Re: Special Drivers for Dual TV Tuner Cards

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From: Nigel Barker (nigel_at_hp.com)
Date: 01/23/05


Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:39:56 GMT

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:13:02 -0800, Jayjay <Jayjay@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>My Gateway PC came preloaded with WMC2005 and a single card. I bought an ATI
>TV Wonder Pro which doesn't have any special drivers for WMC but some of
>their other products do. Iinstalled the card with no problems but WMC doesn't
>detect a second signal. Both tuners have a regular cable lTV line running to
>them - I don't have satellite TV or anything that requires a box.
>
>I guess the question is whether there are special requirements for a TV
>tuner card to act as a second tuner for WMC.

Yes, it should be on this list.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/partners/dfw/partnerlisting.mspx

The ATI TV Wonder Pro is not & probably will never be supported by MCE. Basic
reason is that a requirement for the TV capture card in MCE 2005 is that it do
MPEG2 encoding in hardware.

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Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur


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