DV Scheduler

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DV Scheduler
DV Scheduler is an application for TV viewing, recording, and streaming. It currently supports ATSC, DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-T, analogue TV, FM radio, USB cameras, and other DirectShow enabled devices. Once installed it allows control and use of the capture devices through a standard web browser, either locally or through a network or internet.

Main features:
  • Unrestricted multiple recording, viewing, and streaming of channels in the same frequency multiplex with one capture card. Multiple recording, viewing, and streaming of different channels in the same frequency multiplex will use only one card, optimizing card usage.
  • Watch TV locally and over a network/LAN. The TV client is multi-platform including Windows, Linux and Mac.
  • Preview and watch multiple channels at the same time on multiple independent windows.
  • Saving recording as an MPEG program stream (MPEG-PS) and at the same time saving the teletext subtitle in SubViewer format (SRT).
  • Streaming over a network (UDP, RTP, HTTP, etc).
  • Vertical and horizontal EPG themes with color categories. If used in conjunction with XMLTVedt multiple EPG sources can be combined and conflicting EPG times can be shown in red.
  • One-click recording and Auto-Add feature to automatically schedule recordings based on keywords.
  • Customizable output format to allow watching, network streaming, on-the-fly transcoding, and more, of the digital broadcast.
  • Capture engine(s) used are configurable, allowing use of different capture engines.
Download DV Scheduler version 5.43 here (Windows installer) (Readme); the source is here.

DV Scheduler is based on DVB Web Scheduler version 4.0.14 which can be downloaded here and the source here. Be aware that there are differences between the compiled installer version and the source (i.e. broken and missing features in the source).


Installation
Before installing DV Scheduler, please install Java 6 and VLC 0.9.9 (during VLC installation tick "Mozilla plugin" and "ActiveX plugin"). Note that DV Scheduler was tested with Java 6 and VLC 0.9.9. Note also that due to a syntax change, VLC 1.0.x are not compatible.

To install DV Scheduler simply run the installer. This will start the installation.

For digital broadcasts DV Scheduler uses DVPiper which has two available tuning methods. To change tuning method for a device, go to "Select Devices" and choose either "Normal" or "Fast".
By default DV Scheduler uses "Fast"; if this doesn't work with your device or broadcast, then try "Normal".
Q/A
How do you view the colored subtitle files?
  • You can use DirectVobSub filter or ffdshow filter with media players that use Directshow filters. To register the DirectVobSub filter enter "regsvr32 VSFilter.dll" from a command prompt.

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