black screen no sound but EPG works (1 Viewer)

[renegade_alc]

Im in NZ and just installed a Hauppauge Nova T 500 tuner card and mediaportal on recomendation by a friend.

My problem is on the TV server i can find the card and scan for channels and they all show up and i programmed the EPG, but when i go into media portal i just get a black screen and no sound. The EPG shows the next two programs that are on (I know that you can get more with Reven but want to get the tv working first.)

I used power cinema 5 and can get picture and sound but its all jumpy and have been told it is no good, and tried to use GB-PVR which also showed th picture but only for 2 seconds then froze.

been trying to fix it for the last week, anyone had this issue before?

JD

 

[renegade_alc]

Hate bumping but....well i need help

 

[mthand]

Hi Renegade, to get NZ's dvb-t working properly with our H264 broadcasts, you will need to also have something like PowerDvd installed to decode. There is a lot more to be found about NZ specific setup requirements here: Freeview | HD Guide (DTT/DVB-T) New Zealand

In regards to an EPG, other than the now/next EIT you get straight from the broadcast, there is something that works better then reven to be found here: Freeview NZ EPG downloader

Hope this helps! Keep going!

 

[renegade_alc]

hey thanks mthand. I have been updating my drivers and downloaded the powerdvd codec. and it works! albeit rather slowly and jaggedy on C4
I have a feeling that my computer is just not cutting the mustard.
my current specs are

P4 3Ghz
3 Gb ddr ram
nvidia 6600GT video card.
500gb hdd

Looking round at different user configurations Im definately looking at getting a dual core processor and changing to ddr2 ram to speed things up

Still media portal is going so im really grateful.

 

[mthand]

Good to hear!

Yup, from those specs, your cpu is doing all the work to decode the h264 content. The issues on C4 still sound like codec issues, and perhaps the version of PowerDvd isn't full or something. Or it could be a de-interlacing issue and that should be fixed up with a new graphics card.

The ideal scenario is that you upgrade only your graphics card, keep your cpu and your RAM (but then RAM is pretty cheap). You need to offload the decoding from the cpu to the gpu and I have only achieved that using PowerDvd 7.3 Delux, PowerDvd 8 codec from Power Cinema (disk that came with Nova-t 500) and EVR (Vista natively only), so if you're using XP, you may need to get a few more tweaks organised to do that.

Just read as much as possible about what cards work, and if you go for the one that everyone says they have, then you will find it hard to go wrong.