DVB Enhancer for SageTV

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by damian.flynn

Dual DVB-S2 cards TBS 6980. Over the weekend i moved these into my DVBE4SAGE server and they so far appear to be working well.

What are you using as a card reader? Or is it just Freesat?

[Mark SS]

That was going to be my next question also. I'm using a serial reader at the moment, can't remember where it came from. Hoping someone can suggest a USB reader so I'm not limited to motherboards that have a serial port on my next upgrade.

The company that sell that dual card appear to have one:

http://www.tbsdtv.com/english/product/3102.html

[bjkiller]

Originally Posted by Mark SS

That was going to be my next question also. I'm using a serial reader at the moment, can't remember where it came from. Hoping someone can suggest a USB reader so I'm not limited to motherboards that have a serial port on my next upgrade.

The company that sell that dual card appear to have one:

http://www.tbsdtv.com/english/product/3102.html

Mark SS: I use TechnoTrend, 8 (eight)x DVBS TT3600 cards connected to my system, they USB, and amazing.
I use 2 providers with smartbee card readers.

[cpass]

I now have everything up and running, only took 4 months and wouldn't have happened without the help of Damian Flynn , Thank you so much I can't tell you how much I appreciate you giving up you precious time to help over the last few hurdles.



SageTV 7 - DVBe4Sage - Dreambox tuning into Sky UK channels perfectly

Thanks Damian

[moamoa]

How did you get the 6980 to work??

When I put this in I only see one Digital Tuner?

When adding a new device, it reports;

component
composite
composite_2
digital tuner
s-video
s_video_2


How do I get to the second tuner????

Originally Posted by damian.flynn

Hi,

I was using the FireDTV DVB-S2 cards (2 of), but i recently retired these and purchased for a different project 2 of the Dual DVB-S2 cards TBS 6980. Over the weekend i moved these into my DVBE4SAGE server and they so far appear to be working well. (Have yet to really stress them but initial tests are good).

-d

[moamoa]

I notice that Sage TV does not detect both tuners on the duel TBS-6980, only one.

However, dvbe4sage does seem to see both when I start that, but I don't really know what dvbe4sage is or how to set it up.

Is there any good help guides for this? maybe using this I can get access to both tuners???

[willplaice]

Sage v7 alledges that the PAUSE has gone..

i am still getting long pauses on channel changes.. anyone else got a better setup, I've recently changed decoder s/w to hulu and that's faster than my previous version, but i'd like rid of the pause ?

Will

[Bacon2002]

moamoa,

You could try here for some set up information:-

http://diginerve.blogspot.com/2010/0...-with-dvb.html

I also have a 6980 and dvbe4sage running with SageTV 7.

Good luck,

David

[damian.flynn]

Cheers,

I think there are a still issues with native DVB support in SageTV. In one of my test servers i have 3 different dvbs cards but only 1 of these is actually detected by sage. so i still recommend you use the dvb4sage tool, as per my blog posting.

-d

[bjkiller]

currently i use dvbe4sage + sagetv v6.
I plan to upgrade to v7 beta, it's worth to do it for production environment? it's stable?

[ytulpan]

Yea, it's reasonably stable. I have a big installation and moved to v7.

There are issues. Their new font system doesn't support BIDI (i.e. hebrew) but it's correctable by erasing the "font" directory.

I don't like the new UI, but there is an enhanced "old" ui that works very well.

Extenders run much faster.

Metadata is also embedded into recordings so no more wiz.bin catastrophes.

Be aware that if you have SW clients, you must move both the server and the clients to V.7

[garystein]

Quick question is there any way to get seamless program transitions while using DVBE4SAGE as the network encoders? All my cards are linked into the service and it works great but just wanted to know if there is a setting that will allow the transitions that Sage 7 now has built in and work when using a card not used by dvbe4sage?

[mpogr]

I haven't made the transition to 7 yet, as it reportedly has problems with Hebrew (the text is reverted), but from a couple of others' reports I see the transition went just fine, nothing special was required.

[plnewton]

Hi all!!


I am trying to get this to run on Foxtel In Australia.

I have setup the ini file and it is finding transponders and I managed to get it to record one of the FTA Channels but when I use the record option all I seem to get is Audio in the recorded file, there is no video at all.

I then continued to try and set it up in Sage as per the instructions here http://diginerve.blogspot.com/2010/0...-with-dvb.html
but I am not able to see any previews at all.

Is there a log file that it creates?

Also I am a little lost as to how it interacts with card reader and the softcam, I have not found any instructions on how to configure the softcam with this app?

I am currently using Newcs and DVBViewer for testing and it is working with the encrypted chanels so everything is working fine in regard to the Tuner and the Card Reader

Also i noted a an earlier post in this thread that this plugin was developped for recording, does this mean that you can not watch live with it?


Any pointers would be greatly appreciated

Paul

[John@TunerUK]

Hi Guys and Gals

I've had a bit of a break since my last attempt because I was having 'File operation failed' messages. The link to the original post is below

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...&postcount=215

I was told that it might be due to stability issues, but I have no idea where to check for any issues it might be having. The machine in question seems rock solid with everything else I throw at it. It's been on 24/7 for at least the past 18 months being used as a file storage computer and print server.

Is it worth trying the new beta? Or is there some kind of log I can view to see what might be causing it?
I've tried 2 types of DVB-S2 card. A Floppy-DTV and a Technotrend 3200-S2, both of which have the same issue. I'm using NDSCAM, which was sent to me from someone with a working system, so I doubt it's that.

Please help, at this point I'll try anything.

Thanks in advance

John

[doc]

Originally Posted by John@TunerUK

Hi Guys and Gals

I've had a bit of a break since my last attempt because I was having 'File operation failed' messages. The link to the original post is below

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...&postcount=215

I was told that it might be due to stability issues, but I have no idea where to check for any issues it might be having. The machine in question seems rock solid with everything else I throw at it. It's been on 24/7 for at least the past 18 months being used as a file storage computer and print server.

Is it worth trying the new beta? Or is there some kind of log I can view to see what might be causing it?
I've tried 2 types of DVB-S2 card. A Floppy-DTV and a Technotrend 3200-S2, both of which have the same issue. I'm using NDSCAM, which was sent to me from someone with a working system, so I doubt it's that.

Please help, at this point I'll try anything.

Thanks in advance

John

John

Your recording folders are UNC paths. Have you tried it with local paths instead ie "d:\SageTV recordings" instead of "\\sage-server\SageTV recordings" ? It could be that DVBE doesn't have write access to these shares. I've only ever used it with local recording folders.

Also, have you tried recording unencrpyted channels? once those work then move onto using the cam software.

[bjkiller]

John,
also try to use software not as a service. this should resolve your problem that Doc's mention without reconfigure.

[John@TunerUK]

Cheers guys
I haven't tried local paths as I always intended it to be run as a service, and if I remember correctly service requires network paths. Is that right?

However, I will try it out of service mode, using local paths and see if that helps.

I have tried free BBC Channels, and they suffer from the same problem. But at least I now have something to try.
Much appreciated fellas

John

[doc]

Originally Posted by John@TunerUK

Cheers guys
I haven't tried local paths as I always intended it to be run as a service, and if I remember correctly service requires network paths. Is that right?

You only need UNC paths if you're recording to a different PC or NAS. If you're recording to the local machine its best to stick to local paths.

[bjkiller]

Originally Posted by doc

You only need UNC paths if you're recording to a different PC or NAS. If you're recording to the local machine its best to stick to local paths.

when you plan to run from service, you not just need the UNC path, but proper credentials to access remote share.