Doom9
18th April 2004, 15:06
Okay, this time it's serious. I don't have access to DVB-C, can't put a Technotrend based DVB-S card in my barebone PC, and there's no DVB-T around here anymore. Yet, I want to cover all these areas so I need YOUR! help.
Here's what I'm looking for:
DVB-S guide for Technotrend based cards (Hauppauge WinTV Nexus/Nova, Skystar1, etc). I'm looking for something on the software that ships with the card, good freeware solutions (DVB Control, DVB Extreme perhaps). Also, what I couldn't find so far was a soft to capture multiple audio streams at the same time.
DVB-C guide for Technotrend based cards (Hauppauge once again). The standard software should be covered, as well as anything that allows multi PID recording (TS, for multiple audio streams), preferably freeware but commercial is also okay if there's no viable freeware solution. There's already a MyTheatre guide (to be published soon), so for that program I'm just interested on the configuration differences to a DVB-S card.
DVB-T guide. Here once again we have Technotrend based cards, and budget cards like the AirStar2. Requirements are the same as above, vendor supplied soft if it's any good, and good alternative software, preferably freeware. I already have a volunteer for a twinhand visionplus card guide and the Nebula guide is already online. Oh, and Mytheatre also seems to support quite a number of cards in that area so perhaps something on the differences of using this soft for sats, cable and terretrial broadcasts might be useful.
Now, nobody ask you to do everything. Large chunks are already there in the existing DVB guides.. processing captured files, etc. that part exists and you don't have to redo it. The above outlined documents would have to be something like this: http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/progdvb.htm, http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/dvbportal.htm and http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/dvbviewer.htm. Just cover reception setup, channel scan and recording, and perhaps automated recording based on EPG if this is available to you.
And as for a few more hints of what I'm looking for, here's a document describing my generic guide requirements: http://www.doom9.org/guide-writing.htm. Make sure you read this before starting out.
Last but not least, if there are any good settop boxes (with focus on recording.. we want to get those streams digitally to our PCs), that are not exactly niche products, a guide on such products could also not hurt.
And one more thing: from personal experience I know that guides are best written on one day.. prepare your project, then sit down one day and get it over with. If you drag it around for weeks, you'll never finish it. Looking forward to a lot of volunteers ;)
Here's what I'm looking for:
DVB-S guide for Technotrend based cards (Hauppauge WinTV Nexus/Nova, Skystar1, etc). I'm looking for something on the software that ships with the card, good freeware solutions (DVB Control, DVB Extreme perhaps). Also, what I couldn't find so far was a soft to capture multiple audio streams at the same time.
DVB-C guide for Technotrend based cards (Hauppauge once again). The standard software should be covered, as well as anything that allows multi PID recording (TS, for multiple audio streams), preferably freeware but commercial is also okay if there's no viable freeware solution. There's already a MyTheatre guide (to be published soon), so for that program I'm just interested on the configuration differences to a DVB-S card.
DVB-T guide. Here once again we have Technotrend based cards, and budget cards like the AirStar2. Requirements are the same as above, vendor supplied soft if it's any good, and good alternative software, preferably freeware. I already have a volunteer for a twinhand visionplus card guide and the Nebula guide is already online. Oh, and Mytheatre also seems to support quite a number of cards in that area so perhaps something on the differences of using this soft for sats, cable and terretrial broadcasts might be useful.
Now, nobody ask you to do everything. Large chunks are already there in the existing DVB guides.. processing captured files, etc. that part exists and you don't have to redo it. The above outlined documents would have to be something like this: http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/progdvb.htm, http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/dvbportal.htm and http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/dvbviewer.htm. Just cover reception setup, channel scan and recording, and perhaps automated recording based on EPG if this is available to you.
And as for a few more hints of what I'm looking for, here's a document describing my generic guide requirements: http://www.doom9.org/guide-writing.htm. Make sure you read this before starting out.
Last but not least, if there are any good settop boxes (with focus on recording.. we want to get those streams digitally to our PCs), that are not exactly niche products, a guide on such products could also not hurt.
And one more thing: from personal experience I know that guides are best written on one day.. prepare your project, then sit down one day and get it over with. If you drag it around for weeks, you'll never finish it. Looking forward to a lot of volunteers ;)