dongle and VLC is relatively straightforward.

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