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 Posted: Tue, 28th Nov 2006 13:45 Post subject: XP / Vista Media Center issues, Home Theater alternatives? |
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Has anyone tried out Vista Media Center yet?
It works okay for me, minus the problem that it won't pick up all the DVB-T stations being broadcast in my area from my WinTV Nova2 card..when it does a channel search it piucks up 78 channels instead of the full 102 channels MediaPortal and PowerCinema found under XP.
This leads me to think that it's not searching the correct frequencies, however there is no such option available to me to edit the range of frequencies it searches.. it downloads the searchable range automatically from the Internet when you enter your country, but, as I said, the frequency range is wrong.
I had the same problem when using XP MCE.
Is there a way to manually edit the frequency range it searches for?
Additionally, Media Center does not work with my Hauppauge standard remote, however I'm aware that as this isn't an MCE capable remote it won't work.
At the moment I'm using the open source MediaPortal to watch TV under Vista RTM, however this software is slow and very buggy therefore I'm looking for a better alternative until i get Media Center working.. any suggestions?
Any thoughts on the above? Many thanks to all..
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Rinze
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A friend of mine didn't get the right analog frequencies in MCE, he emailed microsoft and two weeks later he got a mail back saying it was fixed, and it was. Maybe you could try that as well?
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| Posted: Tue, 28th Nov 2006 18:33 Post subject: |
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No idea about media center or vista or winTV card but I had a similar problem with xp and Pinnacle PCtv card which is a real low end card by the way. There was no way to manually tune-in to channels. I looked for updates on the manufacturer site and sure enough the new version of their software added that feature.
See if you have the ability to export the channel list. I had to reinstall my tv card in a new mobo but before that I saved the channel list and after the reinstall imported it into tuning software.
Or (this one's painful) you could try searching for a channel list in wintv folder and editing it manually.
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| Posted: Thu, 30th Nov 2006 03:04 Post subject: |
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cheers for the replies, well appreciated 
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Under XP i had to tweak the TVAutoTune values in the registry to add some analogic cable channels that did not respect frequencies standards. you may give it a try under vista.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TV System Services\TVAutoTune\TS33-1
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I tried something similar to your sugesstion, sensi, except that Im using a digital tuner which MCE handels differently to the analogue.. basically the same thing, just specifying the DVB-T frequency ranges Media Center should scan for channels on as opposed to the cable ones mentioned above.
I did this by adding a new key under ^^TV System Services called DigitalTVAutoTune following another key called "TS44-0" (it would appear Media Center uses international country codes for digital frequencies, "44" is the phone dial code for the UK) and creating a range of 6 sub keys that were the muxes of my local DVB-T transmitter.
This tip I found while surfing the web for a couple aggravating hours for a solution, listed at thegreenbutton.com..
Funnily enough it dosn't work. In fact Vista Media Center will not even scan the frequencies, it gives me an error telling me to plug my aerial in. Very strange considering MediaPortal picks up all the channels just fine.
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No idea about media center or vista or winTV card but I had a similar problem with xp and Pinnacle PCtv card which is a real low end card by the way. There was no way to manually tune-in to channels. I looked for updates on the manufacturer site and sure enough the new version of their software added that feature.
See if you have the ability to export the channel list. I had to reinstall my tv card in a new mobo but before that I saved the channel list and after the reinstall imported it into tuning software.
Or (this one's painful) you could try searching for a channel list in wintv folder and editing it manually.
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The tuning software itself is fine, as I said, MediaPortal picks up all the available channels, its just microsofts fucking primitive shit DVB tuning capabilites in MCE that replace working channels from one transmitter with others from another transmitter that dont work which is what I need to work around. All other HTPC software allows me to pick what channels I want manually, of course MCE does not allow you to do this.
I read somewhere that Media Center acts badly when the channels it picks up have a weak signal, which they do because my landlord is a fucking asshole and refuses to upgrade the 1981 aerial we have on our roof (student houses are the worst).. so that could be it.
Anyways even when restoring the registry I get the same error from Media Center, so Im thinking a reinstall of the driver would be due.
If that dosn't work I'm just gonna give up (was dumb enough not to enable System Restore.. grr  ), as the current level of support available for Vista MCE is non existant.
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