Windows Media Center Help.

[BoomAM]

Hi.
We just bought a PC here at work with the sole purpose of recording TV.
Several problems though:
1) Even though the tuner in it is a dual tuner, thats fancyier, it cant see half the channels the old, decrepid system could that did the same job?
2) When setting up the TV, it asks for location, then trys to download, then scans for channels, then downloads the EPG. Both of the download bits of that fail to work. They just work away for hours and hours with no progress before timing out. .
3) I was planning on having all the recorded data goto a NAS box on our network. But selected a mapped drive as a recorder storage area isnt possible by the looks of it. Anyway to 'fix' that.

And with the software that came with it:
Still cant see all the channels, the remote doesnt work and its very resource heavy for what its doing.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance all. .

 

[Bomag]

What tuner?
What type of ariel?
What software?

 

[dave-lew99]

Hardware specs of the whole machine (make and model if not a diy build)

 

[BoomAM]

What tuner?

Pinnacle Hybrid Dual TV PCI-E

What type of ariel?

2x Roof Mounted aerials.

What software?

The software that came with the card, and more importently, WMC Vista32. (happened with Vista64 as well).

Hardware specs of the whole machine

Intel C2D 2.2Ghz (cant remember exact model).
2Gb ram
80Gb HDD.
Asus Mobo w/ Intel G33 gfx.
Other parts are inconsequential (case, fans, etc; ).

 

[Bomag]

That pinnacle has two aerial sockets which probably means the the tuners are fairly low quality, most other dual cards can split the signal internally without causing enough noise to stop it picking up a signal.

Is the aerial a digital one and which transmitter is it pointed at? If you are missing the highly compressed channels (MUX 2 and MUX A) ITV/five the you need an optimised aerial or point it at a stronger transmitter.

The last time I used pinnacle software it was a dog, also the drivers weren't much good.

With MCE you should identify the type of tuner, then the transmitter/regional EPG and then do a channel scan. Which part of this is not working?

 

[BoomAM]

That pinnacle has two aerial sockets which probably means the the tuners are fairly low quality, most other dual cards can split the signal internally without causing enough noise to stop it picking up a signal.

Is the aerial a digital one and which transmitter is it pointed at? If you are missing the highly compressed channels (MUX 2 and MUX A) ITV/five the you need an optimised aerial or point it at a stronger transmitter.

I find multiple scans with 2 aerials plugged in gives me about 30 channels.
Multi-scans with 1 of the aerials gives me 51, and the other, 61! .

With MCE you should identify the type of tuner, then the transmitter/regional EPG and then do a channel scan. Which part of this is not working?

I dont know what you mean by 'identify the tuner' but it asks me how many i want to setup, giving me 1 & 2 as options, i select two.
First it asks for region, uk. Then trys to download, and it fails. Then it asks if i want to do EPG, yes, trys to download, fails, then does channel scan.

 

[BoomAM]

Dont know what ive done, but ive managed to get it to go through all that.
Just cant get it to record to a NAS.
Ive done the reg hack on it, and still no luck. .