TransEdit 4.2.3 Added: General: Basic support for the Chinese video format AVS (including AVS+ and AVS2) and the audio format DRA. It enables analyzing, streaming and scanning of Transponders that are using these formats, but no playback yet (see here). Please note that current DVBViewer and Media Server versions (up to 6.1.5.0 and 2.1.5.1) are not able to correctly process scan results containing AVS video and DRA audio. So better don't export them!
Added: Scanner Options: “Scan NIT, BAT and VCT for logical channel numbers” checkbox. It lets the scanner read the broadcasted NIT (Network Information Table) in case of DVB-T/C, BAT (Bouquet Association Table) in case of DVB-S or the VCT (Virtual Channel Table) in case of ATSC. The scanner displays logical channel numbers in an additional column of the Scanner Window after the scan is done. For ATSC they appear as major and minor number separated by a dot. The new column enables to sort scan results by number. If the broadcaster does not provide logical channel numbers, the LCN field remains empty. The numbers are also written to exported INI channel lists as “LCN=x” entries. Please note that additionally reading the NIT and/ or BAT may let the scan take considerably longer (due to NIT/BAT cycle times that are mostly longer than PAT, PMT and SDT cycle times). The logical channel numbers cannot be imported in the current DVBViewer version since it cannot handle them and ignores them in INI channel lists.
Added: Scanner Options: Network/Bouquet ID input line, allowing to specify a Network ID (if logical channel numbers are contained in the NIT) or Bouquet ID (if logical channel numbers are contained in the BAT), that lets the TransEdit scanner only use logical channel numbers from tables with a matching ID. The default ID 0 lets the scanner prompt for selection, if more than one kind of numbering is available (see below).
Added: Scanner Window: “Channel Numbering Selection” dialog. It can be opened by selecting the corresponding context menu item (or by pressing Ctrl + L) after a scan has found logical channel numbers. If more than one kind of numbering is available and no Network/Bouquet ID is set up on Settings → Scanner, the dialog opens automatically after a scan, prompting to select one of the numberings. For each the dialog displays the ID and the network/bouquet name. Ticking the “Remember LCN ID” checkbox before clicking OK lets TransEdit copy the selected ID to Settings → Scanner and save it, so that the “Channel Numbering Selection” dialog does not appear automatically after a scan anymore. However, it can still be opened manually, in order to view the available IDs and names, or to try an alternative numbering.
Added: Main Window: Possibility to include instructions in the transponder descriptions that tell the scanner “per transponder” where to look for logical channel numbers. The instructions precede the general “Scan NIT, BAT and VCT for logical channel numbers” setting. The following instructions can be used:
LCN- excludes the transponder from reading logical channel numbers.
LCN+ lets the scanner read logical channel numbers from this transponder, even if reading them is switched off in the general Scanner Settings. Letting the scanner only read the NIT/BAT on certain transponders may let a scan become considerably faster.
Change: M3U Import: Enhanced handling of IPTV M3U lists if additional information preceding the channel name in #EXTINF tags contains commas. Now TransEdit assumes that the channel name begins after the first comma outside of double quotes.
Change: M3U Export: Since version 4.2.1 TransEdit reads the group-title tag from M3U lists and adds the category to the transponder/URL description separated by a backslash. On saving TransEdit now sorts the list alphabetically by the Category\Channel description and converts the format back to group-title tags, so it can be read by IPTV clients.
Added: Scanner Window: Ability to export scan results as M3U channel list. The save dialog that appears after clicking “Export to File” additionally offers “Sat>IP / IPTV Channels (*.m3u)” as file type. The M3U content depends on the reception type:
Scan results belonging to the TS Stream reception type are stored with their original URL.
DVB-S/T/C scan results are stored as RTSP URLs conforming to the Sat>IP syntax. This allows to create a Sat>IP channel list for servers that don't provide such a list and use them in Sat>IP thin clients like VLC. If a RTSP Network Device is used for scanning, the IP address and port of the corresponding server are used for the RTPS URLs, otherwise (in case of DVB hardware) rtsp://127.0.0.1:554. It must be changed in a text editor to the actual server IP and port by using search/replace. The pids=... URL parameter requests video (if available), teletext (if available) and all audio tracks of the channel.
TransEdit adds category information to the M3U list, if the scan results are sorted according to the categorization, e.g. by provider if “Provider” is selected as categorization.
Added: Analyzer: The Header Info function is able to detect and display the HEVC Range Extension Profile.
Added/Fix: Analyzer: Parsing of additional DVB descriptors (e.g. S2X Satellite Delivery System Descriptor, Logical Channel Number Descriptor V2 etc.), corrected parsing of the C2 Delivery System Descriptor.
Added: Analyzer Settings: “Interface” drop-down list in the Server section. It applies to the UDP/RTP protocols and specifies the IP address of the network interface (NIC, network adapter) that shall be used for sending data to the client. “Automatic” lets Windows decide according to the target address. However, in certain cases the automatic selection may be wrong and must be set up manually, particularly if multicast and/or virtual network adapters are involved.
Added: Hardware Settings: Automatic RTSP port detection if the server is Tvheadend (that uses the non-standard port 9983 for RTSP if it can't use 554 due to missing root rights).
Fix: Hardware: Switching between the DVB-S2/T2/C reception types of the TBS 5580 USB box did not work (due to wrong information from TBS). If the handling of TBS 5520 SE / TBS 5580 / 5590 USB boxes as DVB-S2/T2/C hybrid tuners failed, the whole device initialization failed (see here). Now TransEdit falls back to normal mode where the reception type has to be selected by using an external TBS switching tool.
Fix: Hardware: Automatic DVB-T2 and sub-stream (MPLP) detection did not work with TBS devices.
Added: Hardware Options: The new “Detect Servers” button lets TransEdit search for Sat>IP (RTSP) servers in the home network and automatically insert corresponding RTSP network device entries at the top of the device list. The scan reads information provided by servers about the supported reception types (DVB-S/C/T) and the number of available tuners for each of them.
Change: Hardware Options: When a server is selected for a RTSP Network Device, TransEdit now automatically sets the tuner type to a type that is supported by the server, if the information is available. Previously it was always set to “Satellite” as default for newly added devices.
Updated: Hardware Database.