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Old 26th July 2007, 08:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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DVB-S, DVB-T Gadget

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Why have you guys developed all kind of gadgets, but nobody made any to detect signal quality and level of DVB-S/DVB-T cards in Vista MCE?
Dont' you think it is a necessity for users?

just a point
Any pros and cons?

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Re: DVB-S, DVB-T Gadget

there is a program whose name escapes me. unesscary within MCE interface as signal is almost set and forget. Get it working and your set.

ScanChannels BDA I think but cant be sure. It will tell you both signal strength and quality as a percentage
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Re: DVB-S, DVB-T Gadget

Yeah, ScanChannelsBDA is the one I used to find out why my PCI-e card wasn't detecting a signal but my PCI one was. Turned out that the signal strength on the PCI-e was about 2,000,000,000%.

It's good for determining where issues lie, but an MCE plugin that would just show quality and strength would be nice.
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Re: DVB-S, DVB-T Gadget

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Hello Developers
Why have you guys developed all kind of gadgets, but nobody made any to detect signal quality and level of DVB-S/DVB-T cards in Vista MCE?
Dont' you think it is a necessity for users?

just a point
Any pros and cons?

Bob
lolz...not knowing about something will not always mean it doesn't exist !

ScanChannels bda is the one commonly used

Its here by the way
http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/comm...do=file&id=129

good luck

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Re: DVB-S, DVB-T Gadget

Thank you for your suggestion. but i believe scanchannelBDA is the most stupid application i ever saw. i did not mean to flash back to windows 3.1. I meant an sidebar gadget or an internal MCE shell application for showing signal level/quality.
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Re: DVB-S, DVB-T Gadget

Ill be honest you dont need it and the odd time you do you use scanchannelBDA. Its hardly "the most stupid" application I think it is quite ingenious in what it does and gives you a nice neat .txt file. What your after is unecessary expenditure of coding time therefore I doubt anyone will do it. I dont need to know my signal strength cause once I checked it with scanchannels and confirmed it was good it all worked and has done since late 2004. Try asking the guy who write scanchannels if he plans an update
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Re: DVB-S, DVB-T Gadget

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Thank you for your suggestion. but i believe scanchannelBDA is the most stupid application i ever saw. i did not mean to flash back to windows 3.1.
How about showing some gratitude/respect to the guy that wrote the program, and released it without asking for money. It HAS helped some users. If you don't like it then learn to program yourself and create a better utility. Until then shut-up and learn some manners.

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