Cant ADD DVB-S Channels Manually in TV Server (1 Viewer)

cwaite

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March 29, 2008
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Video Card: Nvidia Geefore 6800
Video Card Driver: 6.14.11.7516
Sound Card: Soundmax
Sound Card AC3:
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1. TV Card: Win-TV Nova-HD-S2
1. TV Card Type: DVB-S
1. TV Card Driver: 2.122.26109.0
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
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MPEG2 Audio Codec:
h.264 Video Codec: Core AVC
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TV: LG 37"
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I cant seem to manually add any satellite channels, I have double checked the frequency details are correct and the channel is mapped to my card.

When I add a channel manually and try to preview it in TV server I get the message "Preview Failed:UnableToStartGraph" if I try to view the channel in MP I get the message "Unable to start timeshifting no video/audio detected"

I have been trying to find out why this problem occurs as when I let TV server scan for channels it finds them and sets them up ok, but if I try to manually add a new channel in TV server it never works.

For the purpose of testing I decided to setup a channel manually that had already been picked up by scanning for Channels, before doing this I exported the list of channels to an XML file, the channel I choose was Zone Romantica, I carefully copied the tuning information for this channel from TV-Server and re-entered it manually naming the channel ZR, I then exported the channel list again and compared the differences, as you can see (below) the parts highlighted in bold are different from the Manually Added channel to the Automatically added channel, and I cant seem to find anyway to add the information in bold via the TV Server, the only way I can add this information is to export the channels to an XML file manually change the information in bold in notepad then import it back to the TV Server, after doing this I can then view the channel ok.

Manually Added Channel
</TuningDetails>
</channel>
<channel Name="ZR" GrabEpg="True" IdChannel="1611" IsRadio="False" IsTv="True" LastGrabTime="2000-1-1 0:0:0" SortOrder="450" TimesWatched="0" TotalTimeWatched="2000-1-1 0:0:0" VisibleInGuide="True" FreeToAir="True" DisplayName="ZR">
<mappings>
<map IdCard="1" IdChannel="1611" IdChannelMap="1609" />
</mappings>
<TuningDetails>
<tune IdChannel="1611" IdTuning="1608" AudioPid="0" Bandwidth="8" ChannelNumber="1611" ChannelType="3" CountryId="31" Diseqc="0" FreeToAir="False" Frequency="11343000" MajorChannel="-1" MinorChannel="-1" Modulation="-1" Name="ZR" NetworkId="2" PcrPid="-1" PmtPid="-1" Polarisation="2" Provider="" ServiceId="50903" SwitchingFrequency="11700000" Symbolrate="27500" TransportId="2304" TuningSource="0" VideoPid="0" VideoSource="0" SatIndex="-1" InnerFecRate="2" Band="0" Pilot="-1" RollOff="-1" Url="" Bitrate="0" />

Automatically Added Channel
</TuningDetails>
</channel>
<channel Name="ZoneRomantica" GrabEpg="False" IdChannel="103" IsRadio="False" IsTv="True" LastGrabTime="2000-1-1 0:0:0" SortOrder="449" TimesWatched="0" TotalTimeWatched="2000-1-1 0:0:0" VisibleInGuide="True" FreeToAir="True" DisplayName="ZoneRomantica">
<mappings>
<map IdCard="1" IdChannel="103" IdChannelMap="103" />
</mappings>
<TuningDetails>
<tune IdChannel="103" IdTuning="103" AudioPid="0" Bandwidth="8" ChannelNumber="103" ChannelType="3" CountryId="31" Diseqc="0" FreeToAir="True" Frequency="11343000" MajorChannel="-1" MinorChannel="-1" Modulation="-1" Name="ZoneRomantica" NetworkId="2" PcrPid="0" PmtPid="270" Polarisation="2" Provider="BSkyB" ServiceId="50903" SwitchingFrequency="11700000" Symbolrate="27500" TransportId="2304" TuningSource="0" VideoPid="0" VideoSource="0" SatIndex="-1" InnerFecRate="2" Band="0" Pilot="-1" RollOff="-1" Url="" Bitrate="0" />

Hope there is something you can do about this, at the very least could you add fields for PcrPID, PmtPID, FreeToAir and Provider to allow myself and others to manually tune our satellite channels.

Thanks
 

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