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<blockquote data-quote="litljay" data-source="post: 743951" data-attributes="member: 89175">I'm here because I am suspicious of my card.&nbsp; Feel free to correct me or have a mod move this to another forum where it will get the right attention.I have a pretty garden-variety HTPC that I built about a year ago using MP 1.1.3 and an Hauppauge HVR-1600 tuner card connected to analog cable service.&nbsp; I was piping the picture out from a crummy old AGP card's s-video output to an ancient (but nice) CRT tv and things worked well.We recently moved to a new house in a new area with a different cable company.&nbsp; We also bought a new flat screen TV.&nbsp; I upgraded the video card to an ATI HD3450 with an HDMI output for the new TV (whew, does that look better!).The new cable company only broadcasts the full basic cable lineup as clear QAM.&nbsp; A scan for channels with the cable connected to the ATSC side of the HVR-1600 yielded a few hundred channels that I need the converter box to view, along with my clear QAM channels.&nbsp; I deleted the encrypted channels.&nbsp; So far so good.When I started the TV from the MP interface or tried to pull a channel preview from the TV Server config dialog either program locked with no picture or sound.&nbsp; I had to kill it from the task manager.&nbsp; I checked that I have the latest drivers for the HVR-1600 (I do). I had a broken boxee install and unused codec packages hanging around on the box, so next came a fresh install of XP, MediaPortal, etc.&nbsp; No help.I tried to download/install Hauppauge's little WinTV app to see if it has the same problem and isolate the issue to the card, but the install asks for my factory disk and it is buried in a box somewhere.I have talked to Hauppauge in the past and found that they are pretty quick to snub questions involving MP and won't help unless you are using WMC or WinTV, so I came here first for help.Why did a configuration that worked perfectly on analog cable bite the dust on QAM with only superficial changes? Any ideas?TIA,J</blockquote>

[QUOTE="litljay, post: 743951, member: 89175"] I'm here because I am suspicious of my card. Feel free to correct me or have a mod move this to another forum where it will get the right attention. I have a pretty garden-variety HTPC that I built about a year ago using MP 1.1.3 and an Hauppauge HVR-1600 tuner card connected to analog cable service. I was piping the picture out from a crummy old AGP card's s-video output to an ancient (but nice) CRT tv and things worked well. We recently moved to a new house in a new area with a different cable company. We also bought a new flat screen TV. I upgraded the video card to an ATI HD3450 with an HDMI output for the new TV (whew, does that look better!). The new cable company only broadcasts the full basic cable lineup as clear QAM. A scan for channels with the cable connected to the ATSC side of the HVR-1600 yielded a few hundred channels that I need the converter box to view, along with my clear QAM channels. I deleted the encrypted channels. So far so good. When I started the TV from the MP interface or tried to pull a channel preview from the TV Server config dialog either program locked with no picture or sound. I had to kill it from the task manager. I checked that I have the latest drivers for the HVR-1600 (I do). I had a broken boxee install and unused codec packages hanging around on the box, so next came a fresh install of XP, MediaPortal, etc. No help. I tried to download/install Hauppauge's little WinTV app to see if it has the same problem and isolate the issue to the card, but the install asks for my factory disk and it is buried in a box somewhere. I have talked to Hauppauge in the past and found that they are pretty quick to snub questions involving MP and won't help unless you are using WMC or WinTV, so I came here first for help. Why did a configuration that worked perfectly on analog cable bite the dust on QAM with only superficial changes? Any ideas? TIA, J [/QUOTE]

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