wilkcards:

Yeah, the QAM scan is pretty garbage.  Mine finds 13 of 70+

Is there some sort of fix for this?

Yeah, add them manually.  You should be able to find most of them at silicon dust's site...

http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/channels

hmm that worked. Is there a way to do this en-masse...perhaps something in the registry? I can switch my channels all over to digital (thus making my 2250 worthless over, say, 2 cheaper qam tuners...blah) but it will let me record all my shows 2 at the same time.

also, guide data doesn't seem to come through for the manual channels, even kicking off a manual download...?

Not afraid to whip up some powershell if I know where they go.
Thanks

When my VMC does it's scan, with one of the 2250 tuners set to analog, and one set to QAM, VMC claims it has only found 13 channels.  But when I go to the guide, it shows 50 more (of course these are the analog channels (ie-1-99 without and x.x channels).  So the "channels found" readout only seems to count QAM channels, and not the other analog channels found.  They are indeed there.

Maak184:

When my VMC does it's scan, with one of the 2250 tuners set to analog, and one set to QAM, VMC claims it has only found 13 channels.  But when I go to the guide, it shows 50 more (of course these are the analog channels (ie-1-99 without and x.x channels).  So the "channels found" readout only seems to count QAM channels, and not the other analog channels found.  They are indeed there.

Yeah I get the same thing and understand it only 'finds' digital channels. The problem is it doesnt find all digital channels. I want to set both tuners to QAM since hybrid mode isnt supported in VMC

I started this question kind of elsewhere and was informed about this thread.

If I have a cable connection split three ways as follows, can I record four shows at once if I have the TVPack installed in Vista MCE?

Coax cable comes out of wall for Comcast into three way splitter.

First two coax connections out of splitter to to standard digital cable boxes.

Third coax connection out of splitter goes straight into the top coax connection on the 2250.

 

Both cable boxes then use their RCA audio/video outputs into each of the two RCA inputs on the 2250 (with extension board) to feed the cable boxes into MCE.

Then using the third coax connection and the hybrid tuner as pure analog just pick up the bottom 70+ channels.  I assume I can get two of them with this method.

Based on this setup, and the supposed support of TVPack to different tuner types, I should be able to record on all four feeds correct?  As a side note yes the two cable boxes have the remote led's setup to switch channels automatically.

Thanks.

JR   

No. There are two tuners on the card, no matter how you configure them, you still only have two sources.

Rick

RickH:

No. There are two tuners on the card, no matter how you configure them, you still only have two sources.

Rick

You are positive about this right?  Because that would make the Hauppauge salespeople either liers or badly informed.  They seemed to think the video inputs were separate pieces of the card and could be used separately from the coax input.  At least that's what they told me when I was looking to buy it.

JR   

jriker1:

You are positive about this right? 

definitely just two tuners. the product literature says the same thing.

qamfan:

jriker1:

You are positive about this right? 

definitely just two tuners. the product literature says the same thing.

Right, but just as a last clarification, the device has a dual hybrid tuner and two video inputs.  So eliminating the "tuner" terminology are we still saying that if I have a coax connection in the tuner "port" that I can't connect two cable boxes to the S-Video port and record off of those additional non-tuner specific ports as well?  Right now with my Hauppauge 350 cards one of the two tuners went bad and I also decided to go the cable box route so currently plug the cable boxes into the S-Video/RCA ports and not the coax connection.  Figured MCE TVPack or non TVPack version whatever could process both inputs.

JR   

media center understands how to talk to tuner devices, but i don't see how it would be configured to record from an s-video connection. i think that only hauppauge software can deal with that part of the hardware.

qamfan:

media center understands how to talk to tuner devices, but i don't see how it would be configured to record from an s-video connection. i think that only hauppauge software can deal with that part of the hardware.

Of Course media center can record from s-video.  I was doing just that with mce2005, and ir blasters.  I don't remember the specific steps, but you have to answer "yes" when asked if you have a cable box, of course.

FYI - When using Windows 7 - 7000 Build, all of my tuner cards were recognized including the 2250.  Hybrid mode and all.  I let Windows configure them automatically after seeing them all recognized.  Prior to this attempt I was trying to use VMC and rebuild my new machine about 10 times trying to make it work. I followed all of these instruction and read everything possible regarding VMC and getting the 2250 working with QAM in my area. Update NY - Timewarner.

First try with 7...everything worked.

Additionally, Windows 7 Media Center is an upgrade over VMC.  New Mini guide rocks.

The deal is...The Easiest Solution for all of you struggling with this issue is the 7000 build.

wilkcards:

qamfan:

media center understands how to talk to tuner devices, but i don't see how it would be configured to record from an s-video connection. i think that only hauppauge software can deal with that part of the hardware.

Of Course media center can record from s-video.  I was doing just that with mce2005, and ir blasters.  I don't remember the specific steps, but you have to answer "yes" when asked if you have a cable box, of course.

Thanks for the input on the other individuals comment, however still doesn't answer the question on if you can use the analog coax input and the S-Video inputs at the same time.  I know thru the GUI it refuses to recognize both as valid inputs.  Only one or the other, so either the card can't handle them both simultaneously or TVPack doesn't work as expected to handle multiple sources.

JR

jriker1:

Thanks for the input on the other individuals comment, however still doesn't answer the question on if you can use the analog coax input and the S-Video inputs at the same time.  I know thru the GUI it refuses to recognize both as valid inputs.  Only one or the other, so either the card can't handle them both simultaneously or TVPack doesn't work as expected to handle multiple sources.

JR

The previous answer is correct I'm sorry to say. The card is divided into two seperate hybrid sections. Each hybrid section can handle at any given time either QAM or NTSC or ATSC or line input. So at any given time that card can only deal with two sources....one for each section.

I still don't understand why someone hasn't put out drivers that simply combine all the tuner possibilities into different channel sections and provide them all to media center as if they were from the same source type. Seems easy enough for a driver to map channels. Maybe they keep expecting media center to fix the hybrid issue to they never get around to it. Sorry a bit off topic from your question.

I would think the sales people most likely are misunderstanding the tech data. My rule of thumb is to never trust sales people. If the literature doesn't explicetly say the device can do something, it can't. With a sales person, even if they say it can do something, if often still can't. They are frequently more interested in up front sales than getting the info right....some how bad publicity later about a device not doing what was promised never seems to make it back to them & their career.

Good luck!