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DVB Dream - The Most Player

One of the major DVB Player on PC by Windows Operating System inside is DVB Dream (don’t know whether this player has a version on other platform such as Linux). It is a well known player amongst the enthusiasts of satellite tv world. This application is so low CPU consuming compared to the player of a kind. For example ProgDVB, MyTheater, DVB Viewer, etc. Eventhough it’s still not as light as Alt-DVB.

DVB Dream player is supported by many plugins. It is well rich found on many sites and forums supplying some very interesting plugins, even a PC with low memory and CPU can run this player smoothly. For instant, my PC has only Pentium IV 1.6 GHz with 512 MB memory inside. But, the player runs very well and never freeze like this player rival, the ProgDVB. Besides, DVB Dream comes as a freeware and you can use it as long as you want it.

My DVB Dream version is now still the low version over the latest one. It’s v.1.3c. For the latest version my PC seem unlikely to run it like it’s previous version, but in my experience using the v.1.4 my CPU usage usually get higher that makes it freeze. Though it happens rarely and still can show me the favourite tvs I want. Lately I try with some plugins i.e. shown on the picture below:

(Plugins DVB Dream v1.3c)

There are DCW, FastSatfinder, S2-Emu, vPlug, WinCSC, dan YANKSE. The rarely used amongst the plugins is FastSatfinder.

Recently the CPU usage up to 100%, it was never happen like this before. After checking some settings on the video codecs, I found that it was caused by by the video renderer I used. And it becomes normal again after resetting it.

(Setting up Video - DVB Dream)

The trouble triggered by “Video Renderer” which I used previously was “Video Mixing Renderer 9”, then I tuned to “Video Mixing Renderer” as shown on the picture above. There my PC back to normal again, the CPU Usage has lowered to the previously is and the CPU is now working faster and lighter when the player run.

High CPU usage were causing my DVB Dream slow in response, and when I tried recording some tv shows, it was kinda freezed and signal broken. But, the quality of those records wasn’t interupted. So the result should still good and fine to play. I suggest, if you want to use DVB Dream on an old PC (for example: Pentium IV 1.6 GHz like mine or lower), try resetting up the video renderer by its default.

Have a nice try!

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