Finally, a simple way to change TV channels

[rbmcjetson]

Serge Andyk has a wdm freeware utility on this web site:

http://www.asvzzz.com/download.htm

called "VideoWDMControl" that includes a tuner button to use the same "TVtuner Property Page" seen in VLC. With three mouse clicks you can choose any available TV Channel. I leave the property page up and use it to change channels. It is not pretty, but it is simple and functional.

This has me very confused. I understand that VLC was not intended to be TV watching software, but I have read several posts asking for a way to change the TV channel without recapturing the TV card. I am not a programmer so I do not know how hard is was for Serge to call up the "TVtuner Property Page" or for Anurag Sinha to create a remote TV control,

http://anuragworld.googlepages.com/remotetv

but the "TVtuner Property Page" seems to be such a simple way to do this and it is already part of VLC. It just needs to be visible to use. What would it take to call up the "TVtuner Property Page"? or add these controls to the VLC interface?

Had TV controls been available in VLC, I would not have paid money for FlyDS. VLC is better, in my opinion.

rbmcjetson

[Vayshya]

May be it's good idea to write plug-in for VLC which allows TV channel switching locally and remotely.

[rbmcjetson]

There have been many requests for just that. I wish I knew how, but I do not. Until it happens, I will use the TVtuner property page.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

"TVtuner Property Page" <= What do you exactly mean by that ? Screenshot of what you would like ?

[rbmcjetson]

Yes, I would be delighted to. BTW, I have 1 more semester @ MO State U. After that I plan to be more involved in open source software. For now:

Serge Andyk's wdm freeware utility calls up this page:



You will see the same page if you select the "Device and Tuner Properties" from the "Advanced Option" page when you open the capture device:



You view several option pages and finally come to this:



which is the same TVTuner Property Page.

Anurag Sinha's TV control looks really cool:



But I would be happy with something as simple as:



As the developers of VLC are volunteers, I am content to use the "TVTuner Property Page" until something better comes along. VLC's quality is outstanding. There is much I can't figure out how to do like save my TV capture settings so I don't have to go through all the option pages. Given enough time, I will eventually figure that out also.

[Vayshya]

Users want to switch channels. There is one more solution, Unreal Media team web utility: http://www.umediaserver.net/download.html . It works perfectly for years. User just need to visit web page and push buttons.

[Vayshya]

Here is information needed to change DirectShow graph to set channel during capuring from TV Tuner.

TV Tuner Filter

IAMTuner Interface

IAMTuner::put_Channel Method

[rbmcjetson]

Here is information needed to change DirectShow graph to set channel during capuring from TV Tuner.
TV Tuner Filter
IAMTuner Interface
IAMTuner::put_Channel Method

Although the above post was greatly appreciated, I still do not know how to use the information. I guess I am just to old and to dense to figure out how to make a "play list".

Since my previous post of Jan, 07, I am still using Serge Andyk's wdm freeware utility, but I have added another convenience. Opening a tv channel still requires configuring 9 menus, but all I have to do is click once. I am using "AutoHotKey" http://www.autohotkey.com/ The included utility "autoScriptWriter", will track and record every mouse click into a text file and then compile it to run with one click. For my own convenience, I copied Serge Andyk's wdm freeware utility to my vlc folder and found the Windows "sndvol32.exe" and put it there too.

The "autoScriptWriter" allows you to browse to an exe file like "%Program Files%\vlc\VLC.exe" then records the mouse clicks as you configure the 9 menus. When vlc has been opened to a tv channel, I also start Serge Andyk's wdm freeware utility so I can change tv channels easily and Windows default "Volume Control" for easy volume and mute control. It is not a perfect solution but I just hate to give up my VLC. One of the menus seemed to take longer to appear so I adjusted the "Sleep" time between mouse clicks from "100" to "2000".