scantv(1)

💖 scantv — bestie scans your TV for you 💖

okay so this is scantv(1) from the General Commands Manual section, and it is literally the little tool that goes through your video4linux device and finds all your TV stations for you. no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

scantv — scan a v4l device for TV stations 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

scantv [ options ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically scantv goes snooping around a v4l device looking for every TV station it can find, and then it writes out a config file for xawtv or fbtv. that's it. that's the whole job. and it ate. 👑

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -i input — sets the TV input, like Television / Composite1 / S-video and so on. default is Television. pick your vibe ✨
• -n norm — sets the TV norm. if you don't give it one, scantv will just ask you interactively. it's polite like that 🙈
• -f table — sets the frequency table. no table given? it asks you interactively, bestie. it will not let you skip this. 🎀
• -o outfile — names the output file. if you don't specify one, scantv writes to stdout instead. so it's either a file or it's spilling onto your terminal, your call 💀
• -c device — names the video device file. default is /dev/video0. 🎥
• -D driver — names the video driver. default is "libv4l". 👑
• -C device — names the vbi device file. default is /dev/vbi0. 🦋
• -s — skips the channel scan entirely, and just writes norm + freqtab into the config file. lowkey the speedrun option ⚡
• -a — does a full scan, like all the frequencies, not just the ones sitting in the frequency table. highkey thorough 🌈

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

xawtv(1), fbtv(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (C) 2000 Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 💅

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. no cap, that part matters 😭

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 — it's (c) 2000 Gerd Knorr, and yes this iconic little scantv(1) manual page has been serving looks since the year 2000. periodt. 🫶✨