Mako
02-16-03, 10:16 PM
After an unsuccessful try at getting WindowsXP Media Center Edition working on my home built system with my Hauppauge PVR 350, I started over and it worked.
My first time just did not work. The packaged application, WinTV 2000 worked with it just fine. It even would simultaneously output a full screen video stream ot the Video Out and to my TV. I liked that. But the WindowsXP MCE tuner would either freeze my system or give me an error message when trying to view TV.
After putzing around with many drivers and trying to uninstall and reinstall various versions of drivers and applications, not only would MCE still not load a TV image, but the packaged WinTV 2000 would not display any video either. It was wierd, because the Channel tuner would auto scan and detect the channels and even tell me when they were stereo or mono audio streams, but it simply would not display video.
I started over with a fresh install of the 5-in-1 disk and followed the instructions with the PVR250 file pack exactly. WinTV 2000 worked again. I had some updated drivers from Hauppauge that I then installed. It still worked. For grins, I tried Media Center Edition and tried to open the TV viewer. To my astonishment, it ran! I had TV.
Here in lies the problem though. The TV video quality with MCE is much worse than with WinTV 2000. This means that the card is not the problem. It is whatever MCE is using to display the video. My guess is that it is simply using a different method than the WinTV 2000 application. Perhaps WinTV 2000 is using the hardware directly while MCE is trying to use a DirectDraw codec or something. I am just guessing here. I really have no idea.
I am hoping someone out there might have the answer. I would also like to get the video out working again. I have no idea why that would stop.
Questions - Comments?
My first time just did not work. The packaged application, WinTV 2000 worked with it just fine. It even would simultaneously output a full screen video stream ot the Video Out and to my TV. I liked that. But the WindowsXP MCE tuner would either freeze my system or give me an error message when trying to view TV.
After putzing around with many drivers and trying to uninstall and reinstall various versions of drivers and applications, not only would MCE still not load a TV image, but the packaged WinTV 2000 would not display any video either. It was wierd, because the Channel tuner would auto scan and detect the channels and even tell me when they were stereo or mono audio streams, but it simply would not display video.
I started over with a fresh install of the 5-in-1 disk and followed the instructions with the PVR250 file pack exactly. WinTV 2000 worked again. I had some updated drivers from Hauppauge that I then installed. It still worked. For grins, I tried Media Center Edition and tried to open the TV viewer. To my astonishment, it ran! I had TV.
Here in lies the problem though. The TV video quality with MCE is much worse than with WinTV 2000. This means that the card is not the problem. It is whatever MCE is using to display the video. My guess is that it is simply using a different method than the WinTV 2000 application. Perhaps WinTV 2000 is using the hardware directly while MCE is trying to use a DirectDraw codec or something. I am just guessing here. I really have no idea.
I am hoping someone out there might have the answer. I would also like to get the video out working again. I have no idea why that would stop.
Questions - Comments?