Had request to add support for ProgDVB - added it last night and feedback saying it worked.
So - released 2.44b08 including bundle of other bits and pieces since May 2003.
Saturday, August 23, 2003
Friday, July 11, 2003
Friday, July 04, 2003
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Thursday, May 22, 2003
Saturday, April 26, 2003
Made a 2.41b03
- J. River Media Jukebox / Media Center
A multi-media front-end - a bit like myHTPC. Except this is a commercial product.
It can launch various back-end systems, including TV cards.
it also has a scheduler available (in the "Plus" version).
Someone asked if it could be scheduled into from DigiGuide. I had a look and it seemed possible so I did it.
- Nebula DigiTV
Back-to-back recording. Because of the way that DigiTV works - or more particularly, because of the way that I schedule into it when used in the typical way with DigiGuide - if you try to record 2 programmes back-to-back then the 2nd one might not get recorded or even worse it might abort DigiTV during its recording and mess up the 1st. This version has an initial work-around for this (set allowforceexit=3). I might be able to do something a bit better later, but it would be great if Nebula DigiTV read the registry a bit more frequently (like at the end of the currently recording programme). Anyway - first version is out and maybe more to come later.
- TVPI and HDTV
HDTV (High Definition TV) is USA Digital broadcasting. A "channel" is a combination of 2 things - PSIP-Major and PSIP-Minor - like a channel number and mux stream number.
So - I have extended the TVPI module to support this - since the only HDTV card that I could find included support for TitanTV (TVPI creators).
- ATi MMC
Now run with /TV+ to push it into Full-Screen if you choose PLAY/WATCH.
- Creative VideoBlaster Digital VCR
Spotted a mistake in timezone offset calculation
- General
Started to put a mechanism in place to have a long-term queue of pending transactions.
Not used it yet - but the reason behind it is that not everyone likes to have DigiGuide maintain the queue and send requests in just a few minutes before the programme starts.
- DigiGuide PVR
First visible signs of real code from DigiGuide. They have made a TV viewer available (stand-alone Beta code for now).
Here for details
- J. River Media Jukebox / Media Center
A multi-media front-end - a bit like myHTPC. Except this is a commercial product.
It can launch various back-end systems, including TV cards.
it also has a scheduler available (in the "Plus" version).
Someone asked if it could be scheduled into from DigiGuide. I had a look and it seemed possible so I did it.
- Nebula DigiTV
Back-to-back recording. Because of the way that DigiTV works - or more particularly, because of the way that I schedule into it when used in the typical way with DigiGuide - if you try to record 2 programmes back-to-back then the 2nd one might not get recorded or even worse it might abort DigiTV during its recording and mess up the 1st. This version has an initial work-around for this (set allowforceexit=3). I might be able to do something a bit better later, but it would be great if Nebula DigiTV read the registry a bit more frequently (like at the end of the currently recording programme). Anyway - first version is out and maybe more to come later.
- TVPI and HDTV
HDTV (High Definition TV) is USA Digital broadcasting. A "channel" is a combination of 2 things - PSIP-Major and PSIP-Minor - like a channel number and mux stream number.
So - I have extended the TVPI module to support this - since the only HDTV card that I could find included support for TitanTV (TVPI creators).
- ATi MMC
Now run with /TV+ to push it into Full-Screen if you choose PLAY/WATCH.
- Creative VideoBlaster Digital VCR
Spotted a mistake in timezone offset calculation
- General
Started to put a mechanism in place to have a long-term queue of pending transactions.
Not used it yet - but the reason behind it is that not everyone likes to have DigiGuide maintain the queue and send requests in just a few minutes before the programme starts.
- DigiGuide PVR
First visible signs of real code from DigiGuide. They have made a TV viewer available (stand-alone Beta code for now).
Here for details
Friday, April 25, 2003
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
- myHTPC
I put the calling script onto the myHTPC FTP site last night. Essentially same sort of thing as a DigiGuide dgmarker.
