By
Philip Churchill on June 30th, 2012
DVBLogic have released version 4.5 of their DVBLink products.
Including built-in DVBLink recorder, Unicable support and a lot of usability improvements! Now you can use your DVBLink server to record content locally and watch it in networked MediCenter and DLNA clients!
v4.5 is a major milestone in DVBLink products development. What is new/changed from the previous release:
General
- Added: New product licensing engine
- Added: Default EPG source for each channel (e.g. with this feature TVSource channels will use EPG from stream automatically without manual mapping)
- Added: New channel selection control for improved speed and convenience
- Added: UI improvements for web configuration interface
- Added: Automatic sequential channel numbering
- Added: Automatic shifted channel numbering (after inserting a channel number all channel numbers above it shift up by one)
- Added: optional authorization when accessing DVBLink web configuration, web streaming interface and DVBLink Remote API
- Fixed: A number of MediaCenter growing database fixes (also some new ones not present in the previously released patches)
- Fixed: xmltv source causes stutter every hour (there are two fixes here actually: xmltv update period is 12 hours now and the priority of update thread was lowered)
DVBLink TVSource:
- Added: Unicable support (only for tuners, which support raw diseqc commands. Most of them do, but for example for DigitalDevices tuners users need to use their own Unicable configuration management)
- Added: PCTV 460e 1.0 diseqc and Unicable support
- (Re)Added: Channels tab to TVSource configuration
- Added: Channel streaming statistics (bitrate, errors, packet discontinuity) to Channels tab of TVSource configuration
- Added: "Wait for lock on tune" flag to TVSource tuner device properties (especially important for timer recordings on partially offline channels like BBC3 and BBC4)
- Added: CI module support for TBS tuners
- Added: Support for DigitalDevices CI4All module, which works with DigitalDevices as well as other brands of tuners
- Added: raw diseqc command support for Twinhan clones (Terratec S7, SkyStar HD2 etc.)
- Fixed: Updated transponder files
- Added: Prescanned channel files for Astra 19 and HotBird 13 with automatic channel selection for Austrian, German and Swiss channel presets
- Fixed: Long load time for PCTV nanoStick T2 290e
- Fixed: EIT scanner consumes a lot of memory to keep collected EPG data
- Fixed: "PAT scanning times out message" when scanned transponder id does not match the actual
- Fixed: no signal on TBS5980 when going from qpsk to 8psk transponder
- Fixed: no signal on DVB-S2/QPSK transponders for Twinhan clones
DVBLink Connect! Server
- Added: built-in dvblink recorder (please read more about it in notes below)
- Fixed: DLNA server hang-up on start
- Fixed: DLNA server compatibility with XBMC Eden (and some other DLNA clients)
- Fixed: Network MediaCenter client uses TCP streaming by default (instead of UDP)
- Fixed: Improved sound quality for Android and IPhone streaming
Additional notes, installation instructions and more info on the DVBLink built-in recorder can be found here.
