LeadTek WinFast scheduling code (1 Viewer)

[craigt]

Dear Members,

Can someone point me to any particular source I can refer to which will help me
write code to communicate with my Leadtek WinFast DTV card ? In particular
I want to programatically add entries to it's recording schedule using my own
interface.

I have spent quite a bit of time trying to decipher the format of the schedule file:

C:\Program Files\WinFast\WFDTV\DTVSchdl.dat

and access the methods in:

C:\Program Files\WinFast\WFDTV\DVBT.dll

(which unfortunately is not a COM DLL) without luck

I guess all I want to do is this basic algorithm:

1. Get a handle to the card
2. Establish the "Channel List" that it's already been set up with.
3. Add an entry for a given Channel to start recording at HHMM#1
& end at HHMM#2

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Regards

Craig.

PS: I am a C# developer, with past C/C++ experience on U*IX environments.

 

[mm1352000]

Hi and welcome Craig

The scheduling that you're refering to is not part of the tuner driver. It will be part of the proprietary Winfast software. At the lowest level the tuner can be controlled by any software like MediaPortal or WMC through BDA interfaces (build a graph, set up tuning spaces, build and apply tuning requests etc.). To be honest I think you would do better to borrow some code from MediaPortal or some other open source DVB application like ScanChannelsBDA and write your own scheduler. It shouldn't be too tricky and would be less fragile than working with private proprietary APIs/formats that could change at any time. Alternatively why not use MediaPortal and be done with it? Perhaps you're looking for a fun project? I hope you get some answers to your questions.

mm