Re: WMC TV setup initially finds signal, but reverts to analog
- From: "Jaime" <nospamfor-jaimelobo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:35:19 -0500
The card working with some 3rd party software (ChrisTV) has nothing to do
with whether or not it has a hardware encoder (or whether or not it should
work with MCE). However, in this case, you are correct, the 550 does have an
mpeg encoder (not a hardware decoder however). This card should work with
MCE. A couple of things to check:
You said you are using S-Video, is that from a cable or satellite box?
If cable, have you tried running the cable straight into the coax connection
on the card (and rerun setup)? Most cable companies still send all the basic
channels in analog through the coax. This would check if perhaps the signal
is weak coming out of the cable box.
What decoder is installed? A non-compliant mpeg decoder will cause similar
problems. You can download and try the nVidia one at their web site for free
for 30 days to test this.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL
"James Russell" <JamesRussell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8BF85AE6-3A82-4A59-94DA-B6CA8FA1DD15@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi all,
I have a ATI 550 Pro TV Tuner. When setting up Live TV with WMC, I go
through the setup wizard and it correctly finds the TV signal (S-Video). I
can see the picture and hear the sound in the thumbnail.
The next step is to set up the IR, where it asks if it can change channels
correctly. To help me determine if this is working right, it shows the
picture thumbnail and sound again. However at this stage, all I see and
hear
is static!
I originally posted this problem late last year, and was led to believe
that
the problem was with my card, because it does not have a MPEG2 encoder. I
quote:
"MS Media Center does not support the analog tuner or S-Video on your
tuner
it only supports the digital(ATSC) tuner. This is because the analog
tuner/driver does not have MPEG2 encoding capabilities which is normally
provided with a hardware encoding chip on the tuner. You see the stations
during the scan because MC does not use encoded analog inputs during the
scan process only during actual MC usage. "
However after further investigation, this does not appear to be the case
with the ATI 550. It *does* have a hardware MPEG2 encoder/decoder, and
these
can work with the analog inputs. I can prove this because it works fine
with
ChrisTV (a shareware program similar to WMC), which can successfully
record
from the analog inputs using the hardware encoder.
So I guess my question is, is this a bug in WMC? Is it not correctly
detecting that my ATI 550 card can use hardware MPEG2 encoding on the
analog
inputs?
.
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