Play DVB TV

You can use Clapper to play DVB TV using your PC DVB Tuner.

1. Create (alternatively find online) an up-to-date initial DVB scan file. Use either w_scan or w_scan_cpp utils and -c option to specify your country (e.g. use DE for GERMANY).

w_scan -c DE -x > initial_dvbv3

2. Convert created file to newer DVBv5 format:

dvb-format-convert -I channel -O dvbv5 initial_dvbv3 initial_dvbv5

3. Use initial scan file to create dvb-channels config file (use the same country code as earlier):

dvbv5-scan -C DE initial_dvbv5 -o dvb-channels.conf

4. Copy/move the dvb-channels.conf file to one of below folders (if gstreamer-1.0 folder at specified location does not exists, create it):

• Flatpak: ~/.var/app/com.github.rafostar.Clapper/config/gstreamer-1.0/
• Native package: ~/.config/gstreamer-1.0/

5. Open the dvb-channels.conf file with any text editor. It should contain channels names in brackets.
6. Create a new text file anywhere you want (will will make it into channels playlist).
7. Write the channel names you want from dvb-channels.conf (without brackets) in order you want to have them into newly created playlist file, one per line prefixed with dvb://. For example a channel named [Channel TV1] should be written as dvb://Channel TV1 (with spaces and case sensitive).
8. Save the Clapper playlist file and add a .claps extension to it.
9. Now all you have to do is double click that playlist file to open it with Clapper and play TV.