Problems with P750 and Hauppauge WinTV on XP

[Taliska]

Hi all,

Just slapped in the WinTV card from Hauppauge and every time I log in, the screen res drops down to 800x600.

Any ideas anyone?

Something to do with 'overlay mode' maybe not available on higher resolutions perhaps?

Cheers,

Taliska

[MADg400DnoMAX]

Hauppauge WinTV compatible cards:

http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/Forum8/HTML/001936.html

[Greebe]

sounds like a driver issue.

[The PIT]

Yeh crappy wintv drivers. Which card is it ???

[jgyearwood]

I have a a WinTV PVR 250 running under Window XP Pro with two CPUs and a G400 Max. Once I installed the new Hauppauge drivers, I have had no problems. I'm running two monitors and the TV display will only work on the primary display. I hope this helps.

[az]

You might want to install the drivers, but use something else for viewing than that crappy WinTV application - which might well cause problems too..

I use FreeTV. No Frills, very fast channel switching, text decoder.

AZ

[KeiFront]

Hey Az, do you have a link for FreeTV?

I'm using Dscaler atm much much better than that crapy WinTV application.

[The PIT]

Originally posted by KeiFront
Hey Az, do you have a link for FreeTV?

I'm using Dscaler atm much much better than that crapy WinTV application.

Funny although Dscalar says my card is compatable when I run the software it always says cannot find a compatable TV chip.

[KeiFront]

Which Tv-card do you have, I'm even using the latest alpha version (4.1.6) no problems at all.

[az]

Sorry, I meant MoreTV, not FreeTV. Both had a analog pay TV decoder (illegal, of course), the version I have a download link for doesn't contain that decoder though.

It's not as sophisticated as dScaler (no kind of deinterlacing, for instance), and I only have a download link for the german version (don't know if there is an english one), but since it's a very simple program, that shouldn't be a problem. Just ask if you don't know a word, or use http://dict.leo.org/

AZ

[KeiFront]

It took me some time to setup but I got it running, the Teletext decoder is great. But I already encountered some less good aspects of the program e.g. sounds keeps running when you close the program, etc (and no english version ). But overall it's great, a small easy to use TV-decoder.