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    Default Any DM box and Windows Media Center - new app

    If you have a vista box running MCE or Windows Media Center you may interested to know that there is a new plugin for MCE called DVBSBridge which will make your DM E1 or E2 box into a MCE tuner.

    Now this is not everyone's cup of tea running MCE but for those of you who do you will love this DVBSBridge plugin.



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    DVBSBridge Pro for Dreambox

    DVBSBridge Pro for Dreambox uses Dreambox receiver as a source of digital stream.

    Features:
    # 32-bit and 64-bit Windows MCE XP 2005, Windows Vista MCE and Windows 7 support
    # Works with Windows MCE extenders
    # Reception of Satellite (DVB-S) and Cable (DVB-C) TV and Radio channels
    # CI support for pay channels
    # Guide a la Carte - for each channel choice of Native MCE Guide, EPG from Dreambox or XMLTV!
    # MPEG-2 HD video support
    # MPEG-4 HD video support *
    # Multichannel audio support *
    # Multiple audio tracks support *
    # Teletext and subtitles *
    # UPNP Server
    # Selection of up to 160 channels to be available in MCE

    Supported dreambox models:
    # DM500x
    # DM56x0
    # DM600
    # DM70x0
    # DM7025
    # DM800
    # DM8000


    DVBSBridge works best with dreamboxes running PLi and Gemini images.


    (PS - I am not promoting this, just letting you know it is there)
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    I was having a go at setting this up on Windows7 yesterday.
    Had mixed results though as it was not picking up channel.
    Tried it as location Germany and it did pick up most of the channels and did work mostly.

    So I ran the tool they suggest to run and couldn't get it to work as Australia still.
    Then I tried setup as Germany again and although it picked up station I couldn't get pics.
    Ran out of patience at that time, will give it another go again.

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    NO idea on win7 mate so who can help? Did your try DVDBLogic the makers of this app for help? I used it on vista ultimate as the screen dumps shows above, but my 3rd world country of Thailand works perfect as it shows. Maybe Australia is a 4th world? Who knows?
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    Default dvbt ch's

    I have a media center with 2 dvbt tuners. Can you keep all your free to air dvbt ch's and then add your dreambox ch's as well?

    Thanks Barneyboy.

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    I can not as I am north of Christmas Island Immigration zone, so no Australian DVB-T here sorry, and my holiday home in WA is of little help, but I am sure others can help you out down there in Melbourne with this.
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    This mob has a new product called Dvblink now in beta, have installed in a Windows 7 machine easily.

    Is working very well at the moment channel changes great and installed much better than the earlier version.

    Only problem I have is no EPG, its only giving an EPG if your area has a media center supplied one which Australia doesn't.
    I think it will come though and I am going to try Big Screen EPG if a can get it.
    Now, has anyone been able to get program data from the Foxtel stream?
    There seemed to have been a couple of threads here but they petered out.

    My only other option seems to be Oztrivo but thats not as good as the Foxtel one.

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    I've got DVBSBridge running via MediaPortal Server.. channel changes are a little slow, but it's awesome!.. I've now got F*xtel streaming all round the house with the OzTivo guide and a very high WAF

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    i hate all the micro$oft products.
    While there are so much more tools from other companies , why use micro$oft bull sh-its

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    I never said use it mate, as my notebook here is linux based 100% with VM apps running win7, vista ultimate, XP and OSX 10.4.xxx so I use most things to test with when playing with stuff and writing the wiki.

    Personally I use Elisa (google it) a very good free Media Center, this was only a suggestion for the the other 90% of the users on here. If you are in the so called 1% of linux users (google this too - the 1%) get used to it as we all do.
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    sorry jonc , i didn't want to be rude to you or anything else.
    i thank you very much for informing us about that new software in this great forum.
    i'm just sick & tired of micro$oft.

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    Sorry to bring up an old thread. But I'd just like to add that I'm running this and works great with my dm500 running pli jade.

    Only thing is EPG works on some channels and not others. Using OZtivo on the DM500. Anyone else have epg issues with dvblink for dreambox?

    Tks
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    Yep its great, i've got it running my DM7020 and DM500.
    Running it under Windows 7 here, using Big Screen EPG -
    I have disabled the DreamEPG because I also use it for FreeToAir TV.

    No missing channels although I am using Shepherd for guide data.

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    just about to install this does anyone have any screenshots on what it looks like once its up and running?

    any EPG is better than the crap one on the DM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ogo99 View Post
    just about to install this does anyone have any screenshots on what it looks like once its up and running?.
    There is a working screen dump in the first message above -

    Did you not see it?
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    I seen that. it shows a screenshot of a configuration window, blocking anything else I wanted to see.

    such as the EPG, the channel selection window, the recordings screen, how the interaction between the MCE and DM actually looks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ogo99 View Post
    I seen that. it shows a screenshot of a configuration window, blocking anything else I wanted to see.

    such as the EPG, the channel selection window, the recordings screen, how the interaction between the MCE and DM actually looks.
    I am sure you will find some screen dumps on their web site or you could ask them for some, personally I through this app out as I use mostly linux here and do it another way all together.

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    Man it works a treat I love it.

    I have x2 dm500 setup and I can watch paytv on the xbox360 and different channel in the main room.

    I'm using oztivo with epgstream.net xmltv downloader + bigscreen EPG. Works great but oztivo aint the best but good enough for me.

    Switch off the EPGscan in the dvblink settings under MC, Its crap.

    Finally the wife now loves this setup.

    Here a screenshot of the how the EPG looks in Windows 7 MC.

    Anyone know if we can watch the newly available HD channels on the dreambox yet? I know it wont work well on the DM500 so which model can support streaming the HD channels?

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    i'm getting a blank EPG and when I change to a channel I get a blank/black screen. on the PC I get 'No Signal/TV detected'

    any tips on setting this thing up easily? I followed their PDF and can't get pics.

    cheers
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    Quote Originally Posted by ogo99 View Post
    i'm getting a blank EPG and when I change to a channel I get a blank/black screen. on the PC I get 'No Signal/TV detected'

    any tips on setting this thing up easily? I followed their PDF and can't get pics.

    cheers
    I've got the same problem..
    I've got the oztivo xmltv file working ok, all the channels seem to have been found (120 channels added) but none of them have names come up.
    The channels (all without names) have been added into MC and appear in the guide (all without names) but no picture will be displayed.
    Any advice form the guys who have got this working?

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    Their might be the best place to ask this question..
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