How to turn off video on Demand in MMC 9.13?

[Dennis Q. Wilson]

Maybe I'm dense, but since upgrading from MMC 9.08 to 9.13, Video On
Demand runs full-time, and I can't figure out how to turn it off. Can
someone clue me in?

 

[Ted F]

You can NOT turn off or disable the TV Video On Demand in MMC 9.13, the
program always stays active. The ATI TV Video On Demand is compared to
"Snapstream" both can not be turned off to simply watch live TV. Your in
trouble if you have a small hard drive. It saves small files that add up
wasting your hard drive space.

Also, what I notice too is the GUIDE PLUS+ program guide does not detect the
ATI TV tuner.

I too went back to the old MMC 9.06.1, the MMC 9.08 does not work for me,
where I have complete control if I want to use Video On Demand at any time.
Thus, I never use Video On Demand anyway.

 

[stratus46]

You can NOT turn off or disable the TV Video On Demand in MMC 9.13, the
program always stays active. The ATI TV Video On Demand is compared to
"Snapstream" both can not be turned off to simply watch live TV. Your in
trouble if you have a small hard drive. It saves small files that add up
wasting your hard drive space.

Also, what I notice too is the GUIDE PLUS+ program guide does not detect the
ATI TV tuner.

I too went back to the old MMC 9.06.1, the MMC 9.08 does not work for me,
where I have complete control if I want to use Video On Demand at any time.
Thus, I never use Video On Demand anyway.

They took away the option to save (discard) Video-On-Demand files? I
use video-on-demand to pause and skip fwd/rev during live TV but never
save the files when exiting DTV for the reasons you mention. I haven't
loaded up 9.13 yet and if I have to manually toss out the VOD files, I
might not bother with it. Or do I misunderstand video-on-demand?

GG

 

[Dennis Q. Wilson]

You can NOT turn off or disable the TV Video On Demand in MMC 9.13, the
program always stays active. The ATI TV Video On Demand is compared to
"Snapstream" both can not be turned off to simply watch live TV. Your in
trouble if you have a small hard drive. It saves small files that add up
wasting your hard drive space.

Also, what I notice too is the GUIDE PLUS+ program guide does not detect the
ATI TV tuner.

I too went back to the old MMC 9.06.1, the MMC 9.08 does not work for me,
where I have complete control if I want to use Video On Demand at any time.
Thus, I never use Video On Demand anyway.

Odd... GUIDE PLUS+ works fine for me under 9.13. But that always-on
VOD is a deal breaker for me. I have plenty of space on my hard drives
-- I just don't want them thrashing all the time.

I must say I detest most of the changes in Setup, too. Like, what
happened to VideoSoap?

 

[Ted F]

There are "cache files" saved to the hard drive and do add up. I have over
680mb saved cache files on my hard drive.

These files are created and saved hard drive when watching simple live TV.

As I said before, You should have complete control to turn off (disable)
Video On Demand.

 

[Dennis Q. Wilson]

Also, what I notice too is the GUIDE PLUS+ program guide does not detect the
ATI TV tuner.

Where's the ability to track dropped frames?

 

[Ted F]

There's none...

Where's the ability to track dropped frames?

 

[Urb]

In the TV Initialization wizard you can uncheck "Preserve TV-On-Demand
programs between sessions". When TV is closed the files are deleted. This
wizard is also available on the Setup Display tab.

You can also set your S-Video/Composite connection to not time-shift. There
doesn't seem to be a way to disable time-shift on the tuner unfortunately.

 

[java]

you can turn off "save on demand sessions"

You can NOT turn off or disable the TV Video On Demand in MMC 9.13, the
program always stays active. The ATI TV Video On Demand is compared to
"Snapstream" both can not be turned off to simply watch live TV. Your in
trouble if you have a small hard drive. It saves small files that add up
wasting your hard drive space.

Also, what I notice too is the GUIDE PLUS+ program guide does not detect the
ATI TV tuner.

I too went back to the old MMC 9.06.1, the MMC 9.08 does not work for me,
where I have complete control if I want to use Video On Demand at any time.
Thus, I never use Video On Demand anyway.

 

[digitalman]

Dennis Q. Wilsonwrote:
Maybe I'm dense, but since upgrading from MMC 9.08 to 9.13, Video On

Demand runs full-time, and I can't figure out how to turn it off. Can
someone clue me in?

I also just upgraded because I was having video probs and now since I
can't turn off time shift my tuner card is totally unusable. It
constantly stutters. The whole reason I purchased the AIW card was to
watch TV on my PC and now I can't. I can only hope they come out with
a fix soon.

