ASUS My Cinema PCI Combo TV Tuner Card PS3-110 (1 Viewer)

[rmppod]

After trying to scan for analog channels on an Asus TV Tuner Card (PS3-110), I get the following message upon failure to scan:
“Please install a supported audio/video encoder for your software analog card”.
I have no problems in scanning for digital channels provided on my cable connection. From the information I am able to glean, the PS3-110 card has hardware encoders. Is there a setting that needs to be addressed to enable the scanning process for analog to recognize hardware encoders? Is the PS-110 analog tuner compatible with MediaPortal? Would appreciate any help to get the PS-110 analog tuner to work.
Summary of my setup::
ASUS My Cinema PCI Combo TV Tuner Card (Digital ATSC/QAM and Analog NTSC) – PS3-110
(Asus My Cinema PS3-110 Capture Card)
Key features:
Watch digital (ATSC/QAM) or analog (NTSC) TV programs on PC
Auto-launch a Vista sidebar TV on startup with “ASUS GadgeTV Technology”
Record, edit and burn video into DVD or VCD
Instant recording, schedule recording, and Timeshifting supported
Remote control kit for easy channel surfing
Listen to MP3 music or FM radio
Capture external video-in source
Watch your favorite DVD and VCD
Sort video and photographs
“ASUS Splendid Technology“ for better video color enhancement
“ASUS VideoSecurity Online Technology” for making your private security system on PC
Microsoft Vista Home Premium / Vista Home Basic / Vista Ultimate / Windows XP certified

Feature
What kind of main capture features it supports
Analog VideoIn = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input
Video Card = If it is a Video Card/Graphic Card
Tv Tuner = Built-In TV-Tuner
Digital TV = Built-In Digital TV-Tuner
DV/Firewire = DV/Firewire/i.Link input
DV Converter = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input and converts to DV video
MPEG1 hardware = Capture directly MPEG1(VCD) video using hardware*
MPEG2 hardware = Capture directly MPEG2(SVCD and DVD) video using hardware*
MJPEG hardware = Capture directly to MJPEG using hardware*
MPEG4 hardware = Capture directly to MPEG4(DivX,Xvid) video using hardware*

Analog ASUS PS3-110 BDA Analog TV Tuner

ATSC ASUS PS3-110 BDA ATSC Tuner

My Computer System:

Windows 8.1 Professional (x64) (build 9600)
Mother Board: Intel Corporation DP43BF
4086 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Processor: 3.15 gigahertz Intel Xeon
1548.58 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS [Display adapter]

My Cable provides NTSC for Analog and 256 QAM for Digital.

 

[mm1352000]

Hello and welcome!

I'll get straight to the point: can you please post your log files (as per the sticky thread for this section of the forum) so that I can check out what's going on. If the tuner does have hardware encoders, you shouldn't have been seeing that message. The fact that you are probably indicates that the tuner either does not have hardware encoders or is currently incompatible with TV Server. Either way, these are problems that can be resolved... but log files are needed in order to know how to proceed.

Regards,
mm

 

[rmppod]

mm

I have tried to upload the most current log files generated on 27 June. Once I entered "Upload a File", there was no way to return to the thread. I even tried to go back and edit my original post, to no avail. What am I missing to complete the file upload action.

Thanks,

rmppod

 

[mm1352000]

Once I entered "Upload a File", there was no way to return to the thread.

After you've selected a file and clicked "open" (within "upload a file") you should be back to the thread.

 

[rmppod]

Will try again. Maybe I did not wait long enough after uploading. Do you do one file at a time if uploading more than one file?

 

[mm1352000]

Do you do one file at a time if uploading more than one file?

No. Please zip the files. I have a limited internet connection.

If you can't get the upload working here, you'd be welcome to upload the log files to DropBox, OneDrive or similar, and post a link here.

 

[rmppod]

After further research, I found that the upload needs to be in the form of a zip file generated by the Watch Dog. Will do this and post again. Thanks for your response and patience as I figure out the forum interface.

 

[rmppod]

Attached are my log files. This time I stayed in the thread window when I selected "Upload a File". Previously, another window opened and I seemed to be uploading files, but there way no return to the thread window. Anyway, the file seems to be loading.

 

[mm1352000]

Thanks for the log files.
I'm now pretty sure that your tuner does not have hardware encoders, and therefore you need to find and install compatible software encoders if you want to use it with MediaPortal.
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_...rs/7_Scan_Analog/Software_Encoding_Card_Setup
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...oder-based-tv-cards.90355/page-8#post-1052944

 

[rmppod]

It has been a while since I have had time to go back to the issue of finding and loading a software encoder. Here recently I have been able to find and load the ATI MPEG encoder and the Cyberlink MPEG encoder. Both encoders were detected by the MediaPortal TV Server and Analog channels were detected with my ASUS PS3-110 BDA card with both encoders. The video on the display window for an analog channel is very satisfactory. One question I have about the display concerns the strip of modulation noise at the bottom of the window. Is there a way to prevent this noise from


being displayed? I am attaching a sample of a captured Analog display window to illustrate what I am seeing. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.