Have DVBViewer on my Scaleo E

[Lincoln_DJ]

Hi Guys,

 

Probably wont be of interest to most of you but I thought i'd share my experiences with DVBViewer, ya never know, might help someone in the future...

 

Anyway, finally bought DVBViewer last week, along with a Scaleo E (aka Elonex Artisan??). Inevitably encountered a few problems along the way....

 

First off, before even builing my HTPC, I noticed a lot of previous Scaleo E users have had trouble getting hard drives about 250GB to work properly. No such problem with me, simply avoided samsung and western digital hard drives and went for a 1TB Seagate Barracuda and it worked first time no problem.

 

Tried XP Pro, XP MCE and Vista, and XP Pro works the best by far, far less errors, especially with drivers and uninstalled hardware, etc.

 

Anyway, one problem was getting sound but no picture. now i know a lot of people will say to stay away from adding codecs, but I added k-lite codec pack (from a trusted source) and this did the trick 100%. I just had to make sure DVBViewer was set to VRM7 or VRM9 as opposed to overlay mixer. (make sure this is done in the DVD options too, else you get no picture when playing DVDs too)

 

Another problem, and one I probably spent most time on, was getting the remote working. The Scaleo E was supplied with a sturdy, yet old, MCE remote v1 (so it cant 'learn' my tv volume and power buttons).

Looking around the net most people seemed to be using HIP or Girder. But I had no joy with either of these whatsoever. Then I came accross EventGhost. Once I'd realised that, upon pressing a button on the remote, the code appeared in the log on the left, and all you had to do was drag it to the associated DVBViewer action on the right then BoB was indeed the brother of yer mother...

 

The only other real problem I had was getting the scart output to work with my CRT tv (yes i know i need to get with the times!!!).

I had sound straight away just by simply plugging it in, but the television option in my Intel graphics properties box kept appearing then disappearing. The fix, in the end, was very simple. Set television as the primary display - I had been using my VGA monitor as primary and was trying to get tv as secondary. now they are the other way round and it works a treat.

 

Now all I need to do is get DVBViewer to still record programs after I put my pc in standby, and learn how to tweak my OSD and i'll be living the dream....

 

Hope i've not bored too many of you to death!!!

 

Cheers, Adam.

[Robi!]

Anyway, one problem was getting sound but no picture. now i know a lot of people will say to stay away from adding codecs, but I added k-lite codec pack (from a trusted source) and this did the trick 100%. I just had to make sure DVBViewer was set to VRM7 or VRM9 as opposed to overlay mixer. (make sure this is done in the DVD options too, else you get no picture when playing DVDs too).

I just pointed in the Beta forum that this must be a bug, OSD and sound works in Overlay, channel video does not. I think this is a DVBViewer Pro issue, since DVBViewer GE does not have this problem.