I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system
using Media Center.
I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade.
Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108)
All other video and DVDs play find.
My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K
application from Hauppauge.
I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working fine
in Vista MC.
Timothy Drouillard - 14 Jul 2006 19:22 GMT
I had Vista 32-bit installed on my Dell Dimension E510 (till it died) with
an Intel 630 (3Ghz) and 1gig DDR2 ram using the integrated Intel 945G video
and the Hauppage 150 MCE card.
It ran just fine, and it had great quality TV both live and recorded.
The only issue I had, is I could not get MCE to burn a DVD (video) of a
recorded show.
The recording wizard would begin, and it would get as far as asking if I
want to burn a data or a video DVD, but after answering the question and
clicking on 'next' the system would hang and never get to the next screen
where it normall asks you to enter a title, then continue on to burn the
DVD.
This weekend I'll be replacing the crashed E510 with a new E510 which
happens to have a 2.8DGhz CPU, and I'll give it another try.
>I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system
>using Media Center.
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> I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working
> fine in Vista MC.
JW - 14 Jul 2006 22:41 GMT
Did you install Vista Beta 2 as upgrade to an esisting MCE 2005 system or
as a totally new install of Vista on a newly formatted partition. Your
configuration is almost identical, if not identical, to mine and I suspect
that my problems are related to the fact that my VISTA MC installation was
not an upgrade.
>I had Vista 32-bit installed on my Dell Dimension E510 (till it died) with
>an Intel 630 (3Ghz) and 1gig DDR2 ram using the integrated Intel 945G video
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>> I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working
>> fine in Vista MC.
HDRDTD - 15 Jul 2006 13:55 GMT
Mine was a total clean install on a empty single HD.
> Did you install Vista Beta 2 as upgrade to an esisting MCE 2005 system or
> as a totally new install of Vista on a newly formatted partition. Your
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>>> I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working
>>> fine in Vista MC.
JW - 16 Jul 2006 23:14 GMT
HDRDTD,
If your 150 card is working fine with the clean install you describe I would
also be curious to know if your 150 card had been used sucessfully before
running on a MCE2005 system and if was origianally purchased as non MCE 150
PVR card or as a MCE 150 PVR card. The only difference I know is supposed
to be the drivers, however, since my card bought in the fall of 2005 was
just a regular 150 PVR card I am suspecting that there are possibly some
encoder chip rev level differences between cards and that not all rev levels
work properly with Vista MC. Hauppauge knows of no reason so far that I
should be having trouble but does admit that the recording I sent them looks
very bad.
That fact that my card works fine when I dual boot my system to run under XP
Home with the WinTV2K application from Hauppauge.
> Mine was a total clean install on a empty single HD.
>
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>>>> I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working
>>>> fine in Vista MC.
HDRDTD - 17 Jul 2006 03:11 GMT
The card was give to me as a Christmas present, so it was bought in December
of 2005.
It's the WinTV-PVR 150 Media Center Kit, and I installed it in a Dell
Dimension E510 that was bought in October of 2005 w/Windows MCE.
> HDRDTD,
> If your 150 card is working fine with the clean install you describe I
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>>>>> I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working
>>>>> fine in Vista MC.
JW - 17 Jul 2006 13:57 GMT
Thank you for the feedback, our cards are probably identical. I think I will
give up trying to solve this problem for the moment since there are several
other companies whose products I use daily that are preventing me from using
Vista on a regular basis.
> The card was give to me as a Christmas present, so it was bought in
> December of 2005.
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>>>>>> I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is
>>>>>> working fine in Vista MC.
Samaarons - 16 Jul 2006 22:36 GMT
I am having major frustration too. I did a clean Vista install on a
partition drive but can not get Vista MCE to play live TV well, I get
freeze frames, pixilation but when I use the application supplied with
my turner pci card, it runs incredibly well.
System specs:
TV Tuner: AverMedia UltraTV 1500
Also using Windows MCE Remote Control & Receiver
Mother Board: Asus p5rd1-vm-uayz
Processor: P4. 2.66Ghz
RAM: 1.2
Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress 200 series
HD: 150 Gig (Vista partition using 80 Gig)
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Conversation: Hauppauge PVR 150 working in Vista B2 MC?
Subject: Hauppauge PVR 150 working in Vista B2 MC?
I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system
using Media Center.
I started with a clean install of Vista not an upgrade.
Have the Vista drivers from Vista WinUpdate (..24.108)
All other video and DVDs play find.
My XPHome Boot disk in the same systems works fine with the WinTV2K
application from Hauppauge.
I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working
fine
in Vista MC.
Eric G. van der Paardt - 17 Jul 2006 14:02 GMT
>I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system
>using Media Center.
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> I would like to know the configuration of anyone whose card is working
> fine in Vista MC.
I'm using a PVR500MCE and from my understanding my card is basically two 150
tuners on a single card. I am getting OK (not great) recording and live TV
performance using the PVR150MCE Hauppauge drivers from here.
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_pvr150.html
By not great I mean it seems to take a while to switch channels, and the
initial video startup is perceivably slower then with MCE2005. The
recordings are fine and very watchable, TV is watchable... The quality of
both seem fine... The hardware itself seems to be slow.
I haven't managed to be able to burn a show to DVD yet... and my shows do
not sync to my PPC. I believe both of these are problems associated with
the windows encoder, and not the hauppauge card.
Nathan Wallace - 18 Jul 2006 01:20 GMT
You can edit and convert the DVR-MS files to MPG with Nero 7 Ultra. Works
fine.
>>I can not get decent Live or Recorded quality from my Vista Beta2 system
>>using Media Center.
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> not sync to my PPC. I believe both of these are problems associated with
> the windows encoder, and not the hauppauge card.
JW - 18 Jul 2006 02:35 GMT
But what does that have to do with anything when it comes to watching live
TV?
> You can edit and convert the DVR-MS files to MPG with Nero 7 Ultra. Works
> fine.
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>> not sync to my PPC. I believe both of these are problems associated with
>> the windows encoder, and not the hauppauge card.