Let's see, you installed a new capture device and windows is now using the new device by default to serve out it's video feed and your mad at the 'gay' software that came with your new capture device?

You don't say what your OS is but go to your control panel and change the default capture device back to your web cam or whatever. And messenger options might have a setting for the device to use. Now that you now have more than capture device in your machine your going to have to tell some of your software which one to use...

XP, there is no default capture device setting

You can change the video source in Messenger it's under

Tools->Audio and Video Setup...

Anyone have an idea why the Fusion software stops recording part way through a scheduled recording? First one of the day seems fine, but recording something else on a different channel immediately after seems hit or miss lately. I am running Vista if that helps.

Which FusionHDTV app version are you running and what Fusion tuner(s) do you have installed?

Which FusionHDTV app version are you running and what Fusion tuner(s) do you have installed?
Opps, you're right, forgot. Fusion HDTV 5 Gold (PCI) with software version 3.68.96...the latest. However the recordings were cutting off on previous software also, including versions 3.68.06 and 3.68.

Other computer information just in case: Operating system, Vista w/SP1 on an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe motherboard with an Intel Xeon 3085 processor, 8 gigs of Crucial PC6400 ram with an Nvidia 8800GT 512 graphics card.

Only other problem I had was one ram chip was not seated properly and showed up as bad. After reseating, tested extensively and no problems.

Can you correlate the shortened recording events with any particular channel(s)? I'm not aware of any issues with the F5Gold drivers, so I suspect that your problem is with signal strength or extreme multipath reception (if OTA).

Can you correlate the shortened recording events with any particular channel(s)? I'm not aware of any issues with the F5Gold drivers, so I suspect that your problem is with signal strength or extreme multipath reception (if OTA).

Might this have anything to do with my Vista install is 64bit? I am thinking about upgrading to the FusionHDTV7 dual tuner card which has drivers for Vista, 64 bit.

UPDATE: completely removed the FusionHDTV software and drivers and installed version 3.64. Everything seems rock solid again.

FURTHER UPDATE: Bad ram chip, that's what I found was the root of my problems.

It could. But it sounds more likely to be signal, since you say it's "hit or miss". Sw usually either does one or the other consistently.

Hi folks,

I'm having a very strange issue I hope you guys can help me solve. I've owned my Fusion 5 USB since mid '06 and it's given me years of good service until now.

I recently installed Windows 7 x64 on my machine in a dual-boot config. I installed the DVICO x64 drivers and HDHomerun setup on Win7, then I ran MCE setup on Win7 and it detected all 3 of my tuners no problem. But only the HDHomerun could tune channels correctly.

In the Fusion app, Auto channel scan picks up the correct RF channels and type "256Q or 64Q", but none of the subchannels show up at all, nor is there anything in the "encrypt" field. It's like it can scan the channels but not actually tune them. Trying to tune the channel in the app yields a 90-100% signal but blank screen.

No biggie, I figured the Fusion wasn't yet Win7 compatible, so I booted back to WinXP.

Now under WinXP it's having the exact same issue. I've uninstalled the drivers and the application using the DVICO setup and then reinstalled everything including beta 3.69. Same issue recurs. Signal on the cable is fine and is working with my HDHomeRun (and was working with my fusion until recently).

I'm not sure how to do a thorough uninstall including registry - I recall a link on an old AVS thread but I'm not sure it still applies to F5-generation cards.

Is it possible that the Fusion install program actually updates the firmware on the fusion USB itself, and somehow I've hosed that? If so, how can I force it back to an earlier version?

Any help appreciated and many thanks.
---DanQ

Core2Duo 6400@3.0 GHz
4 GB DDR2
Gigabyte P965-DS3 MB
WinXP SP3 (32-bit), Win7 RC1 (64-bit)
NVIDIA 8800GT 512MB
Fusion 5 USB
HDHomerun

After Power Down try UNPLUG from outlet at least 3minutes.

tc1 - Not sure what you're asking me to unplug. I've certainly unplugged the Fusion USB from the computer for more than 3 minutes and replugged with no love. Have also shut down/restarted the PC but I can't see how that would make a difference.

