PAL60 from sole purpose tuner? Anyone fancy a challenge? (1 Viewer)

[ryangsoton]

TV-Server Version: N/A
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.3.0
MediaPortal Skin: Blue
Windows Version: Vista
CPU Type: Slow... 1.6ghz
HDD: 160gb with 1tb network drive
Memory: 2GB
Motherboard: Elonex Lumina - all built in from here
Motherboard Chipset:
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card:
Video Card Driver:
Sound Card:
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: Hauppauge HVR 1100 (analogue DVB-T?)
1. TV Card Type: Internal
1. TV Card Driver: Lastest v 4.1
2. TV Card: Hauppauge Nova Stick T
2. TV Card Type: USB
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec:
MPEG2 Audio Codec:
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Freeview
HTPC Case:
Cooling:
Power Supply:
Remote: Media Center + Keyboard
TV: 32"
TV - HTPC Connection:

Good evening all, hope ive put this in the right place. Have downloaded and installed MP today - great bit of software and i am sick to death of vista MCE - slow, unreliable, has a habit of dropping services over and over....

Right, this pc is an all in one tv/pc media center thingy which has been upgraded to vista. By the way if anyone is considering buying one of these 'all in ones' my opinion is DONT. get a tv and seperate pc - would have saved me so much hassle.

The PC has a built in HVR1100 tuner (analogue DVB-T i believe) and has a second Nova T Stick to provide a second tuner via usb. Main aerial feed (freeview) comes in to 1 socket in the home, this is then plugged into a 2 way amplifier and a seperate lead per tuner. Used to have both of these working on xp media center and vista media centre. for whatever reason the HVR1100 has given up and cant find new channels in mce or wintv or anything for that matter. numerous hcw clears and reinstalls of latest drivers in various orders etc havnt cleared it. Highly likely to be a hardware fault as it has been slowly dying for a while. Thats not a problem tho as rarely use more than 1 tuner. I have installed MP today and setup 1 tuner (the NOVA) and got everything working well without the 2nd (faulty) tuner getting involved.

BUT... The reason I dont want to remove this tuner is because it does have a composite input (yellow red white) which I would like to plug an Xbox into and play on the 'pc'. I can find the input in WinTV fine and run the xbox on the screen, but the WinTV software only supports 50Hz, where as most XBox games are 60Hz. So basically I can view the Xbox but not play much. Is there a way of having that composite input showing in MP in some way, at 60Hz, without the tuner interfereing with the Nova Stick/TV setup?

Can it be done? Any thoughts?

Keep up the good work

Ryan

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

The PC has a built in HVR1100 tuner (analogue DVB-T i believe) and has a second Nova T Stick to provide a second tuner via usb. Main aerial feed (freeview) comes in to 1 socket in the home, this is then plugged into a 2 way amplifier and a seperate lead per tuner. Used to have both of these working on xp media center and vista media centre. for whatever reason the HVR1100 has given up and cant find new channels in mce or wintv or anything for that matter. numerous hcw clears and reinstalls of latest drivers in various orders etc havnt cleared it.

Clean xp install.

BUT... The reason I dont want to remove this tuner is because it does have a composite input (yellow red white) which I would like to plug an Xbox into and play on the 'pc'. I can find the input in WinTV fine and run the xbox on the screen, but the WinTV software only supports 50Hz,

It will only support tv\monitor resolution, not external source, so you may be pretty unlucky on this one.