DVB-S/T/C Support

[AndersNolberger]

A new release of SDVBCoreRecorder is available at http://www.nolberger.se/sage/default.htm

This version is compatible with the new DVBCore found in MyTheatre v3.12. I can not include that version in the release due to licensing rules but you can find the download for MyTheatre at http://www.dvbcore.com.

Everything is much more stable with the new DVBCore so I really recomend that you download that.

I have not checked the version included in the new 3.19 beta so I can not say if it works.

The source for my server is also available at the same place as the program. It is programmed in Delphi 6.

Enjoy
Anders

[Ayla]

It's really good that you're still working on the SDVBCoreRecorder Anders !

I tried it but can't get it to work properly.

SageTV finds my DVB-C card but I can't get the channels working.

I'm not sure how to fill out the Transponder and Channel info.
Could you help please?

I have a cable.ini file from ProgDVB that works in MyTheatre too.

Here is an example from that:

...
107=143000,V,6875000,-1,0,0
108=156000,V,6875000,1030,120,97
109=474012,V,6875000,1010,100,97
110=482012,V,6875000,1050,100,98
...

How do I use that in SDVBCoreRecorder?


My cable company uses:

Symbolrate: 687500
QAM: 64
Bandwith: 8MHz

Thanks for all your great work so far!

[taylormadearmy]

Has anyone tried SDVBrecorder with the latest beta (RC1).

It just freezes solid for me with SDVBrecorder using 100% CPU.

[taylormadearmy]

Hi Andres

I'm still having little luck with the latest RC's and SDVBrecorder - does it work for you?

When sage starts it all chugs a long very slowly as SDVB is using 100% CPU. If I lower SDVB's priority I can get Sage to start viewing TV - and I get some debug out of SDVB:

NOOP 21:48:07
NOOP 21:48:07
NOOP 21:48:07
START Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture TV Tuner|1|4611684934810065329|E:\Video\TV\PearlHarbour-1002179-2.mpg|Great 21:48:42
NOOP 21:48:47
GET_FILE_SIZE E:\Video\TV\PearlHarbour-1002179-2.mpg 21:48:47
Please report this to Anders:
GET_FILE_SIZE E:\Video\TV\PearlHarbour-1002179-2.mpg


However, as SDVB cpu usage stays so high sage efectively hangs - have you got any ideas that may help me?

Thanks!
K

[taylormadearmy]

Did some more playing - it definitely is the RC builds that break SDVB for me - I rolled back to 2.0.15 and it works ok - any ides what has been done to breaak it?

On a sad note I got official conformation from Sage support that they have no plans as yet to support DVB:

"I'm sorry to say, but we currently have no plans to support DVB.
"

and on the issue of supporting plugins like SDVB:

"Sorry, but it's the same situation. We are not currently supporting it. We
realize there is a huge market in the UK. It's something we are always
working on, but we can't offer any kind of guarantee on whether we will
support it later or not."

[insomniac]

How very unfortunate...

I.

Originally posted by taylormadearmy
Did some more playing - it definitely is the RC builds that break SDVB for me - I rolled back to 2.0.15 and it works ok - any ides what has been done to breaak it?

On a sad note I got official conformation from Sage support that they have no plans as yet to support DVB:

"I'm sorry to say, but we currently have no plans to support DVB.
"

and on the issue of supporting plugins like SDVB:

"Sorry, but it's the same situation. We are not currently supporting it. We
realize there is a huge market in the UK. It's something we are always
working on, but we can't offer any kind of guarantee on whether we will
support it later or not."

[Narflex]

I didn't realize you already had a plugin working. I've been a little busy. If the author (or whoever can make the changes) wants to contact me with the problems they're having I can tell them what's changed (the "GET_FILE_SIZE filename" call is a new one that was added in RC3). betatest@freytechnologies.com

Thanks,

[AndersNolberger]

Hello

I am sorry I have not looked at this until now. I have myself changed computer and I now have problems with jerky playback with my DVB server.

On my server at http://www.nolberger.se/sage/ are a new version that works with RC3. Try it and report back how it works for you.

I think the problem with 100% CPU utilization is fixed.

[insomniac]

Hey Anders:

You da man BTW! Hey, Im tempted to buy a DVB card but am unshure on how well you have your cool plugin working with sage. Can you give me a general feeling on this? I dont mind waiting and working through bugs, I just dont want to buy a card which will likely be a boat anchor if I cant get it to run semi-stable with sage.

I.

Originally posted by AndersNolberger
Hello

I am sorry I have not looked at this until now. I have myself changed computer and I now have problems with jerky playback with my DVB server.

On my server at http://www.nolberger.se/sage/ are a new version that works with RC3. Try it and report back how it works for you.