- ATi MMC
Added /TV+ when PLAYing
- Nebula DigiTV
Changed default channel numbering, on the assumption that most people now using more recent DigiTV with LCN sorting available
- TVPI
Might need to include some extra elements for USA HD-TV (psip). Basically extra info to determine where the channel is in the mux
- XMLTV
I let some folks now about my XMLTV channels
I put the calling script onto the myHTPC FTP site last night. Essentially same sort of thing as a DigiGuide dgmarker.
- ATi MMC
Added /TV+ when PLAYing
- Nebula DigiTV
Changed default channel numbering, on the assumption that most people now using more recent DigiTV with LCN sorting available
- TVPI
Might need to include some extra elements for USA HD-TV (psip). Basically extra info to determine where the channel is in the mux
- XMLTV
I let some folks now about my XMLTV channels
Saturday, April 19, 2003
- DigiGuide 6.x and 7.x
Russ finally posted a document with the current thoughts of the DigiGuide team. Looks very good. Turns the DigiGuide suite into a network-aware Digital VCR. Might mean that I can retire DABDig. In the meantime though there always seem to be a few extra bits and pieces that people want ...
- MyHTPC
Got some feedback saying that the MyHTTC plug-in basically worked - so should document it and put into the package.
- WinTVCap
Just come across this on SourceForge. Yet another way to capture TV from WinVT devices. Has command line options that I could drive. I see also that there is a 2.x coming that has extra command line parameters so that it can be driven directly from DigiGuide. So - driving it from DABDig not necessary, but might do it for completeness - especially for people with multiple devices.
Russ finally posted a document with the current thoughts of the DigiGuide team. Looks very good. Turns the DigiGuide suite into a network-aware Digital VCR. Might mean that I can retire DABDig. In the meantime though there always seem to be a few extra bits and pieces that people want ...
- MyHTPC
Got some feedback saying that the MyHTTC plug-in basically worked - so should document it and put into the package.
- WinTVCap
Just come across this on SourceForge. Yet another way to capture TV from WinVT devices. Has command line options that I could drive. I see also that there is a 2.x coming that has extra command line parameters so that it can be driven directly from DigiGuide. So - driving it from DABDig not necessary, but might do it for completeness - especially for people with multiple devices.
Thursday, April 10, 2003
Monday, April 07, 2003
- MyHTPC
I picked up on a thread on 3rd about using TVPI files - what was really being asked for was a plug-in to MyHTPC.
Spent some time tonight understanding a bit about how MyHTPC works ... and made a plug-in for it so that MyHTPC can drive DABDig which in turn drives the rest as usual. I don't know enough about MtHTPC to try it all out - so posted a note to their forum looking for someone to help finish it off.
- Device Steering
Had a note from someone who has been experimenting with more than one device - and naturally hit the issue that both devices would be scheduled to. His solution was to copy the vbe file and make a new dgmarker. That woudl sort of work (if they were in different directories ... because of dabdig.ini) but messy - especially as I have already put in a generalised method to handle that.
Dropped him a note to explain - awaiting feedback.
I picked up on a thread on 3rd about using TVPI files - what was really being asked for was a plug-in to MyHTPC.
Spent some time tonight understanding a bit about how MyHTPC works ... and made a plug-in for it so that MyHTPC can drive DABDig which in turn drives the rest as usual. I don't know enough about MtHTPC to try it all out - so posted a note to their forum looking for someone to help finish it off.
- Device Steering
Had a note from someone who has been experimenting with more than one device - and naturally hit the issue that both devices would be scheduled to. His solution was to copy the vbe file and make a new dgmarker. That woudl sort of work (if they were in different directories ... because of dabdig.ini) but messy - especially as I have already put in a generalised method to handle that.
Dropped him a note to explain - awaiting feedback.
Sunday, March 30, 2003
- Leadtek
The post-Jan 2003 registry format pretty well done now. Able to write most of it out to the registry. Someone else in Canada going down same route has been doing similar decoding. I explained how the Year is encoded. Might get some time tongith to do some more on this.
- DigiGuide
The folks at DigiGuide are well into deciding how to make their own PVR. Looking forward to see what it offers.
-Audiotron
Finally ordered one - should arrive next week. It does have a documented HTTP API ... so might do a few things with it just for the hell of it ... e.g. scheduling live streaming from DG.
