A few weird things have been happening this week in MCE 2005 so if anyone can help I'd appreciate the feedback.

I live in East Anglia and a couple of days ago BBC1 was replaced in my EPG with BBC World Service - I can no longer get BBC1. I have my TV signal setup as Digital Terrestial (DVB-T) and it picks up all the other BBC channels ok, but not BBC1 any longer. So, I tried rescanning and where I live I have seven signal providers. After trying all seven, none of them offer me BBC1 anymore - its always the World Service.

Also, and this is weird, I can no longer get a Radio signal either. I have five presets all of which worked fine last week (ranging from local to national radio) but when I go to play any of them, the radio doesn't appear to kick into life. I can't use the seek buttons or the tune buttons either.

As a test, I changed the signal from DVB-T to Analog PAL/SECAM in the setup programme and it did pick up BBC1 (all be it very bad picture) and my radio worked fine, but as soon as I change back to DVB-T I lose the radio once again.

If anyone can shed any light on what's happening, and even suggest a solution, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,

I'm baffled as to whether you are trying to use analogue or DVB-T? If you are trying to use digital, then MCE doesn't support digital and analogue together - you can't listen to FM radio while tuned to DVB-T TV. But you can get the radio channels listed in your TV guide, and so can listen to them (and schedule a recording!) from there.

The BBC world service appeared on my DVB-T  PC too - but in a spare channel ( I think it was something like 7?). I still have BBC1. Have you tried setting up your MCE TV again to see if that helps?

I'd be bothered about you having so many signal providers. Surely your aerial is tuned and pointing to one transmitter? To get the best picture, you should choose that one.

The fact that your analogue signal is poor is not encouraging - have you thought of using a signal amplifier (eg from B&Q etc)?

If you are thinking of moving over to DVB-T, you could try scanning your channels to check the strength of the signal - and pick the transmitter that is best. I use this tool - http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=12081. You really need a 'signal quality' of 100%.

If these things don't help, you might need to tell MCE which DVB-T frequencies to use for its channels, to stop it choosing the first it comes to. I'm not quite sure how you do that (I think it needs a registry tweak), but there is a way.

Good luck

Hi.

I'm using DVB-T which has always given me about 70-odd freeview channels including BBC1, Sky Sports News etc, but last week BBC 1 was replaced in the EPG by BBC World Service. I have always been able to listen to radio through the radio (not internet radio but 'normal radio') as my card has inputs for both TV and FM. Been playing this morning, and have managed to rescan and pick up BBC 1 again -so all I need to do now is get the radio back.

Thanks

Good news about BBC1 - as it is about the only channel out of the 70 that broadcasts anything that is worth watching ;-)

I'd scroll down to the bottom of the TV channels and you will see a large number of radio stations there. You have all the advantage of havign an EPG and being able to schedule a recording etc. It is a bit of a pain if you want to strip out the audio to make a CD of it (any good ideas from anyone?), but other than that it is good.

I'm pretty sure MCE does not support UK analogue and digital at the same time. The closest I have got to anythign that is any help is this - http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/xp-media-center-2005-software/10380-dtv-analog-tv-works-together.html . Good lucjk if you have a go with any of that!

Yeah I know what you mean. That and Sky Sports News are the only two I have on in the office. Managed to get the radio working again as well thanks to Mark Slater's post. For some reason my "EnabledForMCE"=dword: was set to '0' rather than '1' for on which is why the radio wasn't working. So now, I have DVB-T including BBC1 and if I want to listen to national or local radio I can do so through the radio tab and all my presets are working fine.

Thanks for your advice. This is what Mark's post said in case you're interested:

Is this a Hybrid card (ie radio and TV on the same card).

If so you need to mod the registry to activate the radio tuner. In doing this you will break the TV scan for additional services beacuse it will get confused with the radio tuner so you need to switch the value back before you scan for tv services (assuming you will want to scan in the future)

You will need to be cautious in the registry and the key in your registry may differ slightly but you need to find..

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Service\Video\Tuners\{A799A800-A46D-11D0-A18C-00A02401DCD4}\{BEA04EBB-BCE3-49FB-B3E6-35174D827C38}\UserSettings]
"UseSTB"=dword:00000000
"WatchOrder"=dword:00000000
"RecordOrder"=dword:00000000
"WatchPrefered"=dword:00000000
"RecordPrefered"=dword:00000000
"EnabledForMCE"=dword:00000001

NOTE the EnabledForMCA set to 00000001 - this turns the radio on

Set it back to 0 before doing a scan or update in TV.