fat-tony wrote: » One question (probably for @STB). Anyone know why the logfile entries (including debug and crash logs also) don't have timestamps? Is this a consequence of how the image is compiled or can it be enabled through a system setting? It's a nuisance if I'm checking back to see how timers are working and how the machine is performing and I can't see timestamps in the logs.
STB wrote: » Oi Oi Fat-tony
iba wrote: » Only £259 on WoS at the moment (talking to myself as I have just seen on WoS (and coz STB is on Apollo 8) that I have to flash my box again to go from Apollo 3 to Apollo 8 - my box is going to start thinking it's a stripper the amount of times it has had to flash in the last few months)
steveon wrote: » Still on helios myself is it worth the bother of updating to apollo?
BenThere wrote: » Hi Guys, I started a thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057231788 looking for a combo box to replace UPC for TV only as I already have a good media streaming setup with a Minix X7 and local NAS etc. I also have a Freesat (Sagem DTR 94500) which was installed in order to watch the 2010 World cup in South Africa in HD and hasn't been used much since I tried to use it as a UPC replacement but without the Saorview channels that idea was shot down by the family democracy. IBA, STB and Zardoz have been very helpful and in the end I've decided to go with the box STB originally recommended which is the The Gigablue Quad Plus but I need some help as I want to make sure I don't order the wrong setup/components etc. I'm therefore hoping to lean on the contributors of this thread to hold my hand as I order and set up the box which I very much hope will be "the one" which finally allows me to ditch UPC once and for all I'm looking at ordering it from here but need some help to make sure I order it correctly - http://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/...te-terrestrial Given my requirement is to be able to watch one Satellite channel whilst recording another and watch one Saorview channel whilst watching another can you please help me configure it? 1. What HD Quad extra Hybrid Tuners if any do I need? 2. What HD Quad extra Satellite Tuners if any do I need? 3. I assume a 1tb HDD drive is the best option to select? 4. Whats the best WiFi option to go for? I need the best WiFi capability possible as I stream over WiFi!!! 5. I assume I don't need a special USB flash drive?? I have a million of them floating about my house which I can format to FAT32 for flashing purposes. 6. I assume OpenVix is the best firmware to have preflashed onto the machine? Anything else I need to know/tweak before I place my order? Cheers in advance guys, Ben
STB wrote: » For this reason you may wish to check with WOS's claim of being reduced from £350 to £259 is not disingenuous
STB wrote: » Email Stef in WOS and ask him why the price is not changing at checkout. (His email is sales at world-of-satellite.co.uk). They are prompt enough with replies.
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fat-tony wrote: » Price from WoS is a bit strange as I paid about €430 odd for 4 tuners plus 1 GB disk and courier from HM-sat in Germany back in April. As a media player, I'm less than impressed as it pales in comparison with my openelec xbmc media player as regards support of the advanced Dolby and DTS multichannel codecs and doesn't work at all with PCM multichannel and has issues with navigation and playback of DVD ISO files. However, as regards recording and playback of TV it's the dog's danglies - never fails to record, huge flexibility with regard to programme start time and end time, timeshift is smooth as is skip and FF and RW - something the xbmc PVR is crap at!
STB wrote: » Does downmix not work ? Because they are licensable codecs there must be third plugins (someone must have figured this out on openpli) for playing these media files. Its not a hardware limitation. EDIT: Try "enigma2-DTSplugin.ON_OFF-ET9000-OpenPLI.ipk" Its a pugin that was written for the Xtrends, no harm to try it.
STB wrote: » Set Devices to /media/usb- 8g USB Stick for Flash memory - EXT4 format. HDD to /media/hdd. Install picons - Transparent Ocram (do not use internal memory) Install Skin - Open ATV - Metrix HD is good. Install other Plugins & cams. Configure EPG to media/usb/epg.dat. Set a large swapfile on /USB also.
gtg60 wrote: » I like your methodical approach Quick question though, why favour a USB stick over a portion of your HDD?
STB wrote: » Depending on how many plugins you have loaded the memory can be eaten up very quickly, even with 1gig of ram. The main reason I have a permanent usb stick is for the epg data and picons. You do not want them on your internal flash. Also its a petty hate of mine to have an internal hard drive being accessed and spinning unnecessarily. The Picons and epg data re-writing is grand on an EXT4 stick. You'd only be making partitions on a HDD otherwise. EVeryone to their own.
Zardoz wrote: » I believe the epg is actually stored in memory when the receiver is running ,so its not really accessing the hard drive that much ,its only when epg changes are made that it needs to write to the drive.
fat-tony wrote: » I've two boxes - the Quad Plus and a Miraclebox Twin Premium. The Quad Plus is in the bedroom at the moment while I test image releases, but will be moved into the living room where I can test out the multichannel capabilities more. The Miraclebox is actually sitting in the living room and doing temporary service as a Saorview box and is connected to my Onkyo AV amp. It seems to downmix everything (DD 5.1 or DTS) to 48kHz stereo PCM no matter how I set it and will not process my 96kHz or 88kHz FLAC multichannel PCM recordings. This may be just a driver issue and is of no real consequence to me as I will be moving this box back to the bedroom as my machine for tweaking and testing releases without upsetting the family machine. I tried to find the specs of these Broadcom SoC devices to see if they are capable of processing 88, 96 and 192kHz multichannel files and outputting the data over HDMI but I failed to find anything relevant. There was a long slog with xbmc to get proper multichannel PCM audio working on my openelec box which uses a AT5IONT-I board from Asus, but the devs got there in the end. I'm assuming that if the Broadcom SoC is hardware capable of uncompressed multichannel audio, we'll also get there eventually. I just need more testing time!
STB wrote: » I can give you the symbolic links for the Saorview Channels so that you can link the picons for the RTE's etc if you wish. Also I am using the Blue HD Skin which is fairly nice (instead of my Metrix) mantioned earlier. Its a lot quicker and sleaker. Good Picons are Ocram shd white no padding ones.
STB wrote: » The BCM7356 supports AAC LC, AAC LC+SBR Level 2, AAC HE Level 2, AAC HE Level 4,AC3, DTS, MPEG-1/2, MP3, WMA, WMA pro, LPCM, FLAC, multichannel FLAC and Ogg/Vorbis. You might want to ask Gigablue Germany why its not working or the Vix guys. I see its a problem not just with the gigablues but also the VU+'s as well. Driver updates required for version of Gstreamer to work with images. You have a Miraclebox. How do you find them ? You must be testing for WOS
gtg60 wrote: » Yes, I would appreciate that, thanks. Have a 320GB drive I salvaged from one of Eircom's eVision boxes and (as this box will be replacing a Sky box with a UK recording card) I want to keep at least the same functionality. Think I have a spare 1GB stick so I'll probably use that. Overall my impressions of the box are very good, looks a bit cheap (as does the remote) but once I started to use them I feel a lot happier. The real test will be when the rest of the family have to switch over and start using it :eek: BTW cheapest place I could find one for was here:http://www.kosmos24.com 363 Euro including extra DVB-S, DVB-T tuners and delivery. Had it within 4 days of ordering.
