I am trying out Windows Vista 32 build 5384 and have been unable to
get TV or video capture to work. There is a version of Catalyst for
Vista on the ATI website that works, but there is no MMC software
there. I have tried several versions of MMC for XP but none of them
work. When I try to run TV I get the message "Unable to start TV -
The TV player failed to initialize."

Has anyone been able to get this card to work properly with Vista?
G.M. Durrence
(to reply remove -nospam from address)

"G.M. Durrence" <durrence-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am trying out Windows Vista 32 build 5384 and have been unable to
> get TV or video capture to work. There is a version of Catalyst for
> Vista on the ATI website that works, but there is no MMC software
> there. I have tried several versions of MMC for XP but none of them
> work. When I try to run TV I get the message "Unable to start TV -
> The TV player failed to initialize."
>
> Has anyone been able to get this card to work properly with Vista?

No. ATI hasn't released the software to use the TV tuner yet. Perhaps a
beta version will be available by the time the consumer preview is.

Tom Lake

"G.M. Durrence" <durrence-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am trying out Windows Vista 32 build 5384 and have been unable to
> get TV or video capture to work. There is a version of Catalyst for
> Vista on the ATI website that works, but there is no MMC software
> there. I have tried several versions of MMC for XP but none of them
> work. When I try to run TV I get the message "Unable to start TV -
> The TV player failed to initialize."
>
> Has anyone been able to get this card to work properly with Vista?
> G.M. Durrence
> (to reply remove -nospam from address)

You might try third party software. I was able to get ChrisTV working in
XP64 way back when. Haven't tried it in Vista.

http://www.chris-tv.com/


Alex

Hi, G.M.

When you get TV on your AIW and Vista, please post back with how you did it!

I've been watching TV on my computer for about 5 years, but that was on my
AIW 9000 and Win98/2K/XP. A couple of years ago, I got a new 64-bit
mobo/CPU. The AIW 9000 still worked well and I watched TV on WinXP. Then I
got WinXP x64, but ATI's new drivers would nor work for pre-9500 models, so
I retired my good ol' 9000 and got an AIW 9600. And I haven't been able to
watch TV on my computer since then. :>(

Oh, the 9600 works fine in both x86 and x64 versions of WinXP and of every
Vista build to date (now running x64 build 5384 with the ATI drivers built
into Vista). But the only OS that lets me see TV on my computer is the
vanilla WinXP x86. (And now, even that is not working; every attempt to
start TV gets me the message that it "failed to initiate the video".)

The DRIVERS work fine. MMC is completely non-functional. ATI has been
promising MMC that works with WinXP x64 for a full year now, but they
haven't delivered - and don't seem to be getting any closer.

If anyone has it working, please let us all know!

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Windows Mail 7.0 in Vista x64 build 5384)

"G.M. Durrence" <durrence-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am trying out Windows Vista 32 build 5384 and have been unable to
> get TV or video capture to work. There is a version of Catalyst for
> Vista on the ATI website that works, but there is no MMC software
> there. I have tried several versions of MMC for XP but none of them
> work. When I try to run TV I get the message "Unable to start TV -
> The TV player failed to initialize."
>
> Has anyone been able to get this card to work properly with Vista?
> G.M. Durrence