Smart DVB

[Andushi]

SmartDVB 0.2.0 - Russian language

[Andushi]

SmartDVB 0.2.1 Beta3

* Fixed: issue where when selecting another device the initial reloading of the channel didn't work correct the first time.
* Added: Simple support for device auto-detect and switching on channel changes (single dvb-s/c/t atsc device auto switch supported). Only tested switching dvb-s and dvb-t devices.
* Fixed: scheduler records were failing if guide event name was used as filename and a channel change was required.
* Added: DVB subtitles support, needs testing please report any issues (only visible with vmr/evr renderers). You'll need to rescan for dvb subs to show up.
* Added: Some interface changes as it's not necessary anymore to maintain compatibility with pre xp systems.
* Fixed: more scheduler fixes, when restarting application through scheduler correct channel was not always selected.
* Fixed: some optimizations to the channel list handling which should speed up the loading of expanded channel lists.
* Fixed: an mdapi issue with mdplug not working correctly (maybe will also allow more plugins to run better).
* Fixed: some robustness changes.
* Added: some twinhan/azureware specific settings for tuning and diseqc to bda.dev (Florian) if you find your card works with other settings than the default please be so kind to let me know which settings worked for you so i can update the auto-tuning code and in such case also send me your bda.log (in the devices directory) so i can see the excact name of your card.
* Added: fullscreen option on startup (actually after the first successful tune this will be done).
* Fixed: crc check retries when scanning. This might help when scanning low signal transponders.
* Added: additional time in minutes (under record options) for scheduled tasks. These will be automatically added/substracted when adding a task through epg.
* Added: username/password schedule option. Although for now it seems you should always schedule your tasks with win7 as the admin account as smart still needs to be run as administrator. For scheduling to work for any user under win7 using the ms task scheduler i will have to update the app to run under any user in the future or create my own task scheduler.
* Fixed: problem with large sized timeshift buffers.
* Added: basic UDP streaming to vlc and maybe other players that support this. Only tested with vlc please let me know your findings with this if you try it.
* Fixed: Language handling changed to allow usage

[Andushi]

