crude steps to install and use a dvb hybrid pcmcia card on arch
card: Kworld NB TV 220
1) view dmesg
2) generic, autodetect failed!
3) 17de:7203 -->this is the id of the card
4) card=88 -> Tevion/KWorld DVB-T 220RF 17de:7201 -->this is the closest I could find. Hopefully it uses the same chipset!
5)/etc/modprobe.d/saa7134.conf --> now edit this to pass the following parameter
options saa7134 card=88
6) pacman -S dvbutils
7) dvbscan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/gr-Athens > .tzap/channels.conf
Unable to query frontend status -->oops not working!
8) dvbv5-scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/gr-Athens > .tzap/channels.conf
ERROR key/value without a channel group while parsing line 3 of /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/gr-Athens -->not working either
9) new file format for dvbv5-scan
Apparently there is a new format..
cp /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/auto-Default .
dvb-format-convert -I CHANNEL -O DVBV5 auto-Default auto-Default-v5
dvbv5-scan auto-Default-v5
10) dvbv5 channel file incompatible with vlc --> but vlc doesnt understand it
dvb-format-convert segfault -->and the default util throws a segfault..
11) w_scan -->daraam this is a utility we can use to convert channel format output
wget http://wirbel.htpc-forum.de/w_scan/w_scan-20130331.tar.bz2
extract
./configure
make
make install
w_scan -ft -L > channels.xspf
12) vlc channels.xspf
-->this works! Finaly!!
DONE