This time everything went a bit faster as usual and after less than 5days the daddo player has been reviewed and approved. You might wonder why i drop this note here, but the application provides radio stations which will become also part of the DVBViewer soon (as kind of virtual DVB adapter, same with DAB support). Daddo also comes with Upnp playback (partially since i use Bass for Audio and Quicktime for video which does not support all media formats). I will put some screenshots in this thread later

The application itself is something i'm quite proud of it. The first mobile application i made which does exactly something i personally wanted to have. Unluckily i had to disable a lot of services before the release since i did not got the final answer. VTuner never responded, so i use the Database which will be part of the DVBViewer and is collected by myself over the years. It is a subset of the Noxon Radio content so the most of them are probably familar with it (if you use the Terratec Edition you see them in the channel list).

The police scanner has been removed since i can not afford the monthly fee for licensing broadcastify. Their prices are fair especially since this is definitively a niche, but not affordable at the moment.

I also wanted to add support for Futubox and USTV Now, but i never received the final ok. If i get an answer i can enable it easily within no time. For those who do not know USTV Now, it is a broadcaster who offers american local TV in SD and HD for american citizens outside the united states. 

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.3.1 today. 

ATTENTION: You can download the DVBViewer Pro 5.3.1 only from https://www.dvbviewer.tv/members/

We introduced in 2010 a new protection system with Version 4.5, if you haven't already got the new user credentials please read also: http://www.dvbviewer...ew-credentials/
 
DVBViewer Pro 5.3.1
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre

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Changelog DVBViewer Pro 5.3.1

• Fix: TV Playback: HEVC aspect ratio was not processed correctly.

• Fix: Playback: The “Disable AV” state after performing the according action was not handled correctly (applies to 5.3.0 and playback with DVBViewer Filter).

• Change: Playback: The stricter graph building method introduced in 5.3.0 now falls back to the more “tolerant” handling of previous versions instead of displaying an error message if an audio decoder cannot be connected. Please note: User DirectX settings are ignored silently in this case. Please check Settings → Filters to see which DirectShow components are actually used by playback.

• Add: File Playback: Detection of MP3 in TS files if the audio headers are aligned with the PES packet structure. Applies to playback with the DVBViewer Filter.

• Fix: Stream Playback: For some file formats (e.g. .mkv) the decoder and video renderer selected in the DirectX options were not used with VODSource as source filter.

• Change: Stream Playback: If the VOD Filter is not registered the LAV Source is used as replacement if installed.

• Updated: DVBViewer Filter to version 3.8.1. Fixes issues occurring occasionally if Options → DirectX → DVBViewer Filter → TV/Radio Pre-Format Detection is switched on.

• Change: Music Options: Restructured.

• Change: FreeDB Options: Removed. FreeDB lookup setting moved to the Music Options, the FreeDB server settings are now available as tweak (see Tweaker.exe).

• Change: Recording Service Options: Restructured, prevents useless activation of channel list / favorites list download and Wake On LAN if a local Recording Service instance is selected.

• Change: Recording Service Wizard: Prevents useless activation of Wake On LAN if a local Recording Service instance is selected.

• Change: Hardware / Recording Service Options: RTSP (SAT>IP) server detection reworked. It is now performed in a separate background thread so that a missing server response cannot block the UI. Also applies to the Recording Service Wizard.

• Fix: Recorder: Recording of an inactive / non-existing audio track with "Options -> Recorder -> Auto-split on channel data change" switched on and "All audio tracks" switched off could result in thousands of small files. Now the recorder uses an active audio track in this case.

• Fix: Recorder: A timer recording assigned to the Audiorecorder Plugin didn't start in playback off state due to repeated access violations.

• Add: IPTV/RTSP Device: RTP packet reordering. It significantly lowers the probability of drop outs resp. discontinuities, particularly when receiving TV/Radio via WLAN.

• Change: IPTV Device: The virtual IPTV network device is now based on a different code library and uses much less memory than before.

• Add: IPTV/RTSP Device: Two tweaks for virtual IPTV/RTSP network devices in the file hardware.xml:

The RecvBuffer entry specifies the size of the receive buffer in kB. The default is 13560 kB (approx. 13 MB).

The ReorderTimeout entry specifies how many milliseconds DVBViewer waits at maximum for missing RTP packets and meanwhile stores subsequent packets for processing them in correct order. The default is 100 ms.

• Change: Main Window: The View → Window Size percentage now refers to the desktop resp. monitor work area, not to the video resolution anymore (which didn't make much sense). The new percent values are 40%, 50%, 60%, 75% and 100%, the latter representing the maximum achievable window size.

• Change: Status Bar: Right-clicking it opens the main window context menu (previously disabled). Left-clicking the (textual) format information section opens the DVBViewer Filter property page, if available (previously right-clicking the audio channel icon or signal strength field).

• Add: Tray Icon: A left-click minimizes DVBViewer if it is visible. A click with the middle mouse button switches audio off/on (mute).

• Fix: OSD: DVBViewer now prevents a second confirmation dialog as Windows message box in addition to an OSD dialog if actions that require confirmation are performed repeatedly. They are ignored as long as an OSD confirmation dialog is visible (which means they are internally answered with “No”).

• Fix: OSD: Readability of several default skin (Envy) pages enhanced, missing images on certain HTPC pages added, missing 1088 display fixed.

• Fix: HbbTV: The AIT Parser did not read all packets.

• Fix: HbbTV: Playback of playlists could cause damaged links filled with parts of previous URLs (a HbbTV broadcast plugin bug worked-around in DVBViewer).

Hi,

i mentioned this last week in an older german DAB thread and today i'm able to publish the first beta version of Just Radio. The application was designed for MacOS systems and i will publish in the Mac Store probably in August. Last week i decided to add DAB to release the player also for Windows. Every user with a valid DVBViewer license can download the app in our members section. 

It comes with more than 30000 radio stations from all over the world. You can either select them in a list or by clicking on a map which will list all available stations at the selected region. If you have a DAB Stick (like this one or any other with a Realtek RT283x Chipset) you will also be able to play and record DAB and DAB+ Radio. 

Integrating DAB into the DVBViewer is also in plan, but its a lot of work which might be better spent in other things first. Anyhow the radio database will become integrated also in the DVBViewer, till then have fun with this player like i do while working on it. The content is also part of the Daddo Player, so if you like to listen to music you should give Daddo also a try. Its available for iOS and Android platforms. 

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.3.2 today. 
 

We plan to do continue our code cleaning and to do so we need your help. At this time we are at a point where we need your help. Please fill out the survey in order to help us.

DVBViewer Pro 5.3.2
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre

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Changelog DVBViewer Pro 5.3.2

• Add: Playback: While the seek bar slider in the control bar is dragged with the mouse DVBViewer continuously shows the picture at the current position (only if a custom video renderer or overlay is used, not on DVD playback).

• Add: Playback: "Show pictures while the seek bar slider is dragged" tweak (see Tweaker.exe, default on). Switching it off lets DVBViewer fall back to the seek bar handling of previous versions.

• Change: Playback: In case of video playback without DVBViewer Filter (e.g. MKV or AVI) the "Fast Forward / Rewind" actions do not change the playback speed anymore (limited to a 0.25...2.00 range in forward direction), but perform fast consecutive forward and backward jumps, thus achieving a speed up to 32x in both direction. The playback speed can still be influenced via Menu -> Playback -> Play Rate or by assigning keys to the Speed Up / Down actions.

• Add: Playback: Fast Forward / Rewind is now also available by right-clicking the << and >> buttons in the control bar. Please note that the "Replace dynamic jumps by fast forward/rewind" tweak (see Tweaker.exe), that generally exchanges the assignment of the Fast Forward / Rewind and Jump Plus / Minus actions to UI elements, also applies to left/right-clicking the control bar buttons.

• Fix: Playback: Several seeking / position change issues, e.g. black screen on each position change with DVBViewer Filter and (non-custom) EVR video renderer.

• Fix: Playback: Audio playback with the DVBViewer Filter could not be re-started after seeking / jumping in pause mode (timeshift also affected).

• Add: Playback: .m4a and .ape added to the default audio file extensions.

• Fix: DVD Playback. After reaching the beginning of a title with fast rewind DVBViewer didn't notice that the DVD navigator automatically switched to normal forward playback, which caused some confusion in the OSD and playback handling.

• Fix: Playback: Wrong handling of the "Options -> Movies -> Action playback end -> None" setting, causing failure of subsequent play / pause actions.

• Fix: Custom EVR: Measures against potential freezing and some audio/video sync problems (particularly when using the LAV Video Decoder).

• Change: DirectX Options: "VSync by Aero" option removed. It didn't prove to be useful.