SmartDVB 0.2.1 Beta 4

v0.2.1 beta 4 (beta version bumped up because internal build was mistakenly released as beta3).
       Fixed: issue where when selecting another device the initial reloading of the channel didn't 
              work correct the first time.
       Added: Simple support for device auto-detect and switching on channel changes 
              (single dvb-s/c/t atsc device auto switch supported). Only tested switching dvb-s and
              dvb-t devices.
       Fixed: scheduler records were failing if guide event name was used as filename and a channel 
              change was required.
       Added: DVB subtitles support, needs testing please report any issues (only visible with vmr/evr 
              renderers). You'll need to rescan for dvb subs to show up.
       Added: Some interface changes as it's not necessary anymore to maintain compatibility with pre 
              xp systems.
       Fixed: more scheduler fixes, when restarting application through scheduler correct channel 
              was not always selected.
       Fixed: some optimizations to the channel list handling which should speed up the loading
              of expanded channel lists.
       Fixed: an mdapi issue with mdplug not working correctly (maybe will also allow more plugins to
              run better).
       Fixed: some robustness changes.
       Added: some twinhan/azureware specific settings for tuning and diseqc to bda.dev (Florian)
              if you find your card works with other settings than the default please be so kind
              to let me know which settings worked for you so i can update the auto-tuning code
              and in such case also send me your bda.log (in the devices directory) so i can
              see the excact name of your card.
       Added: fullscreen option on startup (actually after the first successful tune this will be done).
       Fixed: crc check retries when scanning. This might help when scanning low signal transponders.
       Added: additional time in minutes (under record options) for scheduled tasks. These will 
              be automatically added/substracted when adding a task through epg.
       Added: username/password schedule option. Although for now it seems you should always
              schedule your tasks with win7 as the admin account as smart still needs to be
              run as administrator. For scheduling to work for any user under win7 using the ms
              task scheduler i will have to update the app to run under any user in the future or
              create my own task scheduler.
       Fixed: problem with large sized timeshift buffers.
       Added: basic UDP streaming to vlc and maybe other players that support this. Only tested
              with vlc please let me know your findings with this if you try it.
       Fixed: Language handling changed to allow usage of translation of older versions. If resources
              in the used language dll are out of date the app will default to the .exe resources.
              Not 100% sure i've got everything covered here so let me know if you encounter problems.
       Fixed: some changes to epg handling. Including some more iso processing for among others turkish
              /arabic/hebrew/greek and some more.
       Fixed: Signal measuring in bda.dev changed somewhat and some fixes to the direct tuning.
       Added: ffdecsa internal decoding now, no more need for ffdecsa.dll. Still need to fine-tune
              this. If you can please report if this is still as efficient as previous versions
              concerning cpu usage etc. Decided to do this as ffdecsa.dll was causing problems
              on win 7 system as it sometimes did not load for unknown reasons.
       Added: multi monitor support (for main, floating and fullscreen mode), needs testing.
       Added: force lnb power on/off on device startup/close, useful at least for prof cards, only 
              implemented in bda.dev (Florian).
       Fixed: some more fixes to epg iso handling.
       Fixed: bugfix in diseqc handling with commited/uncommited switches.
       Added: app can now be started with scheduler command line parameters (see task info for scheduler task for command 
              possibilities)
       Fixed: some fixes to dvb subtitles handling for polish streams.
       Fixed: some issues with vplug not working properly in some cases.
       Fixed: some changes to commited diseqc handling. Diseqc option 'send diseqc on each channel change' has been changed to
              'send diseqc on each transponder change'. If you use commited switches and have problems switching during
              scanning please turn this option on and see if things work better. Many thanks to moonlight for his help during
              testing.
       Fixed: moving timeshift buffer and starting mpg recording was broken, hopefully fixed now.
       Changed: diseqc handling on add sat dialog when seleting the goto sat option has been changed to also
                reflect any settings correctly.
       Added: tevii implementation using the tevii sdk to bda.dev, including remote. This will be used for standard as well as 
              direct tuning as it should be the fastest with tevii cards anyway.
       Fixed: some longstanding issues with inserting the null filter (for osd viewing when no channel is able to be loaded) 
              no header found messages.Let me know your findings with this.
       Fixed: some changes to the old osd filter and also some 'no header' messages which could result from using this. 
              Decided to look at this old filter i made as it perhaps can be used for 3d support (although it will produce
              high cpu in such case as no dxva support for h264 is there yet).
       Added: if null filter configured smart will try to show it also on radio channels now so the song name and 
              signal can be seen and osd operations can be done.
       Changed: some changes to ts recording including stripping the saved PAT (previously the entire original PAT was saved, this 
              might make the ts records more compatible with more players, hopefully this doesn't break anything).
       Changed: tried to remove all dependencies to older visual studio libraries. Just in case the setup.exe installs the
                vs 2010 runtime libraries, but i hope this will not be needed and you simply can install the .msi
       Fixed: Some more fixes to multimon support due to user reports.

[ALFAJAY]

26.11.11

SmartDVB 0.2.1 Beta 5:

Here's the 0.2.1 beta 5, after a summer break. Quite a lot of fixes and changes due to reports etc.

Remember to mainly use the bda.dev module (old bdas.dev hasn't been updated in a while,
although i could update that module in future, for now the focus lies on bda.dev so only use
bdas.dev if it works better somehow for u, usually it won't). And if you report problems
it's handy to at least try to mention where and in what situation it occured (not like
"the scanner crashes", otherwise i have no clue, oh and pictures say a thousands words don''t
they say?) and remember to copy smartdvb.log and bda.log (in the devices dir) as that can 
always come in handy for me.

