Channel Surf
The Channel Surf feature uses the VLC browser plugins which are included in the VLC installer; during installation tick "Mozilla plugin" for Firefox (and most other browsers) and "ActiveX plugin" for Internet Explorer. Note that Channel Surf was tested with VLC 2.1.3.

During surfing if the message field displays "Showing [channel name]" this means the DV Scheduler server has started streaming. It will then take a moment for VLC to display the stream.

If there are multiple capture devices available, DV Scheduler may keep several devices running idle to reduce channel change time. The device use policy is Balanced: a device will only be started if necessary, however devices started or already running will not be stopped until there is no more active Channel Surf session (from any client).

For faster channel change go to "Channel Settings" and change each channel to use "Custom PIDs" instead of "Program ID"; if the Custom PIDs fields are currently blank then do a re-scan to fill in the field.
Note however, some channels may change their PIDs; these changes will not be automatically detected when using "Custom PIDs".

The default remote file play uses HTTP (change in System Config). However the VLC plugin (as of version 2.1.3) doesn't support username/password authentication, so in System Config, "Allow unsecure download" needs to be set to "Yes". This only affects download of files in the Capture paths.

If files from the server is accessible to remote clients then specify the "Network path" for the actual capture directory in the server to be able to play the captured recordings remotely. If you choose "Network path" as the Default remote surf command in System Config, stream will be written to disk in the server for time-shifting. Input the server e.g. "\\192.168.0.5\TV\" or the network drive e.g. "U:\TV\" for a mapped network drive (without the quotes).

Keyboard shortcuts:
<Previous channel
>Next channel
PPlay/Pause
QStop
RRecord
TRecord from start of time-shift
SStop recording
MAudio mute
-Volume down
+Volume up
FFull screen
VRefresh list
CClear message box

While in full screen the keyboard shortcuts for VLC applies.

Common VLC default keyboard shortcuts:
[Space]Play/Pause
BCycle audio track
VCycle subtitle track