PiP Preview crashes

[Araj]

I'm sure there is probably a thread here somewhere to answer this but I can't find it...

 

If I try to use the PiP Preview window, it won't always work. Sometimes the picture locks up, sometimes I get a message saying no hardware is available, sometimes DVBV crashes. I imagine this has something to do with which sources/transponders the programmes are coming from.

 

I have a Hauppauge HVR-4000 tuner card, which has separate tuners for DVB-T and DVB-S. I have a monoblock LNB for Hotbird13°/Astra19.2°

 

What combinations of channels/sources should be possible in Preview/main window and while we're on the subject, how is it with Mosaic preview?

Edited June 19, 2008 by Araj

[Lars_MQ]

Stay within the same reception type. Don't mix -T and -S. The hvr4000 has a hybrid tuner which can only one of the types at once.

 

You could try out the hybridtunertest from the beta section of the membersarea, it adresses this issue.

 

It can be copied without problems into an existing 3.9.4 programfolder. You have to delete you hardware.xml in the Userdata folder to force a new detection of the hardware inside the DVBViewer before you start it the first time.

[Araj]

Thanks Lars, I'll try that later then.

 

If I stick to -S, should I be able to:

- Show two channels from Astra at the same time?

- Show a channel from Astra at the same time as one from Hotbird?

- Do both of the above?

[Lars_MQ]

two channels on the same SAT on the same transponder (frequency). Remember a CAM can only decrypt one channel at a time. Sotwo FTA or one FTA/one encrypted is possible.

 

Enable the cantune filter in the channellist, it will show you which channels you can tune (just ignore the channels from the -T ).

[habibm]

Stay within the same reception type. Don't mix -T and -S. The hvr4000 has a hybrid tuner which can only one of the types at once.

 

You could try out the hybridtunertest from the beta section of the membersarea, it adresses this issue.

 

It can be copied without problems into an existing 3.9.4 programfolder. You have to delete you hardware.xml in the Userdata folder to force a new detection of the hardware inside the DVBViewer before you start it the first time.

 

I have tried the hybridtunertest, as I have a HVR-4000 and often switch between the terrestrial and satellite tuners, this works okay and does not produce error about no hardware and does not require 'Rebuild Graph' action. However, one drawback, there is no plugins support. Will plugins support be provided in the next release of DVBViewer?