Good DVB card for MCE

[James Harris]

Can someone recommend a DVB-T card that preferably has drivers certified
for Windows Media Center Edition? I would really like to get a dual
digital tuner card but I can't find any but the Terratec offering.
Unfortunately I bought that one but it has driver problems and won't
work on my PC. (It reports a resource conflict/absence - but doesn't say
what resource it is looking for.)

So, a dual tuner would be ideal as I only have one PCI slot free, but
failing that something else (or a USB one) would do. Hope you can help.

TIA,
Jason

 

[old jon]

Can someone recommend a DVB-T card that preferably has drivers certified
for Windows Media Center Edition? I would really like to get a dual
digital tuner card but I can't find any but the Terratec offering.
Unfortunately I bought that one but it has driver problems and won't work
on my PC. (It reports a resource conflict/absence - but doesn't say what
resource it is looking for.)

So, a dual tuner would be ideal as I only have one PCI slot free, but
failing that something else (or a USB one) would do. Hope you can help.

TIA,
Jason

You could try running Depends.exe:
www.dependencywalker.com/
It might help you through your problem.

 

[James Harris]

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You could try running Depends.exe:
www.dependencywalker.com/
It might help you through your problem.

That's a useful package. Unfortunately it seems to only tell me about
file dependencies. I think the Terratec driver is looking for a DMA
channel, an I/O port or a specific memory range - i.e. the resource
types listed in device manager. Thanks, though, for letting me know
about the utility.

 

[old jon]

Try the Terratec site for updated drivers James.

That's a useful package. Unfortunately it seems to only tell me about file
dependencies. I think the Terratec driver is looking for a DMA channel, an
I/O port or a specific memory range - i.e. the resource types listed in
device manager. Thanks, though, for letting me know about the utility.

 

[dawg]

Since you only have one PCI slot available,the terratec card can't find a
good address to instal itself.
You could try removing your other PCI cards and getiing the terratec card
working first,then adding back your other PCI cards.

 

[Rob Hemmings]

Can someone recommend a DVB-T card that preferably has drivers certified
for Windows Media Center Edition? I would really like to get a dual
digital tuner card but I can't find any but the Terratec offering.
Unfortunately I bought that one but it has driver problems and won't
work on my PC. (It reports a resource conflict/absence - but doesn't say
what resource it is looking for.)

So, a dual tuner would be ideal as I only have one PCI slot free, but
failing that something else (or a USB one) would do. Hope you can help.

Have a look at the Nebula uDigiTV master PCI card. You can
add more slave USB2 tuners as needed. It works great for me,
but I use their own software. I believe their BDA drivers are now
MCE compliant. Not cheap, but excellent kit:
http://www.nebula-electronics.com/
BDA drivers:
http://www.nebula-electronics.com/Downloads/BDA_Drivers.asp
HTH

 

[Rob Hemmings]

Have a look at the Nebula uDigiTV master PCI card. You can
add more slave USB2 tuners as needed. It works great for me,
but I use their own software. I believe their BDA drivers are now
MCE compliant. Not cheap, but excellent kit:
http://www.nebula-electronics.com/
BDA drivers:
http://www.nebula-electronics.com/Downloads/BDA_Drivers.asp

Sorry, just noticed the BDA drivers are OK for the pci version, but
not yet ready for the USB slaves.

 

[if]

Have a look at the Nebula uDigiTV master PCI card.

Are there any TV cards similar to the Nebula that work under Win98?

 

[James Harris]

Try the Terratec site for updated drivers James.

No good, I'm afraid. They even pointed me at a non certified beta driver
but it did no better.

 

[James Harris]

Since you only have one PCI slot available,the terratec card can't
find a
good address to instal itself.
You could try removing your other PCI cards and getiing the terratec
card
working first,then adding back your other PCI cards.

No good, I'm afraid. The Terratec fits in a PCI-express slot. And I did
try removing all other cards - but same effect.

 

[James Harris]

Sorry, just noticed the BDA drivers are OK for the pci version, but
not yet ready for the USB slaves.

Good suggestion, though. I have Nebula's USB device. Marvellous little
box. It works fine with their own software but, as you state, not with
MCE. MCE has a keyword-based recording option which I want.

I may go for the PCI card version, which allegedly works with MCE. Pity
it has only one tuner onboard but I'll give it some thought.

 

[Chris]

Good suggestion, though. I have Nebula's USB device. Marvellous little
box. It works fine with their own software but, as you state, not with
MCE. MCE has a keyword-based recording option which I want.

I may go for the PCI card version, which allegedly works with MCE. Pity
it has only one tuner onboard but I'll give it some thought.

For more information about using the Neb with MCE, have a look at:

http://www.digitv-forum.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=16

If you haven't already.

HTH,

Chris