ProgDVB allows you to watch Digital Television and listen to Radio channels directly from satellite by using DVB cards with hardware decoders on the board, SAT-dish and personal x86-compatible computers with MicrosoftR Windows98, 2000, XP Operating Systems properly installed.
ProgDVB has options for working with network broadcasting and Audio/Video recording of the stream to different digital-media formats.
At the present moment work on the following cards is possible :
- Aver DVB-S
- BroadLogic 2030/1030
- GeniaTech DigiStar DVB-S PCI
- Kworld DVB-S 100 compatible (Vstream, Dynavision..... )
- ADS Tech - Instant TV DVB-S (Part Number: PTV-341)
- LifeView FlyDVB
- Netcast DVB
- Pinnacle PCTV Sat (driver >=260)
- Nexus,Premium (SkyStar1) (the driver 2.x from TechnoTrend)
- Technisat Sky Star 2 and Sky Star 3 USB or PCI
- Telemann Skymedia 300 DVB (not official)
- TwinHan compatible (VisionDTV,Power Color,Chaintech,...)
- WinTV NOVA (Budget) USB or PCI
- St@rKey usb box
- Cards with BDA driver (With some cards problems are possible)
- Besides work in absence of a card is possible, for example for viewing video of files or as the broadcast client.
Changes in ProgDVB 5.x and ProgDVB 4.x :
- 5.14 Remake video renders part of Engine. ProgDVB render disabled, but in VMR7/VMR9/EVR OSD should work on all types of channels.
- 5.13.9 Viewer of xmltv files(File->Open->...) and automatic XmlTV import from http link or file.
- 5.13.9 Support EVR (Enhanced video renderer).
- 5.13.8 XmlTV import/export and some important improvements in ProgDVB Engine.
- 5.13.8 Support of KNC and Satelco cards.
- 5.13.7 Simple parent control function.
- 5.13.7 Update module for Tongshi products.
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