Installing 2nd DVB tuner card - cannot add card?? (1 Viewer)

[bigajm]

Area: Media Portal Program
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.0.0 (2006-07-03)
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo
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: AMD Sempron 3000+
Memory: 1 GB
Motherboard: 760GXK8MC (WinFast)
TV Card Model: Twinhan Ter D+A model3054
TV Card Type: DVB
TV Card Driver: -
Video Card Model: Nvidia Geforce 6200 (128 MB)
Video Card Driver: -
Video Card Resolution: 1280x1024
Video Render Type: -
Audio Card Model: DTV-DVB 3054 Analog Audio Capture
Audio Card Driver: -

I've been running the above setup of Media Portal for the past couple of weeks, with a single Twinhan DTV Ter D+A model 3054 PCI tuner card and it's been fantastic! (This card is an analogue and digital tuner in one, and shows up as two separate cards in MediaPortal's setup program).

Today I've added a 2nd Twinhan PCI card to my pc - a Twinhan DTV Ter model 3020C, and the card installed OK in Windows XP. This should give me two digital tuners.

However, I can't see where to add this new tuner to MP.

When I run the MP setup program and select "Television-->Capture cards", I see a window with the analogue and digital capture cards of the FIRST TwinHan card, but clicking "Add" does not allow me to add the new digital tuner of the second PCI card. I get the message "No video capture card(s) were found, you won't be able to configure a capture card".

As I said, the new tuner card seems to have been installed by Windows OK, so.....

1. Is this problem a manifestation of the known "Multi DVB Tuner Issues in Windows XP", where WinXP can't be used with more than one DVB card ? If so, I'll follow the instructions in the forum thread here http://tinyurl.com/e7duv

or

2. Am I missing a step somewhere or misunderstanding how to add an additional tuner card to MP ?

Any advice will be gratefully received, as I've spent many hours setting up MP on this pc and don't want to start messing out with my Windows installation until I know I'm barking up the right tree !

thanks
-andy

 

[Marcusb]

Hi Andy,

I don't know much about the Twinhams, but I have a couple of MPs, both with more than one digital tuner.

With an unpatched WinXP you should still be able to install both cards, but they will give you very bad results when watching/recording two things at once.
You definately will have to apply the patch though, so may as well do it now.

Not sure why the second card isn't showing up. Have you tried running it with the Twinham supplied software to see if it works there? Also, you may have a couple of different entries for the card in Windows Hardware manager. MP will probably be looking for a BDA version, so make sure that you have installed any MCE or BDA drivers for the card.

Also, take a look in the capturecarddefs.xml in MP root. Search for Twinham and see if your card is there. If it is, check the Device ID matches the one listed in Hardware Manager (it's in one of the obscure tabs at the end and will be found in a drop down box).

Hope this helps, if not, I'm sure someone with Twinhams will be along very shortly...