scanning channels, wait for 3-5 seconds, and while waiting/holding on a frequency/channel - checking for a signal. ivtv-tune is probably a much better option then xawtv's scantv. And for a viewer just use mplayer. Cheers for getting me going into the correct direction! I'll document on the Gentoo Wiki for others. ;-) -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/