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CharredPCAnonymous Visitor
 | First off, I just want to say that this is simply the best, most intuitive DVB software I have had the pleasure to use! For years I used MyTheatre, but it drove me nuts (horrid motor control, lousy EPG, and has a fairly hefty cost). This past week I decided once again to fruitlessly try finding a suitable replacement. I went through GB-PVR and several others, but nothing had what I needed. I then found your posting on the DVBN forums, and now I'm a loyal SichboPVR fan :)
My setup is a Twinhan 1025 in an XP home theatre PC, outputting to an 800x600 TV. My dish is a 30" on an SG2100 motor. Obviously I prefer to control everything via the 52-button remote. With your software, everything simply worked! This is the first program I've encountered where USALS actually functions as it should. The EPG is excellent (no third-party plugins required), filling in channel and program data quickly and flawlessly. I'm never going back to MT! When I have the cash, I am definitely going to register this software.
I have nothing to critique, so can only offer a few tidbits of suggestion on possible future features:
1. USALS is wonderful, but the ability to manually move and save positions would be excellent. Yes, it's my fault my dish is slightly off the arc, but until I get back on the roof... nudging and saving would be great.
2. I miss the ability to turn on the program using the remote. It turns it off, but not on. I imagine you'd just have to use a shortcut key in a desktop shortcut like MT does, but I haven't been able to get one working for SichboPVR. On the rare occasion I have to restart the app, I have to get out the mouse.
3. Font size / color tweaking would be pretty spiffy. Usually it's fine, but everyone has their own idea of a pretty GUI. Maybe even themes.
Anyway, even if it never gets another update, I only use SichboPVR now. The Cyberlink PDVD 8 codec + VMR9 combo works smoothly on my ATI card, and ffdshow handles all the audio. The latest MDAPI runs plugins nicely... who could ask for more? So huge congrats on a fantastic piece of pretty-much-freeware. I'm only shocked that word about it isn't spreading quicker. |
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SichboAdministrator
 | Hey dude, thanks for the really great feedback. Glad its working OK.
For USALS, what I do with my "some-days-misaligned motor" is just tweak the usalige value. You don't have to use the Lat/Log calcs that first come up, in fact if you know the number off-hand (e.g -45), just plug it in and don't even bother with lat/log. Hit "try lock" to tweak it.. -45.5 for instance. Then just save changes when you're happy with the quality.
I have this thing about software running in the background, starting up with windows, sitting in the tray or wasting resources -- they tend to annoy the piss out of me. I probably won't ever implement a hidden system tray "listen for a wake up remote command" type of thing.
Themes are a possibility, it's WPF after all, so it's inherently themeable. Just haven't looked into it yet.
For radio, try the latest v1.0.1.31 on the settings screen update (re-uploaded just now.) If you go to Guide, hit F12, it should bring up channels having no Video PID. They may/may not play, as I'm not sure if my source filter will handle the lack of video PID gracefully. I'll probably run some tests next weekend.
Cheers,
- Si |