Here´s the changelog for this beta version:
v0.2.1 beta 5 
Fixed: skystar.dev was having some issues with older 2.3 cards.
Fixed: null filter changes had broken radio channels when not using that filter, sorry.
Fixed: teletext subtitle pages parsing was not detecting pages correctly. Also by
default the detected subtitle page will be shown in the select subpage dialog.
Fixed: some changes to discontinuity handling. Looks to improve playing low quality 
streams with at least the cyberlink codecs for me, let me know your findings
if you can.
Fixed: some EPG handling fixes.
Fixed: Some more scheduling fixes to prevent failed (small file size) records.
Fixed: some changes to stream state handling, might prevent freezes when graph is
in transitive state when changing monitors etc.
Fixed: Updated tbs cards support to include latest cards, tested (on xp) with a TBS 6922 
DVB-S2 PCI-E blindscan card and seems to work fine. If you have a tbs card that doesn't 
work correctly let me know. Some blindscan support will probably be added in 
upcoming versions, didn´t want to do it yet as i want to get this version out asap.
Added: Support for anysee devices to bda.dev, untested.
Added: Channel reload option to video popup menu.
Changed: Reworked the scanner dialog again a bit to show more channels/messages.
Fixed: mouse hiding in evr fullscreen mode was not working all the time.
Fixed: putting main window on top at startup was not working correctly.
Fixed: Fullscreen mode at startup was not working correctly in combination with the multimon code.
Tried to fix this, needs testing.
Fixed: Many changes to the multimon code, also needed to rework the fullscreen/floating code. 
Looked almost ready in beta 4 but proved to be a real problem as stress-testing it 
(multiple mon changes) always resulted in an unstable renderer (and thus smartdvb) 
and i simply could not find this issue.This is still the main reason why this beta 5 
is there so if you could test this and report problems i'll try to get the final 0.2.1
out asap and move on to other things.
Added: Support for textual dvbsubtitles. Untested.
Fixed: window maximize button was not working anymore.
Changed: updated allsats.txt and european satellite transponder lists (.ini) thanks to cjcr.
Added: new transponder sync option in scanner dialog using satfeeds.info. This will synchronize
with blindscanned transponder lists supplied by cjcr. 
Added: option for extra transport stream buffering in general options. 
Fixed: a bug when minimizing the app to the taskbar (not tray) and closing it from there,
correct window positions were not saved in such situation (thanks to cjcr for finding this).
Fixed: The goto sat button in the add frequencies dialog was not working correclty anymore due
to recent diseqc changes.
Changed: some changes to bda.dev to make cards like tbs6925 work (scan on these cards was producing 
a hang). Many thanks to mr orbita for his help and information on this.
Changed: added sat name to properties dialog caption so when on favs you also know what
sat the channel is on (thanks to cjcr for pointing this out).
Fixed: Added some extra H264 checks mainly to fix BBC HD channels aspect ratio's, maybe this
also works for other HD channels with broken start aspect?. Not sure if
the sequence parameter set etc parsing is entirely correct here as i seem to see
strange values (like PicWidthInMbs of 1 etc, and also no VUI parameters, can't find that described 
in standards, so i hacked a bit around it? only for the HD high profile though have never seen 
low res h264 streams here) 
Added: Added snap to edges for main/floating as i find that handy and it also had been requested
quite a bit.
Added: A version number to settings.ini to check for specific upgrade actions in future. Due to multimon 
changes the logic in the windows coordinates could fail when installing from 0.2.1 beta 5 onwards over 
previous versions. This is not a bug but the window is simply hidden using wrong coordinates. 
If you still have this after install remove the window coordinates from settings.ini (in settings 
directory), These are the values to remove : [Startup]
windowx=86
windowy=62
windowwidth=1428
windowheight=929
And the app should startup with some default windows coordinates that are visible.
Don't remove the '[startup]' btw , and neither the version number anytime.
Changed: Some changes to smartavsrc.ax (codecs like LAV now work reasonable (sometimes video freezes with EVR
quick connect options turned on, nothing that a reload doesn't solve, for me also in sync).
Added: Added 'show satellite name before favorite name' option to the channel list properties dialog (useful
if All sats are selected).
Changed: Some more safeguards built in just in case the problems with tbs cards could cause problems for 
other cards.
Changed: layout of some dialogs.
Added: the main window can now be moved on other surfaces besides the window caption.
Fixed: bug when selecting none as group and provider as sort in channel list properties 
(thanks to a user whose nick i don't know who reported this 
Changed: scanner has problems with some users sometimes, might be timing problems on fast scanning/tuning in
a row so quite some changes there to try to make it more robust. It might be prudent to add
a configurable delay before tuning the next transponder to the scanner so users
can finetune this.
Fixed: mouse hiding wasn't working correctly anymore on other renderers (i test mainly on EVR nowadays,
tested on vmr9 now too).
Fixed: parsing of some transponder .ini files failed on 16apsk/32apsk modulations.
Changed: some changes in bda.dev as some video problems may stem from there. Remade the sync code
in bda.dev as it was somewhat different than for example bdas.dev has and for me
bdas.dev seemed to produce more stable picture as that also works better with my prof7500. 
Changed: now modulation is also shown in the frequency list sync dialog.
Fixed: again some mouse problems (mouse dissapearing and such) when using vmr9 renderer.
Changed: some more work on continuity of stream in smartdvb and bda.dev to try to make
the video run smoother with some codecs on broken streams.
Changed: some more changes, hopefully tbs cards still work okay now as i reverted some of the
changes there as some delays were maybe causing glitches even on fta channels with
which smart never had much problems lately.
Changed: vmr osd showing is now delayed until some video is in (before it could dissapear
too quickly if no video was received for a while after the tune).
changed: some more changes to multimon especially for vmr9. One tester experiences error 
messages (decidebuffer) on xp using vmr9. So if you experience that too please report this
as then i'll make this a priority.
changed: some general robustisation, or at least i hope in the long run, also in the tuning
process and more bda.dev changes.
changed: removed the installation of the vs2010 redistributable package from the setup as 
installing the msi should be enough.
Added: lav decoder to filters.ini for setup.

