DVB Enhancer for SageTV

[cpass]

Originally Posted by mpogr

Then, again, please, check if nobody else (including Sage itself) uses these tuners. You MUST remove them as used source from Sage setup.

I have removed all software that may use the tuner i.e. DVBViewer I then removed all reference to the tuner from the sage.properties file, I stopped and disabled the Sage service and rebooted, the card then gets no signal Lock in DVBe4sage whcih can be seen in the attached log, I then added the tuner in sage and scanned the Tuner in Sage, then I removed the source from Sage and went back to DVBe4sage and this time it gets the signal lock but I have the same problem as yesterday it will not record, is this information of any help to diagnose the issue?

[cpass]

I have tried a new tuner now which does give different results, I have attached the Log, I am hoping this will help somebody to resolve my issue

Kind Regards

[doc]

Originally Posted by cpass

I have tried a new tuner now which does give different results, I have attached the Log, I am hoping this will help somebody to resolve my issue

Kind Regards

I'm not sure if you're trying to view sky encrypted channels or not. If so its best to get it to work with freesat channels first, then add the cam software in after.

I installed this last night but I only have 2 channels set up in Sage at the moment. I had problems initially but that was because I couldn't spell dvbe4sage.ini . That took a long time to notice

My ini file is below - only a slight difference at the start, but it is set up for unencrypted channels as I don't have Sky.

General]
LogLevel=2
NumberOfVirtualTuners=6

[Plugins]
DCWTimeout=5
IsVGCam=0
MaxNumberOfResets=1
ServedCAIDs=
ServedPROVIds=

[Tuning]
LNBSW=11700000
LNBLOF1=9750000
LNBLOF2=10600000
InitialFrequency=10729000
InitialSymbolRate=22000
InitialPolarization=V
InitialModulation=QPSK
InitialFEC=5/6
DVBS2Tuners=2
TSPacketsPerBuffer=1024
NumberOfBuffers=400
TuningTimeout=20
TuningLockTimeout=5
InitialRunningTime=20
UseSidForTuning=0
UseNewTuningMethod=0
ScanAllTransponders=0
ExcludeTuners=1
ExcludeTunersMAC=
IncludeTuners=
IncludeTunersMAC=

[Output]
TSPacketsPerOutputBuffer=160000
TSPacketsOutputThreshold=135
DisableWriteBuffering=0

[Encoder]
ListeningPort=6969

[Recording]
PreferredAudioLanguage=eng
PreferredAudioFormat=ac3
PreferredSubtitlesLanguage=eng

[Advanced]
PMTDilutionFactor=1
PATDilutionFactor=1
PMTThreshold=20
PSIMaturityTime=10
MaxECMCacheSize=3000
EnableECMCache=1
ECMCacheAutodeleteChunkSize=300
BouquetName=BSkyB Bouquet 1 - DTH England
PreferSDOverHD=0

The log file this produces looks like this

[cpass]

I triad your ini file, and a new tuner card, things look better but Im still not there, see the extract of my latest Log

2010-04-26 13:06:06.015 #1: Graph successfully stopped
2010-04-26 13:06:26.765 Channel=102 was successfully mapped to SID=6302 on ONID=2, Name="BBC 2 England"
2010-04-26 13:06:26.765 Autodiscovery results for SID=6302 on ONID=2: TID=2045, Frequency=10773250, Symbol Rate=22000, Polarization=H, Modulation=QPSK (DVB-S), FEC=5/6
2010-04-26 13:06:26.765 #2: Starting recording on tuner="Hauppauge WinTV 88x DVB-S/S2 Tuner/Demod", Ordinal=2, Channel=102 ("BBC 2 England"), SID=6302 on ONID=2, Autodiscovery=TRUE, Duration=60, Frequency=10773250, Symbol Rate=22000, Polarization=H, Modulation=QPSK (DVB-S), FEC=5/6
2010-04-26 13:06:26.781 #2: Loading filter "Hauppauge WinTV 88x DVB-S/S2 Tuner/Demod" - succeeded!
2010-04-26 13:06:26.781 #2: Tuner Filter Info = "Hauppauge WinTV 88x DVB-S/S2 Tuner/Demod"
2010-04-26 13:06:26.796 #2: Loading filter "Hauppauge WinTV 88x TS Capture" - succeeded!
2010-04-26 13:06:26.796 #2: Loaded our transport stream filter
2010-04-26 13:06:26.796 #2: Added demux filter to the graph
2010-04-26 13:06:26.796 #2: Connected demux to our filter output pin
2010-04-26 13:06:26.796 #2: Using tuning request-based tuning method...
2010-04-26 13:06:44.859 #2: Signal locked, quality=94, strength=3250
2010-04-26 13:07:05.000 #2: Could not start recording after 20 seconds, stopping recording of channel 102 ("BBC 2 England") on source="Hauppauge WinTV 88x DVB-S/S2 Tuner/Demod", Ordinal=2
2010-04-26 13:07:05.093 #2: Graph successfully stopped

[doc]

Originally Posted by cpass

I triad your ini file, and a new tuner card, things look better but Im still not there, see the extract of my latest Log