• Add: DirectX Options: "Render late pictures" checkbox for EVR Custom Renderer (default off). It specifies whether the video renderer shall drop all pictures arriving too late (after their presentation time). Ticking this checkbox enables watching video that is decoded too slow due to high CPU load (e.g. HEVC UHDTV), but may let audio / video become asynchronous under certain circumstances.

• Fix: D3D Engine: Delayed OSD and video area repaint, unnecessary CPU/GPU load when no video was playing or no OSD was displayed.

• Fix: Main Window: Custom Renderer crash if the video display area was resized to zero. Now there is a minimum size of 160 x 90 pixel.

• Fix: Main Window: Heavy video flickering when the main window was resized (Windows 7 with Aero and Windows 8 not affected).

• Change: Main Window: Tool button icons in the control bar enlarged for better perceptibility.

• Add: Main Window: Tweak "Allow Main Window Aero Snap" (see Tweaker.exe). Allows the Windows Aero Snap function to enlarge the DVBViewer main window when the mouse cursor touches the left, upper or right screen border while dragging the window title bar

Please note: Though several issues concerning the main window behavior in “Aero Snapped” state were fixed, malfunctioning in certain situations may still occur.

• Fix: DVBViewer Windows: Several window handling related issues, particularly concerning the "Always on Top" main window setting, full screen on/off changes, dialog windows appearing behind other windows (making DVBViewer almost inoperable), video content remaining visible in other windows after full screen off (Windows 7 without Aero) etc.

• Add: Main Window: "Bring open windows to the foreground" tweak (see Tweaker.exe). Decides if open DVBViewer windows are brought to the foreground on full screen on/off: 0=never, 1=on full screen off, 2=on full screen on, 3=always. The default is 3.

• Fix: Picture in Picture: Closing PiP after using the swap function (swapping of the PiP and main channel by double-clicking the PiP area) in combination with certain plug-ins caused DVBViewer to crash.

• Change: Subtitles: The Options -> EPG -> Subtitles -> Font selection now also takes effect on ATSC and ISDB subtitles (font name only, no other attributes).

• Change: Streaming: Streaming framework for VOD Source Filter reworked, VOD Source Filter updated to version 2.2.1.

• Add: HbbTV: "Use browser cache for HbbTV" tweak (see Tweaker.exe), switched on by default. Switching it off may be necessery to make ZDF HbbTV work.

• Fix: HbbTV: HbbTV prevented the update of UI elements (e.g. enabled/disabled state), thus causing wrong display or functions to be unavailable.

• Fix: HbbTV: An unnecessary stop command issued by broadcasters before delivering an MP4 stream could cause an unintended "stop timeshift?" warning despite live playback position.

• Change: EPG: Optimization of EPG data import / export and epg.dat reading / writing. The old 1.8 format (used till DVBViewer 5.1) is not fully supported anymore, but can still be read (without some details like PDC, though). The DVBViewer GE epg.dat can now be read, but without ANSI -> UTF-8 conversion.

• Fix: Data Base: A corrupted TVDatabase.db3 in the Configuration Folder\Database subdirectory could permanently disable all playback with the DVBViewer Filter (including TV/Radio). Now .db3 files that are recognized as corrupted are automatically renamed to .err, and a new (empty) .db3 file is created.

• Fix: Playlist: The EndLess Playback option didn't work if the list contained only one item.

• Fix: Playlist: Saving the playlist via COM interface didn't work.

• Fix: Recorder: A prebooked program resp. "tune channel" timer didn't start in playback off state due to repeated access violations.

• Fix: Recorder: Recording AC3 Audio originating from a Hauppauge HD PVR didn't work.

• Add: Recorder: DVBViewer now sends additional timer data (Event ID, PDC, lead and follow-up time) to the Recording Service if an EPG entry is scheduled for recording, so that the PDC (Programme Delivery Control) options can be set in the RS Web Interface for these timers.

• Change: Options Window: The window is now "non-modal", which means, the rest of DVBViewer remains accessible while it is open.

• Change: Options Window: DVBViewer does not urge users anymore to download and install the DirectX 9 runtime library when a custom video renderer is selected. The dialogue prompting for installation only appears after a shader is selected in the Settings -> Shader sub-menu, because this is the only purpose the runtime library is needed for.

• Add: API: Possibility to send command line parameters via the Recording Service to DVBViewer Pro, thus enabling remote control of DVBViewer clients. (RS  API Wiki)

• Fix: RTSP/IPTV Device: Long channel switching delays caused by wrong RTP sequence counter handling of some SAT>IP servers.

• Fix: RTSP Device: Wrongly set thread priority ("lower than normal" instead of "highest") and potential buffer overflow.

• Fix: RTSP Device: The multicast TTL, intended to be 5, was wrongly set to 1, affecting the visibility of search requests across sub-net boundaries.

• Add: RTSP Device: Automatic detection of a changed server port (usually 554). Requires the "Automatic RTSP server IP:Port detection” tweak to be switched on (switched on by default, see Tweaker.exe).

• Add: Hardware: Automatic detection of correct Pilot Symbols setting if DVB-S2 channels are received with Devolo dLan Sat network tuners.

• Add: Hardware: Support for Hauppauge Colossus devices (similar to Hauppauge HD PVR).

• Fix: Hardware: Glitches in streams provided via hardware encoder based devices like Hauppauge PVR.

• Fix: Hardware: Under certain timing conditions tuning of an already tuned transponder (e. g. due to channel switching or another recording starting) could cause discontinuities in ongoing recordings of this transponder, if "Options -> Hardware -> Retune on missing stream..." was activated resp. set to a value greater than 0.

• Updated: Hardware Database.

I've published the first alpha version of the DVBViewer Sat>IP. 

Keep in mind this is a very early version of it and it does contain bugs and there are also a lot of features missing. 

To install it, open the dmg file and move the DVBViewer Sat>IP Application to the Application Link. 

Christian

http://www.dvbviewer.tv/forum/topic/56373-dvbviewer-satip-build-for-macos/

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.4.0 beta today. 
 
DVBViewer Pro 5.4.0 beta
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre
​
Changelog DVBViewer Pro 5.4.0 Beta

• Change: Custom EVR: The EVR Custom Video Renderer has been replaced by a new version elaborated by CiNcH, comprising several picture quality and timing enhancements.
• Add: MadVR: The high quality MadVR video renderer (if installed) can be selected in the DirectX Options. MadVR provides a lot of expert settings via its property page (see Settings → Filters menu). Please note that this renderer requires some graphics card capabilities and GPU power. It may be unsuitable for old resp. low-end graphics cards.
• Add: Custom EVR/Logging: New -d3ddebug command line switch enabling EVR Custom / D3D debugging. It can be used together with or independently from the -debug and -osddebug switch. Please note that -d3ddebug may let the DVBViewer.log file grow rapidly.
• Removed: Custom EVR: Support for D3D exclusive full screen mode.
• Add: Custom EVR / MadVR: Action “Custom Renderer Stats” (see actions.ini) for switching cyclically between the OSD statistics levels (off, basic, extended) of the EVR Custom Video Renderer resp. for switching the MadVR debug OSD on/off (MadVR 0.87.18 or later required).
• Add: Custom EVR Tweaks: The following tweaks have been added (see Tweaker.exe):
  • Use FlipEx swap chain (default on): Applies to the EVR Custom Renderer under Windows 7 with Aero and Windows 8. Enables efficient D3D usage, but a change from the EVR Custom Renderer to certain other renderers (VMR 7/9, standard EVR) will only work after a DVBViewer restart, if "Allow video panel recreation" is switched off.
  • Allow video panel recreation (default on): Allows to recreate the video panel under Windows 7 with Aero and Windows 8 on custom -> no-custom renderer changes. Enables the change in any case independently from "Use FlipEx swap chain", but may have unknown side effects.
  • Alternative VSync method (default off): Applies to Windows XP and Windows 7 without Aero. Replaces the standard Direct3D VSync handling by an alternative method enabling manual adjustment to prevent tearing.
  • VSync shift (in scan lines, default = 0): Applies to Windows XP and Windows 7 without Aero if "Alternative VSync method" is switched on. Shifts the point of time for frame output in order to prevent tearing effects.
  • Custom EVR color range (default = 1): 0 = EVR Default, 1 = 0..255, 2 = 16..235, 3 = 48..208, 4 = 64..127.
  • Custom EVR matrix for YUV -> RGB conversion (default = 3): 0 = EVR Default, 1 = BT709, 2 = BT601, 3 = Auto (BT601 for SD, BT709 for HD)
• Change: DirectX Options: The “Use custom renderer” checkbox has been removed. The custom renderer mode (associated with the OSD D3D mode) is now activated by selecting the “EVR Custom Video Renderer” entry in the Video Renderer drop-down list.
• Add: DirectX Options: The EVR Custom Video Renderer can be selected on the Video A/B or DVD page in combination with non-custom renderers on another page. Additionally the video renderer can now be specified in filter graph presets. Please note that a video renderer change may require restarting DVBViewer under certain conditions (see tweaks above).
• Add: DirectX Options: New Custom Renderer option “DXVA Scaling”. Decides if scaling is done by the EVR mixer (using DXVA) or by the D3D engine (using D3D like the previous Custom EVR).
• Removed: DirectX Options: The VMR9 Custom Video Renderer is not supported anymore.
• Change: DirectX/DVD Options: After selecting the page initially the VideoB / AudioB tabs are shown if VideoB/AudioB is currently active.
• Fix: DirectX Options: Several visual, language file and other flaws corrected.
• Change: DirectX Options: The VMR Options now take effect globally, not separately for the Video A/B and DVD page anymore.
• Fix/Change: DirectX Options: Corrected and updated decoder defaults (thanks to Tjod!).

