Analog Tuner and windows 8 support (2 Viewers)

[jbooker11]

Hello,
I am using MediaPortal 1.2.1 and am able to watch hd tv but my analog tuner does not work but is found by tv server. Here are my specs Core 2 Duo 2ghz, 3gb ddr2, 2x 100gb sata drives, 1 120gb external usb hdd for recordings, Mobility Radeon x1600, Realtek HD Audio Sabrent USB Hybrid Tuner x1 son to be x2, Vizio 32'' lcd tv and acer 22'' lcd monitor. I would like to use it byt media portal says it cant find encoders for the device and windows media center works out of the box 7 x32 and x64.

I also would like to test it on windows developer preview if you could make an installer that supports windows 8(NT 6.2) installation as NPVR supports running on that os. Had to switch back to seven for analog tv recording as the media portal installer won't even attempt to install the software on Windows NT 6.2 says platform unsupported. on same specs.

Drivers are BDA for the Microtune Digital tuner and just dshow for The Analog tuner and audio devices

Please help,

Joshua Booker

 

[mm1352000]

Hi and welcome Joshua

About the analog tuner: the Microsoft encoders are not compatible with MP so you'll need to find and install some other ones. I recommend the ATI encoders from their AMD Media Codec package. Follow the steps -->here<-- as if you have an ATI HD 4/5/6 series desktop card and download the installer from the optional tab. It probably won't install successfully, but it will extract other installers onto your HDD somewhere. Locate the AVIVO installer and attempt to run that. It should install 2 or 4 DLLs (depending on 32/64 bit) into C:\Program Files\Common Files\ATI Technologies\Multimedia. I had to manually re-register those DLLs as the AVIVO installer failed for me on Vista 64.

Regarding W8: I think the team position is that we won't be providing a W8 compatible installer until W8 is much closer to release. The reason that we take that approach is that we don't have the resources to provide support for preview/beta/RC OSes. MP is open source so anybody is free to make their own installer. In fact there is even a code patch -->here<--.

mm