[ALFAJAY]

SmartDVB 0.2.5 RC1

Fixed: memory leak in streamreader.

Changed: some small changes to smartavsrc.ax (better codec compatibility especially ffdshow/lav i hope).

Fixed: some small fixes (float on top was not ok all the time, volume at install is not set to 0 anymore, but 30).

Fixed: tuning process was in some situations not stopping graph when so indicated with EVR.With this working correctly and turned off (do not stop evr graph quick connect settings) codecs like ffdshow and lav seem to work more stable although not perfect (safest option especially for ffdshow it seems, as lav seems to run more stable, is to turn both quick connect options off (will result in slower channel changes but safer with these codecs).

Fixed: after recent changes fullscreen at startup was not working (again).

Fixed: scrolling the channel treeview with the mouse-wheel was not working anymore when mouse-wheel volume changing was enabled. While i was at it also made other scrollable components in the main interface scrollable in such cases (satellite combobox and EPG listview).

Fixed: scanner was showing odd 0 characters sometimes.

Fixed: moving the mouse (pressed) in fullscreen mode was changing window size (bug related to recent snap-to-edges changes).

Changed: some optimizations to bda.dev/smart to try to make ts processing somewhat faster (not sure if it makes a difference, if you notice lower/higher cpu with sd/hd in same config as before please let me know. Should not affect stream quality.

Fixed: tab order in scanner/sat settings dialog (and some more).

Changed: some changes to channel update processing (frequency offset to try to prevent double channels and some

Changes to sr handling to also try to prevent unnecessary duplicates, especially handy when blindscanning and frequencies can change a lot). Also added frequency offset to scanner settings, these will be used when processing the channels.

Changed: all crc checking is enabled by default now on new installations.

Added: basic BlindScan interface for CrazyCat streamreader.dll. Make sure to select the crazycat module as device interface (blindscan.dev). It's not totally functional yet, only included it for testing now (maybe i'll remove it for release depends also on input if it works a bit).Only one sat scanning has been tested somewhat by me and channel updating might be buggy so make sure you make a copy of your smartdvb.db before testing this. Streamreader.dll must be in the main smartdvb install directory (installed by installer, but you can always replace this with newer versions hopefully).