• Add: PiP: Context menu for the Picture in Picture window providing the following functions: Close, Take Over, Swap, PiP Audio on/off, Record, Channel Plus/Minus, the latter automatically skipping channels that are currently not available for PiP. Additionally the context menu contains a Filters sub-menu enumerating the DirectShow components currently used by PiP.
• Add: PiP: Border for the PiP window. It can be resized with the mouse by dragging the edges, as indicated by the mouse cursor.
• Fix: PiP: The PiP Window does not cover the popup channel list and the control bar anymore.
• Change: PiP : The PiP window keeps its relative position when the main window is resized, e. g. remains in the upper right corner.
• Fix: PiP: Hardware administration related bugs and numerous other issues.
• Fix: PiP Options: The video decoder selection was ignored.
• Add/Change: PiP Options: Drop-down list for video renderer selection. The former “Use VMR 9 Renderer” checkbox has been removed.
• Add: PiP / Channel List: New “Picture in Picture” item in the channel list context menu (in all channel list appearances except the channel list editor), that displays the right-click-selected channel as picture in picture. The menu item is disabled if the channel resp. a matching tuner is currently not available. The selected channel can also be played as PiP by pressing Ctrl + Return.
• Add: PiP / OSD: All PiP functions added to the OSD PiP context menu.
• Add: PiP / OSD: “Picture in Picture” item added to the OSD context menu of the OSD channel list page, allowing to display the selected channel / favorite as picture in picture. The item only appears if a channel (not a category) is selected and if it is available as picture in picture (depending on the available tuners).
• Fix/Change/Add: Mosaic Preview: Completely reworked. Processing of H.264 and HEVC channels added (previously only MPEG2). The mosaic can now be switched off with the OSD Back action (space bar by default). Numerous bugs and incompatibilities with OSD skins fixed.
• Change: Mosaic Options: The Settings → DirectX → Mosaic Preview page and most of its settings have been removed. Only two settings are left. They are now located on the DirectX → Picture in Picture page: Mosaic Preview → Video Decoder specifies the video decoder used for mosaic preview. Preferably select one that is able to decode all video formats that are broadcasted in your region. LAV Video Decoder recommended! “Columns” (range 2..9) specifies the number of pictures in a row. The more columns, the smaller the picture size.
• Removed: Main Window: GUI skin support and the corresponding ”Appearance” page in the options. The icon and menu style settings have been moved to the General options.
• Change: Main Window: If the main window borders on the monitor's work area bounds the “Best Window Size” and “Auto Size” functions keep this state, which means, resizing neither exceeds the border nor detaches the main window from it.
• Fix: Pop-up Channel List: After a change in the TV/Radio Options the pop-up channel list was not set to its correct size and position. The pop-up channel list disappeared when the mouse cursor left the area though its context menu was still open.
• Fix: Channel Administration: The satellite orbital position (and also the network number for DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC and IPTV networks) was ignored on transponder comparison, so that DVBViewer could erroneously regard two channels from different networks as belonging to the same transponder.

• Change: Recorder: Instant recordings are performed directly with the main window or PiP channel data, not with the data retrieved by a channel ID based search in the channel list anymore (does not apply to instant recordings delegated to the Recording Service).
• Fix: Recorder: TS recordings yielded a file containing no video and audio if the Service ID was 0 and Options → Recorder → Adjusted PAT/PMT was switched on.

• Fix: Recording Service Options: Changes in the “Service Address and Port” input line did not activate the Apply button.

• Fix: Hardware Options: After relaunching DVBViewer the DVB-S2/T2 checkboxes for RTSP devices were always ticked, even if previously unticked.
• Fix: General: Screen reader support in the treeview component was broken due to compatibility issues.
• Fix: General: After text enlargement in the Windows control panel control elements were positioned invisibly outside of window boundaries. The “Help → Recording Service Wizard” and “Options → Hardware → DVB File Device → Settings” now avoid the issue by retaining small text.
• Change: Playback: DVBViewer Filter updated to version 3.9.2.
• Change: Playback: Enhanced E-AC3 handling particularly concerning AC3 / E-AC3 audio track changes on file playback with the DVBViewer Filter (see here). Additionally E-AC3 and AAC audio types are now more distinguishable displayed by the status bar hint and written to recorder logs as "E-AC3" resp. "ADTS AAC" or "LATM AAC", if possible.
• Fix: Playback: Under certain conditions relative jumps (+/- x seconds) in pause mode didn't yield the expected position (more about it here).
• Fix: Playback: DVBViewer didn't recognize AAC as audio type and didn't use the AAC Decoder selected in the DirectX Options when the LAV Sourcefilter/Splitter was connected to the LAV Audio Decoder.
• Fix: File Playback: When (re-)playing files with the DVBViewer Filter and the EVR Video Renderer DVBViewer did not remember the previous file position.
• Add: UpnP Playback: "Copy URL" command in the UPnP Window context menu, so URLs can be exported and tested in other software (like TransEdit).
• Fix: Stream Playback: Source filters / splitters defined by filtergraph presets with the "Stream" condition were ignored.
• Fix: Stream Playback: Adjustments for a changed USTVNow login method. Additionally USTVNow was not rendered correctly in DVBViewer.
• Removed: OSD Options: “Display background graphics” checkbox (now always switched on).
• Add: OSD: Horizontal scrolling with the mouse wheel and mouse selection in the new default skin → htpcHome → media center menu.
• Fix: OSD: Several bugs affecting OSD-embedded video (like in the previous default skin), particularly concerning the resizing behavior.
• Fix: OSD: The “Back” item in the OSD context menu of the OSD channel list page prebooked the selected program instead of just closing the menu.
• Fix: OSD: The “Show Mini EPG in timeshift mode” tweak did not work anymore (see Tweaker.exe).
• Fix: OSD: DVBViewer created wrong filenames for loading pictures supplied by the EPGImporter.
• Add: OSD: UPnP icon in the home menu and UPNP page (including the possibility of using a myUPNP.xml or myVideo.xml as fallback).
• Change/Fix: OSD: Redesigned EPG search window. Due to a missing listbox it did not appear in the default skin.
• Fix: OSD: The OSD subtitle menu could not be opened directly on file playback (specifically MKV playback).
• Fix: OSD: Slideshow pan & scan (Ken Burns Effect) was broken.
• Add: OSD: A red button indicates HbbTV or MHEG5 availability. It is displayed in the Mini EPG if an image with ID 209 (HbbTV) and 210 (MHEG5) is provided. Moreover a HEVC and UltraHD icon was added.
• Add: Visual Effects: Fluid Visualizer Plugin.
• Fix: Weather: Weather data was not retrieved anymore.
• Change: HbbTV: If the “HbbTV Proxy” tweak is switched on (see Tweaker.exe) the HbbTV engine will always try to find the windows proxy first
• Fix: HbbTV/MHEG: Switching the tweak “Use browser cache for HbbTV” off (see Tweaker.exe) now disables the cache completely.
• Fix: HbbTV/MHEG: The position of video inside a HbbTV/MHEG window was not correct.

here is the topic for bug reports

http://www.dvbviewer.tv/forum/topic/56403-dvbviewer-pro-beta-540/

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.4.1 beta today. 
 
DVBViewer Pro 5.4.1 beta
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre
​

• Fix (finally): Shutdown / Log-off: DVBViewer unnecessarily refused to be closed on Windows shutdown / log-off, thus letting Windows display a “the following programs are still running” screen offering to force or cancel the action. Forcing it caused loss of unsaved data in DVBViewer. Now DVBViewer only refuses to be closed if it is recording, if a recording to be executed by DVBViewer is due within the next minutes (see Options → Shutdown) or the Recording Service is executing an instant recording. The reason is displayed in the Windows UI. Forcing shutdown / log-off doesn't cause data loss anymore.

