ATSC Card Owners: Come here for Support

[Slack]

Originally Posted by Commodore 64

ALso, the test team NEEDS another ATSC tester or two. CAn you guys help? Are you interested in helping?

I'd love to help out. Especially as when I get this thing together it is not even going to be used outside of my office, until it's 100% WAF. That'll take a while.

However, budgetary limitations, and impending family vacation, and a fear of credit card debt are conspiring against any swift completion of my rig.

[ORPhD]

Well, having a working version of the Fusion (to go along with the Cat's Eye) has now 100% convinced me that MediaPortal is going to be for me...so I'm joining the boards.

Originally Posted by Slack

I'd love to help out. Especially as when I get this thing together it is not even going to be used outside of my office, until it's 100% WAF. That'll take a while.

However, budgetary limitations, and impending family vacation, and a fear of credit card debt are conspiring against any swift completion of my rig.

Wow, Slack, this is an amazingly accurate description of myself as well.

Commy64, count me in once I get my act together. Hopefully that will be by the end of the month at the latest.

[Legend]

Originally Posted by Commodore 64

In the Device Manger I have 5 Fusion entries.

I have disabled NONE of them.

I have only one Device in my Device Manager, see screenshot:

Originally Posted by Commodore 64

When I go to add a card in MP , the only Fusion card I can add is "Fusion HDTV Transport Stream (Fusion HDTV5 Lite)".

If you aren't able to see that option or add that card, then I'm thinking that your BDA drivers are somehow not referenced properly in the Capturecarddefinitions.xml file.

When I go to add a card in MP, I get 4 devices to add:

• Bluebird, AvStream Video Capture (General S/W encoding card)
  Bluebird, WDM TsCapture (General S/W encoding card)
  Bluebird, AvStream Video Capture (General H/W encoding card)
  Bluebird, WDM TsCapture (General H/W encoding card)

The two WDM devices produce a "Unable to create graph for this device!!" error. I actually never tried the AvStream H/W encoding card, because most of the dropdowns are disabled then and I can't configure anything.

Originally Posted by Commodore 64

ALso, the test team NEEDS another ATSC tester or two. CAn you guys help? Are you interested in helping?

I'd gladly help, getting MP to work with my card would be awesome!

Legend

[Commodore 64]

Legend: Please try the AV stream entry.

The tuner in your card hsould be the same as mine. I don't know why it is coming up as General H/W encoding card. I know we've been over this before but could you put together your graphedit and moniker info for me?

[Legend]

Originally Posted by Commodore 64

Legend: Please try the AV stream entry.

The tuner in your card hsould be the same as mine. I don't know why it is coming up as General H/W encoding card. I know we've been over this before but could you put together your graphedit and moniker info for me?

C64, I am using the AV stream entry right now. The snippet below is the section in the CaptureCardsDefinitions.xml that corresponds to my moniker. The entry looks fine and all the pins are correct. I don't know why it still says General Encoding Card, this is the only match to my moniker in the file.

<capturecard commercialname="Dvico FusionHDTV 5 USB" capturename="FusionHDTV, Transport Stream Capture" devid="vid_0fe9&amp;pid_d500">
    <capabilities tv="true" radio="false" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="true"></capabilities>
    <tv>
      <interface cat="capture" video="3" audio="4" mpeg2="1" sectionsandtables="2"></interface>
      <filters>
        <filter cat="networkprovider" name="Microsoft ATSC Network Provider"        checkdevice="false"></filter>
        <filter cat="tunerdevice"     name="Bluebird, BDA Tuner"		    checkdevice="false"></filter>
        <filter cat="capture"         name="Bluebird, WDM TsCapture"		    checkdevice="false"></filter>
      </filters>
      <connections>
		<connection sourcefilter="networkprovider" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="tunerdevice" sinkpin="0"></connection>
		<connection sourcefilter="tunerdevice"     sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="capture"     sinkpin="0"></connection>
      </connections>
    </tv>
  </capturecard>

C64, I am still using RC2 without any of the CVS builds you pointed out, do you think anything would change by updating to the latest working ATSC CVS build?

Legend

[Commodore 64]

Legend do you have a GIF or .png of your graphedit file?

[Legend]

Originally Posted by Commodore 64

Legend do you have a GIF or .png of your graphedit file?

Sure thing, here you go:


Legend

Edit: Hm, interesting. Now that I look at it for the first time I noticed that the graph has the WDM device in it, while I'm using the AvStream device inside of MP. There is no AvStream receiver filter in GraphEdit, though. However, when I tried adding the WDM TsCapture device as a card in MP, it tells me that it cannot create a graph for the device. Maybe that's where the disconnect is?

[Commodore 64]

Legend: Dman fixed the def. file. latest CVS should have the correction.

The Capture Name was wrong, specifically

capturename="FusionHDTV, Transport Stream Capture"

changed to

capturename="Bluebird, WDM TsCapture"

You can make this edit yourself if you want to try this card with rc2 or just wait for the next CVS build. I can't believe we didn't notice that before![/b]

[Legend]

Originally Posted by Commodore 64

The Capture Name was wrong, specifically

capturename="FusionHDTV, Transport Stream Capture"

changed to

capturename="Bluebird, WDM TsCapture"

I hate to say it, but this didn't really do much for me. Yes, when I click Add Card now I don't get to choose between those 4 cards anymore, instead it picks the one I used to select before automatically, but then on the card properties dialog everything is like before, AutoTune only tunes in NTSC channels and no ATSC channels etc.

Let me illustrate this with a couple of screenshots, maybe you see something else along the way that needs to be fixed. So when I click Add Card on the MP Setup Dialog, I get this dialog:


From the Device Property drop-down list I select Tuner, which has the most promising settings:

Everything seems cool here, it actually seems to lock on to ATSC channels etc. Unfortunately it doesn't matter if I click Apply or Ok, nothing on this dialog seems to be persistent. The way I understand it is that this does not come from MP, but from the card driver itself, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Then finally the Auto Tune dialog from MP looks like this:

You cannot see it in the screenshot, but it locked on to some very grainy analog Channel 2. Don't be mislead by the channels in the listbox, these are the channels I imported from my xmltv file. I tried skipping through all the analog channels hoping that it would do the digital channels afterwards, but it just finished and I can't really do much.

Lastly, when I fire up MP and go to My TV, I can turn it on, but it will again only tune into analog channels. By the way, after switching channels two or three times, MP hangs itself up. No Recording or Timeshifting or anything going on, just simple channel changes.

Sorry for all the images, I tried to keep them small in size, but hopefully this will help to analyze the problem a bit further?

Thanks,
Legend

[Commodore 64]

Legend: Please try again with the latest CVS.