compro dvb-t 300

Combat squirrel · 31 Jan 2006 at 10:52

does anyone actually have this card working under mce ? its ment to ,but iv never heard anyone actually getting it working

Combat squirrel · 31 Jan 2006 at 16:30

no1 owns this card then ?! :S

Combat squirrel · 31 Jan 2006 at 20:39

ah cool , whats the EXACT driver and software your using sir ? iv not got it working yet, doh ! (tried like hundereds of drivers! :S )

Combat squirrel · 31 Jan 2006 at 23:15

lol oooh dear, u ever tried using a compro ? one on the disk doesnt work at all, about 7 driver updates later it works-half so in compros player, but in mce no way, so was wondering how vegeta got it work, what drivers u usin kind person ?

Combat squirrel · 1 Feb 2006 at 11:45

Hi everyone, thanks for replys will give it a go, yeah iv tried lots and lots of drivers, not the above ones -recently- will do a clean install of mce and see how i go, iv got a happauge nova-t card in my other mce box and that works flawlessly, just plug it in, run drivers, mce works. Will give it a go and get back to you

Combat squirrel · 2 Feb 2006 at 20:00

right im GETTING NO WHERE WITH THIS CARD, on this system:

1.8ghz celeron
512meg ram
nvidia 4000mx card
dell intel s 478 board

In this order i installed:

Nvidia drivers
updated xp mce with all updates etc
Power dvd 6 deluxe
compro 1.3.3.0 drivers
2706 compro tv software

When i run 'search for digital channels' it wont work, any input as to what im doin wrong ? the above works with the nova-t card no problems, apart from nova-t drivers and tv software of course

Combat squirrel · 2 Feb 2006 at 20:17

oh just to say i no longer have my origonal driver cd that came with the card, i lost it, but im still assuming i can get the card to work with just the driver and the compro dtv software and a dvd player program software like power dvd?

Combat squirrel · 2 Feb 2006 at 20:50

hi vegeta tried it on my powerful pc and the same result, nothing, it really doesnt wanna work

. It worked for liek a week then decided it didnt want to. The analog works fine, I can get the 4 channels on analoge I can pick up in my area (we dont get 5)

Is it something to do with the mpeg2 file format in photoexplore 8 as to why its not working ? I dont have the cd that came with it so i can not install it anymore, Id think id only need drivers and compro dtv and a dvd player software program yes ?

Combat squirrel · 2 Feb 2006 at 21:08

it HAS to be something to do with the epg/mpeg2 layer type thing the bit between driver and mpeg files hasnt it ? im so lost now as to why its not working, there really is not reason why it shouldnt be, there is also FFDshow sse2 on the system, will this stop it workin ?

Combat squirrel · 3 Feb 2006 at 01:02

been at it all nite, all diff drivers/codecs , nothing

please people, compro hasnt emailed me back yet and i dont know what 2 do

Combat squirrel · 3 Feb 2006 at 01:16

its already on a clean install done tonight......its actually above the required spec to be honest, min 600mhz, recommend 1.7ghz, i know its only 1.8ghz, but nothing else is running on it.........i swear its something to do with the decoding of the mpeg file, i can sniff it,lol

Combat squirrel · 3 Feb 2006 at 12:15

hmmmmmmmmm thought it needed that program for some strange reason, I dont have it now as I dont have the cd, its strange though vegeta as to why yours works and u dont have Ulead PhotoExplore 8.0 SE installed? or do u ?

Combat squirrel · 3 Feb 2006 at 12:32

It doesnt pick any channels up at all is whats happening, and i know the signal is fine, so thats not the problem. My daewoo box gives 5 multiplexes as 97% and one at 92% (as you can imagine its pretty much as close to perfect as you can get) all other digi boxes in the house pick up everything also my other htpc with a happauge nova-t in picks up all channels.

The 1.3.3.0 driver is an improvment over the older ones, as with older drivers MCE said there was not a tv card installed !

Iv not played with this card in a couple of months, I got it working for about 1 week in compro's software (about a month after a bought it) on my úber pc, I cannot remember the driver version, or software version, or what order I installed driver/compro/Ulead PhotoExplore 8.0 SE.

The reason I want it working now is that I have scrapped enough bits together for a HTPC in my front room. I however dont want to spend another £50 on getting a nova-t card (although I KNOW this will work 1st time no problems)

So in theory I should ONLY need to install the driver is what your saying phil99 ? Windows MCE 2005 SP2 scans for the channels but doesnt pick any up (it does take a while), compros 2706 software also picks up nothing (also taking a while).

This is what happened before and I did something, although I have no idea what it was and got it working (only in compros software though)

Also why does it take so long ? the Nova-t card is some 75% faster at scanning for channels and also picks them up.

EDIT: also more keen to get working as ATI have released a new remote wonder driver that now makes the remote wonder 1 work properly and now (thankgod) stable in mce

Combat squirrel · 3 Feb 2006 at 12:42

hi again, looking at this below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tuning Spaces\7\Default Locator
“Bandwidth”=dword:00000007

whats the UK's one ? i think 00000007 is aussi isnt it ?

Combat squirrel · 3 Feb 2006 at 14:36

just reinstalled everything, tried it with only the driver, still finds no channels :S, the yellow light on the card is always on, this something to do with it ? should it change green when it works properly ?

Combat squirrel · 3 Feb 2006 at 16:24

Hi all if anyone reads this can i have some help getting a Philips Universal SAA7134 driver ? if I got another companys driver that uses this chipset (is the one used on my compro card) how would i modify the ini to get windows to use the different driver?

Combat squirrel · 3 Feb 2006 at 21:19

anyone with n e more ideas? im all out

it wont work

Combat squirrel · 4 Feb 2006 at 01:01

yeah the light on the card is yellow, something wrong there?

Also obviously im starting to think - is it faulty ? i -dont- think so from my many years of experience with computers, i just think its very badly designed.

I CAN pick up analoge TV just NOT digital, would this make the card faulty ?

Im intruiged now by the yellow light and as to why its always on, thinking about it i -think- i do remember seeing the light turn green when it worked, hmmmmmmmmmm

Combat squirrel · 4 Feb 2006 at 14:50

hi vegeta, iv just looked again on the card there are 3 leds, there is a green one lit up nearest the pci slot behind the silver tuner box, and one yellow lit up on the opposite edge (and therefore easiest to see when you open the case) is this yellow on yours?

iv also just installed windows media encoder 9 and reinstalled drivers to see how i get on now :S

Combat squirrel · 4 Feb 2006 at 15:01

any ideas on how to force something to use 1 irq? i just found the compro tv card is sharing the same irq as 'intel usb controller' which is irq 16