• Change: General: DVBViewer does not prevent the Windows idle timeout anymore if (and only if) no playback and no recording is going on resp. is due within the next minutes (see Options → Shutdown → Don't shut down if a recording is due within...). The idle timeout is the time without user interaction (configured in the Windows energy options) after which Windows automatically triggers sleep mode / hibernation.

• Add: Playback: Checkbox Options → General → Resume playback after sleep mode / hibernation. This option applies to TV/Radio and file playback. Please note that playback does not resume as long as a lock screen is present.

• Add: Shutdown Options: The “Don't shut down if a recording is due within...” setting now also applies if closing DVBViewer or shutting the PC down is triggered outside the OSD. If a recording executed by DVBViewer (!) is due within the configured minutes DVBViewer will prompt for confirmation on closing, prevent shutdown / log-off, the idle timeout (see above) and let Windows replace sleep mode by away mode (if triggered by the user or other applications).

• Removed: Task Scheduler: The support for the outdated DVB Task Scheduler tool has been removed. If you want the PC to wake up automatically for recording please use the Recording Service or configure task scheduling on Options → Recorder → Recordings.

• Fix: Recorder: Recordings were not stopped properly on hibernation.

• Change: Recorder: Instant recordings executed by the Recording Service are now stopped in any case (and consistently with the OSD → System options) after confirmation when DVBViewer is closed. Formerly a dialog offered to continue the recording independently from a running DVBViewer instance as timer recording with a default duration of 24 hours. Please note that the handling is solely up to the Recording Service if sleep mode / hibernation is triggered outside DVBViewer.

• Fix: Recorder: Instant recordings executed by the Recording Service are not needlessly stopped anymore when applying changes in the hardware options.

• Fix: Recorder: The red record indicator in the taskbar button was not updated if the status bar was not visible or DVBViewer was minimized.

• Add: General: DVBViewer is now basically able to adjust its windows and contained text to the text size settings in the Control Panel → Appearance and Personalization → Display section. Additionally Windows is informed about this capability, so DVBViewer is not scaled graphically anymore in case of 150% text size and more, which caused a blurry UI display and bad video quality particularly in full screen mode.

• Add: General: Resizer.exe is a new tool for customizing the DVBViewer font and the window/text size independently from the control panel settings (see above). Changes can only be applied while DVBViewer is closed. Please note that the size of some items like window title bars or standard message boxes is not under application control and can' t be influenced by the Resizer Tool. The menu font and size is only influenced by the Resizer settings if the DVBViewer Menu Style is selected on Options → General.

• Fix: General: The “Hide hints in the top area of windows” tweak didn't take effect on some windows with top area hints (see Tweaker.exe).

• Add: Input Options: Some labels in the Action Editor added to make it more comprehensible.

• Change/Fix: Hardware: The device administration has been completely reworked, avoiding various issues like using two tuners for the same transponder, unnecessarily switching Picture in Picture off and some more.

• Add: Hardware: Support for additional encoder devices similar to Hauppauge PVR, including Hauppauge Colossus/Siena, Vixs Pure TV, ITE Tech IT9910 HD Grabber, AverMedia HD, TeVii,. Roxio). The general handling has been enhanced. A settings dialog for encoder devices on Options → Hardware replaces the former Editor Tool. Read more about it here.

• Add: Hardware Options: “Reset after sleep/hibernate” checkbox and “Reset DVB device before recording” tweak (for more information see Tweaker.exe). Applies to DVB devices with BDA driver and TechniSat cards with WDM / network driver. This option should only be used for devices that are not working correctly after sleep / hibernation.

• Fix: MadVR: Measures against MadVR trying to close down prematurely when DVBViewer is closed, causing trouble if DVBViewer prompts for confirmation in case of ongoing recordings.

• Fix: MadVR: Switching between TV channels with different video type (e. g. H.264 ↔ MPEG2) caused the mouse cursor to appear permanently in full screen mode.

• Fix: OSD / Custom EVR: Display of dynamic background images did not work anymore.

• Fix: OSD / Custom EVR: The OSD was displayed too small if the GPU only supports power of two texture dimensions.

• Fix: OSD / Mosaic: The Return key resp. OSD OK action didn't switch to the selected mosaic TV channel.

• Fix: OSD: Several pages of the default OSD (Envy) skin have been reworked (videoinfo.xml, dialogok.xml, dialogyesno.xml, myUPNP.xml).

• Fix: Main Window: Access violation if Video/Audio A/B was toggled in playback off state.

• Fix: Timer Recordings Window: Access violations on certain occasions.

• Fix: Options: Measures against plug-ins causing trouble by needlessly activating the Apply button when adding option pages.

• Fix: Shader: The Settings → Shaders → Last Shader menu item didn't toggle between the last shader and none.

• Fix: Weather: Weather data was assigned to wrong days (one day shifted to the future).

• Add: Logging (already available in 5.4.0): If translating a window content fails in debug mode, DVBViewer writes the missing language file section and its English default content to a file “Missing_[Language].log” located in the language sub-directory of the configuration folder. [Language] is the name of the currently used language file.

• Updated: DVBViewer Filter to version 3.9.3. The property page is adjusted to the text size settings in the Control Panel → Appearance and Personalization → Display section.

• Updated: VODSource Filter to version 2.2.3: Potential DVBViewer crash on stream abortion and minor bugs in the JSON parser fixed.

here is the topic for bug reports

http://www.dvbviewer.tv/forum/topic/56548-dvbviewer-pro-beta-541-en/

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.5.0 today. 
 
DVBViewer Pro 5.5.0
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre

If you are updating from version 5.3.2 to 5.5.0 please take note of the changes in version 5.4.0 beta and 5.4.1 beta. They are not contained in the following list.

• Change: Hardware: The “Retune on missing stream...” function now ensures that the interval between (!) two tuning processes is at least twice as long as the time needed for tuning, thus preventing DVBViewer from getting completely occupied by repeated tuning.

• Removed: Hardware Options: The device status cannot be set to “Preferred” anymore. Free devices are now allocated solely according to the device list order. The first (topmost) entry has the highest priority.

• Add: Hardware Options: The selected device list entry can be moved up and down by using the shift key plus arrow up/down, thereby influencing its priority.

• Fix: Hardware Options: The Delete button in the DVB File Device settings did not perform any action.

• Add: Hardware Options: Tweak for devices / BDA drivers that expect a symbol rate value multiplied by 1000 (applies specifically to the PCTV 291e/461e DVB-C tuner). The following line has to be added manually in the corresponding section of the file hardware.xml:

<entry name="SRx1000">1</entry>

• Fix: RTSP Device: The Sat>IP Frontend Tweak (to be added manually in the file hardware.xml) did not work correctly.

• Fix: Unicast Device: Switching between scrambled channels did not work anymore.

• Change/Add: Channel List: The keyboard shortcuts for the filter options are now Ctrl + function keys (previously function keys without Ctrl colliding with standard functions like F1 for help). Shortcuts for other functions have been added (see channel list context menu).

• Fix: Channel List: Adding a favorite via the channel list context menu did not update the favorites menu in the main window.

• Add: Channel List: If the file channels.dat can neither be loaded from the configuration folder nor from the installation folder, DVBViewer tries to load the backup file channels.bak.

• Fix: Channel List Editor: Right-clicking the favorites panel did not select the according entry.

• Fix: Options: In certain cases the Options Window did not show the last selected page when it was re-opened and radio buttons did not show the current settings.

• Fix: Music Options: The “FreeDB Audio CD lookup” checkbox did not activate the Apply button. Under certain circumstances the “Cleanup Database” function caused an access violation, which caused an hourglass cursor to remain active until DVBViewer was restarted.

• Fix: EPG Options: The “Offset to GMT” field in the time zone settings displayed the value as time of day formatted according to the Windows regional settings (e.g. with AM/PM), not as a simple time offset. Selecting “Automatic time zone” did not reset the offset to the standard value.

• Fix: EPG Window: Several language file related issues (@language file authors: requires language file update). The search settings were not stored in the file setup.xml and got lost when DVBViewer was closed. Additionally right-clicking the timeline did not select the according entry.

• Change: OSD: Several default skin pages reworked.

• Fix: OSD: Truncated EPG descriptions of Freesat / Freeview programs.

• Fix: OSD: The caption of the currently played playlist item was invisible in the default (Envy) skin.

• Fix: OSD: After browsing channels in the Mini EPG and closing it, the OSD Main Menu showed the logo of the last Mini EPG channel, not the logo of the currently played channel.

• Fix: OSD: The OSD Menu → htpcHome → UPnP page could let DVBViewer freeze for a long time.

• Fix: OSD: While being shown OSD dialogs prevented UI status updates. Additionally the pop-up channel list did not disappear.

