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<blockquote data-quote="ruister" data-source="post: 199455" data-attributes="member: 28564">Avermedia a180 mostly working...Hi,I have mostly gotten my a180 to work on RC3!I have a AMD 2800+ or 3000+.. not sure anymore, on an ecs motherboard with on-board ATI x1150 video.&nbsp; For over the air ATSC I use a Avermedia a180, and to tune to my directv box I use a&nbsp; ads tech pci deluxe tuner card.&nbsp; After some playing around I can get smooth crisp hdtv playback, I even got the auto-tune to work.&nbsp; The key steps for me were:&nbsp;&nbsp; Don't do anything else when auto tune is working, if it crashes - you have to reboot to do it again.&nbsp; I found that running the AverTV free application and watching tv with the card seemed to initialize the card...or something... and it was a bit less likely to crash while scanning.&nbsp; To watch hdtv I used the avermedia mpeg codec, the MainConcept AVc h.264 codec, and the DScaler audio codec.&nbsp; It seems to work pretty well, smooth high quality audio and video.With one exception, in one of the channels (pbs..my favorite) I seem to get the alternative audio track with descriptive&nbsp; narrative and I can't turn it off....and its driving me crazy...Any ideas?Thanks,-Rui</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ruister, post: 199455, member: 28564"] [b]Avermedia a180 mostly working...[/b] Hi, I have mostly gotten my a180 to work on RC3! I have a AMD 2800+ or 3000+.. not sure anymore, on an ecs motherboard with on-board ATI x1150 video. For over the air ATSC I use a Avermedia a180, and to tune to my directv box I use a ads tech pci deluxe tuner card. After some playing around I can get smooth crisp hdtv playback, I even got the auto-tune to work. The key steps for me were: Don't do anything else when auto tune is working, if it crashes - you have to reboot to do it again. I found that running the AverTV free application and watching tv with the card seemed to initialize the card...or something... and it was a bit less likely to crash while scanning. To watch hdtv I used the avermedia mpeg codec, the MainConcept AVc h.264 codec, and the DScaler audio codec. It seems to work pretty well, smooth high quality audio and video. With one exception, in one of the channels (pbs..my favorite) I seem to get the alternative audio track with descriptive narrative and I can't turn it off....and its driving me crazy...Any ideas? Thanks, -Rui [/QUOTE]

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