Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe/Bungee Console

Last update : 17-06-2005

This is only a small GUI (Graphical User Interface) to make it easier the use of PCTV Deluxe/Bungee Tools by Rainer Keuchel.
There are 2 versions of the Interface: the first one is written in C using Gtk-2 libraries, and the second one in Tcl/Tk :)
Tcl/Tk interface has been obsoleted by the Gtk-2 one, and is no longer developed.

News:

17-06-2005
1. Released Version 1.4 ! ^_^
2. Fixed major bugs, segfaults, etc.
3. Code has been cleaned.
4. It is no longer necessary to have both xine and mplayer installed (just one is required).
5. Improved mplayer and xine management (video/audio options, deinterlace methods, etc).
6. Gentoo ebuilds have been prepared for easy installation on Gentoo systems (see ' Download' section).
7. Small improvements here and there
8. Updated 'To Do' list (see below..)
10-01-2004
1. Released Version 1.3 ! :)
2. Re-organized config-file (lost compatibility with previous versions)
3. Moved 'Modify Channels' submenu to 'Functions' menu
4. Added 'Load Channel File' and 'Import Channel File' to 'Functions' menu
5. Enabled 'Movies Directory' submenu
6. Added support for new dunetools with new firmware files (and new formats)
  (see http://www.paranoyaxc.de/dune/dirlist.html)
  (Bungee Interface is also ready for further enhancements of this kind! ;))
7. Fixed lots of bugs / segfaults
8. Small improvements here and there
9. Updated 'To Do' list (see below..)
25-12-2003
1. Released Version 1.2 ! :)
2. Re-organized config-file (lost compatibility with previous versions)
3. Nicer interface graphics
4. Added menues support
5. Added 'Preferences' menu with 'Channels Options' and 'Modify Channels' submenues
6. Added 'Functions' menu with 'Quit' submenu
7. Added 'Help' menu with 'About' submenu
8. Added channel-scan functions
9. Added channels-management functions
10. Added channel-file management functions
11. Fixed lots of bugs / segfaults
12. Re-written large part of the code (it was really ugly! :))
13. Small improvements here and there
14. Updated 'To Do' list (see below..)
12-12-2003
1. Created 'Links' Section (added project to http://www.linuxlinks.com/)
2. Working to channel-scan system..
27-11-2003
1. Gtk-2 PCTV Deluxe Console: version 1.1
2. Gtk-2 Bungee Console: version 1.1
3. Activated project on http://www.freshmeat.net
26-11-2003
1. Site / Download moved to SourceForge.net (see below for Download Section..)
25-11-2003
1. First Gtk-2 release of the Interface. Needs testing: feedbacks/bug-reports are wellcome! Give me a few days for the Bungee version. :)
2. No longer supporting Tcl/Tk Interface (obsoleted by Gtk-2 version..)
19-11-2003
1. First release of Bungee Interface. Note that I don 't have a Bungee card so I can not test this interface very much, so please feel free to send bug-reports!
2. Interface version 0.9 (for both PCTV Deluxe and Bungee cards)
3. Strongly working on Gtk-2 Interface (please, be patient! ;))

Requirements:

PCTV Deluxe Tools installed and working --> http://www.paranoyaxc.de/dune/dune.html , OR
Bungee Tools installed and working --> http://www.paranoyaxc.de/bungee/bungee.html
Tcl/Tk Scripting language installed and working (usually every Linux distribution includes that.. Try 'wish' to check your installation) --> http://www.tcl.tk/ , OR
Gtk-2 libraries installed and working (usually every recent Linux distribution includes that, GNOME is built on these libs..) --> http://www.gtk.org/
MPlayer installed and working --> http://mplayer.hq.hu/ , OR
Xine installed and working (xinelib AND xine-ui!) --> http://xinehq.de/

Notes:

This interface is still incomplete, it does not implement all of the features supported by PCTV Deluxe Tools for now, so please be patient! :)
Tcl/Tk is a scripting language, so you can simply edit the .tcl file and change some parameters to meet your needs (for example, under '### User settings' you find the voice 'set rec_dir "~"': it means that recorded movies will be stored in your home (~): to change that dir to "/movies", just modify the line in 'set rec_dir "/movies"', that 's it..)
To build the channel list the interface needs to find the file "/usr/local/lib/dune/channels.txt", needed also by dunerec to work, so be sure to use the command 'dunerec -S ...' to create it before using the interface (see Tools documentation to learn more about it..)
For now, I suggest the use of 'Xine' as video player to watch TV, because of its buffering system: it seems to handle dunerec output better than MPlayer..
To let non-root users watch TV / record, it 's necessary for now to set duneinit and dunerec SUID: to do so, use the following command (you need to be root): 'chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/duneinit /usr/local/bin/dunerec'

Screenshots:

If all has been installed properly, you should see something similar to the following:

Tcl/Tk version --> pctv_tk_snapshot.gif
Gtk-2 version --> pctv_gtk_snapshot.jpg, pctv_gtk_1.4.png

Download:

All Versions can be downloaded here, thanks to SourceForge.net
Gentoo ebuild for PCTV Deluxe: pctv_gtk-1.4.ebuild
Gentoo ebuild for Bungee: bungee_gtk-1.4.ebuild
How to use ebuilds: ebuilds_help.txt

Feedbacks:

Any comment/offense/other to boja@libero.it or boja@avatarcorp.org
Or, if you prefere, you can find me on IRCNet as ^Boja^

To Do:

Improve 'Modify Channels' Layout
Scheduled recording system
Selectable recording format (mpeg, avi, divx, ...)
Conversion system (using ffmpeg, mencoder, ...)
Use dunelib instead of duneinit / dunerec
Gnome-2 menues integration?
Your requests? :)

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