• Change: OSD/Weather: MSN weather has been replaced by OpenWeather and GeoNames.org. Microsoft seems to have abandoned the support for its weather forecast system. Please note: The cities in the weather options need to be updated since the IDs have changed.

• Fix: MHEG-5 / OSD: Some flaws when receiving and displaying BBC MHEG-5 content.

• Fix: General: The support for visually impaired resp. screen readers in the Virtual TreeView component was broken again.

• Add: Recorder: Removing video filler data includes an additional filler data type (adaptation field stuffing).

• Change: Recording Service: DVBViewer only responds to shutdown messages (by showing a confirmation dialog) sent by the Recording Service with which it is associated. Formerly shutdown dialogs for other Recording Service instances in the network showed up, but the Cancel Button had no effect (did not stop shutdown).

• Change: Recording Service: DVBViewer uses the value in Options → General → Shutdown → Shutdown Warning Timeout for the “Recording Service will shutdown” dialog instead of hard-coded 20 seconds. This also allows to disable the dialog completely.

• Fix: Playlist: DVBViewer did not recognize .m3u8 files as playlist and tried to play comments and unknown extended M3U directives (with leading #) as a file.

• Fix: Custom EVR / DVD Playback: Selection changes in DVD menus remained invisible if the Custom EVR was used in combination with certain decoders.

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.5.1 today. 

 
DVBViewer Pro 5.5.1
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre

• Fix/Change: Main Window: Several window state related issues concerning “Hide All” mode, Radio Window etc. The Radio Window is now always shown with title bar, menu bar, tool bar and status bar. These elements cannot be hidden anymore (the variable height caused some unwanted effects). The Radio Window width is now handled and stored independently from the Video Window width...

• Add: General: Scaling of tool button icons and other graphical elements according to the Windows text size settings in the Control Panel → Appearance and Personalization → Display section (with regard to 4k displays).

• Fix: Playlist Window: The toolbar icons at the lower right were not displayed. Additionally the toolbar icons on the left side were displayed with magenta background if the channel list editor was opened before the playlist (old bug already in 5.1).

• Change/Fix: Stream Playback: Playback of RTSP and RTMP (Flash) URLs is now delegated by default to the LAV Source Filter if installed (previously to the VOD Source Filter that couldn't handle it). Additionally the DVBViewer Playlist now recognizes RTSP and RTMP URLs in .m3u playlist files as URL. Previously they were wrongly treated as local file paths. In combination this enables import and playback of RTSP channel lists (as provided by Sat>IP servers).

• Change/Fix: Stream Playback: Filter graph presets for playing URLs (containing “stream” as condition) took only effect partly. Now it is possible to create presets for certain protocol types by specifying them as pseudo file extensions (e. g. .http), particularly for forcing the usage of a source filter like LAV. Please note that this may prevent playback of HbbTV content that requires a certain user agent.

• Change: General: The “Large Address Awareness Flag” is set again.

• Add: General: Detection of the ATSC E-AC3 stream type.

• Add: Recorder Options: “Scheduler launch attempts” tweak (see Tweaker.exe). Specifies whether the Windows Task Scheduler shall try to launch DVBViewer Pro one time or two times for a scheduled recording. The default is 1.

• Add: Channel Auto Update: DVBViewer now also updates / corrects the Network ID, thus avoiding failure of channel -> EPG data assignment.

• Change: Channel List Editor: The Delete buttons were replaced by a single waste bin tool button.

• Add: Channel List Editor: “New Category” tool button and context menu item. Inserts a category folder at the selected position.

• Add: Channel List Editor: “New Root” context menu item. Adds a root folder to the channel list.

• Add: Channel List Editor: “Default Audio Track” context menu item (F10). Turns the selected audio track sub-entry into the main audio track.

• Change: Channel List Editor: Scan, Edit Favorites and Close buttons replaced by tool buttons.

• Change: Channel List Editor: The current channel resp. audio track played in the main window is displayed in bold (also applies to all channel list views except in the OSD). Previously bold channel names indicated in a faulty way channels that had already been handled by the automatic channel update.

• Fix: Channel List Editor: Incomplete and faulty handling of the “Changed” flag indicating whether the channel list in memory differs from the channel list on disk. The activation / deactivation of the Save and Reload tool button now indicate the current state (also applies to the Favorites Editor resp. favorites list).

• Fix: Channel List Editor: Missing update of the favorites menu in the main window after changes in the Favorite Editor on some occasions.

• Change/Fix: Channel List Editor: Some Icons have been changed / corrected, particularly those of the “New Folder” and “Reload/Undo” tool buttons in the favorites editor.

• Fix: Channel List Editor: The in-place edit box for changing category names showed no text cursor.

• Add: Channel List Editor: In-place edit box for changing channel, category and root names. It is activated by slowly double-clicking an item (aslike in Windows Explorer).

• Add: Channel List Editor: After rebuilding the channel list tree view the editor re-selects the last selected channel instead of displaying the tree in collapsed state. Particularly applies to the “Reload” function and to automatic channel updates.

• Fix: Channel List Editor: The Favorites Editor did not auto-scroll the content of expanded nodes into view.

• Change/Fix: Channel List: General code cleanup and various minor fixes concerning the channel list management. “Same transponder” detection does not require identical DiSEqC settings anymore.

• Change: RTSP Device / Sat>IP: The “Hardware → Retune on missing stream” option now reconnects to the server resp. starts a new session, thus being able to re-establish a lost network connection (previously it only repeated the tune command).

• Fix: Hardware: The TerraTec Connect N3 network tuner was not handled correctly.

• Updated: Tweaker.exe to version 1.0.6. It displays settings that differ from the default in italic. A new Default Button allows to reset the selected setting individually. The former Default Button is now labeled “All Default”. It resets all settings to their default.

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.5.2 today. 

 
DVBViewer Pro 5.5.2
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre

• Fix: HbbTV: HbbTV video playback did not work (since 5.5.1).

• Fix: Stream Playback: Decoder / Renderer selection for streams in filter graph presets did not work.

• Fix: Channel List Editor: Drag & Drop of channels into empty category folders did not work.

• Fix: Channel List Editor: Wrong numbering of exported INI channel lists, so that the import function only read the first channel.

• Add: Channel List Editor: “Delete Duplicates” item in the context menu. It deletes multiple entries for the same channel except the first one. Audio track sub-items are excluded. Different audio tracks of the same channel that are stored as separate channel entries (not as sub-items) remain untouched.

• Add: TV / Radio Options: Possibility to select if the Popup Channel List shall appear on the right or left side of the main window.

• Change: Main Window: The width of the mouse sensitive area that lets the Popup Channel List appear is scaled according to the window width.

• Fix: Hardware: “Retune on missing stream” was repeated endlessly after Unicable reception failure, even when data arrived again.

• Fix: Hardware: DiSEqC problem with latest Sundtek SkyTV driver.

• Add: Hardware Options: Virtual RTSP (Sat>IP) network devices are displayed in red if no server IP is configured.

• Change: Hardware Options: Adding a virtual RTSP network device, unicast network device or file device automatically opens the corresponding configuration dialog.

• Updated: EPG Window: The file EPG_URLList.ini contains new and corrected EPG Window → Search → Internet popup menu items. In case of an DVBViewer Pro update installation please copy the file from the installation folder to the configuration folder if you want to use it.

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.6.0 today. 

 
DVBViewer Pro 5.6.0
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre

Please note: Despite careful testing it cannot be excluded that DVBViewer Pro 5.6.0 still contains bugs that may damage the channel or favorites list, due to major changes in the channel and favorites handling. So please backup the fileschannels.dat and favourites.xml that are located in the configuration folder (see DVBViewer help menu) before using this version.

Channel and Favorites Editor

• Added: Channel Editor: Multi-Selection of items for functions like Export, Delete or Drag & Drop. More than one Item can be selected by using the mouse plus the Ctrl or Shift key or the cursor keys plus Shift. 

- In the channel list multi-selection is restricted to items belonging to the same level, so a selection cannot contain categories besides channels. Additionally the items (except root nodes) must be located in the same Video or Audio folder, so a selection cannot contain TV and Radio channels or items from different root folders.

- In the favorites list multi-selection is restricted to items of the same type, so a selection cannot contain categories and channels. However, a selection may contain channels from different levels, which means, channels outside and inside of categories.

• Added: Channel Editor: “Select All” function in the context menu of the channel / favorites editor (Ctrl + A). It selects all siblings of the selected item with the same type on the same level. 

• Added: Channel Editor: Cut, Copy and Paste functions for moving or copying (multi-)selected channel list or favorite items to another location. The functions are available in the context menu of the channel / favorites editor or by using the standard keys Ctrl + X/C/V. Please note that DVBViewer does not use the standard Windows clipboard in this case, but a file in the Windows temp folder that even survives a reboot. Cut, Copy and Paste may serve the following purpose:

- Moving channels or categories within the channel list or favorites list by using Cut and Paste (as keyboard substitute for drag & drop).

