AltDvb / DvbDream Strange Scan Behaviour

[dmm1000]

Hi Guys
Cant get my head around this one at all
I have a Technotrend c-1501 Card in My PC installed with latest BDA drivers
First of all ProgDVB is working fine and is in a way i think related to / might provide a clue how to fix this issue
Heres what's happening

I scan all my transponders in ProgDVB - this works fine get all my channels no probs - im in pure

But i really want to use AltDVB as i prefer it - so in i goes to AltDVB and begin to manually scan transponders - I am getting a signal fine
BUT - when i scan a transponder and get some channels - i then select / key in a different transponder frequency - and get the same channels on each consecutive transponder that i scan although the transponder being scanned is explicitly different from the previous one

So AltDVB and DvbDream are both are showing this behaviour - ie if i scan a transponder and get channels - i scan 2 more different transponders and i get exactly the same channels on 2 and 3 as the first

After some investigation i have discovered that by going into ProgDvb and scanning transponder say for example 491000 - and getting channels - i THEN can go into AltDVB and do a scan of 491000 and i will pick up the actual channels on there

Then if I need a different transponder scanned i have to close AltDVB open ProgDVB and change transponder say to 459000 - scan it get channels - then go into AltDVB - scan 459000 - and i will get my channels
ie the actual channels that are on 459000

What looks obvious is that AltDVB / DvbDream dont seem to be able to actually switch to and scan a different transponder - although their software appears to let me do it
I.E it requires me to go into ProgDVB to change / scan transponder - to allow that same transponder to be scanned in AltDVB - otherwise although i change transponder in AltDVB and scan it will give me only channels off the first transponder i happen to scan - OR - by the looks of it the last transponder i viewed / scanned in ProgDVB

Bottom line i scan more than one transponder on AltDVB - on every transponder i scan (after the 1st) i pick up the same channels on each of them that i did on the first - really annoying - sorry for the long winded explanation - any ideas ?
sounds so weird i doubt if many people ever noticed this ........

[danmed]

Why are you manually scanning transponders?

[willin]

Originally Posted by dmm1000

Hi Guys
Cant get my head around this one at all
I have a Technotrend c-1501 Card in My PC installed with latest BDA drivers
First of all ProgDVB is working fine and is in a way i think related to / might provide a clue how to fix this issue
Heres what's happening

I scan all my transponders in ProgDVB - this works fine get all my channels no probs - im in pure

But i really want to use AltDVB as i prefer it - so in i goes to AltDVB and begin to manually scan transponders - I am getting a signal fine
BUT - when i scan a transponder and get some channels - i then select / key in a different transponder frequency - and get the same channels on each consecutive transponder that i scan although the transponder being scanned is explicitly different from the previous one

So AltDVB and DvbDream are both are showing this behaviour - ie if i scan a transponder and get channels - i scan 2 more different transponders and i get exactly the same channels on 2 and 3 as the first

After some investigation i have discovered that by going into ProgDvb and scanning transponder say for example 491000 - and getting channels - i THEN can go into AltDVB and do a scan of 491000 and i will pick up the actual channels on there

Then if I need a different transponder scanned i have to close AltDVB open ProgDVB and change transponder say to 459000 - scan it get channels - then go into AltDVB - scan 459000 - and i will get my channels
ie the actual channels that are on 459000

What looks obvious is that AltDVB / DvbDream dont seem to be able to actually switch to and scan a different transponder - although their software appears to let me do it
I.E it requires me to go into ProgDVB to change / scan transponder - to allow that same transponder to be scanned in AltDVB - otherwise although i change transponder in AltDVB and scan it will give me only channels off the first transponder i happen to scan - OR - by the looks of it the last transponder i viewed / scanned in ProgDVB

Bottom line i scan more than one transponder on AltDVB - on every transponder i scan (after the 1st) i pick up the same channels on each of them that i did on the first - really annoying - sorry for the long winded explanation - any ideas ?
sounds so weird i doubt if many people ever noticed this ........

Hi dmm1000, first off is AltDVB not just for satellite?? I’ve never heard of it used on cable (what do I know), what I do know about is DvbDream you need a transponder file for your area for DVBDream (which I assume you have) Open this with an editor (say wordpad, word etc) select all the text (Ctrl +A) then copy this to clipboard (Ctrl +C). Then navigate to the 5000.ini file in dvbdream, start/my computer/C or whatever letter your hard disk is/dvbdream/transponders/5000.ini. you need to delete all the text in there so (Ctrl +A) then delete at the keyboard. Then (Ctrl +V) to paste the text from the clipboard, then save the file, file/save as/5000.ini, dvbdream only uses the 5000.ini file to scan for cable, THEN do a scan channels/scan/scan. see what that brings.

[dmm1000]

thanks guys
nearly sure i used the file danmed supplied - thanks Danmed - and it showed the same behaviour - in the automatic scan it picked up the same channels in the 2nd transponder onwards to the last (ie the same ones it found in the 1st transponder scanned ) - im sure the card is not faulty as progdvb works fine - maybe its the way somehow dvbdream / altdvb interacts peculiarly with the dvb-c cards drivers - i'll be gone for a few days and i will check the automatic scan again with the dvbdream proper file and show you the results - dont think anyone else experiences this only me which is a pity - but i will double check and get back to you

[dancake]

My progdvb works fine, but when I use DVBdream, i have problems.

My auto scan picks up all the normal channels, but after it is finished, I get about 50 Animal planel and 50 chinese channels; nothing else?

have you found a solution yet?

before I restored my PC I had no probs with dvbdream

[radoman]

I had the exact same problem as you guys. I was using the latest dvbdream v1.4i. I went bacK to V1.41h and it works fine.