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

- TVPI
Have now made 2.40b05 ... with support for HDTV channels (psip-major/psip-minor)
- Nebula DigiTV
Need to take Favourites into account when setting channel number

- 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

- 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.

- Device Steering
Had a response from the user I referred to on 7th April. He tried it out and it worked as designed.
- Leadtek
Andrew replied - things not quite right. Seems to be 1 hour out (USA did change to summertime last week-end). Gave some pointers yesterday and waiting to hear more.

- 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.