- Copying channels or categories from the channel list to the favorites list (as keyboard substitute for drag & drop).

- Copying channels or favorites from or to other DVBViewer instances resp. installations on the same PC (particularly DVBViewer GE). Please note that favorites can only be copied to favorite lists, not to channel lists.

- Copying scan results from the TransEdit Scanner Window to the DVBViewer channel list by using “Copy to clipboard” in the Scanner Window context menu or Ctrl + C. TransEdit exports a mixture of channels from different transponders as category folders and a mixture of TV and Radio channels as root folder, which are inserted as such (including their content, of course) in the DVBViewer channel list. Only channels of the same type (TV or Radio) from the same transponder (frequency) are copied as pure channels.

Please note the following restrictions:

- The favorites editor actively prevents duplicates, so it does not make sense to use Copy and Paste within the favorites. After drag & drop or copy & paste of channels to the favorites a message box informs about how many of the selected channels were rejected because they are already present in the favorites list.

- Favorites only work if they are also present in the channel list (the favorites list is a subset of the channel list), so it is no good idea to use Cut and Paste for moving channels from the channel list to the favorites. It may result in data loss since it is not possible to to move/copy channels from the favorites back to the channel list.

• Added: Channel Editor: “Sort Alphabetically” function in the context menu of the channel editor (Ctrl + O). Sorts the categories contained in the selected video/audio folder or the channels contained in the selected category folder(s) in alphabetical order. Please note that this kind of sorting changes the channel list permanently, unlike the sort functions in the channel list (without editor) that only influence how the channel list is displayed.

• Added: Channel Editor: Context sensitive help function for the different editor pages. Please use the question mark tool button or F1 to open the corresponding Wiki page in your browser.

• Change: Channel Editor: The auto-expand delay for drag & drop has been increased from 1 to 2 seconds.

• Added: Channel Editor: “New” Button on the channel data page. It opens a pop-up menu allowing to select the tuner type for new channel data that can be entered on a page where all parameters are blank resp. set to zero. 

• Fix: Channel Editor: File names containing a dot were cut off at this position on export.

• Change: Favorites Editor: New icons for the favorites indicating the tuner type (DVB-S/T/C) and if the channel is encrypted. Please note: A red cross indicates that no matching channel can be found for this favorite. Additionally it is disabled in the Favorite Menu and skipped on Favorite Plus/Minus. To make it work again such a favorite must be recreated, or the missing channel must be added again to the channel list.

The channel ID based assignment of favorites to channels is handled more strictly than before. A maximum of one deviating Channel ID attribute is accepted (and subsequently corrected). Otherwise the favorite is regarded as “not assignable”. However, a new internal favorite auto-update function continuously synchronizes the favorites with channel ID changes while DVBViewer is running. For example if a channel is renamed, the associated favorite is renamed in the same way. This measure avoids broken links between favorites and the corresponding channels.

• Added: Favorites Editor: “Delete All” function in the context menu of the favorites editor (shortcut Ctrl + N). It deletes the whole favorites list after prompting for confirmation.

Reception Settings and Channel Search

• Removed: Channel Editor: Satellite reception settings like DiSEqC, LOF and Tone cannot be set up per folder or channel anymore. They are only displayed as information on the channel data page. Please use the new Reception Settings page to configure reception of a satellite position (see below).

• Added: Channel Editor: Clicking the gear wheel tool button opens a new Reception Settings page. The list on the left shows the available reception types (depending on the available tuner types). The list on the right shows the available transponder resp. frequency lists for the selected reception type. They are required for a channel search. 

The Update Button updates both lists after changes in the hardware configuration, channel list or the transponder list directory. The “New DVB-S” Button creates a new satellite reception type item. It becomes permanent after selecting a transponder list for it and performing a channel search. The Transponder List Directory link opens an Explorer window showing the files in the transponder list directory.

The settings section allows to change the name of the selected transponder list and to set up DiSEqC and the LNB type for satellite reception. Clicking Apply updates the selected transponder list and all channels belonging to the selected reception type accordingly. Additionally Apply creates a permanent link between the reception type and the transponder list so it only has to be set up once for a channel search.

Please note that each satellite position is regarded as a separate reception type. Internally it is identified by its orbital position originating from the transponder list that has been used for scanning. However, if channel list entries are very old or have been created by a scan without transponder list, no orbital position may be assigned to them. They will let a “DVB-S 0°” item appear in the reception type list. Please select a matching transponder list for this item and click Apply to prevent issues that may result from missing orbital position assignments.

• Change: Channel Search: The Channel Search Window has been integrated in the Channel Editor. It does not lock the DVBViewer UI anymore, that now remains accessible while a channel search is going on. The scanner engine and UI has been adopted from the DVBViewer GE scanner, entailing several fixes and updates, including new options, correct handling of DVB-T2 transponders, scanning for DVB-T2 MPLP sub-streams with appropriate hardware (Digital Devices, DVBSky) and the possibility to scan DVB IPTV lists (as for T-Entertain, INI and M3U format supported). 

Please note that the new scanner engine does not support “blind scans” without transponder list anymore. A transponder list is now mandatory for scanning. If the Reception Settings Page does not offer a matching transponder list for your satellite position, or if it is outdated, please download an according INI file from one of the following web pages
http://en.kingofsat.net/satellites.php
http://satellites-xml.eu/
http://www.fastsatfi...ers_europe.html

and drag & drop it into the “Transponder Lists” field of the Reception Settings Page. This will store the file in the transponder list directory and make it available in the “Transponder Lists” list box.

• Added: Channel Editor / Channel Search: “Scan this Frequency (F10)” item in the channel editor context menu. It is only available if the scanner page is visible, not scanning and a channel with a matching reception type is selected. The command sets the start transponder resp. frequency on the scanner page to the channel's transponder, thus enabling to scan it with “Scan Frequency”. 

General Channel Handling

• Fix/Change: Channel Auto Update: The code has been reworked. Several bugs / inconsistencies particularly concerning the recorder have been fixed, e. g. the missing check for a wrong teletext PID or the missing UI update (in the channel list and channel editor).after channel data changes.

The recorder's auto-update activities do not depend anymore on at least one of the “All Audio Tracks”, “DVB Subtitles” and “Auto-Split” options being switched on. The channel data in the channel list is updated in any case provided the channel is not flagged as “don't update automatically” (see below). Streams are dynamically added to TS recordings in any case if the auto-update function detects that one of the initial PIDs is wrong. Please note that streams cannot be dynamically added or corrected in ongoing MPG and pure audio (e. g. MP2) recordings. They require a restart resp. the auto-split option for being corrected.

• Added: Channel Editor: “Don't update automatically” checkbox on the channel data page. It declares a channel as “solely handled manually” and prevents all auto-update and auto-correction, including updates by a channel search, auto-split of recordings on channel data change or adding audio tracks that are not present in the channel list when recording.

“Don't update automatically” may be useful for keeping manual corrections if wrong channel data is broadcasted in service information tables, e. g. causing EPG data not to be assigned to a channel or similar issues. It can also be set / reset per category if a folder is selected. In this case it applies to all contained channels. However, only use this checkbox if inevitable because of the functional restrictions.

• Removed: TV/Radio Options: “Automatic channel data update” checkbox for generally switching the auto-update off.

• Fix: Channel List: Jumbled numbering after performing import, channel search and other functions.

• Change: Channel List: The Hide Submenu items in the context menu have been moved to the Filter Submenu and renamed, so that all items are conforming to a “Only *** Channels” scheme.

• Change: Channel List: In “Only show favorites” filter mode the channel list now shows the favorites with their original structure and numbering, not as reduced channel list anymore. This applies to all channel list representations in the UI except the channel editor.

• Added: Channel List: “Only Channels with H.264/265” filter option in the context menu.

• Change: Favorites: The tweak “Favorites based OSD navigation” (see Tweaker.exe) now also swaps the meaning of the number actions, so that Channel0...Channel9 are used for favorite number input and Fav0...Fav9 for channel number input.

• Added: Channel Numbering: The “One based favorites numbering” tweak (see Tweaker.exe) now also applies to channel numbering. Please note that the one-based numbering is now switched on by default on new installations resp. installations without keeping the settings.

• Added: Channel Numbering: A leading asterisk (*) now indicates that a number displayed in the main window is a favorite number, not a channel number.

• Change: Channel List: If there is no channel list (channels.dat) in the configuration directory or if it is empty the default channel list containing channels from the main European satellite positions is only loaded from the installation directory if a DVB-S device is available.

