DVB-T Card...anyone? (2 Viewers)

Owlsroost

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    If it's the 'PE355-2T' (rather than the PE210) then it does have Win7 drivers, but that's not the card in the picture on the Maplin site (so you should check that out).

    Basically, in theory, any DVB-T card with BDA-compliant drivers should work with MP TV-server. Normally if it's compatible with Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) it has BDA-compliant drivers.

    Tony
     

    PhilUK

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    The plot thickens!

    I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP with a firewall & antivirus, and full windows updates. I then installed the driver you provided, and MediaPortal. I then did a scan, and it picked up channels! When it detects a channel, the dongle lights up ORANGE. So far, it's done exactly what the other XP SP3 machine I got it to work on did.

    To make things stranger, now when I'm using Mediaportal the dongle lights up GREEN. It's never lit up green before, not even when I had the TV on on the other machine working fine, or on the Vista machine.

    And just now as I'm writing this I see that the dongle is lighting up orange again (I've left Mediaportal doing its frozen-memory-eating thing to write this post, and at some point it must have switched colours while I wasn't looking).

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    Also, I had to uninstall and reinstall Mediaportal because I changed the computer's name (it was set to the name of another machine by accident and had to be changed), and Mediaportal went crazy about it. When I reinstalled Mediaportal, it only detected one of the tuners instead of both, and didn't pick up any stations, as usual. Oh, and now it's deciding not to detect either of the tuners.

    I had this exact problem with my KWorld 399U Dual USB Tuner on my Revo installed with XP SP3.

    It initially installed fine, both tuners detected hunky dory. But... Problems started when I tried to move it from one USB port to another. It only detected one tuner of the two and was lighting up green/orange for some reason just like yours!

    The solution I found was:
    1) Unplug the Unit
    2) Use the uninstall utility which installed with the drivers (should be in start menu)
    3) Reboot
    4) Plug in the Tuner into the port you want it in
    5) It should be detected as 'unknown device'
    6) Use the included CD to install the drivers
    7) Check in Mediaportal that it's working

    Hope this helps
    Cheers =)
    Phil
     

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