Re: TV tuner card problems

[Martin Howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Managed to get it going in the desktop, it didn't like Winamp which
was
stopping it displaying a picture.  Seemed to work fine with limited feed
from a little digital stub antenna, so at least I know the card is not
U/S.  Put it back in the Shuttle, and re-installed it, to get the same
error messages as before.  It may be a clash of some sort with the
Shuttle hardware or BIOS, but I've already wasted too much time so it
will have to wait for now.

I wonder if its possible to install it in a different machine and pipe
the picture across the network to the Shuttle?  Any ideas on this?

Martin

Jon Twyford wrote:
> Martin
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> I have got one of these cards. The only channel i can pick up is a
feed from
> my sky box into the analogue input. Digital signals are none existent
(I use
> a freeview box with the same Arial and can pick up all channels).
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> And another thing you will notice when you eventually get the card
working
> is the sound and picture will go out of sync.
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> Overall i would not recommend this card to anyone, so i would throw
the card
> out of the door to save time, if it's not too late to send it back..
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> Jon.
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Martin Howell
> Sent: 27 October 2007 17:25
> To: ukha
> Subject: [ukha_d] TV tuner card problems
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> Large amounts of hair being pulled out here. Bought a new Hauppauge
> HVR-1100 and installed it in a spare XP Pro Shuttle box intended as a
> media centre to feed the TV. Ha. Took umpteen goes before the box
> recognised the card, and having done that the supplied software
refused
> to load - endless loops of 'drivers not loaded, I'll do them again' so
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> Instead, plugged it into my bog-standard desktop. Hooray, saw the
card,
> loaded the software, and eventually got up the standard Hauppauge GUI.
> Will it find any channels, digital or analogue? Nope. Tried various
> aerials, coat hangers, wet string etc in the aerial socket, but I get
zilch.
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> I also tried Media Portal, which sees the card and scans, but also
can't
> find any channels. Both boxes are running XP Pro, I plan to use
> something like Media Portal or Xlobby eventually
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> Am I being more than usually stoopid and missing something obvious, or
> should I just open the front door and throw the card as far as I can?
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> Martin
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