• Change: Channel List: If f there is no channel list (channels.dat) in the configuration directory or if it is empty or if the default channel list has been loaded, DVBViewer automatically opens the Channel Editor after being launched, provided DVB devices are available. The Editor shows the Reception Settings page, allowing to select a reception type, to configure it and to perform a channel search.

Main Window / OSD / D3D / MadVR

• Fix: D3D: Needless attempts to re-initialize the unused D3D engine after Aero on/off changes under Windows 7, spamming the DVBViewer.log with error messages.

• Fix: MadVR: The size of the video area was not set after building the filter graph, causing the OSD to appear too small in the upper left corner before playback started. 

• Added: DirectX Options / MadVR: Checkbox “Low Latency OSD Mode”. Lets the OSD respond faster if MadVR is used as video renderer, but may cause video to become less fluid while the OSD is active.

• Added: MadVR: Tweak “Use extended OSD capabilities of recent MadVR versions” (see Tweaker.exe). Lets DVBViewer use the capability of recent MadVR versions to output the OSD in stop/pause resp. still picture mode, thus enabling visual seeking and fast forward/rewind. The default setting is off (for now). Please note: Only use this tweak with MadVR version 0.90.10 or later!

• Added: Mouse Options: The Input → Mouse Options contain a new “Ctrl + Mouse Wheel” section. It specifies which function is executed if the mouse wheel is used in the Main Window while the Ctrl key is pressed. Additionally there are two new checkboxes allowing to use the mouse wheel for brightness and contrast adjustment.

• Change: Mouse Options: The options for the function of the middle mouse button in the OSD have been moved from Input → Mouse to OSD General.

• Added: OSD: The OSD temporarily shows percent values that have been changed by the actions for brightness up/down, contrast up/down etc. and the zoom / stretch actions. This also applies to the mouse wheel (see above).

• Added: Mouse Wheel: Channel selection with the mouse wheel now uses the Options → TV/Radio → Channel plus/minus switching delay, so that the Mini EPG can display the channel / favorite that will be selected in advance, provided Options → EPG → Show EPG Info on channel change is switched on.

• Fix Mouse Wheel: Mouse wheel messages were processed more than once by the DVBViewer main window under Windows 10 with “scroll inactive windows” configuration, causing the mouse wheel to appear “hypersensitive”.

• Fix: General: Windows did not dock gaplessly to the desktop edges or other windows under Windows 10. Please note: This issue cannot be avoided completely since it is caused by the Windows 10 design resp. theme. The visible window dimensions are smaller than the dimensions reported by the Windows API.

• Change/Fix: OSD Mosaic Preview: The middle mouse button now executes as intended the “OSD Back” command in the Mosaic Preview, thus closing it.

• Fix: UPNP OSD Window: The list was not updated when UPnP servers were added or removed in the network.

• Fix: Mini EPG: On channel plus/minus the MiniEPG temporarily displayed the wrong channel if the tweak “Favorites based OSD-Navigation” was active (channel numbers were mistaken as favorite numbers).

• Fix: Audio Settings: The checkmark in the Settings → Audio Channel submenu was not updated correctly after a change.

• Fix: Visualizations: Visualizations did not work in case of floating point audio decoder output.

Recording / Recording Service / Hardware / Plug-ins

• Fix: Recorder: Channels with MPEG video and AC3 or AAC audio were recorded as TS, though MPG was selected as output format.

• Change: Recorder / Timeshift Options: The default value for the minimum free disk space has been increased to 300 MB (takes effect on new installations).

• Added: Recording Service Wizard: If DVBViewer notices on start that the Recording Service is running and the DVBViewer device configuration allows to access DVB hardware directly on the same PC a dialog pops up. It contains a warning and a button for launching the Recording Service Wizard.

• Changed: Recording Service Wizard: The handling has been simplified by removing some special settings, that are still available on Options → Hardware and Options → Recording Service, however. After wizard completion the last channel is retuned.

• Fix: Recording Service Usage: Under certain circumstances (particularly non-latin character sets) an insufficient character coding could cause garbled descriptions after editing timers and sending them to the Recording Service.

• Added: Logging: Logging of DVB device removal in the DVBViewer.log (in debug mode) and the recording log (if an ongoing recording is affected).

• Change: RTSP Device: The RTSP Network Device (for Sat>IP) now closes and re-opens the session on tuning if the RTSP server delivered no data within the last two seconds. This allows manual retuning after the network connection has been interrupted.

• Change: Plug-ins: The DVBViewer setup does not allow plug-ins anymore to write to the Plugins Directory. Plug-ins should read the configuration directory path from the file UserMode.ini in order to save their data. Please note: If you are still using old / out-dated plug-ins it may be necessary to adjust the access rights for the Plugins Directory manually after the DVBViewer 5.6 installation.

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.6.1 today. 

 
DVBViewer Pro 5.6.1
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre

Please note: Due to a bug in version 5.6.0 / 5.6.1 the "Preset Position" DiSEqC settings does not work correctly and causes unexpected motor reactions. If you need this setting please stay with version 5.5.2 until it is fixed.

Change Log DVBViewer Pro 5.6.1

• Fix: Recorder: Recording all audio channels as TS did not work anymore (in version 5.6.0).

• Fix: EVR / Custom EVR: Issues caused by wrong EVR Video Processor handling if the corresponding tweak was switched on. The default is now “off”.

• Change: Channel Search: After a channel search the Channel Editor automatically selects and shows the first found new channel.

• Fix: Channel Numbering: Under certain conditions the favorite number was not displayed correctly in “Favorites based OSD navigation” mode.

• Fix: Channel Numbering: The status bar still displayed a zero-based channel number if the “One based channel and favorites numbering” tweak was switched on.

• Fix: OSD: After opening the EPG details from the Mini EPG with OSD Green/Yellow and performing OSD Back the last state of the Mini EPG was not restored.

• Fix: OSD: Assigning channel logos to channels failed in certain cases (particularly concerning audio track sub-entries).

• Fix: OSD: Browsing left/right in the Mini EPG only worked for the current (played) channel, not after browsing up/down.

• Added: Main Window: “Hide mouse cursor” tweak (see Tweaker.exe) specifying when the mouse cursor gets hidden in the video area: 0 = never, 1 = only in full screen mode (default), 2 = always (tweak already available in 5.6.0 release).

• Added: Main Window: New menu item View → Windows Size → Source Resolution plus a corresponding action. It adjusts the size of the main window so that TV or a video is displayed in its original resolution. In case of anamorphic video (non-square pixels) DVBViewer preserves the aspect ratio and adjusts the window size either to the horizontal or to the vertical source resolution (depending on the tweak “Best window size by only changing the height”).

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.6.2 today. 

 
DVBViewer Pro 5.6.2
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre

Change Log DVBViewer Pro 5.6.2

• Fix: Mosaic View: The Mosaic View did not apply the Options → OSD Appearance → Overscan Adjustment settings correctly and displayed the pictures with a wrong aspect ratio (depending on the OS aspect ratio).

• Fix: Zoom Settings: The effect of “Stretch vertically up/down” was swapped throughout DVBViewer, including Settings → Zoom, OSD → System → Settings → Zoom and the corresponding actions.

• Change: Zoom Settings: The handling of the Zoom Setting has been reworked and simplified; several inconsistencies have been fixed. DVBViewer now uses only one set of zoom settings for all aspect ratios, not two separate sets for 4:3 and 16:9 anymore. You may revert to the previous behavior by activating the tweak “Separate zoom settings for 4:3 and 16:9” (see Tweaker.exe).

• Fix: DiSEqC: The Preset Position setting was reset to 0 on each (re-)loading of the channel list (channels.dat) and each DVBViewer start..

• Fix: Channel Editor: The additional input elements for the DiSEqC settings “Preset Position”, “Angular Position” and “Extended” were not shown anymore after re-opening the Reception Settings Page.

• Fix: UPnP Window: On a Windows text size of more than 100% the column widths in the Playback → UPnP Window became wider each time when the window was opened, up to a limit of 10000 pixel. In order to fix this issue DVBViewer Pro 5.6.2 resets the column settings to their default when it is launched for the first time.

• Added: Hardware Database: Consideration of (known) DVB-C devices requiring the symbol rate to be multiplied by 1000 before it is passed to the driver. “Scan Devices” automatically adds the SRx1000 flag to the hardware settings in this case.

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.6.3 today. 

 
DVBViewer Pro 5.6.3
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre

Change Log DVBViewer Pro 5.6.3

• Change: HbbTV: The ce-html and HbbTV web page loading algorithm has been completely rewritten.

• Fix: HbbTV: Several fixes and stability enhancements. Redirections are now handled properly, wrong width and height values can no longer cause a crash, invalid javascript close commands don't kill the browser instance anymore etc.