 

[Ted F]

I totally stop buying ATI products, since the recent change in there
software. It BLOATS your hard drive.

ATI should call their new MMC 9.13.

ATI MMC-DVR 9.13

 

[stratus46]

Maybe I'm dense, but since upgrading from MMC 9.08 to 9.13, Video On

I also just upgraded because I was having video probs and now since I
can't turn off time shift my tuner card is totally unusable. It
constantly stutters. The whole reason I purchased the AIW card was to
watch TV on my PC and now I can't. I can only hope they come out with
a fix soon.

Try a little experiment. When it stutters, pause it for a second and
then go back to play. I've noticed this with 9.08. AFAIK, TV on Demand
can't be turned off but I wouldn't want to anyway because I LIKE
skipping the commercials.

GG

 

[John Cocktosen]

Terrible answer from ATI:

ATI - Customer Care [[email protected]]

We have responded to your issue.

Solution:

The TV on Demand is always turned on with MMC 9.13 and it cannot be
turned off. If you do not want the TV on Demand turned on all the time,
I would suggest you to remove the components relating to MMC 9.13 and
install the MMC 9.08.

That is pretty dumb. I wonder why they would think that anyone would
want that turned on all the time...

 

[superborg]

Try this

Close MM

Run RegEdi

Search

HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> ATI Technologies -
Multimedia -> Features -> DTV -> Channel Manage

Set "LiveMode" =

Open MM

 

[Mike L]

Hi guys,

I'm new to this site and litterally just signed up about two minute
ago, so I hope to hear from you all soon

Well anyways, inspite of what everyone is talking about, I too a
experiencing the worst of the worst when it comes to MMC 9.13
Seriously ATI has really been p*ssing me off lately with thei
mediocre, sloppy written software that does nothing but frustrate th
end-user. I'm registered with another forum and while 'trying' t
obtain some help, I was greeted with nothing but sarcasm and attitud
from all the ATI fanboys

Anyways, I would like to add to the horror story by saying that I a
well can't turn off TV ON DEMAND. But that is the least of m
problems because as of right now, I can't schedule a bloody recordin
session. Every, SINGLE time I try to schedule a recording session I'
welcomed with a Windows error message. "RManager: An invali
argument has been ecountered", which ends up deleting m
recording session. I've seen other people who've had this problem a
well, but I just want some reassurance in knowing that I'm not th
only one. I mean what's the point in using this software if you can'
ever record a T.V. show!? Anyways, I'd really appreciate the help fro
any of you guys. Take care

 

[dave3white]

I am getting the same message
"RManager
An invalid argument was encountered"

However, I was able to setup a recording from Guide+, but when I
checked the Schedule was when the error was displayed.
Interestingly enough, the connection between Guide+ and MMC9.13 does
not seem to work (The TV window in Guide+ is empty).

Any suggestions would be appreciated, otherwise, I'll need to do
another round of uninstalling, rebooting, then reinstalling.

 

[dfung]

Superborg -

Nice registry fix, definitely killed off the VoD. But, unfortunately
ATI sucks so badly that they overwrite this registry key with a zero
and turn VoD back on if you flip to the other video inputs (I have a
PVR connected to the video in).

So, the nightmare continues if you foolishly use any of the other
features of frackin' software.

ATI are just stupid. I too watch TV or recordings in a window on my
desktop when working and have never used the VoD functions. With this
latest version, it basically gags and stutters if I actually am doing
any work (god forbid!). When I do a long compile, that was actually
when I usually watched what was on TV, and of course, that's when it
totally doesn't work. If I'm not doing anything but running MMC, it's
showing 30%+ CPU utilization with nothing else going on. But the real
problem is disk bandwidth.

Grrr.


I think I'll try backing up

superborgwrote: Try this:

Close MMC

Run RegEdit

Search:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> ATI Technologies ->

Multimedia -> Features -> DTV -> Channel Manager

 

[Captain Midnight]

With 9.1x I can turn TVoD off/on to the tuner by setting the composite or
S-Video to what I want and switch to it before going back to the tuner. That
said if you only have an AIW 9.06/9.08 is probably the best bet for other
reasons anyway.

Analog takes ~15% CPU on a P4-2.4GHZ but have seen the Remote Wonder take it
to 50% on occasion.

Process Explorer, a free program from SysInternals.com(which is really M$)
It can show CPU usage for individual processes.