Leadtek WinFast DTV Dongle. How I got it working guide (1 Viewer)

[lmfans]

Got it working after alot of troubles.
Here are the steps.
1. Install media portal 0.2 release.
2. Do not start the program yet.
3. Extract stable patch for 0.2 release to C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal and overwrite the files
4. Run start.bat in MediaPortal folder.
5. Run setup media portal.
6. Goto Television > capture cards > Add
7. If it says unable to find capture device go to step 8 else go to step 9
8. solution in https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ys=0&postorder=asc&highlight=leadtek&start=15
9. Open mediaportal setup again. Go to Television > Capture Card. CLick add. Click AutoTune tab. Select your location and click scan.
10. If it says cannot open graph. The solution is here https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=16490
11. Now start MediaPortal and it should be working.

PS: I got a crash when trying to tune in MediaPortal.exe but was able to tune inside MediaPortal Setup.

Here are some problems I have if someone has a solution:
1. Cannot do TimeShifting with MP
2. When I resize the MP window while playing TV, MP screen freezes.
3. I cannot use winfast DTV software. Once I start the software Internet explorer cannot open nor mozilla, also cannot exit window even after closing the WinFast DTV software.

Good luck all !!!

 

[ADB]

I have the WinFast DTV Dongle working (I originally posted how I got this working via editing the 'CaptureCardDefinitions.xml' file). I have a nasty problem though in that when running Media Portal it will randomly bluescreen and reboot the PC. This isn't a 'normal' NT/2000/XP bluescreen but just a completely blank one. The PC reboots and after logging in a window appears saying a serious error occurred and should the error log be sent to Microsoft.
This only occurs when a TV channel is playing and the period of time it takes to crash is completely random - it can crash after a few seconds or about half an hour. I have briefly looked at the various log files but can't see anything obvious. Where else should I be looking?
I am running release 0.2 without any SVN patches installed.

Thanks

Andy

 

[Marky Mark]

More random crashes

Thanks for the guides - I had to change the card definition file to get it working and it seems to function well. I turned on timeshifting and it did not throw up any errors (clean install of version 0.2.0.4). However I do seem to have the random crashes problem. The event log shows it as:

System Error
Category 102
Event ID 1003
Error code 100000d1, parameter1 00000060, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 f895f4df.

A bit of googling suggests that it is a driver error, which fits with the problem since I installed the dongle, although having downloaded the latest drivers before installing I had hoped that they would be OK. I have just checked the Leadtek website which seems to have new drivers dated today (2006/08/21). Unfortunately the ftp site does not seem to have them yet, but I will keep checking and hopefully the new versions will be more stable!

http://www.leadtek.com.tw/eng/tv_tuner/download.asp?downlineid=144&pronameid=231&lineid=6&act=3

 

[Marky Mark]

New drivers available

The new drivers now seem to be available - only from the Taiwan and USA servers though - the European link seems broken. Installation is a bit convoluted with a couple of reboots, and I had to run Mediaportal setup to remove and readd the capture card - did not need to retune though.

It seems to work as before, now need to see if I still get the crashes.

 

[muhith]

Hi, The reference Mark makes above to links:

7. If it says unable to find capture device go to step 8 else go to step 9
8. solution in https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/vi...adtek&start=15

and

10. If it says cannot open graph. The solution is here https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=16490

does not work. Does anyone have the valid links? Thanks.

Also I get (When trying to start Config Wizard):

Exception Access to Registry HKCU\SW\DScaler5\Mpeg Audio Filter denied

 

[zimbo_ouen]

yep.. thats why I posted a new thread as they didn't work.vhttps://forum.team-mediaportal.com/showthread.php?t=15949 the damn app just doesn't see my card

help me someone please *cries*

 

[Marky Mark]

Step 10 to fix the 'cannot create graph' error is to edit the capture card definitions file entry to:

<capturecard commercialname="Leadtek WinFast DTV Dongle" capturename="WinFast DTV Dongle BDA Driver" devid="vid_0413&amp;pid_6026&amp;mi_00">
<capabilities tv="true" radio="false" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="true"/>
<tv>
<interface cat="tunerdevice" video="2" audio="3" mpeg2="1" sectionsandtables="5"/>
<filters>
<filter cat="networkprovider" name="Microsoft DVBT Network Provider" checkdevice="false"/>
<filter cat="tunerdevice" name="WinFast DTV Dongle BDA Driver" checkdevice="true"/>
</filters>
<connections>
<connection sourcefilter="networkprovider" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="tunerdevice" sinkpin="0"/>
</connections>
</tv>
</capturecard>

The change is from capture to tunerdevice for interface cat. The change works with the latest version 0.2.2 as well as the previous version.

I cannot remember what step 8 was, or if I had to do it.

 

[Marky Mark]

The only other thing I can think of is to use the latest drivers from the leadtek site:

http://www.leadtek.com.tw/eng/tv_tuner/download.asp?downlineid=144&pronameid=231&lineid=6&act=3

 

[zimbo_ouen]

I need the step 8 instructions. Still trying to add the card. Tried 3 different variations in the capture card defs and still nothing. I'm on the latest drivers for the dtv dongle (3.0.0.9 - dated 007/06/2006) Will try the drivers on the leadtek site one more time and then I dunno what I can do

 

[muhith]

I believe Step 8 is to do with what to do if you get the message cannot detect or find the capture card. I think the article in the WiKi gives you some clue on "Add TVCard to natively supported list"

See:
"http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/Add_TVCard_to_natively_supported_list?highlight=%28card%29%7C%28add%29%7C%28new%29

Also in some other post the devid="vid_0413&amp;pid_6f01&amp;mi_00" and Post 16 above the devid="vid_0413&amp;pid_6026&amp;mi_00". Should there be two such entries for <capturecard>
<capturecard>? or the devid just changes from machine to machine. I deleted the "CaptureCardDefinitions.xml" and run a MP setup with repair option. It recreated the file (hoping to pickup the right devid etc.) but still no joy.