Help with ATI TV Wonder 650, please? (1 Viewer)

[bthornto]

Hey all-

I recently purchase an ATI 650 ATSC card for use with Mediaportal. I built the necessary entries in my CaptureCardDefintions file without success. After upgrading to the latest SVN I found the entries were already there, although I'm still getting no card found during configuration. MY config matched what I found existing in the file.

Does anyone have this card working? and can you send me the respective lines from your card file? For reference, here's my entries below.

I do have this card working in BeyondTV and Nero both. The drivers I am running are the latest off the ATI site, 6.14.10.194.

Help please?

Brad
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<capturecard commercialname="ATI TV Wonder 650 (NTSC)" capturename="ATI AVStream Analog Capture" devid="ven_1002&amp;dev_4d50&amp;subsys_a6981002&amp;rev_00">
<capabilities tv="true" radio="true" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="false"/>
<tv>
<interface cat="mux" video="" audio="" mpeg2="0"/>
<filters>
<filter cat="tvtuner" name="ATI AVStream Analog Tuner" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="tvaudio" name="ATI AVStream Analog TV Audio" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="crossbar" name="ATI AVStream Analog Xbar" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="capture" name="ATI AVStream Analog Capture" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="mux" name="ATI AVStream MPEG2 Multiplexer" checkdevice="true"/>
</filters>
<connections>
<connection sourcefilter="tvtuner" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="crossbar" sinkpin="%tvtuner%"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tvtuner" sourcepin="1" sinkfilter="tvaudio" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tvaudio" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="crossbar" sinkpin="%audiotuner%"/>
<connection sourcefilter="crossbar" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="crossbar" sourcepin="1" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="1"/>
<connection sourcefilter="capture" sourcepin="3" sinkfilter="mux" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="capture" sourcepin="4" sinkfilter="mux" sinkpin="1"/>
</connections>
</tv>
</capturecard>

<capturecard commercialname="ATI TV Wonder 650 (ATSC)" capturename="ATI BDA Digital Capture" devid="ven_1002&amp;dev_4d50&amp;subsys_a6981002&amp;rev_00">
<capabilities tv="true" radio="false" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="true"/>
<tv>
<interface cat="capture" video="2" audio="3" mpeg2="1" sectionsandtables="2"/>
<filters>
<filter cat="networkprovider" name="Microsoft ATSC Network Provider" checkdevice="false"/>
<filter cat="tunerdevice" name="ATI BDA Digital Tuner" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="capture" name="ATI BDA Digital Capture" checkdevice="true"/>
</filters>
<connections>
<connection sourcefilter="networkprovider" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="tunerdevice" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tunerdevice" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="0"/>
</connections>
</tv>
</capturecard>

 

[thehuck]

I have the 650 working in MP 0.2.1.0 but this version of MP seems to be really unstable on my system. I've only gotten through a full channel scan once. Every time I do it right now it crashes.

 

[thehuck]

Ok. I've got it working pretty well now. Much more stable than before. Turns out it was a driver problem. Like most people, I went immediately to the website to get the latest drivers when I installed the card. I was only getting about 5 HD channels to pick up (There are 13 in my area), and more often than not it would crash MP when I was scanning for channels.

So I installed ATi's media center and was having the same problem. After much frustration, I went back and installed the driver off of the CD. Everything works fine now. I've got all 13 channels working now.

MediaPortal v0.2.1.0
ATi drivers off the CD. The latest drivers from the site don't work properly.