DVB-PC TV Stars User s Guide DVBViewer TE This manual covers the following products: TechniSat SkyStar HD2 TechniSat CableStar HD2 Document Release Date: December 07 Copyright © TechniSat Digital GmbH All Rights Reserved
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Table of contents Chapter 1: Introduction.............................................................................................. 1 Defining the TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars ............................................................. 1 Defining SkyStar 2 PCI/USB.............................................................................. 1 Defining AirStar 2 PCI/USB ...............................................................................
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Table of contents Import/Export channel lists with DVBViewer TE............................................... 32 CableStar2 PCI ................................................................................................... 34 Edit existing channels ...................................................................................... 34 Add/Remove/Update channels manually .........................................................
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction Defining the TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars Defining SkyStar 2 PCI/USB SkyStar 2 PCI is a small board that is plugged into a PCI slot of your computer. The SkyStar USB is the USB version that is connected to a USB1.1 port of your computer. It gives you unprecedented access to Internet services and any Free To Air broadcast digital satellite television channel (DVB-S).
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 1: Introduction User Task Summary Steps to perform basic user tasks are summarized below. Step one: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE The second chapter introduces you to the main features of DVBViewer TE. You will learn how to watch TV and configure DVBViewer TE to your needs.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Summary This chapter is divided into three parts. In the first part, the DVBViewer TE GUI (graphical user interface) and the main functionalities are introduced. In the second part, the more advanced features like the EPG or the PVR are described.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Configure COM Port IR Receiver / WinLIRC If you want to use the TechniSat COM-Port IR receiver, you have to select the option WinLIRC Figure 2.2: Remote Control selection: Use WinLIRC Then press the OK Button and you have to configure the WinLIRC application 1. The following error message might appear: Figure 2.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE 4. You also have to choose the configuration file, which contains the configuration for your remote control. Press the Browse button and choose the file technisat.cf (default location: C:\Program Files\DVBViewer TE ) in the appeared Open window. Click Open to finish the select. Figure 2.5 WinLIRC Open Configuration Files 5. Now your configuration has been completed.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE The USB HID IR receiver uses keyboard commands to control the application. No additional configuration is required. Device support No device If no compatible TechniSat DVB device is available during startup of DVBViewer TE, the following error message will appear: Figure 2.8: Message No valid DVB device found! DVBViewer TE can be used as multimedia player for files, which where recorded with this application.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Figure 2.9: Options menu Hardware If you add or remove one or more TechniSat DVB-PC Stars devices you have to update the device list manually. For this operation you must start the options menu and open the hardware menu. Here you have to click onto the Scan Devices button for refreshing the device list. Watching TV - introduction Main window Figure 2.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE · · The second is the display area. This is the window, where TV programs are displayed. The On-Screen display and the EPG info will also be displayed in this area. The third is the control and tool bar. This area provides access to main functionalities of DVBViewer TE such as EPG, teletext, PVR/time shift and the volume control. Control and tool Bar Figure 2.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE If you want to leave the time shift mode of DVBViewer TE, you might do this by switching the channel you are currently watching, the time shift will be canceled immediately. It is also possible to leave time shift by pressing the stop button in control bar to stop time shift and resume live mode.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE EPG The Electronic Program Guide is a service of the DVB technology, which offers additional information about the running program to end-users. DVBViewer TE is capable to receive that kind of information and offers two methods of presenting that information. Not all TV station provides EPG data. That information can only be displayed, if the chosen TV channel provides EPG data.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Figure 2.15: Options menu EPG Here you can change the appearance settings for the EPG display. If you choose Do not receive EPG-Data the EPG display won t work caused by the fact, that no EPG data will be available. The option Automatic Offset will enable the synchronization of the GMT offset with the timezone configuration of your Windows operating system.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Within the configuration tab of the SiehFern Info service you can configure the transponder settings required for the reception of the service. You start the download process of the service content by pressing the Scan button. The update process might take between 30 and 45 minutes. You cannot use DVBViewer TE for any other task while the download of the SFI data is in progress.