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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PENVermillion" data-source="post: 65611" data-attributes="member: 22869">I'm not a computer rookie by any means, but this is my first foray into any kind of media-center building, so forgive me if I've missed something obvious.I recently set up a box with a Hauppauge PVR-150 (non-MCE) tuner, and just an old GeForce2 card for video out. I have digital cable TV, which requires a cable box to get all of the digital channels, but they also send analog channels across the cable. That means that you can plug the cable directly into your TV and it works, but the picture isn't as clear, and it's missing all the higher-numbered channels.When I first set up MP (0.2.0.0), I plugged the cable directly into the PVR-150. I was able to let the setup program scan the channels, and it correctly recognized all of the analog channels, and worked properly.Flush with success, I then set about getting MP to operate through the cable box. First step was getting the IR blaster working, which took a couple tries (due to my own inexperience - it was actually pretty easy to do). I succeeded at that, and I could get the MP program to change the channels on the cable box. My problem is that I can't get the output from the cable box to show up in MP.The cable box has 2 means of output - it has composite video, and coax. Currently, I run the coax to the TV, and the TV stays on channel 3 to display the cable-box output. I know that works fine - the TV displays everything just fine. Likewise, I plugged the composite video from the cable box to the TV, and it worked ok there too. However, neither method shows anything on my MP box - I can select the channel, and I see the IR blaster change the channel on the box to the channel I specified in the preferences, but all I get is a black screen for output.I've set the channel up as being controlled by a set-top box, and I've tried all 4 different means of input (I think CVBS#1 would be the correct choice for composite in, right?), and I get nothing from composite video. Likewise, since I know the coax output sends to channel 3, I've tried plugging in the coax and letting the setup wizard search for channels. Sure enough, it finds channel 3 (and no others). However, when I switch to channel 3, again, no display.Does anyone with knowledge of cable boxes (mine is a Motorola, but I'm not sure of the exact model number) know why my Hauppage card seems unable to display the output from my box, even though my ancient TV handles it without any problems?</blockquote>

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