Info bar feature? Does it exist?

[AndersB]

I am thinking of buying the DVB Viewer software to use in my HTPC instead of the set-top box currently used. There is only one feature I require but I cannot find out anywhere from the feature list if DVBViewer has it and I do not have any Technisat decoder so I cannot try out the software.

 

The feature is of the TV part of DVBViewer. I would like to be able to press a button on my remote when watching TV to get an infobar at the bottom of the screen showing the current program, the next program and the end-times for these two. I then want to be able to browse through the channels in this infobar to see what's on the other channels without having to actually change the channel. If I find something interesting, I would like to be able to just press OK to change to that channel I currently have the infobar set to.

 

Is there such a feature in DVBViewer or is it in the roadmap?

 

cheers/Andy

[steph99]

Hi AndersB!

 

All you said is possible by default with one (small?)difference:

you can switch up and down in your channel list without actually tuning in into these channels.

All the time you will see the current and the next EPG including start time and duration (and much more is possible). Depending on the timeout you setup, any channel will tune as soon as you do not change the channel for this length of time you specified (the timeout; I use 2 secs for instance, works for me just fine).

 

Additionally, you have plenty of information on numerous OSD pages in various views. All can be navigated through via your remote of course.

 

On top of this you can change the looks of the OSD via skins.

 

And on top of THIS, you can customize the OSD yourself....

 

Puuhhh - this should do the trick

[Guest Lars_MQ]

If you press OSD-OK (depends on your remote/configuration how it is named) you will see the "Mini EPG" it shows you the current next epg of the current program and several other informations (teletext available, which audioformat, if a recording is ongoing etc).

 

As steph99 said you can use the zapping epg preview, or you can call the what's running now epg view or the timeline or you can use the channellist and see what is running on the channels. There are several possibilities to archive what you want.

[AndersB]

Great, thanks! That's makes a DVBViewer user out of me