Re: No sound on a channel in MCE

Bloo wrote:
Hopefully someone can help me out here.

I'm having a unique issue with MCE that just popped up last week. I noticed that some of my recorded shows had white noise with playback, upon further inspection it turned out to just be one channel that was having the problem as sound came out just fine on other channels. A few days ago, I had to reformat my drive (unrelated issue). I reinstalled XP and all of my video/sound drivers, started up MCE, ran through the setup wizard and resumed use but with the channel in question, instead of white noise I get none at all. I then took the coaxal cable out of my capture card and plugged it into the back of my TV, sound came through just fine. I also noticed that I got white noise when the cable was out of the card but none once it was back in.

As for my system I'm running

Dell Dimension E310
Pentium 4 2.8GHz
1.25 GHz DDR2 SDRAM
Nvidia GeForceFX 5500 256RAM
WinTV PVR-150 Capture Card
On Board Sound with SoundMax Drivers
Nvidia PureVideo Decoder

As of right now the MPEG decoder is the only thing that's changed since I reformatted. But the problem still persists. Is it a common problem to have just one channel not pick up sound? If so, is there a way to resolve it?

Your problem is probably just a weak channel--strong enough for a TV
tuner, but too weak for a PC TV tuner. ;-(

If you can't easily eliminate a level of splitter before the PC,
try an in-line coax amplifier from Radio Shack (or other supplier)
somewhere before the PC tuner.

-michael

Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it's seriously underused."
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