• Added: HbbTV: Tweak “Automatic color key detection for HbbTV” (see Tweaker.exe). It activates an algorithm that determines if a color key is necessary. Auto-detection may help if DVBViewer does not show the expected HbbTV content, e.g. a background picture instead of foreground video.

• Fix: Main Window /OSD: Channel switching and/or the Mini EPG OSD did not work correctly with certain combinations of settings (particularly Options → EPG Options → Show EPG Info on channel change, TV/Radio → Browse in MiniEPG, TV/Radio → Channel plus/minus switching delay).

• Fix: OSD: An OSD-embedded video window did not work correctly in EVR Custom mode with DXVA scaling switched on when the chain of playback components was (re)built while the OSD was visible. It caused the video to be stretched to the whole video area, thus hiding the OSD.

• Fix/Change: OSD Options: The OSD pages in the Options have been reworked and reorganized (including the corresponding English and German language file sections). Some flaws have been fixed. All mouse related OSD settings are now located on a new OSD Mouse page that replaces the former OSD Appearance page. Appearance related settings have been moved to the OSD General page.

• Removed: OSD Tweaks: The tweaks “Auto-close OSD channel list”, “Auto-close OSD recording list” and “Auto-close OSD EPG window” are no more available. They are now covered by Options → OSD General → Close OSD on video and TV playback start / Close OSD on audio and radio playback start with extended functionality. Please note that these options only apply to playback started on OSD pages.

• Fix/Change: Options: The Shutdown and Subtitles page have been reworked (including the corresponding English language file sections), some flaws have been fixed.

• Fix: Channel Editor: The F10 keyboard shortcut for “Main Audio Track” function did not work and has been replaced by F8.

• Fix: General: Icon scaling produced ugly results if the screen was set to another color depth than 32 bit.

• Added: Recorder Log: Three additional lines in the recorder log (timer name, intended end time, timer options). Teletext and DVB subtitle streams are also logged now.

• Fix: Recorder Log: In some countries the recorder wrongly used the 12 hour format for logging the duration.

• Fix: Recorder: Corrections concerning the PMT handling. After detecting a wrong PMT PID the recorder did not record the correct one (applies to TS recordings with auto-split switched off). If the “Adjusted PAT/PMT” option was switched on the first PMT in the recording did not indicate all audio streams, causing problems with other software. The PMT was not adjusted if the PMT PID in the channel list was initially 0. No PAT/PMT was written in case of a wrong Service ID.

• Added: Recording Service Options: Tweak “Method for playing remote recordings” (see Tweaker.exe). It can be used if DVBViewer is configured as client of a Recording Service running on another PC and Options -> Recording Service -> Connect to recording list is switched on. The tweak allows DVBViewer to play remote recordings by means of streaming, so that no network shares and UNC paths are required. There are three possible values: 0 = network shares/UNC path (streaming off, default), 1 = media server streaming, 2 = web server streaming (only Recording Service 1.33 or later).

• Change: Hardware Options: The “Has CI module” checkbox is now enabled for IPTV network devices.

• Change: CI Handling: General CI handling enhancements. Inducing decryption does not require a valid PMT PID in the channel list anymore (missing in channels that were scanned while being inactive), thus saving a retune with the corrected PMT PID. Additionally the internal CI handling is not executed uselessly anymore if a required vendor-specific DLL is missing. Some more exceptions are caught and logged.

• Added: File Playback: Tweak “Search Depth in MB” (see Tweaker.exe). Applies to file playback with the DVBViewer Filter. The search depth specifies how many MBs DVBViewer analyzes before playing an MPG or TS file in order to detect the contained streams and the video/audio format. Increasing the value may help if streams are not found, but also increases the time that is needed for analysis.

We have released the new DVBViewer Pro 5.6.4 today. 

 
DVBViewer Pro 5.6.4
In Memoriam - Lars Gehre

Change Log DVBViewer Pro 5.6.4

• Fix: Main Window: In case of new installations and installations in which no changes on Settings -> Options -> TV/Radio had been performed yet the "Channel Plus/Minus" and "Favourite Plus/Minus" buttons in the DVBViewer main window tool bar unintentionally opened the OSD EPG display ("Mini EPG"), requiring to press [Enter] for channel switching to take place.

• Fix: Channel Editor: In case of DVB IPTV clicking Apply on the channel data page of the channel editor stored wrong data preventing further reception of the channel.

• Fix: Channel Editor: A change of a satellite frequency on the channel data page of the channel editor did not adjust the LOF and 22 kHz signal settings accordingly.

• Fix: HbbTV: Under certain circumstances redirections were not handled correctly yet.

Advance information for our customers:

This year we will release two new major versions: DVBViewer Pro 6.0 and DVBViewer Media Server 2.0 (former Recording Service).

The most important change: In contrast to the Recording Service the DVBViewer Media Server will not be a beta version anymore Using it will require another licence in addition to the DVBViewer licence:

• Customers who already have a DVBViewer licence will get a Media Server licence for € 19,-.
• Customers who want to use the DVBViewer Media Server, but don't have a DVBViewer licence yet additionally need to purchase DVBViewer for € 20,-, yielding a total of € 39,-.

This means, we will offer the Media Server like the Recording Service as a DVBViewer-based add-on.

The new versions will provide several enhancements and new features. In the last months the development focussed on streaming. DVBViewer and the Media Server will be able to handle streaming sources as channels in the channel list. Several network protocols carrying a transport stream or MP3/AAC audio stream are supported. In other words: Internet TV and Radio are integrated as a new virtual tuner type that enables to handle the channels like DVB channels, which means, they can be added to the favourites list, recorded, shown as PiP etc. A selection of other enhancements:

• The iOS web interface of the DVBViewer Media Server can also be used on Android mobile devices. It's still under construction, but already usable.
• The Sat>IP Server of the Media Server additionally provides HTTP output and supports displaying a remote CAM menu in DVBViewer.
• Increased maximum number of simultaneous live streaming clients (now 10 for the Live Streaming Server and Sat>IP Server each). Please contact bhackbart@cmuv.de if you need a licence for professional purpose that supports more than 10 live streaming clients at the same time.
• DVBViewer 6.0 allows to configure the main window appearance in a more flexible way and supports a frameless style.

Please note that the DVBViewer Media Server will not support the out-dated Unicast DVB Server anymore, since its functionality is fully covered by the RTSP/Sat>IP server. If the Unicast DVB Server is essential for some reason please stay with version 1.33.2 beta.

Answers to questions that you may want to ask:

• Why do I need a DVBViewer licence for the DVBViewer Media Server? I want to use another media player.

The DVBViewer Media Server requires suitable facilities for maintenance, monitoring and trouble-shooting. DVBViewer Pro and powerful tools like TransEdit and TSPlayer, that are included in the DVBViewer licence, are tailored for this task. 

We have considered to offer a stand-alone package containing the Media Server plus tools “outsourced” from the DVBViewer environment (e.g. a channel list editor). However, this would cause a lot of extra work, yielding the same or an even higher price than for the DVBViewer & Media Server combo without any advantage for users. Therefore we have decided to keep the Media Server as DVBViewer add-on.

• Can I still use Recording Service 1.33.2 for free?

Yes. Recording Service versions earlier than the DVBViewer Media Server 2.0 will remain free of charge, which means, they will not require an additional licence besides a DVBViewer licence. Recording Service 1.33.2 will still be available for some time in the “Older Versions” section of the download area.

• Can I use the new DVBViewer Pro 6.0 in combination with the last free Recording Service version 1.33.2?

You can, in the sense of “it will not be disabled or prohibited”. However, there is already one major drawback. Recording Service 1.33.2 and earlier will regard Internet TV / Radio channels stored by DVBViewer 6.0 in a shared channel list as unknown objects and delete them. Since the incompatibilities will increase in future, we strongly recommend to also stay with DVBViewer Pro 5.6.4 if you want to stay with Recording Service 1.33.2.

• Does the licence allow to use the DVBViewer Media Server on more than one PC?

We tolerate it under certain conditions, as for the DVBViewer. Please read more about it here (point 3.) 

• Will updates for the DVBViewer Media Server be free of charge?

Basically yes. Currently there are no plans to deviate from our line. However, things must be viewed realistically. Updates are limited to the lifespan of the product, of course. This applies to the Media Server and DVBViewer. Furthermore we cannot exclude that we may come to a point where an update fee for future major releases becomes inevitable in order to enable further development. If it comes to that we will inform about it early in the forum.

However, looking at the past suggests that this will not happen in the foreseeable future. Though there were always people predicting that DVBViewer will be dead and gone soon, we have managed to continue development and provide free updates and tools for 14 years by now. We want to go on with it as long as circumstances allow us to do so.