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Figure 2.18: Save as dialog Enter the location and the name of the files and press the Save button. All known EPG data will be combined into a set of HTML files, which can be displayed with a web browser Figure 2.19: Browser with opened DVBViewer TE HTML EPG The second option is the capability of sending programs directly to the DVBViewer TE recorder module.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Teletext Using DVBViewer TE you also gain access to the teletext services of most TV stations. Open the teletext window by using the Teletext button in Toolbar or using the menu DVBViewer TE => Teletext . Figure 2.20: Teletext window The use of this application is very simple.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE If the specified subtitle teletext page is not available, no subtitle will be shown in display area. DVB subtitles Figure 2.22: Subtitle dialogue for DVB subtitles After selecting the language of the DVB subtitle, press the OK button and the subtitle will be shown in display area Figure 2.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Configure the application Within the DVBViewer TE options menu you can configure most functionalities of DVBViewer TE to your needs. First the general and enhanced options are introduced. General options Within the general options you can configure the main settings of DVBViewer TE. Figure 2.24: Options General Use XP-Icon Style: This option can be used only while the skin engine is disabled.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Language Here you can select the GUI language. Select the required language and press the set button. EIA 608 Closed caption This option configures the delay transmission and appearance of closed captions (if available). Enhanced options Figure 2.25: Options Enhanced Ignore Error messages Toggles error messages on/off.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Show DVB-Viewer in This option toggles the appearance of DVBViewer TE between the taskbar, the system tray or both. The other option windows are described within the following chapters of this document within the chapter context. 18 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Control the application Keyboard A list of assigned keyboard commands is given in Appendix B. If you want to change the default settings to your needs, you might do this using the Keyboard tab in Settings => Control Figure 2.26: Options menu Control Keyboard If you use a remote control with the USB IR receiver, you also have to configure the settings of the remote control within the keyboard configuration.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE Mouse Wheel If you want to change the default settings to your needs, you might do this using the Mouse tab in Settings => Control Figure 2.27: Options menu Control Mouse Wheel 20 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 2: Watch TV with DVBViewer TE TechniSat Remote Control with RS232 IR receiver A list of assigned commands is given in Appendix B for the current TechniSat remote controls If you want to change the default settings to your needs, you might do this using the WinLIRC tab in Settings => Control Figure 2.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 3: Using DVBViewer TE as PVR Chapter 3: Using DVBViewer TE as PVR Summary This chapter shows how to use the built in PVR functionalities for recording and playback of DVBViewer TE and also how to play recorded videos with third party software. Necessary settings Before you record files for the first time, you should be sure that there is enough space available for recording DVB content.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 3: Using DVBViewer TE as PVR Record programs manually To start a manual recording, press the red button in the tool bar. You can also use the keyboard shortcut or the button on your remote control. Figure 3.2: Tool bar during DVB reception The recording starts immediately. If you want to stop the recording, press the record button again.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 3: Using DVBViewer TE as PVR Add events to recorder manually Using the recorder window of DVBViewer TE it is possible to add multiple events to the recording scheduler. You ll find the recorder window by choosing DVBViewer TE => Record Setting . Figure 3.4: Recorder window To add a new event to the scheduler, enter the event date, start and end time, the channel number and the event description.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 3: Using DVBViewer TE as PVR Add events to recorder using the EPG For all channels, which provides EPG data, you might use the EPG window to add recording timers to the recorder timetable Figure 3.5: EPG window To add events using the EPG, you have to open the EPG window. Select the event, you want to record and press the Send to PVR button. This event will be added to the recorder scheduler and automatically recorded on your hard drive.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 3: Using DVBViewer TE as PVR Play recorded programs with DVBViewer TE Play files with DVBViewer TE To play recorded files with DVBViewer TE, open the video using DVBViewer TE => Open Video or use the Change TV/Video Mode button in the tool bar. Figure 3.6: control and tool bar during DVB reception After DVBViewer TE has loaded the file the playback will start immediately. Figure 3.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Summary This chapter shows how to manage TV/radio channels and perform imports and exports of the database with your DVB-PC TV card.