TV Tuner w/ G400

[SteveC]

You could always try to unplug a HDD or CD drive and see if it helps.

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[PurpleHaze]

That or I could get 3 phase 480v current in my house, and turn up the input and hope for more output. Maybe my monitor will be brighter too.

[Grigory]

Hi,

I use similar Avermedia card a long time with G200 and can compare it with RR_G too. Both Avermedia and Happauge cards are slightly modified BT848 reference design cards, so both might have similar problems.

The video quality is similar. All words about different monitor and TV screen characteristics are true. Note, that Avermedia can receive FM radio and TV programes with sound in Russia (SECAM D/K standard), but not RR_G. SECAM quality of RR_G is inacceptable.

The card will never work in the PCI slot nearest to the AGP one. This slot shares IRQ with AGP video. You will get a lot of system crashes and freezes. Move the card into any other slot and try to carefully assign an IRQ to it. IRQ 10, 9, 11 seem to work, provided your video card does not use the same number.

Capturing. I found it useless to capture full screen RGB. The card supports BTUV 4:1:1 format, which has x2 less data rate and follows NTSC specifications in color resolution. I can easily capture in full 768x576 size on my Fujitsu UDMA 17.2 GB drive. 16.5 MB/sec of full quality video without single dropped frame! The capture files are up to 2 G in size.

Remote control is useful if you want to watch TV. I don't use it.


Grigory

[PurpleHaze]

Hmm, I know that Hauppage has made quite a few WinTV cards, and I've seen some that use Zoran rather than Brooktree chips... Dunno.. I've heard some bad things about the Bt848, though it's kind of a de-facto standard.

[Trooper]

Hi,
I just bought a WinTV Go for my G400DH
hoping to get another kick out of the dh feature, but.... the result is like a
fist in my face. The damn thing does not
support the second screen, perhaps because of its directdraw interface, does anyone know how I get the picture (not only the frame ) to the secondary display?

[The PIT]

The only prob I've had with wintv is that I had to do a bit of slot swapping to get it to work and sometimes when you install newer drivers you have to completly remove all traces off the old drivers.
The lastest drivers 3.06 have caused a problem with the teletext program and I get a Dr Watson when I close the program down.
If I'm right you don't need an irq for the rainbow runner. Are Matrox supporting the Rainbow with later cards?

[Himself]

An alternative is simply to get a scan doubler that will convert video into VGA compatible frequencies. Just ordered one myself. Personally, I don't want my computer on when I am busy ignoring TV.

$69 from http://www.mat-co.com/

Basically, convert your 17" into an Amiga monitor.

[Taz]

I have had a WinTV card working with my G400 for a while now running under Win98 without problems. It used to hang like AlanOgilvie mentions when running under Win2k but the latest drivers have fixed this. Needs a good ariel though.

[magick]

It's not possible get the TV-output from the
Hauppauge Tools onto the 2nd Head. You'll
need an alternative program like MultiDEC which works quite well.

[Trooper]

The Hauppauge tools, have no, or little problems with dh, Ihad to switch
the options in the "primary" tool to
...DIB, which is slow, but works.

The problem are.. . the others,
you know, the other little proggies which allow you to see good movies, these have probs with DH.