Hauppauge WinTV, this might help

[Evinyatar]

I found an open source TV tuner app that supports the Hauppauge WinTV remote control. It's entirely in french but that shouldn't stop anyone :) You can download the source here (http://www.kastortv.com/index.php?t=4). I'm gonna have a try at pouring this in a Girder plugin, but don't expect too much; this will be my first attempt at Win32 programming (I'm sooo gonna miss ObjC here).

[Ron]

Cool! I bet a lot of people are jumping in front of the monitors now ;-) If there are any problem feel free to post them here.

[Ron]

I noticed that the driver is based on the DScaler libraries. In that case you might want to have a look at the generic BT8x8 plugin on the developers page.

[Evinyatar]

Thanks for the tip. Trying to merge the two now :) Not sure where to begin though, but I'll get there ;)

[Evinyatar]

I managed to compile something but Girder doesn't seem to like it very much; it just quits. I'm not familiar with debugging in Visual C++ 6, so I'm not sure how I would trace this. Can anyone help me?

[Ron]

Have you set the compiler to produce __stdcall ?

http://www.girder.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2941

[Evinyatar]

The project is based on the WinFast source, so that shouldn't be the problem I thought.

[edit: I tried replacing the __declspec's with __stdcall but then it wouldn't compile anymore]

[edit: never mind, found it :)]

[Evinyatar]

Whoa! I managed to make it work! :D /me beams with pride
Just gotta clean it up a bit and then I'll post it :)

[Evinyatar]

Oh, I'll need a plugin number. Where should I apply for one?

[Ron]

Right here, you get plugin ID 59,.. could you send me your name so I can assign it to you ?

Congratulations! 8)

[Evinyatar]

My name is Christoph Cantillon

[Evinyatar]

Here it is. Binary distribution and source attached to this post (if all goes well). Enjoy :)

Edit: apparently all didn't go well, so you'll have to grab them here: binary (http://www.w.cantillon.easynet.be/WinTV.zip) or source (http://www.w.cantillon.easynet.be/WinTV-src.zip)

[Ron]

Should I upload it to the plugin download page ?

[Evinyatar]

Sure :) Feel free to add the source to the generic bt8x8 driver thing.

[Evinyatar]

I have found one major problem with the plugin so far; it occasionally blocks apps from using the TV tuner card. It doesn't seem to be doing this all the time though. I'll look into this but to be honest I have no clue of where to start. If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear from them.

[Heath]

I'm not a programmer, so I can't help here... but I wanted to let you know that I am very interested in your progress. I downloaded it last night and was very happy to see my Hauppauge remote buttons being recognised! :D Next for me is to try a universal remote: "Setting a universal remote to a Philips RC5 device. Generally, in your manual, it will be one of the Philips VCRs. In the UEIC remotes, it is called 081 or 0081" The Hauppauge infrared receiver will then support MANY more buttons than the simple remote that they ship. If this works, I plan to use it all with Showshifter, TVTool, WinDVD & more...

Keep up the good work!

[Evinyatar]

Small update (http://www.w.cantillon.easynet.be/wintv_02.zip). Fixes a bug that caused the 5 button to be identified as the 6 button.

[Evinyatar]

"Setting a universal remote to a Philips RC5 device. Generally, in your manual, it will be one of the Philips VCRs. In the UEIC remotes, it is called 081 or 0081" The Hauppauge infrared receiver will then support MANY more buttons than the simple remote that they ship. If this works, I plan to use it all with Showshifter, TVTool, WinDVD & more...

Have you had any luck with this yet? I'd be very interested in seeing if this works. It is one of the reasons why I wrote the plugin in the first place.

[Heath]

I'll try to give it a go tonight. I've been distracted by the arrival of my RedRat2 - as it now controls my settop box and sattelite receiver.

I also managed to lose the manual for my universal remote, but I think I've found the guide for a similar one on the net.

[Heath]

I managed to set my remote to 081, but I still don't have a code list for the remote I own - I just hoped that 081 was a standard code.

It didn't work with Girder or with other programs that people have used this on - so I am sure that it has to do with choosing the wrong code for my remote. I suspect that the people who have come up with the 081 code are in North America and maybe have different devices.

I will have to do some more searching on this one.

[Heath]

Update: I managed to get my universal remote working with UICE (downloaded the 30 day trial) just to see if I could get it working. The Hauppauge receiver recognised about 30 buttons from my remote.... but using the same settings with your Girder plugin, I couldn't get a response from any of the buttons.
It only recognises my Hauppauge remote. :cry:

[dfire]

Hi,

I had the same problem with DScaler and WinTV Plugin. It works fine if you disable the Plugin for around 1 second ( used AlarmTimer ) when the TVApp is started.

[PeterPan]

Hi,

i have make some modification in the WinTV-Plugin. I changed the WM_TIMER Polling code with an own thread with higher priority.
Now the responds time during high cpu load is much better.

I also add an I2C-Bus free check before using the I2C-Bus.

Should i post my modifications here?

Ciao

Martin

[magicmaverick]

Definitely !

Maybe this might solve the problem that occurs on my system:
WinTV software and Girder plugin together makes the audio
popping on switching channels with my remote.

If you post your newly modified version, then I'll give it a try,
and post my experiences.

Thanks
Christian.

[PeterPan]

I send Ron the new plugin, so I hope he will put it to the download page soon.

[Ron]

I'll try to upload it tonight, if I forget please send me another email.

[Ron]

It's uploaded, thanks to "PeterPan" for the plugin.

http://www.girder.nl/downloadn.php?Link=490