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I have an aopen xcube was running mce 2005 with all 4 air channels working & a guide using the pinnacle pci 300i, all is fine until I see vista mce, got jealous begged my it guy for his msdn version & got it upgraded, felt the wow! effect till I realised, I can't get any open air channels on it! let alone the tv guide, so I tried the whole rf setup thing again & again but to no avail pleez help

Does the card not pick up any channels during the channel scan at all? 

Are your drivers etc all up to date?

Cheers

Chris

nope none @ all, when mce vista scans, it gets none! but before I upgraded from mce2005 all worked fine with the pinnacle drivers, vista came with new drivers pre-installed, they didn't work too well, but windows update gave me hope as they had newer drivers which I'm using now to no avail, this is driving me nuts pinnacle has some newer beta drivers which happen to be 400mb that's R400.00 for me on my mtn data plan, so unless God sends an angel with an unlimited data plan for me i'm dead in the water, I can't afford the hau...cards they're tooooo expensive for me! peace Nkanyiso Duncan

oh I also tried using D Scaler, it worked in mce but not in vista all I get is snow even when I do a full scan! ha! it gets better, my mother brought me a Dell 24inch moniter from london (nice) on 1 condition -I give gran & grandpa my 21inch samsung lcd tv, so now I can't watch tv at all! Heeeelllppp!

the pctv 300i is a semi-hybrid card.

it has an actual dvb-t tuner portion, great for when sentech pull finger and start broadcasting in earnest, but (and importantly) it has a "software" analog tuner.

 

now, software tuners dont work with mce, unless the installer has added a software mpeg2 encoder (these things do exist nowdays)

so, i reckon your card worked just fine with mce, because someone had added a software mpeg2 encoder package. and now, in vista, the drivers that ship with vista/windowsupdate only expose the dvb-t portion, and i would guess it doesnt give you many options when setting up tv...it just assumes you are using dvb-t and goes straight for a scan and gets nothing.

 

do a google for software mpeg2 encoder. and check if it works with vista. like this

 http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=apT&q=software+mpeg2+encoder+mce&btnG=Search&meta=

 

which should send you here

http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/xp-media-center-2005-software/10594-get-most-cards-work-mce.html 

 

(p.s.my kid has a 300i in his mce2005 box, so i know how it works, but we only use the dvb-t side) 

yes I think you're right, for my mce2005 I installed the mce2005 pinnacle setup, which I downloaded from them it has a mpeg encoder, this installer won't work in vista, it can see I'm using vista no matter what compatability mode I use, i'll follow your link & get back to you! has anyone noticed that MEEDIO IS NOW FREE1 & SPORTS TV? thanxs alot

gonna try out the mce-plugin.rar from the australian mce website tonight tell you what happened later

thanxs a million dude, i finaly got all my channells in vista mce, i recommend that everybody who does not have a complient tuner download the file, as it lets any, yes any card work with vista mce, only problem is you better have a fast cpu and lots of ram as your pc & not the card is gonna be doing all the work!

does anyone know where i can buy a geforce 6 or 7 agp card?

 

meedio is now free!

glad i could help. obviously a proper hardware mpeg2 card would work better, so you may get a dropped frame here and there, high cpu usage (which tends to mean more fan noise etc) but on the other hand perhaps it all works nicely for you. enjoy

 

 

when watching teevee my cpu goes to 60-70% the fan on my xcube goes haywire then it heats up till the whole case is quite warm to the touch! my guide does not work, webguide doesn't install 'cos I can't install iis in vista ultimate is there a way that doesn't require webguide or iis to setup the guide in vistaMce