yep, it was there. It was a run of the mill GPF with des.dll as the culprit. I rebooted a couple of times and deleted-reinstalled the latest skystar driver and CoreAVC and it started working again. Dunno what fixed it exactly but I've tv again now.

Same problem, running with no UAC. It suddenly stopped working. I suspect the latest windows updates.

Using vista, ever since I did the last windows updates, I can't start dvbdream anymore, it crashes instantly with des.dll error.

Tried reinstalling in different dir, no plugins etc. Can't get version 1.4d e or f to start.

Good point indeed. The only downside being the EPG. MCE's EPG (for bell expressvu at least) disapoints in that in won't load a lot of the channels. The EPG solutions for DVB get that info. Also, I seem to recall an app (DVBportal) that did integrate into MCE, but then the channel changing was an iss...

I think that fundamentally, the reason people like MCE is the interface. It would probably be simpler to provide a smooth looking GUI over DVBdream rather than interface it with MCE. In fact, the quality of DVBdream has gotten so high, that all it lacks for HTPC is good remote support (i know there ...

I would also love to see support for MCE remotes. Simply because almost all the people I install DVBdream to have an MCE PC and thus, all have an MCE compliant remote. Perhaps a hotkey system much like the one in Media Player Classic? In the latter, you can bind signals like MEDIA_PLAY MEDIA_PAUSE e...