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2001-06-02 Announcement: New Digital TV Client DTV - First Public Release

New client for controlling the DVB cards

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:

ETSI compliant integrated receiver decoder (IRD) to control an arbitrary number of DVB devices by one or more input devices

possibility to be used as a TV server with individual input mapping and channel set (bouquet) for each DVB output device

supported input devices: KEYBOARD, LIRCD, built-in remote device, TCPIP

OSD display to provide a menu-driven user interface

NVOD-Services (PW Cinedoms), Linkage-Services (PW Superdom/F1), Multiple Audio-PIDs (alternative language tracks) fully supported

PAT/PMT/SDT scanning used to correct predefined PID settings

PAT/PMT/SDT based transponder scanning to define available channel lists

EIT scanning (electronic program guide) supported

additional database interface (PostgreSQL) to access an internet-based and daily maintained free program guide

TCL-based configuration language

Fully-cached videotext/teletext decoder

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.

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:

http://hesdvb.sourceforge.net/DTV-1.0.4.tar.gz

Thanks Rolf!

martin


	Home News Documentation Projects Mailing Lists Repositories Downloads Wiki pages V4L-DVB VDR Links GIT trees Patchwork Stats CI tests Other links Contacting us		News 2001-06-02 Announcement: New Digital TV Client DTV - First Public Release New client for controlling the DVB cards Rolf Hakenes writes: 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: ETSI compliant integrated receiver decoder (IRD) to control an arbitrary number of DVB devices by one or more input devices possibility to be used as a TV server with individual input mapping and channel set (bouquet) for each DVB output device supported input devices: KEYBOARD, LIRCD, built-in remote device, TCPIP OSD display to provide a menu-driven user interface NVOD-Services (PW Cinedoms), Linkage-Services (PW Superdom/F1), Multiple Audio-PIDs (alternative language tracks) fully supported PAT/PMT/SDT scanning used to correct predefined PID settings PAT/PMT/SDT based transponder scanning to define available channel lists EIT scanning (electronic program guide) supported additional database interface (PostgreSQL) to access an internet-based and daily maintained free program guide TCL-based configuration language Fully-cached videotext/teletext decoder 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. 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: http://hesdvb.sourceforge.net/DTV-1.0.4.tar.gz Thanks Rolf! martin

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2001-06-02 Announcement: New Digital TV Client DTV - First Public Release