Displaying multiple channels from a DVB-T mux

[bgowland]

sounds like you're halfway through creating a mosaic playback/live-tv plugin for GBPVR?

I've never worked out how to do it with live tv in Graphedit - I suspect it's not possible as it requires analysing the individual PS information. I'm not sure if I know how to do it programatically either although I know the theory. Too many other projects on the go at the moment for me to play with.

Cheers,
Brian

[JonnyCam]

Many thanks for that JonnyC - that's one I found as .de and was struggling to find out it's capabilities.

Not a problem. I think it said it can handle showing 19 PIP windows (but a PC won't handle that sort of mpg decoding load)

Could this software be used as a starting point for some PIP display plugin?

I already use it as poor-mans PIP when I am watching something on my analog card, I use DVBdream to watch another channel - as you can set it to be only a TV window which you can resize / drag wherever you want. My PC seemed to handle this load OK - even though both of them were using the Nvidia codec.
There is not enough quality programming on the sat to encourage me to watch 2 channels at once, especially now that the world cup is effectively over.

Wonder if the PIP video was using DX video acceleration or not? What are the restricitons in using DXVA? (can 2 graphs use the same features on the same graphics card)

[K.S.]

I've never worked out how to do it with live tv in Graphedit - I suspect it's not possible as it requires analysing the individual PS information. I'm not sure if I know how to do it programatically either although I know the theory. Too many other projects on the go at the moment for me to play with.

LOL, you're still at least on step ahead of me, you've had the time to play with graphedit. i only got as fas as downloading & giving it a fast try, miserable failing & till now never touching it again...
AFAIK it's possible to use graphedit for live tv. i don't think it really matters if its a TS or a PS you feed in

Could this software be used as a starting point for some PIP display plugin?

if it's possible to use just the keyboard it's just a matter of your IR software
i doubt that it could be a starting point for an integrated plugin. more like the gamezone plugin

[bgowland]

LOL, you're still at least on step ahead of me, you've had the time to play with graphedit. i only got as fas as downloading & giving it a fast try, miserable failing & till now never touching it again...

I had a good teacher When sub was adding DVB-T support a couple of years ago, he used VNC to connect into a few users' machines - I was one of them and got to see him at work with Graphedit.

AFAIK it's possible to use graphedit for live tv. i don't think it really matters if its a TS or a PS you feed in

Building a DVB-T live tv graph isn't difficult once you get the idea of what you're doing. In fact, you really only need to add a few filters, provide tuning info. then let Graphedit render the rest. The problem I've had is getting the graph to just lock to a mux then configure the MPEG-2 demux to output the AV streams for more than one PS. The default behaviour is to lock to one PS.

Cheers,
Brian

[K.S.]

I had a good teacher When sub was adding DVB-T support a couple of years ago, he used VNC to connect into a few users' machines - I was one of them and got to see him at work with Graphedit.

so you're gonna start a "teach 'em all graphedit" business next?
i'll really need to find some time to play a little bit around with it

[martint123]

DVB dream will let you add as many channels as PIP as there are on a particular mux/transponder. Works with DVB-C/T/S (I use it with my sat card)

You can also record any of the channels you are watching, or record them all (only issue I found with this is that it names the files using the show name of the "original" program you were watching - just prefixed with chan name.)

Works from the progDVB core I think, and is free, there are some plugins etc.

www.dvbdream.org

Seems to work a treat. Not figured out if it can use both tuners of a nova-t-500 or multi tuners to give extended PIP. It doesn't look like it on first experiments.