USB Saorview receiver ($7.40 delivered)

Johnboy1951

The easiest thing to do IMO is to let VLC generate its own playlist and save it.

VLC .... Open Capture Device ... Mode TV and DVB-T (or DVB-T2)

Enter the frequency for your local transmitter for multiplex frequency and 8Mhz for the bandwidth .... and select Play

The Saorview channels will then become available in VLC and you can select "Save Playlist to file" for re-use simply by opening that file with VLC whenever you want to access Saorview channels.

All you need to know is the frequency of your local transponder.

Capt'n Midnight

might be my setup (GPU isn't great) but it seems to be more responsive (less hangy) for RTE2 when video is set as wallpaper

upandcumming

Jonathan wrote: »

Three Rock has changed frequencies. Try replacing 738000000 with 546000000.

That was where I was going wrong! RTÉ2HD is much better, but still a bit jumpy. Any recommendations on what to do within VLC to make it smoother?

Sleepy

Anyone using one of these in Clontarf?

Tempted to get one for the kids playroom...

Nalydyenlo

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

The easiest thing to do IMO is to let VLC generate its own playlist and save it.

VLC .... Open Capture Device ... Mode TV and DVB-T (or DVB-T2)

Enter the frequency for your local transmitter for multiplex frequency and 8Mhz for the bandwidth .... and select Play

The Saorview channels will then become available in VLC and you can select "Save Playlist to file" for re-use simply by opening that file with VLC whenever you want to access Saorview channels.

All you need to know is the frequency of your local transponder.

Yes but it doesn't save a track for each channel this way so you won't be able to change the channels with the navigate buttons - you have to go to playback -> programs each time which is a pain. The code above is a playlist with a track for each channel, allowing you to change channels by simply clicking 'back' or 'next' or else going the playlist window. You can also insert an image to identify your channel by putting in <image>file:///[path to image]</image> within the channel track which is nice - less boring than the traffic cone.

Nalydyenlo

upandcumming wrote: »

That was where I was going wrong! RTÉ2HD is much better, but still a bit jumpy. Any recommendations on what to do within VLC to make it smoother?

Try going to 'Tools -> Preferences -> Video' and setting de-interlacing to 'automatic' or 'on' and de-interlace mode to 'blend'. My RTE 2 picture was all full of glitches and lines until I did this.

EDIT: Also it wouldn't hurt to go to 'Tools -> Preferences -> Input & Codecs' and check 'Use GPU accelerated decoding'. Also 'Tools -> Preferences ->Video' and check 'accelerated video output'.

Nalydyenlo

How do you send Thanks From: messages on this board, like the one upandcumming sent just above?

Thargor

Click on the thumbs up icon in the bottom right corner of their post.

mickzer

Nalydyenlo wrote: »

How do you send Thanks From: messages on this board, like the one upandcumming sent just above?

Just click on the "Thumbs-up" icon on the right;)
Edit:Darn.....one finger typing........

mickzer.

Holdover

Got one of these and it works great, the blaze software was a bit laggy but on Windows media center its really smooth, great bargain

freeze4real

Allyall wrote: »

Could be a different version of Windows 7, could have different updates, could be a different version of Media Center.

The 2GB of updates is probably for Win 7 as a whole. I just meant Media Center.

Worth a shot anyway, to download one of them, as that's what worked for me.

I never had a problem in Vista, so maybe this isn't the same problem that i had, but maybe worth a look at

EDIT: sorry, i linked to the wrong video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUpkYU0HJxs

Dude what usb dvb is used here

Bummer1234

Sorry to bring a thread out of the depths of the bargain basement but does anyone have a link to the installation for this USB receiver?,I can't come across the disk now at all. I seen a link from megaupload further down this thread but it off course is gone.