---DanQ

Unplug the PC. Has worked for me, BUT I am not using USB. What's to lose?

OK, I have done a ton of reading and didn't come up with anything to help my situation. I recently picked up a F5 RT Lite because it was relatively cheap. I put it in my system which already has an old F2 in it. They refuse to work together. Anytime I try and access the analog tuner (for cable recording) it spits out an error about being unable to connec to to the deinterlacer filter. It then will receive audio, but no video.

The digital side will work-but only in the Fusion software. I had been using WatchHDTV to view real-time OTA TV because of it's small footprint, but it crashes if I have both of these cards in the system.

My system: Intel E4500 on a Gigabyte P35 MB, WinXP SP3, ATI2600XT

I have tried: different versions of the software, Kaxkid uninstall/reinstall, nuke and pave reinstall of XP (needed it anyway), moving PCI slots - even though the system (both XP and BIOS) reports the cards using different IRQs.

Nothing has any effect. I have narrowed it down to the WDM Video Capture driver by completely installing one card, verifying function, and then adding the other card one driver at a time until the problem reoccurs.

Now, it appears that these cards actually use the same Capture driver, although it is installed separately for each card. So it appears that the system is having trouble distinguishing between the two cards despite the different IRQs and resource allocations.

I have run out of troubleshooting ideas. Aside from switching to a card that uses different drivers, does anyone have any ideas?

Oh, I also have a F7 USB, that works fine both Digital/analog even with both of the other cards in the system - even WatchHDTV can access it without problem.

Thanks in advance....

It sounds to me as though the F2 and F5RT are flatly incompatible and it's time to move on.

It sounds to me as though the F2 and F5RT are flatly incompatible and it's time to move on.

LOL. Yeah, that was pretty much my conclusion. I was just hoping against hope that someone might have some small thing that I might not have thought of :)

I just installed 3.68 (?) on a newly whacked box. The file names generated by a recording are prepended with some garbage. I poked around the config menus but did not see a way to turn this off. If there a config option or a registry setting that I forgot about?

Hi Allen,

In the Recording Scheduler, uncheck Automatic Date Maker.

-Dave

Thanks Dave. Gotta spare set of eyeballs laying around.

3.70 sucks.. more info why in a later post

Dutifully did a rescan this morning and it hit the fan. Now I get continuously recurring "access violation" error boxes and "Menu index out of range" any time I click the mouse.

I know I forgot to clear the Favorites something from somewhere and if somebody can remind me where it is I will or whatever else it takes. Rather do that than uninstall and reinstall. On 3.68. Thanks.

Allen, the Favorites menu is accessed via the "star" icon on the control panel. But I'm not sure that you'll be able to get to it while being inundated by a.v. errors.

Hi everybody,

I'm using a Dvico Fusion5 Gold (USB) device on my WinXP Pro SP2 (32-bit) HTPC, and am presently running version 3.61 of Dvico software (released on April 6, 2007).

I'm planning on rolling back my HTPC to a backup made prior to the Dvico installation so I can install Dvico software anew (and not have to deal with the uninstall/reinstall issues I've read about). The 3.61 version has had some quirks on my machine when recording OTA HD (I've lost a few programs as a result), and I just want to see if one of the subsequent Dvico software releases will eliminate them.

I am wondering what version I should try, as Dvico makes all their Fusion5 Gold software revisions available for download (http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/ENG/Download/Software.aspx). I don't need Vista compatibility, just good stability and operation on WinXP Pro SP2 for recording OTA HD. Any input from the community here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. :)

All better now. Managed to get to the Favorites screen and delete all.

I use 3.68 and am quite happy as long as one deletes all the favorite entries before doing a rescan. Actually the rescan was not necessary because I knew Fox, NBC and CBS would stay where they were. ABC disappeared, went back to VHF, turning my 7' UHF antenna into a big weather vane as regards recording ABC. But thats why I have 2 HDPVRs.

Vlad--

AFAIK, the F5USB unit works well with all the recent versions of FusionHDTV. I suggest that you go either with the current official release (3.80) or the immediately preceding one (3.68.04) when you upgrade. Since 3.80 has been out such a short while, 3.68.04 is less likely to have undiscovered problems.

