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Announcement: New Digital TV Client DTV - First Public Release 

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	New client for controlling the DVB cards
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<a href="mailto:hakenes@hippomi.de">Rolf Hakenes</a> writes:</p>

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I am proud to announce the first public release of a new
	  client for controlling the DVBs cards from
	  Technotrend/Hauppauge/Siemens, which are supported by the DVB
	  driver of Ralph Metzler. This client is called 'dtv' and focuses
	  on the correct interpretation of program information sent through
	  the DVB-SI datastream. It tries to do its best in serving as a
	  replacement of commercial set-top boxes like the D-Box. There is
	  no function to record/replay broadcastings at the moment, but you
	  can do with it (hopefully) nearly all things beside that. 'dtv'
	  owns the following features:
	
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	  <list>
		<li>ETSI compliant integrated receiver decoder (IRD) to
		  control an arbitrary number of DVB devices by one or more
		  input devices</li> 
		<li>possibility to be used as a TV server
		  with individual input mapping and channel set (bouquet) for
		  each DVB output device</li> 
		<li>supported input devices: KEYBOARD,
		  LIRCD, built-in remote device, TCPIP</li> 
		<li>OSD display to provide
		  a menu-driven user interface</li> 
		<li>NVOD-Services (PW Cinedoms),
		  Linkage-Services (PW Superdom/F1), Multiple Audio-PIDs
		  (alternative language tracks) fully supported</li> 
		<li> PAT/PMT/SDT
		  scanning used to correct predefined PID settings</li> 
		<li>PAT/PMT/SDT
		  based transponder scanning to define available channel lists</li> 
		<li>EIT scanning (electronic program guide) supported</li> 
		<li>additional
		  database interface (PostgreSQL) to access an internet-based
		  and daily maintained free program guide</li> 
		<li>TCL-based
		  configuration language</li> 
		<li>Fully-cached videotext/teletext
		  decoder</li>
	  </list>
	
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Other features are on my list, suggestions or improvements
	  are always very welcome. The program should be pretty stable,
	  because I use it for quite half a year now as my primary and only
	  satellite receiver box without major problems.  WARNING: As 'dtv',
	  especially the Videotext part of it, uses the OSD code as it was a
	  few weeks ago, I would recommend to use a driver, which is not
	  newer than mid of may, at least until the OSD memory becomes as
	  big as it was at this point.
	
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I release this code under Gnu GPL, the project is hosted by
	  SourceForge.Net with the Name hesdvb. The first release of DTV can
	  be downloaded from:
	
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	  <a href="http://hesdvb.sourceforge.net/DTV-1.0.4.tar.gz">http://hesdvb.sourceforge.net/DTV-1.0.4.tar.gz</a>
	
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	  Thanks Rolf!
	
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