Anyone using the Hauppauge HVR-4000? (1 Viewer)

[bruizerbg]

Greetings - I'm in New Zealand and am using the new HVR-4000. Have no problems with the DVB-S side of things and the TVNZxml epg works fine but I cannot get the Analogue part of the card to build a preview in the TV cards menu of the configuration. I get an error that says it can't build a preview...
Any assitance would be appreciated.
Bruce

 

[Mew]

Hi Bruce

I use a pair of HVR-4000s. I used them successfully for DVB-S. I then moved house and am currently using them for DVB-T (until I install my new dish). I did use analogue but this was with a PVR-500 as this has twin tuners with hardware encoding.

I have read there were issues with using the analogue side mostly because of it being a software based encoder rather than hardware based. I believe people have found it tricky to get these working with MediaPortal. This applies to both the HVR-3000 and HVR-4000.

I may have read (but I can't be sure) that someone had suggested that if you install the MCS_soft_encoder that comes with the drivers it is possible to use the analogue tuners in MediaPortal, but I can't verify this.

Mew

 

[bruizerbg]

Got it working...

Mew - thanks very much for your reply. I did find that post you are referring to and had just assumed that the Soft Encoder had been installed when I loaded the card, but no. Once I installed the encoder properly my Media Portal system is a new beast so I'm very pleased.

Best regards,
Bruce Guthrie
New Zealand.

 

[bruizerbg]

Analogue card now tunes ok but channels wont show in myTV...

Got my analogue card working but the channels won't show up in myTV.
All the DVB-S2 tuned channels appear ok but when I insert 2 analogue channels into the DVB-S2 group they won't play. If I stop MP and go into configuration mode to check that the analogue card is still tuned ok - they're fine but still won't play in myTV.
Am I missing a setting here to make this work correctly?

Bruce