Capture card Medion SAA7134 (713x) not recognized (1 Viewer)

[rlf]

Hello,

just installed MediaPortal - looks great!

Unfortunately, the feature that's most important to me - TV - doesn't work. Entering setup ('Television - Capture Card') to find out why surprises with an empty listbox and an "No video capture card(s) were found" error message when clicking "Add".
But in the XML file, the card seems to be listed if I interpret it right.

Please help - what can I do?

thanks
rlf

 

[ronilse]

Hi, & welcome to forum.

Add your specs according to this Template.

Look here to see if your card it's supported, if not theres a link on how to get it supported.

Regards
Roy

 

[Grime87]

SAME PROBLEM!!!!!!

Mate i got the same problem. Did u manage to get your card recognized??...i got the same card so if you did could you let me no mate??

safe!

 

[cheffe97]

Hi,
got the same card and it's working.
But with new Release 0.2 video and sound are out of sync.
so in the end it's not really usable.
Hope it gets better with the new tv engine that is in the pipeline, thx to frodo.

cheers
cheffe

 

[Grime87]

Tut Tut

So what your saying is.....Give up trying to fix the problem?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

video and sound are out of sync.

That sounds like a codec problem, which should be pretty easy to resolve.

Post back your solution at getting TV working for Grime87 to look at.

Thanks

 

[cheffe97]

Grime87:
naah. nevr said that. I am still trying myself to get it working properly. All I wanted to let u know is that my Medion SAA7134 was always working (at least for TV). Just with the introduction of the new tv engine with R0.2 things got worse. Before that I never really had a problem with that card and tv.
I hope you did all the usual stuff like get latest drivers for card etc.
Since I nevr really had a prob I can only tell you to go the hard way and reinstall all stuff including windows with latest patches.

I don't know if that helps you but keep on trying... it's worth it

cheffe

 

[rlf]

okay guys, I run the program and the following information was reported. Interestingly, the TV card seems to be reported as the audio card?! :shock:

Area: Media Portal Program
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.0.0 (2006-07-03)
MediaPortal Skin: Razor
Windows Version: Windows XP (SP2)
.NET CLR Version: 2.0.50727
DirectX Version: 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c)
Audio Codec: MPA Decoder Filter
Video Codec: MPV Decoder Filter
CPU Type: Intel Pentium D - 2.66GHz
Memory: 1 GB
Motherboard: MS-7187 (MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD)
TV Card Model: -
TV Card Type: Hardware
TV Card Driver: -
Video Card Model: Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE (256 MB)
Video Card Driver: -
Video Card Resolution: 1024x768
Video Render Type: -
Audio Card Model: Medion SAA7134, Hybrid Capture Device
Audio Card Driver: -
Synopsis:: -

 

[rlf]

... and based on the output of GraphEdit, I added the following to CaptureCardDefinitions.xml:

  {capturecard commercialname="Medion SAA7134 DVB-T test" capturename="MEDION BDA Digital Capture" devid="ven_1131&dev_7134&subsys_000316be&rev_01"}
    {capabilities tv="true" radio="true" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="true"/}
    {tv}
	{filters}
        {filter cat="networkprovider"	name="Microsoft DVBT Network Provider"  checkdevice="false"/}
        {filter cat="tunerdevice"	name="713x BDA DVBT Tuner"		checkdevice="false"/}
        {filter cat="capture"		name="713x BDA Digital Capture"		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}

(I replaced the brake characters in order to enable the forum software to display them ;-))

No idea if this makes any sense. Obviously not - I still get the same error message. :?

What can I do now?

 

[Grime87]

Long

Serious...why cant things just work...u no...like honda say!!

Let me run few a few things so u can tell me what you think:

Bought the pc..everything was fine..was watching TV happily on it..no probs...

A few months after i bought the pc..i got a virus...so i formatted it.

Everything seemed 2 work fine after reinstalling everything needed..exept..Suprise Suprise..PowerCinema.

Finally managed to get that working...Exept the TV aspect...

Reinstalled the TV-Card Driver..Still didint work. The message being displayed to me when i go into the TV part of PowerCinema was: TV Device Not Found!!!

I got bored and left it......Roughly 2/3 years rolled by...

After returning from my 1st yr of uni..I decide to try once again and fix it..Downloaded all the TV Drivers from the Medion website..Still Displaying the same message in PowerCinema: TV Device Not Found!!!

Called the medion HotLine...The guy talked me through checking it in the Device Manager..and there was a couple of Yellow Exclamation marks by a couple of drivers...sorted them out....BANG...Tv Card was apparantly sorted....Nah!

And here i am 2day. Does that help any1 understand my problem??????

Cheers All!