I think the problem with 100% CPU utilization is fixed.

[AndersNolberger]

There still are some problems with the server and I do not recomend anyone to buy any hardware to use with this. I can only tune with some DVB-T cards and not any cable or satellite cards. There also is a few bugs that I dont know if I am going to fix.

I will probobly wait until the release of v 2.0 of Sage before I continue with development of my server.

[taylormadearmy]

Hi Andres

Thanks for the quick response.

Unfortunately it still does not work

The 100% CPU usage problem has gone, however, when I try to start to watch something all I get is a black screen. Here is the debug output:

NOOP 22:42:15
NOOP 22:42:17
NOOP 22:42:17
START Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture TV Tuner|3|4611684934720439330|K:\Video\TV\AllNewTVsNaughtiestBlunders17-1003445-0.mpg|Great 22:42:28
NOOP 22:42:32
NOOP 22:42:32
GET_FILE_SIZE K:\Video\TV\AllNewTVsNaughtiestBlunders17-1003445-0.mpg 22:42:32
NOOP 22:42:33
NOOP 22:42:33
GET_FILE_SIZE K:\Video\TV\AllNewTVsNaughtiestBlunders17-1003445-0.mpg 22:42:33

Any ideas how I can fix it..?

Thanks!!
Kevin

[taylormadearmy]

Hi Andres

Ignore my last post! It works fine - it stopped working for me as my hard disk k:\ stopped working between reboots. Howver, new disk in and all seems fine with RC3. Will let you know how stable it looks when have been using it for a day or so.

Couple of feature requests for when you start to develop it some more:

1. Warning when no hard disk is present

2. Maybe an option in the ini file for SDVB to launch Sage once it has started.

3. Slighly harder - dont know how feasilble - how about simulating multiple cards by doing a mux record...?

Thanks again!!

[taylormadearmy]

Hi Anders

All is now working well for me. So far seems rock solid.

I also fixed a previous problem I mentioned - funny aspect ratios. Turns out it is a Hauppauge driver problem with DirectX 9. IF you replace quartz.dll with an older version everything is displayed correctly - however you then loose the ability to use VMR.

I contacted Hauppauge about this and they said new drivers should be coming out any day now (2.17) that will fix this.

If and when you have anything new to test let me know and I'll try it out!

Thanks!!!

[taylormadearmy]

Hi Again Anders

I've been playing a bit more - something I've recently nociced when trying to "browse" tv - ie flicking up and down through channels is that channel changes are quite slow - sometimes taking up to 10 or more seconds.

Is there anything I can do about this?

Thanks!
K

[shuban0]

What would it take to get SDVB to work with DVB-S cards?

[AndersNolberger]

It is probably easy to support DVB-S but I dont have any card to try with.
Anyone is free to try with the source from my server at http://www.nolberger.se/sage.

My server will be shut down for the next two weeks. If you want to download the source please do it before tomorow night (GMT+1). It will be online again July 11th.

[AndersNolberger]

A new version of SDVBCoreRecorder is now ready for download from my web page http://www.nolberger.se/sage/default.htm.

Thanks to Peter Brennan for changes to support DVB-T/DVB-C Bandwidth and QAM. ( Requires version of dvbcore.dll from MT 3.12 )

There are no other changes so if you dont live in Australia I dont think there are any adventages in upgrading.

Anders

[shuban0]

Well I would like to get DVB-S working, though I haven't coded a single line of delphi in my life.
Would you be willing to work together to get it working?
Could you at least tell me what parts of the DVB-S interface to DVBCore aren't there?

Thanks

[Yoja]

Ok, I have DVB-S working with Sage TV.

Modified the SDVBCoreRecorder source, so it can change the channels with AVbroadcaster plugin.

-make an entry "SageTV' in the Favorites in the mytheatre database.
move the channels you like to that entry (take same channels as in your XMLTV file). Number your channels.

- Close mytheatre and copy the channels.mdb to the SDVBCoreRecorder directory.

- make a directory plugins in the SDVBCoreRecorder directory and copy the AVbroadcaster plugin in this directory.

- Start SDVBCoreRecorder and setup the AVbroadcaster plugin.
(default port 8000)

-Start SageTV and setup the channels, numbering must be the same as in the favorites/SageTV from mytheatre database.

That is all, works for me !!!

(I have a Skystar2, with the latest drivers v4.2.11)

Can't post the modified SDVBCoreRecorder.exe in this forum,
If anyone is interested I can mail it to AndersNolberger if I can get his e-mail adres.

[shuban0]

I am interested in this, though I am curious as to why you used the AVBroadcaster plugin and MyTheater channels.mdb when channel changing could be done directly with the core.

If possible could you e-mail it to me? I'll PM you my address.