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Edit satellite parameters (DiSEqC settings) If you use DiSEqC settings, which differ to the default settings of DVBViewer TE, you have to change those settings for each satellite you are able to receive using your equipment. For this purpose choose a satellite in the channel list and switch to the tab Edit . The settings for the satellite will be displayed. Figure 4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Add/Remove channels manually If you want to add or remove channels manually, you also have to use the edit tab. Figure 4.3:Channel list Channels and Edit To add a new channel, you have to enter the necessary values; press Add ... Figure 4.4: Channel list add channel popup message ...and confirm the appearing message. This channel is now added to your channel list.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Figure 4.5: Channel list delete channel popup message ...and confirm the appearing message. This channel is now removed from the channellist. To clear all channels from the channel list, you have to click the button Clear All ... Figure 4.6: Channel list delete all channels popup message ...and confirm the appearing message. The channel list will be cleared completely.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Scan for new channels Another way of adding new channels is the Channel Scan . Figure 4.7: Channel list Channel Scan To start a channel scan you should select a satellite root first, DVBViewer TE will scan for channels using a transponder list for the satellite system selected. If you want to scan for channels without a transponder list.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels After the procedure has been completed, you will find the added channels browsing the specified root name at the end of the channel list. If you updated an existing root, the channels, which do not longer exist, will be removed and new channels should be added to the list. Import/Export channel lists with DVBViewer TE The third option for adding channels to DVBViewer TE is to import existing channel lists.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Figure 4.9: Import Channel list Open window The information will be added to the existing channel list. The following file-types can be imported to the DVBViewer TE: TechniSat Program List (*.txt) Microsoft Access Database (*.mdb) SatcoDX Channels (*.sdx) Ini File (*.ini) To export your current channel list (e.g.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels CableStar2 PCI Edit existing channels If you want to edit an existing channel in the DVBViewer TE channel list, you have to select this channel in the channel list and switch from Channels -tab to Edit . Figure 4.11: Channel list Channels and Edit Here you have to enter the new values and press the Update button. The changed settings for this channel will be added to the current channel list. 34 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Add/Remove/Update channels manually If you want to add or remove channels manually, you also have to use the Edit -tab. Figure 4.12: Channel list Channels and Edit To add a new channel, you have to enter the necessary values, press Add ... Figure 4.13: Channel list add channel popup message ...and confirm the appearing message. This channel is now added to your channel list.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Figure 4.14: Channel list delete channel popup message 36 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels ...and confirm the appearing message. This channel is now removed from the channel list. To clear all channels from the channel list, you have to click the button Clear All ... Figure 4.15: Channel list delete all channels popup message ...and confirm the appearing message. The channel list should been cleared completely. If you clear an existing channel list, all information will be deleted.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels This option should be used to scan for available cable TV channels or to update one root of the existing channel list. You need to choose the modulation type (in our example QAM64) and to enter the start and end frequency. If you want to update an existing channel list for your cable TV system, check the Scan & Update option. Press the Scan button to start the scanning process.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Figure 4.18: Import Channel list Open window The information will be added to the existing channel list. The following file-types can be imported to the DVBViewer TE: TechniSat Program List (*.txt) Microsoft Access Database (*.mdb) SatcoDX Channels (*.sdx) Ini File (*.ini) To export your current channel list (e.g.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels AirStar PCI/USB Edit existing channels If you want to edit an existing channel in the DVBViewer TE channel list, you have to select this channel in the channel list and switch from Channels -tab to Edit . Figure 4.20: Channel list Channels and Edit Here you have to enter the new values and press the Update button. The changed settings for this channel will be added to the current channel list. 40 Version 4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Add/Remove/Update channels manually If you want to add or remove channels manually, you also have to use the Edit -tab. Figure 4.21: Channel list Channels and Edit To add a new channel, you have to enter the necessary values, press Add ... Figure 4.22: Channel list add channel popup message ...and confirm the appearing message. This channel is now added to your the channel list.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Figure 4.23: Channel list delete channel popup message ...and confirm the appearing message. This channel is now removed from channel list. To clear all channels from the channel list, you have to click the button Clear All ... Figure 4.24: Channel list delete all channels popup message ...and confirm the appearing message. The channel list is cleared completely.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Figure 4.25: Channel list Channel & Scan This option should be used to scan for available terrestrial TV channels or to update one root of the existing channel list. You need to choose your region (Europe, Australia or Taiwan) and to enter the start and end frequency. If you want to update an existing channel list for your DVB-T region, check the Scan & Update option.