Some years ago CM&V Hackbart brought you the DVBViewer™, today the market leading software for watching and recording digital video broadcasts.
Now they are introducing the next step: The SAT>IP Viewer. This eponymous application allows watching DVB television and radio broadcasts from satellite, terrestrial or cable servers via the SAT>IP protocol on MacOS, Windows desktop and mobile devices.
In short the SAT>IP Viewer provides access to live television and radio broadcasts via a local IP network. It features a sophisticated EPG (Electronic Program Guide) and Teletext and can also record those broadcasts.
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This guide shows you how to begin watching and recording television programs on your Macintosh or Windows PC. It covers configuring and includes instructions for using the most common features of the SAT>IP Viewer.
The menu bar at the top of the screen organizes commands in menus that are carefully arranged by topic. It provides direct access to many of the SAT>IP Viewer functions.
The SAT>IP Viewer menu contains the following standard menu items, listed in the order in which they should appear.
The channel menu lists all available tv, radio, network and favorite stations sorted alphabetically.
The Sat>IP Viewer features an OSD type menu which overlays itself on the Main Television Display.
This display is called up by pressing the “M” keyboard shortcut. It can be navigated with the keyboard arrows. The display can be removed by pressing “M” again or by hitting the “Esc” button.
The OSD display provides direct access to the OSD channel list, program guide, recorded files, Teletext and Language Settings. It also allows to pause the currently running program and launch an immediate recording.
The channel list provides an overview of all the channels that have been available. This channel list can be updated or complemented with other stations through the Scanner window. It is brought up by pressing the “C” keyboard shortcut or by selecting it from the main OSD menu.
The Electronic Program Guide (EPG) provides detailed information on current and upcoming programs. The extent of this information varies from channel to channel and is sourced from the DVB broadcast information.
It can be brought into view by pressing the “E” button on the keyboard and by selecting EPG from the menu bar at the top of the main window.
Recorded Assets can be played back directly by pressing the “R” keyboard shortcut and selecting the corresponding item.
By clicking on the Teletext Entry in the Menu Bar or by pressing the letter “T” on the keyboard a teletext display opens if the correponding channel provides a teletext service.
The preferences window is a dialog that contains all necessary settings of the SAT>IP Viewer.
By clicking on Preferences in the menu bar the following window opens:
The Hardware Tab lists all available devices. By clicking on a device you will get detailed information of the selected SAT>IP server. Further on you can disable the device from being used inside the application.
The Scanner Tab provides the possibility to update existing channel lists or create new ones.
The Sat>IP Viewer compatible hardware devices have built in tuners for different systems (satellite,
cable, terrestrial), to select channels. The type and amount of channels depends on what video source
your particular device is using.
Typically, antenna and cable sources can be used to find channels,
via the tuner input.
After a reception type is selected the channel search properties will be opened. Depending on the tuner type you can define additional settings, which are:
* only if the DVBViewer Recording Service is used as SAT>IP Server
In the next step the channel scan is started. This might take a while until all frequencies are scanned.
The 4 tabs provide several facilities for maintaining and rearranging the channel list.
The recording tab manages your scheduled recordings. All your tasks are listed here and you will be informed about possible conflicts.
While adding or editing a task, the following sub window will be opened:
Here you set the start date and time for each task. You are also able to define the daily or weekly
base.
To save the recording in the "Program Stream"" you have ti MPEG2 PS as output. The "Program Stream"
is the usual format for playing DVB-video recordings on the PC. For radio recordings the SAT>IP Viewer switches
automatically to the audio format MP2 (a predecessor of MP3) or to AC3. Recordings of HDTV broadcasts in the
H.264 or HEVC compression standard, for which the MPEG format is unsuitable, will be recorded in TS format.
Subtitles can not be saved in this container format.