Changed: Settings dialog layout/style.

Added: Some more changes to channel update processing to try to prevent duplicates i was seeing after some weeks of use.Let me know if you feel you're loosing channels, in any case if you want no extra processing set the frequency offset in scanner settings to 0.

Added: EVR delay to directshow settings. In some cases this might help prevent freezes with some codecs during my tests.Note i've tested ffdshow/lav in win7 and they seem to run with me now for lav to not freeze sometimes it's best to stop the evr graph (so turn the 'do not stop EVR graph..." OFF if you have lav issues and also in my tests it was best to not use the high quality settings in the LAV decoder and to use hardware decoding (CUDA LAV acceleration) to make sure you don't have audio/video sync issues, ffdshow at least with me has less problems it seems with fast EVR switching. Other codecs like coreavc also seem to work better.

Added: reload video on freeze option to directshow settings. Not been able to test this much yet.

Added: internal test only for disk-fullness on records (1 gb check now, untested, will make this configurable for release)

Changed: new icon set with 24bit (old ones were from xp times 256 colors).

Added: option to osd vmr/evr to remove recording osd indicator or volume indicators.

Added: Record icon to status bar on main window.

Fixed: QAM256 modulations were not working correctly with bda.dev (Florian)

Changed: some changes to scanner, no signal saving/selecting among others.

Changed: main window epg look.

Added: always auto-expand channel list option (much-requested).

Fixed: some bugfixes and additions to blindscanner.

Changed: some settings dialogs layout changes.

Fixed: some fixes to tbs (bda.dev), 5925 devices were not being auto-detected correctly (should be QBOX diseqc settings).

Fixed: dvbworld uncommited diseqc was not working properly, should be fixed now.

Fixed: fixes to blindscanner and some changes/additions like level/quality etc, also concerning blindscan logic, many thanks to Enosat for suggestions and testing on this.Needs testing if it gets all frequencies, but it should be faster now..

Fixed: small bugfix to the reloading of channels, sometimes the video-renderer was not re-created and the graph could remain unstable on reload if the renderer had problems.

Added: floating window selection with scrollwheel click to general settings.

Added: blindscanner will now automatically start the correct module when selected.

Fixed: scheduler editing of the days of weekly recordings wasn't saving the changes in selected days properly.

Fixed: small bugfix to scanner channel processing (sometimes it was possible favorites were removed when updating channels,now favorites should always be retained)

Fixed: technotrend ci should now work better (maybe also other ci card types), still needs testing.

Fixed: mpeg recording was broken

Added: lnb power off on startup setting to general settings.

Fixed: returning from integraged EPG to main window using overlay renderer would hang application, should be fixed now (other renderers should run more stable in such case also).

[ALFAJAY]

08.04.2012

Here's the 0.2.5 Release finally. Main unsolved problems are usa related (band-stacked lnb's dbs/fss and atsc clear cam so any testers for that still are welcome).

