Calling all MP New Zealanders (Both of you!!)

[A Frater]

Hi all another kiwi just starting to set up media portal getting ATI Theater Pro 550 TV Card from TradeMe and using Compro TVmate at moment ,Running TV guide set up from www.reven.co.nz (was plugin for GB-PVR) but is working ok for me ,Now all got to do is sett up remote and Radio along with my other Vapor Phase Change Cooling project (no wonder my wife calls me a geek) :lol: :lol:

[heafield]

Hi, Frater,
what is the remote setup you'll be trying to use? Will you send the signal out to the sky decoder box as well?

regards

[A Frater]

Hi
I am using WINLIRC with a serial port reciver (AIRport) with a remote that came with my video card its a MSI media centre but may shift to MCE remote once more funds come avalible i am using IREX program to emulate keybord strokes works ok ,No sky box though just free to air

Changed remote to cyberlink (came with new TV card) USB working on setting up with old girder and MCE plugin

[Bullfrog]

Hey all, just tinkering and seting up Media Portal at the moment have hit one problem at the moment that has me stumped, I cannot seem to tune to TV2 have tried all 11 frequecies and can get TV1, TV2, C4 but not TV2 any ideas, I am in Timaru and used this link to find the other frequencies have just been using the channel numbers allocated to the frequencies

[Brocklander]

If you can't pick it up on Autotune I'm not sure what else you can do...

[Bullfrog]

I am wondering if its a card problem? current specs are

AMD 64 3200+
512 Ram
FX5900XT
Winfast TV2000XP Expert
200GB HDD + 40GB HDD

What cards are you guys having succes with as the winfast card I noticed isnt yet on the supported list, is it worth getting a digital card because I have been told that none of our free to air channels are digital yet? suggestions as I really would like to make this work?, also what kind of remotes would you guys reccomend?
Cheers

[A Frater]

My TV2 setting is channel 8 this is in Christchurch ? using ATI 550 pro with 0.2 rc2 and compro videomate (software card) no channel problems . :lol:

[Mutly]

Originally Posted by A Frater

My TV2 setting is channel 8 this is in Christchurch ? using ATI 550 pro with 0.2 rc2 and compro videomate (software card) no channel problems . :lol:

Gidday everyone. Just a query about the ATI 550... I am using RC2 of media portal, but when I turn in all my channels (FTA) the bottom part of the TV picture is cropped (for example, on TV3, from about mid way thru the tv3 logo and down is missing). Anyone else have this issue? If so, how to fix? Have tried different decoders and aspect ratios with now luck at all. Almost vverything else in MP works well.

[Mutly]

Originally Posted by Mutly

Just a query about the ATI 550... <snip>

Never mind, sorted it out. Apparently you have to set the standard and country under the Analogue tab for each channel as well as under the global TV settings. Mutter grumble.

[Mutly]

Originally Posted by Bullfrog

What cards are you guys having succes with as the winfast card I noticed isnt yet on the supported list, is it worth getting a digital card because I have been told that none of our free to air channels are digital yet? suggestions as I really would like to make this work?, also what kind of remotes would you guys reccomend?
Cheers

Gidday Bullfrog. I am using an ATI Theare 550 pro with MP 0.2 RC2. Now that I have sorted out my silly cropping issues it works very well. If you are having troubles finding a particular channel, you could try manually adding it based on the frequencies/channels of your closest transmitter (http://www.lincrad.co.nz/transmitters.htm).

As far as terrestrial digital TV, I don't think that NZ will be changing over any time soon, so I would hold off on the DVB card if I were you. Mind you, I did read somewhere that TV1 are experimenting with terrestrial digital TV (yay TV1!!)