Getting 3rd party software to work with Freecom DVB-T USB Stick

carlosvr6 · 12 Jan 2006 at 11:00

conuk said:
Anyways gonna try a new aerial tomorrow - proper wideband one and see what happens...

Any update on this mate?

Vegetarian · 12 Jan 2006 at 12:24

I find my freecom quiet sensitive - can pick up most channels with freebe ariel.

carlosvr6 · 12 Jan 2006 at 16:03

I'm just trying to work out if this stick is faulty too like my first one

conuk · 13 Jan 2006 at 22:18

not had a chance yet - went to Argos for the aerial - proper house one.. so it this dont work... sending it back... surely if a digibox picks stuff up then the stick should... I know its working because of the 5 channels I had before... hopefully this will sort it .. will let you know on sunday....
By the way - when it was working the picture and sound were superb - and the recording was excellent... will be a very cool tool when working

carlosvr6 · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:19

conuk said:
not had a chance yet - went to Argos for the aerial - proper house one.. so it this dont work... sending it back... surely if a digibox picks stuff up then the stick should... I know its working because of the 5 channels I had before... hopefully this will sort it .. will let you know on sunday....
By the way - when it was working the picture and sound were superb - and the recording was excellent... will be a very cool tool when working

Any progress with this mate?

I've tried mine now with an aerial booster etc but can only pick up 12-13 channels as before, freeview box still picking up all.

Think i'm gonna have to return this one aswell.

conuk · 24 Jan 2006 at 16:08

hi carlosvr6

Just got round to actually trying this - quick installation of the £20 aerial - no booster or anything.... plugged in ---- Got the drivers from Freecom as well - not the ones on the disk - got

18 Tv channels
19-37 radio channels

and all works cool - great picture and sound. Records very well as well.... So am happy at last.

Now to run the 10 metres of cable neatly to the aerial

PinkFloyd · 7 Feb 2006 at 16:57

THe drivers on the site appear to be the same ones to the ones I have installed from the disk. and if I try the software from the freecome site, or the software from the YAKUMO link I get asked for a cd key..... and the one I have got with the install cd is different. so how can i use that software from the site?

conuk · 26 Feb 2006 at 16:26

conuk said:
hi carlosvr6

Just got round to actually trying this - quick installation of the £20 aerial - no booster or anything.... plugged in ---- Got the drivers from Freecom as well - not the ones on the disk - got

18 Tv channels
19-37 radio channels

and all works cool - great picture and sound. Records very well as well.... So am happy at last.

Now to run the 10 metres of cable neatly to the aerial

can never get itv 1 or channel 4 + some others tho... these freeview boxes and freecom gadegets are a bloody nuisance! - way too fiddly it seems for most people to get all the channels... maybe its just crap signals from the transmitters ?

richard2003 · 8 Mar 2006 at 19:26

I have used an indoor amplified aerial with the freecom dvb-t stick and I get full signal quality and power. I also managed to get all the UK freeview channels. But without the BDA drivers, it is a pain to get it to work with 3rd party software such as MediaPortal (which you have to alter XML files to even get the software to recognise the freecom stick). The use of the Yakumo drivers with MediaPortal doesn't seem to help - I can scan in the channels with full signal but I can't get a TV picture.

conuk · 8 Mar 2006 at 19:45

richard2003 said:
I have used an indoor amplified aerial with the freecom dvb-t stick and I get full signal quality and power. I also managed to get all the UK freeview channels. But without the BDA drivers, it is a pain to get it to work with 3rd party software such as MediaPortal (which you have to alter XML files to even get the software to recognise the freecom stick). The use of the Yakumo drivers with MediaPortal doesn't seem to help - I can scan in the channels with full signal but I can't get a TV picture.

BDA drivers ? these better than the ones on disk / freecom website ?

and a link matey ?

richard2003 · 12 Mar 2006 at 13:02

Yes, they are better as the make use of video acceleration reducing the load on the CPU so the picturer is sharper. The freecom drivers on the CD have 100% CPU utilisation and make no use of video acceleration. The lack of BDA drivers also means you can't use 3rd party software like Cyberlink Powercinema to watch TV.