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This is the first version which starts without problems (From the time I decided not to install that damned* elegard codec I always had problems with starting progdvb, that is now ok). However there are some problems. Switching from some channels to others and back has some problems. Some channels do not show pictures or sound then. You have to exit the program and restart again. On other channels as for instance WDR there is a problem at the time they split their program to local channels. Then the pictures and the sound disappear. You have to reload the PIDs manually to overcome the situation. The same situation is at the point they switch over to the common programme again.
I have a BDA 713x BDA DVBS Tuner.

* I said dawned because it it not stated that it is not free. I already had codecs for that purpose and they were overwritten by that codec which was totally unnecessary but really annoying at the time the test period ended. Because there is no simple deinstalling and reinstall of the former situation.

What you mean "You have to reload the PIDs " ?

On several German regional stations on Astra 19.2, there is a special situation here.
Most of the day, they share the same IDs, region wide.
For local transmissions, they split up and switch over to individual Audio and Video IDs, but all system related IDs, TXT and EPG stay the same.
Times for local transmissions are 18:00 to 18:15 (Berlin Time), from Monday to Friday plus 19:30 to 20:00 every day.
Example transponders:
12110 H 27500 (NDR stations)
12422 H 27500 (WDR stations)
...and there may be more.

If I remember well, the Technotrend drivers, original software and SDK started to support this automatic ID changing with 2.17.
In fact, DigitalTV 2.19h does switch correctly on my Nexus in realtime, no user action required.
I have scanned the important local stations at locall transmission time. They are black then for the reginal transmissions, except of one, which stays with the same IDs all day. When scanning at regional time, all A and V IDs on such a group of locals are identical, resulting in wrong audio and video at local time.

Another issue related with this, switching to a local station at locals time, with the good IDs already inside, from the one with the constant IDs, does not switch Audio at the first try then, a second selection of that channel is necessary.
This can be reproduced on the NDR transponder mentioned above, like by switching from "NDR FS NDS" to "NDR FS HH" at locals time.
Also happens in HW mode, with old 4.75 and 4.84.1 W9x and modern versions as well. Same on Win98SE, Win2k SP4 and XP Pro SP3.

My STB (Skymaster DTC 5000) switches fine.

DVB-T is not effected, on my DigiVox Mini II. IDs simply don't change there...

Last version of ProgDVB can automatic update channels and channel list.

Here it does not, tested with 4.91.4 Std. and W9x and 5.15.4 Std.

BTW, just found an error on 5.15.4, kind of related with this:
Option "Auto update channel parameters" can not be set.
It leads to a false error message on "PIP function ... only ... Professional!"

For sure, channel parameters are NOT related with PIP here...

Setting PlayTimePmtParser=1 in ProgDVB.ini does not help.
And GUI shows no effect on the option even then. Still inactive, producing the nasty Pro message for no real reason.
Probably some resources cross changed...

Original English language, no plugins at all.

No, I will NOT throw away my Nexus.
Back to 4.84.1 and 4.75, as usual...

Thanks for replying. However I did not unterstand much of what you said. So is it an error in PROGDVB or just something forgotten. Or is the BDA driver in error.
However it is just like Juergen said. At 19:30 the screen turns black on WDR. Then I have to call "Channel Properies" and there PIDs. I have to press Update and then Apply. After that the screen (and Audio) will be ok. At 20:00 the same procedure. This is not quite likely. And also there is no solution when recording.
As I understood: There no no solution yet. Is that true?

I hope make autoupdate in free next version. In record it is problem ...

@ Prog

Regarding scheduled recordings, we need to switch to a channel some time before such changes would happen.
Before, not exactly at that moment.
So the scheduler behaviour had to be changed.
E.g. switch station a minute ahead.
And recordings start delayed.
Perhaps allow user specific adjusting for this, to avoid the need, to manually edit the scheduler each time.

Possibly set a flag to allow and wait for the IDs to update, to change scheduler behaviour on such a time critical job.

Maybe an extra user flag on the channel properties does the job, plus time stamp entries.
Or is there any notification flag, defined in DVB specs for this, available generally or some moments before changes happen?


However, you did not provide a changes log for 4.91.5 and 5.15.5
Did you change something related with this issue?
In case, I may test tomorrow, at locals time.

Only fixs.

Okay.
So we will be waiting for the next one