Rockn

@Bummer1234

32 bit driver here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78729409&postcount=277

and 64 bit here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77608966&postcount=252

Thargor

Balls, my one of these has just stopped working for no reason, still shows up as an IT9135 BDA device in Device Manager when I plug it in but all Windows Media Centre does with it is stay stuck on Searching for Tuners, any ideas?

baldshin

http://www.buyincoins.com/new_en/details/digital-tv-box-lcd-vga-av-tuner-dvb-t-freeview-receiver-product-2056.html

Just having a look at this, as a way of getting saorview direct to the tv without a laptop in between, can anyone confirm it'll work here in Ireland?

parasite

It won't work, it's only mpeg2, you want mpeg4/h.264 decoding

B.A._Baracus

baldshin wrote: »

http://www.buyincoins.com/new_en/details/digital-tv-box-lcd-vga-av-tuner-dvb-t-freeview-receiver-product-2056.html

Just having a look at this, as a way of getting saorview direct to the tv without a laptop in between, can anyone confirm it'll work here in Ireland?

You are better off just getting an indoor aerial, mate.

somebody_else

Did anyone tried to use it with Raspberry Pi and xmbc ?

Tom

Bummer1234

Also anyone get this going with windows 8?

ghostrider4

Bummer1234 wrote: »

Also anyone get this going with windows 8?

I tried on two Windows 8 Pro 64 Bit machines but couldn't get it to work.

I have a this one working on Windows 8 64 Bit machine though

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-USB-2-0-Digital-DVB-T-HDTV-TV-Tuner-Recorder-Receiver-/390532069813?pt=AU_Components&hash=item5aed8679b5

The dongle does get a bit hot after a while though, so probably not high quality.

upandcumming

Can anyone point me in the direction of Linux drivers for this please?

mudxfxa

Hi, Just got one recently, but I couldn't get RTE one and RTE one +1, tried scan it many times without luck, also tried VLC, WMC, and blazeTV, same result. Could someone give some adivce if possible?

styron

mudxfxa wrote: »

Hi, Just got one recently, but I couldn't get RTE one and RTE one +1, tried scan it many times without luck, also tried VLC, WMC, and blazeTV, same result. Could someone give some adivce if possible?

For Three Rock at least, RTE One & and +1 are now on Mux 2 carried on Channel - 33 or 570000 kHz. The other stations are on 30 or 546000 kHz.

You should be able to adjust for your location following this table

Thargor

Can anyone find the post that tells you how to set this up in VLC media player? It involved editing a txt file in notepad with your local frequencies...

styron

Thargor wrote: »

Can anyone find the post that tells you how to set this up in VLC media player? It involved editing a txt file in notepad with your local frequencies...

Nalydyenlo's text file: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056469715&page=22#322

Thargor

That's the one, thanks a million.

AlanS181824

Cool little device.

Thargor

styron wrote: »

Nalydyenlo's text file: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056469715&page=22#322

Hmmm, doesnt seem to be working, maybe the move to the new muxes or the extra channels added since have messed it up since it was written...

Thargor

Has anyone seen any software that works with this device besides VLC and WMC? I've googled but there's nothing...

parasite

vlc isn't really made for this purpose, SmartDVB is free and works great for me, there are others like progvb & DVBViewer

Thargor

parasite wrote: »

vlc isn't really made for this purpose, SmartDVB is free and works great for me, there are others like progvb & DVBViewer

Thanks for that but why are they so obsessed with satellite frequencies? It refuses to do anything until I select a satellite then when I pick Astra 2A because thats the one I get my Freeview channels from it just sits there after that, there doesnt seem to be any way to scan for channels like in WMC, not that Astra 2A is anything to do with DVB in the first place, any clues what to do with it?

funnyname

Does this work with a TV or just a computer?

Thargor

Just a Windows pc, XP and 7 specifically I think, nothing else.

commgames

I am trying to tune, I get 100% strength 80% quality but when it tunes it finds no channels..

Atlantic Dawn

Will it work on Windows 10?

commgames

I have tried XP, 7, 8.1 and 10

With 10 I get 1 (transponder) mux I think it is 59

davidom2513

Any chance of this working on Ubuntu?

Johnboy1951

davidom2513 wrote: »

Any chance of this working on Ubuntu?

Reply #77 in this thread

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=76099579&postcount=77

It all depends on the chipset used in the supplied device.

styron

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Will it work on Windows 10?