v0.2.5 Release

changed: small change to show signal also when not able to decode a channel.
fixed: starting udp streaming from the new tools menu option wasn't working correctly, also the menu
checkbox was not always updated correctly.
changed: TS recording is now default on new installations (as mpeg does not yet work correctly for ac3).
changed: some changes to shutdown code as some were having problems there it seems, untested yet as
for me it worked without hickups before already.
changed: mousewheel/middle mouse button now switches between floating and main when set in settings.
fixed: latitude for newly added satellite was wrongly set to DVB-S instead of the degree value due to recent
changes (and me not testing adding new sats ofcourse).
fixed: small fix when exiting app with recording on and cancelling the exit the video
would become unstable.
fixed: some fixes to the scheduling functionality. There was a crash when adding a schedule action from the epg's.
Also now the now event scheduling will try to change the starting time so the event actually runs (before
it wouldn't as the start time was in the past and the ms scheduler in such case ignores such an event.)
fixed: blindscanner would sometimes not pick up frequencies correctly at the end of the frequency range.
min/max sr processing was not working correctly in blindscanner.
Also some fix to try to also blindscan correctly at the end of a range (sometimes a last valid
frequency was missed it seems).
fixed: some fixes to no signal processing in scanner, let me know if you still encounter problems here.
fixed: gotosat functionality in add frequencies dialog in my case was not always operational,
hopefully fixed.
updated: blindscanner strings moved to resources to make translations possible (and other recently added
strings, let me know if you're still missing something during translations).
fixed: Some fixes to the sync dialog. Some fecs were being wrongly imported in the sync dialog
(91 to smart should be 910) and modulation changes are now also reflected in color changes.
fixed: Numeric keypad should now work again on keyboard input selection (hard to find little bug).
fixed: more udp fixes as in some cases buffer overruns could be wrongly generated due to misconfiguration.
changed: setup filter.ini updated to reflect current codec use better (LAV/MS DTV etc).
changed: updated crazycat streamreader.dll installed to latest one.
fixed: some more fixes to no-signal processing.
fixed: some fixes to switch handling in blindscanner (thanks to moonchild once again for testing this).

[ALFAJAY]

19.08.2012

Smartdvb-0251-lang-pack-de

[ALFAJAY]

SmartDVB 0.3.0 Release


After some site hickups here's the 0.3.0 release

v0.3.0 Release

corrected: some graph timeshift issues.

corrected: some issues with smartosd up/down remote/kb keys which did not navigate station list. Also 'ok' should now tune

current selected station at those station lists.

corrected: scanner sync update from satfeeds failed.

v0.3.0 Pre Release

corrected: volume float exception which occurred sometimes.

corrected: station update with blindscanner now's done per satellite (could cause heap problems sometimes).

corrected: header didn't show correct with blindscanner also some memory leaks there.

corrected: windows 8 compatibility issue when switched to fullscreen mode with quick ratio alteration.

corrected: non-transparent logo's were not shown correct.

corrected: mpeg record audio sync/distortion issues were reported.

added: tab bitmap graphics (graphics with possible skin like smartosd, same 'images' folder method).

corrected: more dvb title process errors at some stations, let me know if you still encounter errors with
stations with this Respect.

revised: Exception process, now some report requests when caught exceptions occur (without app exit, before
these exceptions could get unnoticed but might cause difficult to locate issues later)

revised: some more corrections to mpeg recs

[mohammed tanko]

SmartDVB 0.3.5 Release

• Added:
  
  • Option to scan dialog to delete stations for the current frequency. Useful to remove dead stations before a re-scan (note you'll loose all favorites/remote/custom link entries)
  • Optional favorite filter to epg search (might not be very efficient atm)
  • Possibility to group general station list based on CAID added due to popular demand(channel list group properties)
  • Compact list view mode to epg search
  • Some modulation options to scanner/select menu
  • Remove dead station option to main 'channels' menu
  • AAC filter option to station list properties (you need to rescan for this to work properly)
  
  

• Fixed:
  
  • Smartosd channel list (floating/fullscreen) seemed broken.
  • MS dtv-dvd video should connect better now (some other codecs like ffdshow might have less issues with no connection error messages sometimes too)
  • Transport stream file play didn't work correctly with timeshift disabled
  • UDP stream now restarted after making sure video headers etc have been received (could improve webinterface integration at some situations)
  • Side by side windows event error log should be removed now
  • Some minor cosmetic modifications to the epg search results
  • Some freesat epg process issues, freesat epg should be better now, please report remaining issues
  • Moved missing epg content description strings to resources
  • Station search with custom lists did not work
  • Some polsat epg issues/exceptions
  • Attempt to remove occasional main window tab epg duplicates
  • Some aac modifications to smartavsrc.ax, should/could now connect better with codecs like ffdshow/lav/divx aac, please report issues
  • Possible issues with HD PIP stations
  
  

SmartDVB035Release.zip