It's needed to have a Digital TV receiver plugged in. It's used a MyGica Mac TV S880i device with the steps presented:
dmesg output:
[ 1103.828820] mc: Linux media interface: v0.10
[ 1103.834059] smsusb:smsusb_probe: board id=18, interface number 0
[ 1103.983261] smsusb:siano_media_device_register: media controller created
[ 1104.444273] smsmdtv:smscore_init_ir: IR port has not been detected
[ 1104.444281] smsusb:smsusb_probe: Device initialized with return code 0
[ 1104.459403] dvbdev: DVB: registering new adapter (Siano Rio Digital Receiver)
[ 1104.459430] dvbdev: dvb_create_media_entity: media entity 'dvb-demux' registered.
[ 1104.459656] usb 5-1.4: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Siano Mobile Digital MDTV Receiver)...
[ 1104.459660] dvbdev: dvb_create_media_entity: media entity 'Siano Mobile Digital MDTV Receiver' registered.
[ 1104.459715] smsdvb:smsdvb_hotplug: DVB interface registered.
[ 1104.460108] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsusb
Copy channels frequency table from: https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/ISDB-T_Frequency_Table
Convert to dvbv5-scan compatible format:
dvb-format-convert -I CHANNEL -O DVBV5 freq.conf chfreq.conf
Scan channels
dvbv5-scan -F chfreq.conf
A file named dvb_channel.conf is generated from scan.
Extract channel names from dvb_channel.conf file:
cat dvb_channel.conf | grep "\(^\\[\\|\\]$\)" | sed 's/\(^\[\|\]$\)//g'
Stream the channel:
dvbv5-zap -ssrc dvb_channel.conf "CHANNEL NAME"
In VLC, go to Media > Open Capture Device... and select the options to play:
Capture mode: TV - digital
Tuner card: /dev/dvb/adapter0, DVB-T
Click Play button.