It's picked up by the native driver and works fine on VLC. With two muxes, the channels are split over two frequencies (eg. Three Rock - 546 & 570 MHz).

commgames

does anyone now how to plug in external aerial, an adapter?

styron

commgames wrote: »

does anyone now how to plug in external aerial, an adapter?

One of these (Thanks to Rockn earlier in thread).

You might try unscrewing the aerial and "plugging in" the brass thread - has worked for a few.

Thargor

styron wrote: »

It's picked up by the native driver and works fine on VLC. With two muxes, the channels are split over two frequencies (eg. Three Rock - 546 & 570 MHz).

Try ProgDVB, it works great with it. You can middle mouse click on the screen and it shrinks it to a window that always floats on top of whatever else you're doing so you can be browsing away with the tv on in the bottom right, really handy.

djmarkus

If anyone has one but doesn't want it PM me and i'll take it off your hands.

styron

djmarkus wrote: »

If anyone has one but doesn't want it PM me and i'll take it off your hands.

We bought them over three years ago - still on sale (31US cents dearer!)

Three week wait or so - but you'll have the driver CD (+ required serial number) and a remote that might offer more by now than a spare battery.

djmarkus

styron wrote: »

We bought them over three years ago - still on sale (31US cents dearer!)

Three week wait or so - but you'll have the driver CD (+ required serial number) and a remote that might offer more by now than a spare battery.

I hate waiting. Can you order a new one and I can have yours?

bmm

styron wrote: »

It's picked up by the native driver and works fine on VLC. With two muxes, the channels are split over two frequencies (eg. Three Rock - 546 & 570 MHz).

i have Windows 10 home edition and dongle is not picked up. What native driver are we talking about here? Any particular inf file i should use?

styron

bmm wrote: »

i have Windows 10 home edition and dongle is not picked up. What native driver are we talking about here? Any particular inf file i should use?

It should be recognised and 'clear' in Device Manager as 'Winfast DVT Dongle Gold DVB Device' or similar under Sound video and game controllers. The associated system32 driver files are AF15BDA.sys and BdaSup.sys.

If that checks out OK it still needs a DVB player install to scan and store the channels, EPG etc.

SichboPVR is now straightforward and fairly smooth. Thargor's ProgDVB suggestion is another fine option or even VLC under Media -> Open Capture Device -> Capture Mode: TV Digital, Delivery System: DVB-T & input Transponder Frequency (two required as all channels as split between two muxes, so only ½ available per frequency eg. Three Rock: 546000 kHz & 570000 kHz.)

bmm

styron wrote: »

It should be recognised and 'clear' in Device Manager as 'Winfast DVT Dongle Gold DVB Device' or similar under Sound video and game controllers. The associated system32 driver files are AF15BDA.sys and BdaSup.sys.

This is what i'm getting . No drivers are installing. I would need an inf file if someone has one ?

styron

The drivers built in to my Win 10 32 bit install are these Leadtech:

http://drivers.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php/d4b0b37e4903d9ffb81830ca80fc3134/573e3d4d/29322/0/1?tsf=0

Back in the day they got the dongle working on some win 7 & 8 systems - usually 32 bit ... having a media center helped too. Leadtech don't have a trace about these drivers or devices on their site anymore.

If that doesn't work bmm can you go into the DVB-T 2 Details tab above and select Hardware Ids from the drop down menu to see if it gives up what specific dongle you have? I have the driver discs somewhere that came with two different IT 9135 & AF 9015 based sticks.

styron

styron wrote: »

The drivers built in to my Win 10 32 bit install are these Leadtech:

http://drivers.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php/d4b0b37e4903d9ffb81830ca80fc3134/573e3d4d/29322/0/1?tsf=0

Back in the day they got the dongle working on some win 7 & 8 systems - usually 32 bit ... having a media center helped too. Leadtech don't have a trace about these drivers or devices on their site anymore.

If that doesn't work bmm can you go into the DVB-T 2 Details tab above and select Hardware Ids from the drop down menu to see if it gives up what specific dongle you have? I have the driver discs somewhere that came with two different IT 9135 & AF 9015 based sticks.

AF9015 & IT9130/35 discs