Re: No live TV - help please!

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Hi JW.

No, I have only just downloaded it a couple of days ago, which begs the
question which decoder I would've been using before that, I guess.

David

"JW" wrote:

Everything sounds normal.
Did you by any chance get the Free 30 day trial of the NVIDIA Decoder over
30 days ago without purchasing a copy since? It just will not run in this
case and does not give any message as to why.

"David Allen" <DavidAllen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi JW. I do really appreciate your perseverence with me.

By "tuner" is this the TV capture card? If so, it is a Hauppauge
HVR-1100 -
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_hvr1100mce.html

I didn't need to do anything to make this work previously. Having bought
the system out of the box, all I did was connect the co-ax cable to the
socket on the back of the PC, open Windows MCE and go to Live TV. Hey
presto! I had TV pictures; all the UK Freeview channels. I guess this
means
something somewhere is digital rather than analogue!

I ran that application and I have 10 MPEG-2 decoders. The first line is
NVIDIAVideo Decoder nvviddec.ax whcih is shown as the default and has
ticks
for both MCE Compatible and MP10 compatible. After that we have Sonic
Cinemaster DS Video, Main Concept (Nikon), CyberLink Video, Inter Video
NonCSS, Main Concept (Hauppauge) then 4 Roxio ones, which I guess came
with
Easy Media Centre. Only 3 of the 10 show as MCE Compatible but I only
have
the first one as "Preferred" (plus I don't think any of the others are new
since my problems started!).

Does that help?

David

"JW" wrote:

I do not uncerstand exactly which tuners you had working with which
software
before you installed PaintShopPro.
However, if paint shop pro installed any of its one video decoding
software
it may also have changed the default DVD Decoder on your system.

Use the following utility to validate your current MCE Decoder status:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=DE1491AC-0AB6-4990-943D-627E6ADE9FCB&displaylang=en


"David Allen" <DavidAllen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi JW,

Thanks for that. Any ideas how it worked fine before my foolishness
with
Paint Shop Pro? I watched all the World Cup on it and everything, and
I
haven't changed any of the hardware since. Is it some setting in MCE?

Thanks.

David

"JW" wrote:

WinTV2K and MCE handle analog TV differently from each other and yes
WinTV2k
will work just fine just fine running analog TV. You just can not run
Analog
TV in MCE with your card since MCE requires that analog TV be MPEG2
compressed and encoded(normally throuhg the use of a hardware analog
encoder
chip on the card) when received by MCE compatible drivers and your
card
and
drivers do not have this functionality.
DVB-T works since DVB-T signals are already MPEG2 encoded when
transmitted.

"David Allen" <DavidAllen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi JW.

I've just tried (never watched DVDs through MCE before, always used
Media
Player!). That worked just fine, although when I stopped the disk,
I
had
the
error "Some of the files needed to play radio or video are missing
or
corrupt. Media Center component registration may have failed".

The TV card I am using is a Hauppauge HVR-1100, which shipped with
the
machine and MCE. It worked fine up until I created the problems, so
there
should be no hardware problems.

The TV picture comes into the Hauppauge card via co-ax cable and
comes
straight from the aerial (not via set top box etc). Previously I
had
all
the
DVB channels, and I can still see them using Win2000, just not MCE.

Any thoughts?

Thanks very much for the pointers so far...

David

"JW" wrote:

Can you play a DVD using Media Center? If yes then the problems
most
likely
is not with either the decoder or with graphics card and driver.

Your problem is probalby that your are trying to receove analog TV
and
only
the DVB-T tuner on you card is supported by MCE. MCE does not
support
any
hybrid cards.

"David Allen" <DavidAllen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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Hi JW,

I downloaded the MCE drivers from
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/support/support_new_mce.html
which
got
me
version 3.1E. I ran the HCWClear utility before installing the
new
drivers.

I seem to get a picture of sorts in WinTV32 but not via MCE.

I've run the Windows XP Video Decoder Chekup Utility if that
helps?

Thanks for your help.

David

"JW" wrote:

Did you get qje install the lateset MCE drivers for your
Hauppauge
card
or
latest regular Windows drivers from the Hauppauge Website'?

"David Allen" <DavidAllen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi Cari,

Thanks for the post.

I can't believe how dumb I am sometimes! Paint Shop Pro X
wouldn't
install
and the Corel website said I had to delete my video drivers
and
install
new
ones. I went to Control Panel and nVidia Drivers and was
presented
with 3
radar buttons. I should have ticked the last one ("remove
only
the
following") and selected just "nVidia Display Driver".
However,
I
must
have
deleted the lot, i.e. also Driver Components/ IDE Driver/ PCI
System
Management Driver.

Any suggestions as to what to do next?

David

"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

Looks like somehow you uninstalled your DVD decoding
software.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"David Allen" <DavidAllen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi all,

Bit of a newbie here but I have had a search through the
forum
and
can't
find the answer anywhere...

Got a new Acer Aspire E360 which shipped with Hauppauge
WinTV
HVR-1100
94500
Rev C340 capture card and Windows Media Center Edition. All
worked
fine
until
I stuck my oar in.

Tried to instal upgrade to Paint Shop Pro and deleted loads
of
important
stuff in the process (had to delete graphics card drivers
but
I
seem
to
have
deleted everything related to nVidia display); in trying to
go
back
I
broke
Windows. XP is now back and running and most of MCE looks
fine,
but
when I
try to watch live TV I get error messages like "Some of the
files
needed
to
play radio or video are missing or corrupt. Media Center
component
registration may have failed." and "A critical Media Center
process
has
unexpectedly failed. If problems persist, please restart
your
machine
and
try
again, or contact technical support. Code: 3"

I tried running HCWClear and reinstalling drivers but this
hasn't
worked
and
MCE still isn't functioning for live TV.

Any suggestions as to what I do next would be great.
Unfortunately
my
PC
didn't ship with the software so I'm not sure where else to
go!

Thanks for listening!


















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