The post-Jan 2003 registry format pretty well done now. Able to write most of it out to the registry. Someone else in Canada going down same route has been doing similar decoding. I explained how the Year is encoded. Might get some time tongith to do some more on this.
- DigiGuide
The folks at DigiGuide are well into deciding how to make their own PVR. Looking forward to see what it offers.
-Audiotron
Finally ordered one - should arrive next week. It does have a documented HTTP API ... so might do a few things with it just for the hell of it ... e.g. scheduling live streaming from DG.
Saturday, March 22, 2003
- Leadtek
Worked out most of the registry settings in new format. Looks like they do not clear to 0 before starting, hence lots of junk after the 0-terminated strings.
For the old version - had another look for the "Silent Recording" mode - but nowhere on my GUI. Contacted user in USA ... and it is clearly in their GUI in version of software that claims to be the same! Anyway - he dug in registry area that I referred to and found that MTS_Mode setting of 131327 sets silent mode. DABDig already allows controlling of the field (LeadtekTVMTSMode) so looking promising.
- Nebula
User with the odd error message send over traces. I reckon that a previous For loop must have had a problem, but didn't show up because of "On Error". I still think that there might be an inconsistency between his set-up (with Beta DigiTV software) and my channel chooser. Anyway - I put some extra debug statements in and cleared the Err to see what effect it has. Waiting for feedback.
- ATi MMC
Sent test version out to a UK user who sent me a registry dump this morning.
Worked out most of the registry settings in new format. Looks like they do not clear to 0 before starting, hence lots of junk after the 0-terminated strings.
For the old version - had another look for the "Silent Recording" mode - but nowhere on my GUI. Contacted user in USA ... and it is clearly in their GUI in version of software that claims to be the same! Anyway - he dug in registry area that I referred to and found that MTS_Mode setting of 131327 sets silent mode. DABDig already allows controlling of the field (LeadtekTVMTSMode) so looking promising.
- Nebula
User with the odd error message send over traces. I reckon that a previous For loop must have had a problem, but didn't show up because of "On Error". I still think that there might be an inconsistency between his set-up (with Beta DigiTV software) and my channel chooser. Anyway - I put some extra debug statements in and cleared the Err to see what effect it has. Waiting for feedback.
- ATi MMC
Sent test version out to a UK user who sent me a registry dump this morning.
Friday, March 21, 2003
- Leadtek
New Leadtek user in Canada prompting some more work in this area.
The post-Jan 2003 version of the Leadtek software stores all of it scheduling data in binary key in registry (old version was key per value). This is annoying, but more important ... a problem because I have to work out the syntax plus then put in extension to code becuase currently limited to 4 byte binary values. WMI registry handling looks like the way to handle the long binary values, but might limit which machines this runs on.
New Leadtek user in Canada prompting some more work in this area.
The post-Jan 2003 version of the Leadtek software stores all of it scheduling data in binary key in registry (old version was key per value). This is annoying, but more important ... a problem because I have to work out the syntax plus then put in extension to code becuase currently limited to 4 byte binary values. WMI registry handling looks like the way to handle the long binary values, but might limit which machines this runs on.
Thursday, March 20, 2003
I want to get closure on:
- Leadtek WinFast stuff - still some annoying side-effects, but can't really test without the hardware.
- ATi MMC. Basics all worked out but without a couple of genuine registry dumps it is a bit hard. Remembered that Mike F has one so dropped him a note
- Someone out there having some problems with Nebula DigiTV. Posted via NNTP and email copy but no reply yet. Could be because he is using a Beta of Nebula 2.0, but I suspect that it is more to do with either registry key not being in place yet or not set up a channel number.
- Leadtek WinFast stuff - still some annoying side-effects, but can't really test without the hardware.
- ATi MMC. Basics all worked out but without a couple of genuine registry dumps it is a bit hard. Remembered that Mike F has one so dropped him a note
- Someone out there having some problems with Nebula DigiTV. Posted via NNTP and email copy but no reply yet. Could be because he is using a Beta of Nebula 2.0, but I suspect that it is more to do with either registry key not being in place yet or not set up a channel number.
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