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Hi, I just wrote a little VB Express app that will start DVBDream remotely from a different computer, and also let you change channels, and even has a little button for previous channel. I even made a channel list that can take a CSV file(not directly from DVBDream though).

The program then launches media player classic and plays the stream. It does all this without you having to touch the machine that DVBDream is on in order to change the channels.

I was able to write this program to do exactly what I want it to, and it's not a lot of code to it, and some of the code is specific to my network. So this will NOT work out of the box on anyone else's network.

I was just posting this here, in case someone here wanted to take this code and make it useful to the rest of the people here. It wouldn't be very hard to make it so that you can enter the custom params, like the remote computer name, etc(Like I said, it's not much code, only about 60 lines of actual code)

Anyways, if anyone here is interested in taking this further, I would gladly give this code out to anyone, as long as no one will be making money off of it.

This thing is working out GREAT for me, I've got the card installed on my server, and I can watch satellite tv from any computer and anywhere in the house with my laptop.

NOTE: this is the first real program I've ever written, so some of you that regularly write code should be able to do this pretty easily.

I'm trying to make it so that I can use this program from any of my computers, and I would rather not set DBVDream to be broadcasting to all the computers all the time.

So I was wondering if there was a way to send a command to DVBDream that will let me change the IP address that it is broadcasting to.

I'm interested by your code, you can reach me at : oaklair at gmail.com

Thanks!

I've just attached the file to this post in case there are others that would like it as well.

Let me know if you have any questions about it. There are no comments in there(I know that's bad practice), but then there's not a whole lot of code there. But let me know if you don't understand how any piece of it works.

As far as changing which IP it is broadcasting to, I think I might just have to workaround that by closing dvbdream, and replace the old IP address with the new one in the config file(Which, sadly, is not plain text), and then start dvbdream. Not sure if that's the best way to do it, but it's the best I can think of. Does anyone know of a better way to do that?