WIN-TV Radio & Other Things

Trying the WIN-TV Radio part of WIN-TV, software I had downloaded and installed, from the Hauppauge website, for my Hauppauge PVR-500 Radio/TV card. This I like better than the Media Center radio, or you can use this software for your card if you don't have the Media Center Edition.

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Education

Tags:

• WIN
• TV
• Radio
• Software
• Hauppauge
• PVR
• 500

[BernieLJ77]

However, even though the Hauppauge analog card works great for FM, and with the DTV converter box, works great for Digital TV, I am trying a digital card by Twinhan, the exact model I'm not sure of at this time, but it came with TwinhanDTV 2.64 and TwinhanData 1.801 software on CD, and it doesn't work too well. Even though it scans TV channels, and even though I can view them in the preview window, I can't view them at all in the main view window and FM doesn't work at all.

[BernieLJ77]

If I use the Windows Media Center instead of WINTV, WINTV32 or WINTV2000, then I still see the TV channels in the preview window, but when I want to choose one channel to watch, I can only watch one channel, the rest do not have any signal strength. and I don't get any FM radio stations with the Twinhan at all. I did use the software program called DECCHECK.EXE to view the available MPEG-2 decoders and I then chose the recommended decoder that I had downloaded earlier.

[BernieLJ77]

However, I've switched from Windows over to Mandriva Linux, so now I need to do things differently and I'm attempting to get a program called TVTime to get TV viewing and FM Radio listening to work. I may take the TV/Radio card out so I can put something else into that expansion slot, like maybe my 4-port USB2 card, which actually has a 5th USB port, that would be inside of the computer when installed or internal and the other 4 ports are outside or external to the computer.

[BernieLJ77]

These antennas are about 10 feet above the roof or so and about 20 or 25 feet above the ground. I don't know off hand what range the Discone antenna is rated for but it works fairly well. Oh yes, the PVR500 is an installed card, PCI I think, placed into an expansion slot, and not connected via USB. This computer only has the 1.0 USB ports I believe but I do have a 2.0 USB card I can put into the computer which is a little faster.

[BernieLJ77]

Anyway, I have a 90-mile VHF/50-Mile Uhf pointed SW for one city that's 70 miles away, and a 120-mile Vhf/100?-mile Uhf pointed SE towards two cities, one which is 45 miles from me, the other is 70 miles from me, and there's a 2,000-foot or so mountain inbetween me and the city that's 70 miles from me, around the 45 mile or so distance from me. For FM radio, sometimes I use the same antennas, but sometimes I use the Radio Shack Omni-directional Discone antenna for all directions (all outside)

[BernieLJ77]

Yes, the Hauppauge PVR500 that I have is analog, and it worked great for analog TV, and works great for FM radio, plus I connected a DTV converter box to it for digital TV, and that works great. The only thing about games is this, if I try to do screen-capture type of recording it for a YouTube video, that doesn't work too great as the computer is too busy then, but I used to capture the screen video by camcorder seperately instead of a screen-capture program.

[xboxplayer2]

The composite inputs work great and the quality is great. But 2mbps isn't good when you're doing things for the newer game systems. The TV tuner sucks though and I don't give much about the radio. I haven't tried the Svideo connection. I need an amp for the TV connection...

[BernieLJ77]

Hopefully yours worked great.

[xboxplayer2]

I just got myself a WinTV-PVR2-USB2