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Figure 4.26: Channel list Channels To import an existing channel list to the DVBViewer TE, click the button Import in the channel list and choose the file, which contains the channel data. Figure 4.27: Import Channel list Open window The information will be added to the existing channel list. The following file-types can be imported to the DVBViewer TE: 44 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels TechniSat Program List (*.txt) Microsoft Access Database (*.mdb) SatcoDX Channels (*.sdx) Ini File (*.ini) To export your current channel list (e.g. for backup), click the Export button in channel list and specify the destination directory and file name. Figure 4.28: Export Channel list Save As window The DVBViewer TE channel list can be exported into the following file-types: Ini File (*.ini) 45 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Sorting channels Within the DVBViewer TE it is possible to alter the order of the channels. One method is to rename the folders, in which the channels are located. Using this mechanism will create a new folder at the top of the satellite root. Please select the channel you would like to place into another category. Then switch to the Edit tab and rename the category to the new category name.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Now we switch to the edit tab and replace the category name named BSkyB with BBC and press the update button. Figure 4.30: Channel list Channel and Edit 47 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Now there is a new category named BBC at the top of the channel list. Figure 4.31: Channel list Channels Now we can start to move the channels into this folder by renaming the category or by moving the channels up to the category BBC . In our example we now move the channel Euronews to the category BBC . 48 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 4: Managing TV/radio channels Figure 4.32: Channel list Channels before and after channel move 49 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 5: IP multicast Streaming Chapter 5: IP multicast Streaming Summary This chapter will introduce the IP multicast streaming functionalities, which are part of the DVBViewer TE.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 5: IP multicast Streaming Streaming of one TV channel trough a network Building a network environment for IP streaming The common system requirements are listed below: PC 1: · One operable DVB-PC TV Stars device · One configured network interface (100BaseTX or 1000BaseTX) · 3D AGP/PCIe Graphic card with hardware acceleration · DVBViewer TE PC 2: · One configured network interface (100BaseTX or 1000BaseTX) · 3D AGP/PCIe Graphic card with hard
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 5: IP multicast Streaming On our server, we open "Settings" => "Options" and change to the "Recorder" tab. Figure 5.2: Options menu Network Here you have to configure the necessary options for the IP multicast stream. First you have to choose the IP-address of the network interface, the multicast stream is sent for distribution. In our example, the network interface has the IP 192.168.0.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 5: IP multicast Streaming Figure 5.3: Main window View menu with disabled multicast option To initialise the multicast stream, choose "View" => "Multicast". Now the current channel will be sent to the selected network interface. To receive and view the data stream, a streaming client is required. In our example we use the application "VLC Media Player". This open source application is available at the project website http://www.videolan.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 5: IP multicast Streaming Figure 5.5: VLC media player File menu ... and then select the option "Open Network Stream...". Figure 5.6: VLC media player Open menu Then you have to choose "UDP/RTP Multicast" and enter the address and port number where the multicast IP stream is located on. Then press the "OK" button and VLC Media Player will start the playback of the stream immediately. 54 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Chapter 5: IP multicast Streaming Figure 5.7: VLC media player during multicast stream playback If you want to stop the streaming client playback, simply press the stop button. If you want to stop the streaming server of DVBViewer TE, you have to uncheck the "Multicast" option in "View" menu. Figure 5.8: Main window View menu with enabled multicast option 55 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Appendix A: TechniSat remote control and keyboard commands Appendix A: TechniSat remote control and keyboard commands TechniSat TS35 Recorder window Aspect ratio Exit Mute Start / stop recording Number field Show / hide menu EPG info Channel up/down Volume up/down Pause / resume EPG window Full screen 100% size 200% size 50% size DesktopTV Teletext Stop Figure B.1: TechniSat remote control T35 (default configuration) 1 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Appendix A: TechniSat remote control and keyboard commands TechniSat TTS35AI Mute Exit Number field Start / stop recording Recorderwindow 100% size 200% size 50% size Desktop TV Channel up/down 1 Volume up/down 1 Pause / resume Full screen EPG window EPG info Channel up/down 2 Volume up/down 2 Menu Aspect ratio Teletext Stop Figure B.2: TechniSat remote control TS35AI (default configuration) 2 Version 4.4.
TechniSat DVB-PC TV Stars - Users Guide Part DVBViewer TE Appendix A: TechniSat remote control and keyboard commands Keyboard commands Assigned short keys (default settings): Pause / resume Always On Top Hide Menu Show Statusbar Show Toolbar Fullscreen Exit Channel list Channel Minus Channel Plus Save Channel Station Minus Station Plus P F1 F2 F3 F4 F ESC Change TV/Video Show Subtitle Plus 10 sec. Minus 10 sec.
