TVChannelChanger

[ksenter]

Hi,

I wanted to use the TVChannelChanger, but it wouldn't install in Windows 7 x64.

I saw that the asp and dll files were in there so I setup the web application myself.

It runs, but it says "TV Tuner not found". So I tried creating the unreal.tvchanger object in vbscript so I could see the error and it says "ActiveX component can't create object: 'Unreal.TVChanger'.

So I ran dependency walker on the UTVChanger.dll file, and found there were some dependencies missing, I copied the relevant files to the same directory as the dll but now dependency walker complains that "Modules with different CPU types were found". From what I can tell this is because the gpsvc.dll included with windows 7 x64 is 64 bit only, there isn't an x86 dll.

Googling the error says to recompile the project as x64. If I had the source code I'd try this. But I really might be barking up the wrong tree, I'm not sure.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[ksenter]

I forgot to give the original error when trying to install the package.

"The specified path 'http://blahblah/TVChannelChanger' is unavailable. The Internet Information Server might not be running or the path exists and is redirected to another machine. Please check the status of this virtual directory in the Internet Services Manager."

Of course IIS is running, and the path didn't exist when I tried the installer. I ran it again after manually adding the path, but that didn't work either.

This was all tried before the other steps I mentioned.

Thanks.

[ksenter]

Well, I'm still interested if anybody has any input on this. But I've decided to just write my own. I found some code examples of how to use the directshow stuff to change channels, and I got a demo working with a winform gui. So I just need to change it to a webform. Or actually I was thinking I'll make it a webservice and write an android app to consume it so I can use my phone to change channels without having to load a browser. Anyway, thanks for making Unreal. I think it's going to fit my needs nicely once I get this channel changer written.

[ksenter]

In case anyone is interested, I figured I'd post an update. I wrote a simple web service to change channels, and for now I just wrote a simple web app to make use of the web service, but I still plan to eventually write an android app. At the moment though I'm distracted trying to figure out why the live streaming fails after a while. It works for an indeterminate amount of time, then it stops and the only way I can get it working again is to reboot. Restarting the Unreal services doesn't fix it, only rebooting seems to. I noticed it happening before I wrote my channel changer, so I don't think it's related to that. Anyway, I'll probably be tinkering with that for a while. But if anyone else is having problems getting the channel changer to work and they want the code I wrote, just post a reply here and (assuming the notification option on the forum works) I'll post the code in whatever state it happens to be at that time. At the moment, I'd rather not post it, as is, because I haven't done a whole lot of testing and cleaning up of the code. But if someone wants it I will...