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DVBViewer-Forum: The starting place number one for information and questions concerning the DVBViewer
TechniSat®: The manufacturer of the SkyStar2-Karte. At service & support you will find notes to the card as well as download links for drivers, program lists etc.
Lucike.de (German): A comprehensive page about DVB and home of the ProjectX and MPEG2Schnitt forum.
Beisammen.de (German): This is a comprehensive forum for HDTV and HTPC.
InfoSat® (German): The technical magazine for satellite reception. The internet page offers all kinds of news concerning sat-TV.
Digitally television forum (German): An informative and helpful forum with reference to digital satellite reception. Here one finds a very active DXer department with current information to once again locked channels.
DigiTV®: A German-language site with current news about satellite reception. You can also find the necessary PID for specific channels.
telesat info (German): This site of Norbert Schlemmer offers a weekly chronicle with up-to-date information about satellites and the corresponding transponders.
SatMania: A site with topical information about the satellite reception. Often new channels are announced here first. Additionally you can find the PID and a number of other technical specification concerning different channels.
Dankescheen's New Skystar2-VCR Homepage (German): Here Dankescheen presents several comprehensive guides for digital video editing.
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Doom9.net: A site with a huge download archive of video tools. Here you can find almost everything of rank and name in the free and shareware area.
ProjectX (freeware): An excellent tool for demultiplexing, correcting, synchronizing and converting of DVB recordings. Suitable for MPEG2 transport-stream, program-stream and PVA elementary-stream.
MPEG2Schnitt (freeware, German): An advanced tool for cutting and merging MPEG2 recordings. It is recommended to use it in combination with ProjectX
PVAStrumento (freeware): An easy-to-use tool for converting PVA or transport-stream recordings to MPEG2 program-stream. Also corrects and synchronizes while re- or demultiplexing.
PVACut (freeware): Program for cutting and connecting PVA files.
VirtualDub MPEG2 (freeware): An advanced tool for converting several formats to AVI, e. g. DivX or XViD. This version features native MPEG2 support. There are lots of excellent third party filters like Donald Graft's deinterlacer and resizer.
Vidomi (freeware): Converts MPG recordings of the DVBViewer to the space-saving DivX format. You can also cut the videos (only selected areas of the source file converted). Additionally you will need a DivX codec; it operates optimally with the DivX 3.11a-Codec, but there are issues with DivX 5.0x.
CDEx (freeware): Converts .mp2-audio files to the MP3-format. It is pleasantly small and handy.
DBPowerAmp® (freeware, in extended version Shareware, 19 $). Converts MP2-audio-files to WAV or MP3. You can start the conversion comfortably via the context menu. You can also down-sample from 48 KHz to 44 KHz for creating an audio-CD.
DVD2SVCD (German) is a collection of programs which are combined under one GUI to convert of DVD to the S-VCD format (super video CD). You can also use it with PVA-recording of the DVBViewer. The program is somewhat difficult to use without proper experience, since you must download different programs first and many adjustments must be made. Special thanks go to Steffen Klausing who wrote a very good manual which describes the procedure thoroughly on a step-by-step basis with numerous illustrations
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WinLIRC: (freeware): You will need this program if you want to operate the DVBViewer with an infrared-remote-controller.
FFDShow: (freeware): A real multi-tool to MacGuyver's liking. Generally it is a video-filter able to display many kinds of formats, for example DivX, Xvid and MPEG4 in all versions and even MPEG2 (the latter doesn't work correctly yet, but you can set it to RAW-format, which works quite well).
You can make many adjustments, for example setting the colour, contrast, brightness, gamma, sharpness, noise, de-interlacing, resizing and many more. A setback is the incompatibility with certain MPG 2-decoders as the one from Elecard. It also doesn't function with fast channel switching. It is recommended to use the current alpha version.
Elecard® decoderpack: (free-/shareware): It contains a demultiplexer which is much better than that of Microsoft. This one solves many problems with asynchronous and jerky playback. The MPEG decoder is an alternative to the Mediamatics-decoder which is part of your TechniSat software.
Contrary to the demultiplexer the decoder is shareware, so one must live with the Elecard logo inserted in the right upper picture corner (only on the display, not in the video files), as long as the decoder is not paid ($ 20,- with player). After the installation you will find the Elecard setup-program under start - menu/programs; here you can register or unregister the different filters. You should keep the demultiplexer and the Odio Dekoda.
NVIDIA® video-decoder (NVDVD®) (trial): This video decoder uses the hardware acceleration of graphics cards with NVIDIA chips and thereby achieves an outstanding image quality with a very low processor load. NVIDIA says it will function with most DirectX 8-capable graphics cards, in particular with ATi Radeon cards.
With cards with integrated hardware-MPEG2-decoder as the Geforce4 MX and Geforce FX-series you can achieve results formerly possible only with expensive DVB-cards with hardware-decoding. The decoder is part of the NVDVD player of NVIDIA, which can be downloaded as a trial version with run time limitation to fourteen days.
SatcoDX: Here you will find current and well maintained channel lists in the SatcoDX format for numerous satellite positions. They can be imported with the full version of the DVBViewer. However they do not contain teletext PID. These must be input manually.