Hi,

I've a Nexus-S PCI card with TV-Out. I like to use the full function of
ProgDVB like OSD.
On PC-Display everythink works fine in Sky1 Soft-Mode but the TV-Out Port
is disabled. Sound works.
When I switch to Hard-Mode the PC-Display is disabled and the TV-Out Port
works, but without any OSD-Display.
TV looking only on PC is not really funny

TV-Out with my ATI graphics card has not a good picture.

Is there any good solution to run ProgDVB (>ProgDVB 5.09.2) with full OSD fuction DVB-S with a perfect TV-Out ?


ProgDVB works fine with my TrioPCMCIA Card, Creatix Hybride PCI, Nexus-S PCI and Hauppauge DEC3000 on WINXP but no (good)way with TV-Out.
On VISTA ProgDVB will crash by changing the a program channel.
A Debug-Box comes in front.

I am recomend use softmode. Modern version of ProgDVB not support OSD in hardmode, because this hardware too old (> 7-8 years?)

Thanks, I already know this ... Juergen has this post in another thread.
This is the reason I`m looking for an alternate to watch TV on TV with
ProgTV ahhh ProgDVB

Prog wrote:I am recomend use softmode. Modern version of ProgDVB not support OSD in hardmode, because this hardware too old (> 7-8 years?)

It is true that is old, but is still in production and new cards are sold to the cosumers under various brands. I would prefer this card over any modern one for viewing MPEG2 TV stations.

For the moment I cannot upgrade over 4.7x versions... without giveing up some the native functions of the card.

Confirmed. I am stuck with 4.75 as well, as this is the last version to support file playback through hardware without issues.

This fine hardware is NOT obsolete, as it's still on the market and there's not a single real alternative around, except of perhaps using yet another dedicated hardware for this.
The perfect video out is what we've bought the SS1 for.
Nexus 2.3 could even be DIY equipped with full J2 (RGB / S-video) quite easily.
And a dedicated remote, not eating any system resources, is really nice to have.
So is the CI, hardware CSA included.
11 Watts of power consumption for this is far more useful than a mighty GPU with jet turbine style noisy or water cooling, greedy OS and multi core CPU, resulting in about half a kW of power draw...
Electricity providers are fat and rich enough, from my point of view, so I am not willing to feed them even more of my good money every month.

The world could well need a h.264 compatible hardware device with HDMI out, for example, eating no more than a normal STB with similar capabilities.

Until such one perhaps leaves the area of vapour ware, we should really keep the SS1 Premium / Nexus alive.
Like HispaDVB does, or Linux VDR, for example.
Both are freeware...
And look at the nice OSD of those, even with the well known limitations...

Great post! I couldn't say it better than you.

Juergen wrote: Until such one perhaps leaves the area of vapour ware, we should really keep the SS1 Premium / Nexus alive.

I hope so

Like HispaDVB does, or Linux VDR, for example.
Both are freeware...
And look at the nice OSD of those, even with the well known limitations...

I have tested HispaDVB today. For me a very unstable alternative.
My system crashed many times. Had to remove one pci-card from
system. Crashed again. Had to change the pci-slot. Blue-Screen IRQ_...
ProgDVB worked perfect without any problems.

HispaDVB looks very good, but like you wrote ... the limitations.
What feature to have OSD without teletext and some more ...
The rest of HispaDVB-OSD fuction looks great und works perfect for me.

I hope to see later OSD on hardware-mode back again in ProgDVB