Hi Folks,
It looks like I came to the right place. I am putting together a portable transport stream recorder system. It's not for recording just programs, but rather the content of one whole transponder. I have proven this concept with a Twinhan 1020 PCI card and the TSReader application. My purpose is for business, and all of my hardware and software is fully licensed.
Why do I want to record the full contents of a transport stream? To play it back in a stream player > modulator > upconverter system > set top box under test scenario in an area that is not under the footprint of the satellites in question. This system is used in the testing and development of new sat top boxes for many of the satellite delivery systems around the world.
Why did I switch from the Twinhan card to a DVB World USB box? For two reasons: 1. The Twinhan card was a loaner, and I need to return it.
2. I want a USB system to so that my whole "recording station" except for the LNB and dish of course, will be very portable. The system I envision is a laptop, DVB World USB and an external USB connected hard drive (around 300 Gigabytes). Then I can travel to anywhere in the world to get under the satellite "footprint" and hook up to my host's dish system and record transport streams.
As I said, I have proven this concept with the Twinhan card. I have successfully used the TSReader application with the Twinhan (and our roof dish) to tune to the PAS9 satellite and record the contents of several transponders (individually of course). Whether the content is scrambled or not is not at issue. When the streams are played back into our boxes during development we have legal access to the correct CA gear.
Anyway, back to my problem. I installed the DVB World NEXTORM drivers and software using the CD supplied. I then used that software to tune to the PAS9 and got a successful full scan that caught all of the transponders. I was then able to watch the clear service channels.
Then I was ready to use the TSReader, so I updated the driver according to the instructions for this process on the TSReader support web site. That process went well, and TSReader was able to sense the presence of the DVB World receiver. Tuning after that, however, did not go that well. My setup is the dish on the roof of our building, connecting cable and that goes right into the DVB World's connector. It's exactly the same setup that I was just watching programs on from the same satellite when using the NEXTORM software's GUI. But I cannot get the TSReader/DVB World combination to do a successful tune. I have tried every setting for the Input Setup and tuning parameters that I can think of.
I remember similar problems with the Twinhan, but they were resolved by making it think there was a DisEqC in the input section. Anyway I have tried that trick with DVB World too, and it didn't work.
I am running out of ideas, but I see people on here talking about using this unit with TSReader. So maybe on of you can tell me what I'm doing wrong (other than talking way too much).
Thanks,
Ernie
It looks like I came to the right place. I am putting together a portable transport stream recorder system. It's not for recording just programs, but rather the content of one whole transponder. I have proven this concept with a Twinhan 1020 PCI card and the TSReader application. My purpose is for business, and all of my hardware and software is fully licensed.
Why do I want to record the full contents of a transport stream? To play it back in a stream player > modulator > upconverter system > set top box under test scenario in an area that is not under the footprint of the satellites in question. This system is used in the testing and development of new sat top boxes for many of the satellite delivery systems around the world.
Why did I switch from the Twinhan card to a DVB World USB box? For two reasons: 1. The Twinhan card was a loaner, and I need to return it.
2. I want a USB system to so that my whole "recording station" except for the LNB and dish of course, will be very portable. The system I envision is a laptop, DVB World USB and an external USB connected hard drive (around 300 Gigabytes). Then I can travel to anywhere in the world to get under the satellite "footprint" and hook up to my host's dish system and record transport streams.
As I said, I have proven this concept with the Twinhan card. I have successfully used the TSReader application with the Twinhan (and our roof dish) to tune to the PAS9 satellite and record the contents of several transponders (individually of course). Whether the content is scrambled or not is not at issue. When the streams are played back into our boxes during development we have legal access to the correct CA gear.
Anyway, back to my problem. I installed the DVB World NEXTORM drivers and software using the CD supplied. I then used that software to tune to the PAS9 and got a successful full scan that caught all of the transponders. I was then able to watch the clear service channels.
Then I was ready to use the TSReader, so I updated the driver according to the instructions for this process on the TSReader support web site. That process went well, and TSReader was able to sense the presence of the DVB World receiver. Tuning after that, however, did not go that well. My setup is the dish on the roof of our building, connecting cable and that goes right into the DVB World's connector. It's exactly the same setup that I was just watching programs on from the same satellite when using the NEXTORM software's GUI. But I cannot get the TSReader/DVB World combination to do a successful tune. I have tried every setting for the Input Setup and tuning parameters that I can think of.
I remember similar problems with the Twinhan, but they were resolved by making it think there was a DisEqC in the input section. Anyway I have tried that trick with DVB World too, and it didn't work.
I am running out of ideas, but I see people on here talking about using this unit with TSReader. So maybe on of you can tell me what I'm doing wrong (other than talking way too much).
Thanks,
Ernie