Afa Tech AF9005 USB TV stick installation problems (1 Viewer)

[DonkeyDave]

I managed to get limited success by adding the following to captureCardDefinitions.xml

<capturecard commercialname="AF9005 BDA Device" capturename="AF9005 BDA Capture Filter" devid="vid_15A4&amp;pid_9020">
<capabilities tv="true" radio="false" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="true"/>
<tv>
<interface cat="capture" video="3" audio="4" mpeg2="1" />
<filters>
<filter cat="networkprovider" name="Microsoft DVBT Network Provider" checkdevice="false"/>
<filter cat="tunerdevice" name="AF9005 BDA Tuner Filter" checkdevice="false"/>
<filter cat="capture" name="AF9005 BDA Capture Filter" checkdevice="false"/>
</filters>
<connections>
<connection sourcefilter="networkprovider" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="tunerdevice" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tunerdevice" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="0"/>
</connections>
</tv>
</capturecard>

MP now sees the tuner and can detect the last channel that was being viewed when the tuner was driven from BlazeHDTV i.e. MP doesn't seem to be able to change channels.

 

[redsource]

Just a slight amendment to DonkeyDave setup - pin config = <interface cat="capture" video="2" audio="3" mpeg2="1" />

so:

<capturecard commercialname="AF9005 BDA Device" capturename="AF9005 BDA Capture Filter" devid="vid_15a4&amp;pid_9020">
<capabilities tv="true" radio="false" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="true"/>
<tv>
<interface cat="capture" video="2" audio="3" mpeg2="1" />
<filters>
<filter cat="networkprovider" name="Microsoft DVBT Network Provider" checkdevice="false"/>
<filter cat="tunerdevice" name="AF9005 BDA Tuner Filter" checkdevice="false"/>
<filter cat="capture" name="AF9005 BDA Capture Filter" checkdevice="false"/>
</filters>
<connections>
<connection sourcefilter="networkprovider" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="tunerdevice" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tunerdevice" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="0"/>
</connections>
</tv>
</capturecard>

MP only found 3x channels after scanning many times & I couldn't change channel either ...but still under developement and will post if I fix it

 

[DonkeyDave]

Just had a reply from Afa Technologies.

"AF9005 ONLY works with BlazeHDTV viwer or the viewers we have co-worked / tested.

Cyberlink’s PowerCinema and MediaPortal will be supported in our next version of DVB-T USB solution AF9015."

 

[redsource]

still under development but try this latest setup:

<capturecard commercialname="Easy TV USB DVB-T Stick" capturename="AF9005 BDA Capture Filter" devid="vid_15a4&amp;pid_9020">
<capabilities tv="true" radio="false" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="true"/>
<tv>
<interface cat="capture" video="3" audio="4" mpeg2="1" sectionsandtables="2"/>
<filters>
<filter cat="networkprovider" name="Microsoft DVBT Network Provider" checkdevice="false"/>
<filter cat="tunerdevice" name="AF9005 BDA Tuner Filter" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="capture" name="AF9005 BDA Capture Filter" checkdevice="true"/>
</filters>
<connections>
<connection sourcefilter="networkprovider" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="tunerdevice" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tunerdevice" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="0"/>
</connections>
</tv>
</capturecard>

 

[mchadwick]

I've also got one these USB sticks and also managed to get MP to detect it with the above capture card entry...
Like the rest of the reports when I do a channel scan MP only detects the channel that I was watching last with Blaze.
Even at that, when I try to watch that channel in MP I get the following error:
"Failed to Start TV - Cannot add filter AF9005 BDA Tuner Filter"

this is in the error.log:
10/09/2006 10:29:26 Filter tunerdevice not found in definitions file
10/09/2006 10:29:26 DVBGraphBDA: no moniker found for filter:AF9005 BDA Tuner Filter
10/09/2006 10:29:34 Command:MediaPortal.TV.Recording.ViewTvCommand failed reason:Failed to start TV
Cannot add filter AF9005 BDA Tuner Filter time:31.25 msec
10/09/2006 10:29:43 Command:MediaPortal.TV.Recording.ViewTvCommand failed reason:Failed to start TV
Cannot add filter AF9005 BDA Tuner Filter time:15.625 msec
10/09/2006 10:29:48 Command:MediaPortal.TV.Recording.ViewTvCommand failed reason:Failed to start TV
Cannot add filter AF9005 BDA Tuner Filter time:15.625 msec