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Hi All,

New Open Tuner is out. Thanks to the help from Brian (G4EWJ) Open Tuner now supports both TS channels. Its been a big rewrite, but it also supports the option to select either VLC or FFMPEG decoding and viewing. The FFMPEG option allows for h266 decoding. On a Minitiouner Pro variant with two usb ports it should work out of the box, but you can also add a 2nd channel to the BATC V2 Minitiouner. Either DIY the addon, or purchase one of the daughterboards in the Batc shop.



2nd Channel PCB on BATC shop: https://batc.org.uk/shop/minitiouner-second-channel/
More info: https://www.zr6tg.co.za/adding-2nd-tran ... iouner-v2/

Download Page for OT: https://www.zr6tg.co.za/open-tuner/

73,
Tom - ZR6TG

Morning Tom,

Not sure if its just me but when using FFMPEG instead of VLC audio on H265 is stuttering with H264 its seems fine. If I switch to VLC then audio is fine for both H264 or H265. Strangely if I use your copy of FFplay (no added cmd's) to play the UDP stream all if fine, nice audio and video ?i

My laptop is a i5 10th gen and a RTX2060 and as far as I can see OT is not using HW decode.

73 John G7JTT

Wow, what a leap in functionality! Really excellent usability and it decoded my own H266 too
I also have stuttering on received audio H266 (mine or others, an aged I7 i7-4770K @3.5Ghz) is all I have tested on so far.....
Thanks
Gareth

Hi All,

Please see new version available here: https://www.zr6tg.co.za/2023/05/03/open ... pdate-0-7e

FFMPEG improvements and some extra features

73,
Tom

https://www.zr6tg.co.za/2023/05/03/open ... /%E2%80%8B

"Oops! That page can’t be found."

Dave
G4FRE

Hi Tom,

https://www.zr6tg.co.za/files/open_tune ... 230503.zip

Your link didnt work for me hope this one does.

Thanks for update to OT.

Martin
G8KOE

Hi Tom,
Installed and working.
Like the updates!
I will keep testing today

The lefthand panel settings now saved for me thanks.

73's
Martin
G8KOE

Looks like forum doesn't like the extra slash, here is the correct link:

https://www.zr6tg.co.za/2023/05/03/open ... pdate-0-7e

Hi Tom,
External Tools excellent edition even I can use it.
I setup link to mpv-vcceasy player tuner 1 works very well on H266.
Then modified the heading saved and ended up with multiple entries in external tools.
Rebooted OT all extra entries cleared.

I missed the Disable TS/Video on Tuner 2 another useful addition.

I’ll keep looking to see what else I have missed in OT.

73s
Martin
G8KOE

Martin, if I understand correctly what you have done is make OT launch MPV by default? That is something I would like to emulate, and so, if I haven't misunderstood I'll give that a go myself later.

What I personally would like Tom to offer is the ability to option MPV to run inside OT in its main window. And make UDP out optionally sticky, I keep forgetting to reset it!

I know a lot of work has been and is being done with ffmpeg to get it running smoothly, and I am of course grateful for those endeavours, but MPV just seems to plain work properly straight "out of the box"....

Thanks for the amazing work Tom!

Chris 2E0ILY