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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 986727" data-attributes="member: 82144">Another progress update from today for those who are itching to try this! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;Tuning is working, so I can timeshift and record. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp;The next thing on my list was scanning. I've done some experiments to work out how we can implement support for that.It seems that the SI (service information... which is the channel names, numbers, EPG data etc.) is exclusively carried out of band (OOB), which means that we have to get it from the CableCARD. This in turn means that we will be receiving the SI data in the TV library (C# code) from the MP2 UPnP lib.I had already written C++ code to interpret that data in TsWriter for the first patch (PBDA method), and I was hoping we were going to be able to reuse it for the UPnP/DRI support. From what I learned today that won't be possible... or at least I figure it is probably better to rewrite in C#. So a small setback.&nbsp;Rewriting the code and wrapping it into something that we can use for scanning will probably take roughly a week of my time in the evenings. Fortunately Thursday is a public holiday here (ANZAC day) so I am hoping I will be able to complete the scanning support by the end of this week. After that I think we'll be pretty much up to par with the previous PBDA support and ready to release a public beta.&nbsp;So my list of things to do:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">implement SI table parsing - NIT, NTT, SVCT, LVCT, MGT</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">create a channel scanner that wraps the table parsers</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">test scanning</li>
</ul>mm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 986727, member: 82144"] Another progress update from today for those who are itching to try this! :) Tuning is working, so I can timeshift and record. :D The next thing on my list was scanning. I've done some experiments to work out how we can implement support for that. It seems that the SI (service information... which is the channel names, numbers, EPG data etc.) is exclusively carried out of band (OOB), which means that we have to get it from the CableCARD. This in turn means that we will be receiving the SI data in the TV library (C# code) from the MP2 UPnP lib. I had already written C++ code to interpret that data in TsWriter for the first patch (PBDA method), and I was hoping we were going to be able to reuse it for the UPnP/DRI support. From what I learned today that won't be possible... or at least I figure it is probably better to rewrite in C#. So a small setback. Rewriting the code and wrapping it into something that we can use for scanning will probably take roughly a week of my time in the evenings. Fortunately Thursday is a public holiday here (ANZAC day) so I am hoping I will be able to complete the scanning support by the end of this week. After that I think we'll be pretty much up to par with the previous PBDA support and ready to release a public beta. So my list of things to do: [LIST] [*]implement SI table parsing - NIT, NTT, SVCT, LVCT, MGT [*]create a channel scanner that wraps the table parsers [*]test scanning [/LIST] mm [/QUOTE]

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