Noobie: Twinhan 102g (2 Viewers)

[doubleh]

Howdy,

I am new to MediaPortal and need some help getting it to recognize my DVB-S card. Here are the details....


Area: Media Portal Hardware
MP Version: 0.2 RC2
Skin: Default
Windows Version: WinXP SP2
CPU Type: Intel P4 1.8ghz
Memory: 512mb
Motherboard Chipset: BioStar
Video Card: ATI Radeon 7500, 64mb
Video Card Driver: 8.231.0.0
Video Card Resolution: 1024x768
Video Render Type: VMR9 or Overlay
Video Codec Type & Version: default
Audio Codec Type & Version: default
TV Card: DVB-S, Twinhan 102g, Conexant 878a Chip
TV Card Type: software
TV Card Driver: 2.4.11
Optional Log: parts of the "/log/MediaPortal.log" which show an issue
Optional References: any reference

Synopsis: I can get myTheatre to recognize the card and can view audio/video. When I goto configuration  television  capture cards  I get a message “No video device was found, you won’t be able to configure a capture card.â€

I read posts about BDA drivers, but know how to load them. Also saw reference to a capturcarddefinitions.xml, but again not sure what to do with it..


Thanks

 

[Taipan]

If you check the list of supported cards, then I don't think that your DVB-S card is supported by MediaPortal?

You definitely need to have the BDA drivers installed for your card, anyway - the drivers and installation instructions should be available from Twinhan.

If you want to get it supported, then follow the instructions here.

 

[doubleh]

thank you for your response.

i thought i saw my card listed (Twinhan VisionDTV DVB-S Conexant 878A). Does this name have to match what i see in device manager? In device manager it is listed as DTV Video Controller and DTV Audio Controller. if i load the bda drivers, my theatre won't work and the device appears as "DVB-TV 878 Digital Tuner Driver" and "DVB-TV 878 Digital Capture Driver"in device manager.

 

[doubleh]

got it working...sort of. here is what i did...

loaded the BDA drivers
uninstalled media portal and mytheatre
reinstalled and configured mytheatre and was able to view satellite tv
reinstalled media portal and it detected my DVB-S card!!

now if i could only figure out how to pull up mytheatre from within mediaportal i would be well on my way.

thanks

 

[Taipan]

reinstalled media portal and it detected my DVB-S card!!

Have you run Autotune and successfully found the channels in MediaPortal?

now if i could only figure out how to pull up mytheatre from within mediaportal

Why do you want to do that? I am not sure I understand where you are heading?

 

[doubleh]

i have run autotone and it pulled down approx 400 channels. i am pointing at 91west. next question is how to decrypt the signal. i can do it with MT, but am looking for a way to do it in MP.

thanks

 

[doubleh]

ps...i am able to view the unencrypted channels

 

[doubleh]

i figured a wouldn't get a reply to my last question which is WHY i stated in my 3rd post about integrating with myTheatre.

 

[nbpanjwa]

Mr doubleh,

Could you please post your working configuration since I'am also have trouble with the same card working with BDA Drivers with MP and MT.

I would like to know which BDA driver, what version of MediaPortal and MyTheatre works.

Also I would like to know how you were able to scan satellites in Canada since I have been reading posts (such as https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=11398&highlight=echostar ) which explains that there is no way to grab satellites in NA and that they are working on it.

 

[dman_lfc]

Not true, it seems BDA cards have no issues pulling down NA Satellites, just the SS2 & TT Premium.
Numerous peeps I know of (mostly Canadian) have no issues at all and funily enough they're using Twinhan cards...

DMAN