Great Brian,
You've been busy with scripting. I must say these extras could be very
handy.
I maybe didn't explain well about the preset keys.
1. You found the context menu OK - I still think there are two windows which
seem to be accessed by alt and tab. One is the screen window and the other,
the control panel. As I don't see either I'm not sure wich one responds when
I use the keypresses but after alt and tab I usually get onto the right one.
This context menu (probably from the screen window) can be accessedwith the
right mouse button on the keypad. When the correct window is landed upon
this key works. It'll probably be easier to have your script.
2. The other window has some buttons on the bottom of it - these allow the
bringing up of a file menu (ctrl and O), the EPG (ctrl and E) and I think
there's another but I've forgotten as I never use it. (You can't access
these from the context menu.)
3. It sounds like you've the EPG going well. You have a list box for the
days, I just ctrl tab to the day's guide. Having labelled the days it seems
to work. However the file window (ctrl and O) will be of interest to you as
you can choose any of the files you've recorded and with the context menu
can play them in the software player, or pretty well do anything you need
with them, even send them to burn.
My only gripes are:
1. If I access the files through Windows explorer sometimes my machine
reboots - I've mentioned this to the makers but they couldn't give me any
advice (They're rebuilding the program from scratch.) Do you find this. I
could only access the files properly for copying etc from the program's own
file window (ctrl and O)
2. I don't think the mpg files are standard as they won't play in Real
Player and Media Player. To do that they need put through a program which
makes them standard (I can send it to you - I had difficulty in getting it
as the website was in Spanish.) The files do play in WinDVD and probably
PowerDVD, and I use Tmpgenc (Tsunami) DVD Author to burn them. (This program
is one of the few almost accessible DVD creation and video editing programs.
It's comprehensive, simple to use, but produces professional DVDs each time
I use this in my video business. There are just one or two things that would
benefit from scripts to make it almost perfect. It also has a sister program
which uses pretty well all the same keypresses and it converts, filters,
edits and enhances most video files from avi to mpg to divx.
If you're interested in this area, you can experiment with trials of this
program.
www.tmpg-inc.com
Also probably the most comprehensive analog tv card software I've come
across - does most cards - is chris-tv.
www.chris-tv.com
Setting up needs the jaws cursor, but after that it's so jaws friendly. It
lets me record sky very easily.
What will you be doing with the scripts Brian - will you be selling them?
The freeview stick is good already but I'm sure there's loads of blind
folks who would be glad of them.
Regards.
Gordon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hartgen" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 5:03 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Freecom DVB-T USB stick
Hi Gordon
If you remember a few days ago we were having a brief discussion on this list about the 3Com USB stick.
Well I went ahead and ordered it and it has arrived. I have a couple of questions regarding your e-mail.
I did find that using it with the portable aerial attached to the PC I want to use it with has not worked, but using it on the laptop in the bedroom connected to an outdoor aerial worked just fine. So I have an engineer coming to hopefully sort out a new aerial for me tomorrow in the right place in the house.
In terms of accessibility, I now have a keystroke to go directly to the electronic program guide, and I have through scripting created a list box from which I can select the days of the week by arrowing to any of them and pressing enter. However I have some questions.
GM There's a well stocked context menu which comes up > easily from one of the windows - most options are on it.
Alt and tab to thecorrect wwindow (there's only two) then you can use ctrl and o, ctrl and e to bring up the file list window and epg respectively.
BH What do you mean please by the "file list" window? I am not clear what this keystroke sequence you describe is meant to do. I have created a keystroke, shift F10, to activate the context menu right away. But if there is something else you are referring to, please let me know.
GM When you choose a channel from the combo box, the sound changes andyou are placed in the program list for that day. Once it's fully in, (usually a few seconds) you can use your arrow keys to go down the list of times. Unfortunately you don't hear what the program is unless you press Insert and up arrow then it reads most of the line, not just the times.
BH sorted, I can get the full details there through MSAA so that's good.
GM If you use the Jaws cursor to double click onthe time, it then brings up the scheduler with all the times in the correct place. A further press of enter and the recording is set.
BH dealt with via a script.
GM > I also found that setting up the stations by scanning was easier withBH When it worked connected to the outdoor aerial, this was fine. I just selected "start scan" by tabbing to it, and although it took a long time, all the channels were available and it started playing a radio channel right away.sighted help, but it's not impossible to do it yourself.
GM > Finally the created files play well in its own player. They also play wellin WinDVD 9(I've not tried in PowerDVD but they probably do there.) I've not however found them to work in Media Player or Real Player or Itunes. The;y look like standard mpg files. When I queried this with the makers theyput me on to a program called pvas strumento (or something like it) I can send it to you. This supposedly strips out codes to make the file more normal. However it does work well with the aforementioned programs, and I use Adobe Audition to strip the audio out of the video if I record from radio 7.BH I have noticed that sound forge can play MP2 video files. I have not tried this yet, but I am hoping that loading the file into sound forge will allow me to convert it to audio that way.
Sorry for the long message but hope you found it interesting.
Brian Hartgen
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