Dvb T Freevieww Pc Stick Heeeeelp Please - Page 2

paul11974 · 02-06-2006, 20:55

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Originally Posted by homealone

I'm thinking you should install the drivers first - then plug in the stick ???

- obviously, I'm happy to be wrong, because I don't have the same kit

ok let me try that

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Originally Posted by paul11974

ok let me try that

no i just tried that and it says no dvb devices found on you computer .... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

02-06-2006, 21:12

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Originally Posted by paul11974

no i just tried that and it says no dvb devices found on you computer .... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

bum - sorry, I'm out of ideas, lets hope someone else can help??

popper · 02-06-2006, 21:29

so your 1 mile from CP transmitters, you should be set for HD WC after the coreAVC comes out.

how new to this pc upgrading stuff are you paul ?.

do you have a 'USB Digital TV Receiver' entry in your device manager 'sound,video and game controllers' or something like it at least?.

if so, right click the entry, update driver,click not at this time,next,install from a list..., next,browse,find the dir on the cd with the right drivers in it,next.

if it does not find the driver, click back and keep trying different dirs until it does.

i assuming its already got the right TV app installed so we just need to find the right driver for the card
and you should be set, i want to know what your device manager thinks is there though

paul11974 · 02-06-2006, 22:02

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Originally Posted by popper

so your 1 mile from CP transmitters, you should be set for HD WC after the coreAVC comes out.

how new to this pc upgrading stuff are you paul ?.

do you have a 'USB Digital TV Receiver' entry in your device manager 'sound,video and game controllers' or something like it at least?.

if so, right click the entry, update driver,click not at this time,next,install from a list..., next,browse,find the dir on the cd with the right drivers in it,next.

if it does not find the driver, click back and keep trying different dirs until it does.

i assuming its already got the right TV app installed so we just need to find the right driver for the card
and you should be set, i want to know what your device manager thinks is there though

no i have a analogue TV viewer on my PC at the moment hence the purchase of a plug and play digital TV stick arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh

popper · 02-06-2006, 22:16

well , i too have an analogue tv card in mine, two actully, one running with Dscaler the other wincinema, so thats not a problem for running with DVB-T as well.

im trying, but need more info as above.

paul11974 · 03-06-2006, 07:04

well i have found out that i do have windows xp media center edition 2005 and i have a radeon x300 graphics card and 512 mb of memory and have windows xp Hewlett Packard 2.9 ghz and a hauppauge win TV pvr pcI II

ok so i am guessing it is because i have mce 2005 is the reason that this wont work on my PC ?

how could i get around this ?

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this is what it says on there website

( (If your OS is MicrosoftÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ ‚Â® MCE 2005, you have to use Media Center
Edition 2005 Certificated graphics card.)

JediMaster · 03-06-2006, 08:34

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Originally Posted by paul11974

well i have found out that i do have windows xp media center edition 2005.............. and a hauppauge win TV pvr pcI II

how could i get around this ?

Just a Quick Idea...... Could you use your Existing TV Card (Hauppauge) & connect a Free View Box to that? Via the Red/Yellow/White?

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this is what it says on there website

( (If your OS is MicrosoftÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ ‚Â® MCE 2005, you have to use Media Center
Edition 2005 Certificated graphics card.)

This PC you had... Did you buy it as a MCE? or was it XP Home/Pro & you Updated to MCE?

popper · 03-06-2006, 14:20

sure he could, but it would be a wast and he would get far werse picture quality that way.

for instance you dont even need a device driver with Dscaler as the TV app, if your Analog Tv card is in its internal driver pack, and indeed id advise anyone with such a card to use Dscaler as its drivers are by far the best you can find.

the old wincinema 'winDVR3.0' is the only tv app that can capture in full 720x576 mpeg2 on an AMDxp2400+ without dropping frames, so thats another option.

but at the end of the day, the DVB-T is by far the best option as your machine does not need to be able to re-code or mess with old analog inputs as its already digital mpeg2/AVC and AC3 sound inside a .ts stream, so he really needs to follow my step by step to get that info, and perhaps fix the issue, or just forget it , i cant keep typeing help if people cant be bothered to read and answer some stuff.

it appears he's really new to this PC upgrading and over welmed with it and thats fine, but without trying, it will never fall in place and click, so over to you..................

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Originally Posted by paul11974

well i have found out that i do have windows xp media center edition 2005 and i have a radeon x300 graphics card and 512 mb of memory and have windows xp Hewlett Packard 2.9 ghz and a hauppauge win TV pvr pcI II

ok so i am guessing it is because i have mce 2005 is the reason that this wont work on my PC ?

how could i get around this ?

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this is what it says on there website

( (If your OS is MicrosoftÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…Â¡ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ ‚Â® MCE 2005, you have to use Media Center
Edition 2005 Certificated graphics card.)

nope , thats not it, as this advert says your Gfx card IS FOR MCE
http://www.ati.com/buy/promotions/mcesolutions/

its the DVB-T driver, that simple...........

paul11974 · 03-06-2006, 19:27

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Originally Posted by popper

nope , thats not it, as this advert says your Gfx card IS FOR MCE
http://www.ati.com/buy/promotions/mcesolutions/

its the DVB-T driver, that simple...........

so are you saying the drivers for my freeview usb stick are corrupt ?

popper · 03-06-2006, 19:36

nope, if you re-read above , it appears you may have installed DVB-T drivers that windows update have asked you to install rather than the driver that came on the CD and presumably will work with the USB stick.

you need to be sure you uninstalled the drivers preperly and do not let MS certifyed drivers get installed instead of these cd drivers.

if your not sure just pick the xp drivers on your cd.

paul11974 · 03-06-2006, 20:17

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Originally Posted by popper

if your not sure just pick the xp drivers on your cd.

It wont let me pick xp drivers on the cd that came with the stick

paul11974 · 04-06-2006, 08:41

grrrrr as soon as i plug the stick in i get a error i don't even get the found new hardware anymore and i get these error codes

C:\DOCUME~1\HP_ADM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERea81.dir00\e hRecvr.exe.mdmp
C:\DOCUME~1\HP_ADM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERea81.dir00\a ppcompat.txt

szAppName : ehRecvr.exe szAppVer : 5.1.2700.2180 szModName : PsisRndr.ax

Graham M · 04-06-2006, 08:49

can you see if the contents of the ppcompat.txt file is pastable here? Maybe we can get some clues from that

paul11974 · 04-06-2006, 09:29

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Originally Posted by Zeph

can you see if the contents of the ppcompat.txt file is pastable here? Maybe we can get some clues from that

i would love to how could i do that ?

Graham M · 04-06-2006, 09:33

well go into my Computer and browse to the path shown in the error and the file should be there which you can open in notepad and either attach or copy and paste here.