2010-04-26 13:06:06.015 #1: Graph successfully stopped
2010-04-26 13:06:26.765 Channel=102 was successfully mapped to SID=6302 on ONID=2, Name="BBC 2 England"
2010-04-26 13:06:26.765 Autodiscovery results for SID=6302 on ONID=2: TID=2045, Frequency=10773250, Symbol Rate=22000, Polarization=H, Modulation=QPSK (DVB-S), FEC=5/6
2010-04-26 13:06:26.765 #2: Starting recording on tuner="Hauppauge WinTV 88x DVB-S/S2 Tuner/Demod", Ordinal=2, Channel=102 ("BBC 2 England"), SID=6302 on ONID=2, Autodiscovery=TRUE, Duration=60, Frequency=10773250, Symbol Rate=22000, Polarization=H, Modulation=QPSK (DVB-S), FEC=5/6
2010-04-26 13:06:26.781 #2: Loading filter "Hauppauge WinTV 88x DVB-S/S2 Tuner/Demod" - succeeded!
2010-04-26 13:06:26.781 #2: Tuner Filter Info = "Hauppauge WinTV 88x DVB-S/S2 Tuner/Demod"
2010-04-26 13:06:26.796 #2: Loading filter "Hauppauge WinTV 88x TS Capture" - succeeded!
2010-04-26 13:06:26.796 #2: Loaded our transport stream filter
2010-04-26 13:06:26.796 #2: Added demux filter to the graph
2010-04-26 13:06:26.796 #2: Connected demux to our filter output pin
2010-04-26 13:06:26.796 #2: Using tuning request-based tuning method...
2010-04-26 13:06:44.859 #2: Signal locked, quality=94, strength=3250
2010-04-26 13:07:05.000 #2: Could not start recording after 20 seconds, stopping recording of channel 102 ("BBC 2 England") on source="Hauppauge WinTV 88x DVB-S/S2 Tuner/Demod", Ordinal=2
2010-04-26 13:07:05.093 #2: Graph successfully stopped

that is wierd. The channels i'm using are E4 (136) and More4 (138) as they're on the same mux and it can record both at the same time.

Try tuning these channels and see if it works. I'll add BBC2 (102) and see if mine works with that channel.

[cpass]

Are you adding the channels too SageTV or am I missing something in DVBE4SAGE?

[doc]

Originally Posted by cpass

Are you adding the channels too SageTV or am I missing something in DVBE4SAGE?

I use Stephane's importer to map the Radio Times guide data, and in its channel setup tell it to tune to physical channel numbers - such as 136 for E4.

To test now though, and save that work, I went into tuner setup in Sage, selected a DVB Enhancer virtual tuner, channel setup, and added a channel.

The details I said were
Station Name: BBC2
Station ID: BBC2
Logical number: 102
Physical number: 102

After adding it, I tuned to BBC2 in the guide (showing as 'no data' due to no EPG) and set it to record.

I copied the recording to a different PC to play it as I don't have a decoder set up on that box, and it played ok.

[cpass]

Originally Posted by doc

I use Stephane's importer to map the Radio Times guide data, and in its channel setup tell it to tune to physical channel numbers - such as 136 for E4.

To test now though, and save that work, I went into tuner setup in Sage, selected a DVB Enhancer virtual tuner, channel setup, and added a channel.

The details I said were
Station Name: BBC2
Station ID: BBC2
Logical number: 102
Physical number: 102

After adding it, I tuned to BBC2 in the guide (showing as 'no data' due to no EPG) and set it to record.

I copied the recording to a different PC to play it as I don't have a decoder set up on that box, and it played ok.

I get the same as if I do it manually from DVBE4SAGE, just says could not start recording

[doc]

Originally Posted by cpass

I get the same as if I do it manually from DVBE4SAGE, just says could not start recording

I don't understand that.

I initially tried it on Vista last night and had all sorts of graph errors in the logs so I rebuilt using 2003 server and that went smooth as pie.

[cpass]

I am using WHS which I believe is basically 2003 Server under the hood, it should be a very simple process, the tuners worked fine in SageTV , did you just download DVBE4SAGE from the googlecode page, is it V.236?

[doc]

I copied it from a friend who I was visiting, but have just checked and its the same version. I downloaded and checked all the files and they're identical.

I need another PC and another lnb as mine are all in use right now so I can't do any more checking for a few hours.

It looks like you're using dvbenhancer on its own to test the recording. It should create a ts file in the dvbenhancer folder when you test it like that. Could there be any permissions issues maybe thats stopping it?

Other than that, do you have a different PC you could test it with, just to see if its a problem with the PC itself. I messed about for a good few hours on Vista before biting the bullet and reinstalling.

[mpogr]

cpass,

Did you try installing DX9 end user runtime? This might help...

[cpass]

Originally Posted by mpogr

cpass,

Did you try installing DX9 end user runtime? This might help...

This didn't seem to help, one thing that is puzzling me is when I remove all reference of my tuners from SageTV then run DVBE4SAGE it gets no signal lock, then when I scan the tuner in SageTV and remove the tuner, then go back to DVBE4SAGE it gets a signal lock, how is it interacting with SageTV, are me SageTV settings causing the problem?

