SageTV v7 DVB Radio

[bunch92]

Originally Posted by fac13

My server specs are in my Public Profile - not bleeding edge but not far off. I don't think that's the problem and other posters have noted the V7 UI MVP performance issue too.

Thank you, I have only heard praise about the HD100 and HD200 speed, but only if the firmware is updated to the last beta. Have you done that ?

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48445

[fac13]

Originally Posted by bunch92

Thank you, I have only heard praise about the HD100 and HD200 speed, but only if the firmware is updated to the last beta. Have you done that ?http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48445

I already had the latest beta firmware on my HD100s, and yes, I can confirm that they perform very nicely indeed on the new UI - faster than SageMC used to run on V6.

I'm actually quite happy leaving my MVPs running SageMC because I use mine with older TVs with smaller screens, and the minimalist design really suits them better - as you have doubtless seen from the screenshots, the new UI is quite busy.

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by bunch92

Thank you, I have only heard praise about the HD100 and HD200 speed, but only if the firmware is updated to the last beta. Have you done that ?

This is on the MVP, there is no firmware update.

[jamesdisco]

Originally Posted by jaminben

I'e attached my .frq file which was created this morning so it should be pretty much upto date, the only downside is that you'll have to sort through it to get the frequencys you want. I did also try DVB-T earlier on in the beta and it worked fine so I would assume it should be ok now as well.

Cheers

Ben

Many Thanks for this i've got the sat radio working now, so will try again with terrestrial tonight

[bunch92]

OK thanks for the replies, I got confused between HD100/200 and MVP.

I have now bought the V7 beta and will be installing it soon.

[Mark SS]

What channel numbers are people using for radio?

I use the Sly numbers for everything, across DVBT and DVBS, but it looks like the Sage EPG doesn't treat the 0 prefixed numbers correctly. 0101 is shown next to 101 in the guide. Am considering bumping radio channels up by 1000 i.e. 1101 for Radio 1, or perhaps to 9xxx just in case Sly have another rearrange at some point and push TV channels into the 1xxx range?

[fac13]

Most of my TV channels numbers are based on Sky's for historical reasons (basically I followed the herd) but these days I'm more interested in getting my family's favourite channels at the top of the programme guide, and in grouping them logically - keeping the BBC and ITV HD versions near their SD counterparts for example.

I know there is at least one plugin for sorting the guide on something other than channel number, and I did try one once, but manipulating the numbers seems easiest to me.

I started my radio channels at 700; I like this because when I'm in the guide all I have to do is press "up" on the remote to get to them.

[Mark SS]

Have logged a bug for DVBT radio, as detailed below. Anyone else experiencing the same?

DVBT radio channels tune in ok (if a little slowly, upto 10 seconds) but there is a consistent pause in the audio. It occurs approx every 8 seconds, which can be heard and observed in the AC3Filter control panel. The 'Frames/Errors' counter freezes every 8 seconds, which appears to be approx every 750 frames. The error counter remains at zero. Same occurs whether using AC3 encode or 'Do not encode stereo PCM' in AC3Filter. Have not tried the same process with DVBS yet.

[deanm]

Originally Posted by Mark SS

Have logged a bug for DVBT radio, as detailed below. Anyone else experiencing the same?

DVBT radio channels tune in ok (if a little slowly, upto 10 seconds) but there is a consistent pause in the audio. It occurs approx every 8 seconds, which can be heard and observed in the AC3Filter control panel. The 'Frames/Errors' counter freezes every 8 seconds, which appears to be approx every 750 frames. The error counter remains at zero. Same occurs whether using AC3 encode or 'Do not encode stereo PCM' in AC3Filter. Have not tried the same process with DVBS yet.

I have the same problem or similar on both DVB-T and DVB-C. But only on some channels. The problem shows on BBC 1 but not on BBC 6 Music. Need to do more investigation as DVB-T may be a signal issue.

Dean

[Mark SS]

The frequency of the interruption (every 8 seconds) made me think it was probably an issue with part of the demux/decoder chain, rather than a problem with the signal. On the plus side, if its constant and repeatable it should be easier to fix than something that occurs at random.

[Mark SS]

Originally Posted by fac13

Most of my TV channels numbers are based on Sky's for historical reasons (basically I followed the herd) but these days I'm more interested in getting my family's favourite channels at the top of the programme guide, and in grouping them logically - keeping the BBC and ITV HD versions near their SD counterparts for example.

I'm inclined to go this route at some point but its such a time saver not having to do physical-logical mapping with DVBE4Sage, I'm loathed to set the time aside!

[Mark SS]

So I'm assuming those of you using DVB-S radio are either using freesat (with .frq file) or DVBE4Sage but using SID tuning?

Looks like Sage doesn't like channels prefixed with zero. 0101 (Radio 1) gets sent to DVBE4Sage as 101, which then tunes the BBC1 tv channel.

[Whitey]

Originally Posted by Mark SS

So I'm assuming those of you using DVB-S radio are either using freesat (with .frq file) or DVBE4Sage but using SID tuning?

Looks like Sage doesn't like channels prefixed with zero. 0101 (Radio 1) gets sent to DVBE4Sage as 101, which then tunes the BBC1 tv channel.

Try putting a 3 infront of the channel eg 3101, that should work with DVBE4Sage

whitey

[Mark SS]

I'm using channel number tuning, rather than tuning by SID.

I've initially configured the radio channels to start with 9. So for BBCR1, I have the logical 9101 which is mapped to the physical 0101. Sage is only sending 101 to DVBE4Sage.

I could go back to using SIDs but its such a PIA that I'll do without the couple of the channels I'd like to add that aren't on DVBT. At the moment, thats just BBC London 94.9 (footy coverage) and XFM London.

[Whitey]

Originally Posted by Mark SS

I'm using channel number tuning, rather than tuning by SID.

I've initially configured the radio channels to start with 9. So for BBCR1, I have the logical 9101 which is mapped to the physical 0101. Sage is only sending 101 to DVBE4Sage.

I could go back to using SIDs but its such a PIA that I'll do without the couple of the channels I'd like to add that aren't on DVBT. At the moment, thats just BBC London 94.9 (footy coverage) and XFM London.

Sorry I meant send the channel number 3101 to DVBE4Sage. For some reason radio channels on sky start with the channel number 3

whitey

[Mark SS]

Thanks, that fixed it. Got an email from Michael suggesting the same and it worked on the two channels I tried quickly today.

[starfire]

Just as a follow on to Sage 7 DVB radio, has anyone managed to burn a recorded radio programme to CD?

I am finding I cannot burn the .mpg files produced, both Windows Media Player and Ashampoo Burning Studio complain about the files?

[Whitey]

I've not tried it myself but couldn't you demux the .mpg with something like TMPGEnc to get a .mp2 file which then should play ok and burn to a CD

Whitey

[starfire]

Not used TMPGEnc before but can give it a go.

I also tried this audio extractor but no joy:-
http://www.aoamedia.com/audioextractor.htm

Maybe I'll put in a request asking it to be saved in an audio rather than video format.

[starfire]

Sage support to the rescue

Sage is recording it in a format that is not likely compatible with normal
audio software. It's recording it in a 'TV' style format; this is not
something we would be changing though. If you add this to your
Sage.properties file while SageTV is not running:

transcoder/formats/MP3-384CBR=f\=mp3;[bf\=aud;f\=mp3;sr\=44100;ch\=2;br\=384
000;]

Then you should be able to use the 'Convert' option in SageTV to convert it
to a standard MP3 file.