Just Bought DVB-S Tv Card - Help Needed

[Mickha]

You have your satellites mixed up, the channels you're after are not on Hotbird, which is 13E, but on Eurobird 1, which is co-located at 28.2E:

http://www.lyngsat.com/eb1.html

[adamf154]

I've not got my satellites mixed up, it must be the card or the software, i have to pick between 50 satellites then scan them 28.8 is coming up as astra 2a,2b, and 2d and gives me most of the channels but not the other ones, so i have to scan the hotbird satellite to get them

[adamf154]

I think i know what the problem is think its the software as i tried progdvb again and done it properly this time and it comes up with the astra/eurobird satellite but i dont really like the program, so if any one has any other ideas about software it would be very helpful

[adamf154]

Ok so dvb dream finds the proper satellite and works as does progdvb and dream dvb looks alot better than compro and progdvb and all the channels are in alphabetical order which didn't occur in the other programs ands the epg kind of works although i need to see how to use it properly

[the insaan]

Originally Posted by adamf154

I think i know what the problem is think its the software as i tried progdvb again and done it properly this time and it comes up with the astra/eurobird satellite but i dont really like the program, so if any one has any other ideas about software it would be very helpful

progdvb is about as stable as charles manson on crack, dvbdream and dvbviewer are probably the most stable

[TheCoder]

Originally Posted by adamf154

..... so if any one has any other ideas about software it would be very helpful

The best and most stable i've found is MyTheatre (dont use V4 - thats still rather beta and a bit flaky). Its not free though, think it costs about £30 although it is available cracked on many sites (be VERY careful of virus's). You can get the evaluation version directly from the dvbcore website (limited to 1 hour per run) to see if you like it.

An awful lot of the 3rd party alternatives are actually based on the DVBcore dll produced as part of this program.

DVBViewer may also suit your needs, thats not too bad for a cheap viewer (about £10)

WatchTVPro also isn't too bad for about £15. Evaluation copy is available on their website

[adamf154]

I have tried alt dvb, dvb portal, my theatre and tv scheduler pro today and none of them worked, i might purchase dvb dream as that looks alot better and finds the proper satellite