[saneboy]

Originally Posted by mpogr

There is already one user on BEV Canada who succeeded to make DVBE4SAGE work for SD channels. He doesn't have any HD-capable hardware.
An additional user is trying it now with Genpix Skywalker.

Michael, could you send me instructions on what is required to configure this? I'm also a bev user, and would like to dump by dvbdream -> network encoder -> sage setup.

Thanks.

S

[bjkiller]

Hi mpogr,
as i remember you had .pdf document about installation and configuration of dvbe4sage. may be good idea to release it to public?

[Whitey]

CPASS, what tuners are you using?

Cheers

Whitey

[cpass]

Hopefully I can give more information as to what I am doing wrong

I have just installed a fresh WHS Server, with TechnoTrend S3200 TT

What I did

1. Fresh install of WHS
2. Install Drivers including TT-S3200 PCI card
3. Install all updates
4. Install DirectX 9
5. Install DVBE4SAGE from Google Code
6. Create DVBE4SAGE.ini
7. Run DVBE4SAGE.exe

That is all I did, I am sure I have missed a step and that is my problem, I have not installed SageTV at this stage

Results

2010-04-27 13:14:03.890 DVBE4SAGE Encoder SVN revision 236
2010-04-27 13:14:03.890 Loading configuration info from "C:\Program Files\DVBE4SAGE\dvbe4sage.ini"
=========================================================
Configuration file dump:

[General]
LogLevel=2
NumberOfVirtualTuners=1

[Plugins]
DCWTimeout=5
IsVGCam=0
MaxNumberOfResets=1
ServedCAIDs=
ServedPROVIds=

[Tuning]
LNBSW=11700000
LNBLOF1=9750000
LNBLOF2=10600000
InitialFrequency=10876000
InitialSymbolRate=22000
InitialPolarization=V
InitialModulation=QPSK (DVB-S)
InitialFEC=5/6
DVBS2Tuners=2
TSPacketsPerBuffer=1024
NumberOfBuffers=400
TuningTimeout=20
TuningLockTimeout=5
InitialRunningTime=40
UseSidForTuning=1
UseNewTuningMethod=0
ScanAllTransponders=0
ExcludeTuners=1
ExcludeTunersMAC=
IncludeTuners=
IncludeTunersMAC=

[Output]
TSPacketsPerOutputBuffer=160000
TSPacketsOutputThreshold=135
DisableWriteBuffering=0

[Encoder]
ListeningPort=6969

[Recording]
PreferredAudioLanguage=eng
PreferredAudioFormat=ac3
PreferredSubtitlesLanguage=eng

[Advanced]
PMTDilutionFactor=1
PATDilutionFactor=1
PMTThreshold=100
PSIMaturityTime=40
MaxECMCacheSize=3000
EnableECMCache=1
ECMCacheAutodeleteChunkSize=300
BouquetName=BSkyB Bouquet 1 - DTH England
PreferSDOverHD=0

End of configuration file dump
=========================================================
2010-04-27 13:14:03.921 Working with MDAPI plugins
2010-04-27 13:14:03.968 #1: Tuner ordinal=1 is excluded by the ordinal
2010-04-27 13:14:04.187 #2: Loading filter "TechnoTrend BDA/DVB-S Tuner" - succeeded!
2010-04-27 13:14:04.187 #2: Tuner Filter Info = "TechnoTrend BDA/DVB-S Tuner"
2010-04-27 13:14:04.203 #2: Loading filter "TechnoTrend BDA/DVB Capture" - succeeded!
2010-04-27 13:14:04.218 #2: Loaded our transport stream filter
2010-04-27 13:14:04.234 #2: Added demux filter to the graph
2010-04-27 13:14:04.234 #2: Connected demux to our filter output pin
2010-04-27 13:14:04.312 #2: Device ordinal=2, MAC=000:5C:64:BA:89, type=TechnoTrend Budget
2010-04-27 13:14:04.312 #2: Using tuning request-based tuning method...
2010-04-27 13:14:04.359 #2: Starting initial run for autodiscovery, transponder data: Frequency=10876000, Symbol Rate=22000, Polarization=V, Modulation=QPSK (DVB-S), FEC=5/6
2010-04-27 13:14:44.375 #2: The initial run for autodiscovery finished
2010-04-27 13:14:44.375 #2: The tuner failed to acquire the signal
2010-04-27 13:14:44.390 #2: Graph successfully stopped
2010-04-27 13:14:52.765 Encoder stopped!

[bjkiller]

Originally Posted by cpass

InitialModulation=QPSK (DVB-S)

remove " (DVB-S)"

[cpass]

strange its not in my ini, see attached

[doc]

Originally Posted by cpass

strange its not in my ini, see attached

Just for your info, I had my system working great.

This evening I've added a Nova-t-500, PowerDVD, PowerCinema and VLC.

Somewhere along the lines its stopped working. I've uninstalled everything, including the drivers and its still the same.

The last thing I'll try is removing the nova-t-500. If that doesn't work I'll be reinstalling the OS again.

You may have to do a similar thing