My guess is that the signal strength coming out of the set top box is too weak after having been split. You might try a signal amplifier, or try directly hooking the cable connection to the tuner card, bypassing your set top box for now to see if that's the problem.

Yep..S-Video worked...Thanks.

I just purchased the AVerTV Combo PCIe card to run with x86 Windows Vista Media Center TV Pack.  I installed the card in the PCIe x1 slot, Windows Update located the new device and installed the 2.5.0.29 drivers. 

Everytime I run the Media Center tuner setup, the PC locks up.  Media Center scans the card to locate any tuners, sometimes this works successfully, and the system sees both the analog and the ClearQAM tuners.  Sometimes it locks up before this step.  If the computer locates the tuners, the next step is to scan for ClearQAM channels.  I have never successfully been able to get past this step without the PC ending up in a frozen state.

Once the system freezes, the only way to come out of the frozen state is to manually press the reset button on the computer.  Anyone see this problem before?  Any ideas?

 

hi! i have 2 x avermedia tuner.  i dont know why when i watch LiveTv, the picture is so blurry.

i am connect onboard hdmi to hdmi tv.

pc:

biostar 790gx

phenom  9850BE

4 GB of DDR2-800

2 x avermedia m780

 

I think I spotted your problem - "onboard" video.  I have no problems with live TV with a Geforce 7600GT and 2x M780s.  I'd start there anyway - I know the 790 is supposed to be decent for an IGP, but it's still an IGP.

michaelsims:

hi! i have 2 x avermedia tuner.  i dont know why when i watch LiveTv, the picture is so blurry.

i am connect onboard hdmi to hdmi tv.

Does the bluriness occur on all channels or just analog channels?  Is recorded TV also blurry?  Do you have the latest graphics drivers?

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Gateway GT5032 running Vista Home Premium x64
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (Socket 939)
2048MB PC3200 DDR RAM
640GB HD
Gigabyte GeForce 8600GT 256MB Silent
Powercolor Tul Theater 550 Pro Analog TV Tuner
AverMedia AverTV Combo m780 PCIe Tuner

the blurry comes from all digital and analog also.

Is the entire Media Center interface blurry or just when trying to watch LiveTV?  Have you gone through Catalyst Control Center to make sure your display display settings match what your TV's native resolution is?  There's also a display setup through Media Center, which may help if you haven't done it already.  With the 790GX and a Phenom you should be rocking it in terms of video quality as the combination allows for the full suite of post processing of HD video.

Hoping someone here can help me get both the Analog and QAM tuners running together.  Here is my setup (relevant details):

Vista Home Premium SP1 w/ TV Pack 2008
Intel DG45ID mobo
Intel E6700 CPU
AVerTV Combo PCI-E x1TV Tuner
Cox Cable (Phoenix, AZ) - split from the wall and plugged into card (no set top box)

I was able to set up the digital QAM tuner in VMC with no issue.  All the local HD channels are there and look great.  Then I plugged a cable into the analog port as well and this is when things went wrong.

When I run the VMC tuner set up it does not detect both tuners.  I then go into manual tuner set up, tell it what I have (one analog and one digital), all seems well, channel runs, and all I detect are the QAM channels - no analog. 

Since I am getting QAM, I can't imagine this is a signal strength issue.  Scanning this fourm it seems like getting both tuners workign is a challenge.  Does anyone have a solution under VMC TVPack 2008?

Well, this forum managed to fix my problem without anyone even having to answer me!  Turns out I was running an old driver revision.  Installed the .29 drivers (saw a lot of posts mentioning this driver), and VMC saw both tuners and detected all digital QAM and analog cable channels using the configuration tool. 

So I guess I can confirm that this tuner card works very well with Vista Media Center + TV Pack 2008.  You can have HD QAM and analog both natively supported within VMC without needing to use any of the AverMedia software.

i dont know why when i watched hdtv channel, i got stutter but when i watched SD channel. i dont have any stutter.

AMD phenom 9850

biostar 790gx and used onboard video card with 512 mb

VMC

 

So which way should one go? Use the AverMedia software (QAM Tool, pluggin etc.), or go the TV pack route? What are the advantages/disadvantages either way?

My interest here is for 64 bit

Also a general question for all. I thought I read something the other day about TV pack breaking VMC pluggins (i.e. vmcNetFlix etc...). Does anybody have any information on this?

I got some answers to my second question here:

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/293081.aspx

Still interested if one should really do the TV pack or no...

I just bought this card yesterday.  I'm surprised that it's CD does not come with TV tuner program, I guess they expect you use it on XP Media Center or Vista Premium/Ultimate only?

Anyway, I installed the card on my XP Pro. installed the v 2.5.0.19 driver on CD .  Downloaded AVerTV 6.07 and Aver Media Center 1.51.

I ran AVerTV and did a Analog signal scan and it went fine and finished scanning.  Did the scanning on OTA HDTV signal and the AVerTV ALWAYS STUCK in the middle of scanning channels!  It could happen anywhere 40%, 67% or 85% etc.  press any button (Stop, OK, Apply, close button) and there is no response.  The only way get out is end it with task manager. 

Same is Aver Media Center, ALWAYS STUCK in the middle of scanning channels.

Anyone same experience?   Reboot and rescan, no use, same sympton.  It's really frustrating.

System:  XP Pro 32bit

Motherboard:  INTEL DG33TL, Video: Intel G33 Express, 4GB DDR2 memory, CPU: E6400

Cable: Charter communication 

Location:  Southern california

 

I'm considering replacing my Hauppauge HVR-1600 with the AverTV PCIe M780 and I had a few questions:

1.  The analog (NTSC) quality of the HVR-1600 looks horrible on my TV.  Ghosting with any motion, washed out colors, no detail.  This is compared to the built-in tuner of my TV.  Can anyone comment on the analog quality of the AverTV card?

2.  I can use these beta drivers to enable to clear QAM without also installing the TV Pack, right?  I didn't see any features of the TV Pack that really interested me other than clear QAM, so I don't want to install it if the beta drivers already enable it.

3.  With the beta drivers I can have the card configured as both an analog and clear QAM tuner simultaneously in media center, right?

Thanks and sorry if these have been answered hundreds of times already.