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Freecom DVB-T stick not working anymore with 4.88.7

#1 by thetaphi
After upgrading to 4.88.7 my BDA device "Freecom DVB-T USB Stick" does not work anymore. ProgDVB starts but the main window closes directly after showing up. Removing the INI file made the program start again, but after selecting the BDA device again it suddenly closes again without any message.
I then downgraded to 4.88.6, where it works again. It seems that this is related to the last BDA-update in the release notes. It would also be good, if you could download older releases of ProgDVB directly, I found out the installation filename of the older 4.88.6 version by manually modifying the download URL.

A second thing that would be good to have: ProgDVB defaults to the ELECARD decoder. As I do not want to have all types of DirectShow Filters from different vendors, I decided to remove all third party DirectShow Filters (DivX, XVID,...) and moved to ffdshow-tryout as it is open source and works really great and reads almost everything. So I have a clean media system in windows that is really stable.
To support this with ProgDVB, I created a Filter file that uses ffdshow for video and audio decoding and completely removed Elecard (and will not install this bundled nag software again...). Are you interested to ship this filter file with the other defaults in your distribution?

#3 by thetaphi
Hi Prog,

no, I am not the author of ffdshow. It can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/
The good thing with ffdshow is, that it only consists two DirectShow filters (one for audio one for video) that decodes almost everything.

I do not want to bundle ffdshow with ProgDVB, I only created a filter graph that works perfect for MPEG2 and Audio Decoding, it would be good to bundle that file as tv.ffdshow.xgr in FilterGraphs:

<GRAPH version="1.0">
<FILTER ID="Video_Renderer" clsid="{B87BEB7B-8D29-423F-AE4D-6582C10175AC}">
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="Default_DirectSound_Device" clsid="{79376820-07D0-11CF-A24D-0020AFD79767}">
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="ffdshow_Video_Decoder" clsid="{04FE9017-F873-410E-871E-AB91661A4EF7}">
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="ffdshow_Audio_Decoder" clsid="{0F40E1E5-4F79-4988-B1A9-CC98794E6B55}">
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="MPEG_2_Demultiplexer" clsid="{AFB6C280-2C41-11D3-8A60-0000F81E0E4A}">
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="MPG_Source_0" clsid="{E436EBB5-524F-11CE-9F53-0020AF0BA770}">
<PARAM name="src" value="C:\Eigene Dateien\Eigene Videos\record\Monk.mpg"/>
</FILTER>
<connect direct="yes" src="MPG_Source_0" srcpin="Output" dest="MPEG_2_Demultiplexer" destpin="MPEG-2 Stream"/>
<connect direct="yes" src="MPEG_2_Demultiplexer" srcpin="Mpeg-1" dest="ffdshow_Audio_Decoder" destpin="In"/>
<connect direct="yes" src="MPEG_2_Demultiplexer" srcpin="Video" dest="ffdshow_Video_Decoder" destpin="In"/>
<connect direct="yes" src="ffdshow_Audio_Decoder" srcpin="Out" dest="Default_DirectSound_Device" destpin="Audio Input pin (rendered)"/>
<connect direct="yes" src="ffdshow_Video_Decoder" srcpin="Out" dest="Video_Renderer" destpin="VMR Input0"/>
</GRAPH>

#5 by thetaphi
You got it by email.

How about the problems with Freecoms BDA? A newer BDA driver is not available from Freecom (which is internally a RTL2831U chip). And it worked without problems before with ProgDVB.

#6 by Mr Elan
Hello,
I have the same problem with my Conceptronics DVB-T USB Stick which use the Freecom BDA drivers.
It worked quite good with ProgDVB 5.12.6 but it doesn't work anymore since version 5.12.7.
The program crash when I try to lauch it, I think there is a problem with the new BDA module and these Freecom drivers.
Hope it will work again with the future versions of ProgDVB...