Also, for most people the uninstall/reinstall issues aren't as troublesome with 3.6x as they were with some earlier versions. Using the KAXKID procedure still is the safest course, but it's probably overkill in most instances (and even at that it's not as inconvenient as backing up to a more than 2-year-old configuration, IMO).

Vlad--

AFAIK, the F5USB unit works well with all the recent versions of FusionHDTV. I suggest that you go either with the current official release (3.80) or the immediately preceding one (3.68.04) when you upgrade. Since 3.80 has been out such a short while, 3.68.04 is less likely to have undiscovered problems.

Also, for most people the uninstall/reinstall issues aren't as troublesome with 3.6x as they were with some earlier versions. Using the KAXKID procedure still is the safest course, but it's probably overkill in most instances (and even at that it's not as inconvenient as backing up to a more than 2-year-old configuration, IMO).

Thanks... I'll kick the tires on the latest and greatest. If I have problems, I know where to take them :)

Those of you waiting for audio in win 7, 3.80 does not address that. Although the performance is much improved.

Those of you waiting for audio in win 7, 3.80 does not address that. Although the performance is much improved.What audio issue are you seeing? I've been having no problems with that at all in Win7 with either 3.68.04 or 3.80 when using SPDIF output....

Thats good news, but I still am not getting any audio after trying different configs. Im not sure what my audio settings are supposed to be... have a rt5 pci, audigy 2, win 7. I am not having any other audio problems in win 7. hmm.

Have you tried the audio options available in FusionHDTV setup and none of them give you any output?

Thats good news, but I still am not getting any audio after trying different configs. Im not sure what my audio settings are supposed to be... have a rt5 pci, audigy 2, win 7. I am not having any other audio problems in win 7. hmm.
I had a problem like that some time ago.
Right click speaker icon on the taskbar and select "Open Volume Mixer" and make sure that the FusionHDTV as not been muted. Documented here:
http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/Eng/Support/FAQVista.aspx?act=RD&id=370&pg=0&CATID=16

I had a problem like that some time ago.
Right click speaker icon on the taskbar and select "Open Volume Mixer" and make sure that the FusionHDTV as not been muted. Documented here:
http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/Eng/Support/FAQVista.aspx?act=RD&id=370&pg=0&CATID=16

That was it, thanks!

I, too, am having audio problems. Whenever I close FusionHDTV (or sometimes even when I just change channels) the Wave input in my Realtek HD Audio Controller goes "Muted" and stays that way until I "uncheck" the Mute box. Other than this, all seems well.

I'm running the ver. 3.80 s/w on a Fusion3Gold pci card.

I've tried various combinations of settings of Fusion audio configuration but nothing seems to help.

Anyone have any ideas?


I have tried the registry patch given on the Fusion HDTV FAQs with no success. My OS is XPsp3.

I did a Windows XP sp 3 reinstall when I got a new MB and hard drives and video card. Everything seems to be OK with the Fusion 5 Gold running on the newest software (3.8?)
except that when I record a program and play it back the recorded length indicators on the OCD shows half the time values for the actual program. A one hour program shows up as 30 min in the OCD but plays the full hour. It is minor but irritating. Anyone have a clue what's going on?

hey what card/cards would you guys recommend for me....i have two physical coax antenna cables because i have 2 different directions....so these tuners that only have one coax input are worthless...additionally i am looking only to tune into digital so i have no need for analog signals...basically i want to record 2 shows at once OTH from 2 different coax signals....any suggestions for a card or two cards (that are fully compatible)

Ryan

HDHomerun

yea but thats around 150-200 when most others are 50-75...any other suggestions??? If not thats fine i understand sometimes you get what you pay for but im just trying to figure it all out

I don't think that there are any dual-input dual-tuner models for 50-75....

My favorite retailer (http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Video/hdhomerun.asp) has the HDHR for close to the bottom of the range that you mentioned. ;)

Never mind, I did a reinstall of the Fusion software and that solved the problem.

Never mind, I did a reinstall of the Fusion software and that solved the problem.

Really!

I often have MyHD time 2, 3, 4 times the actual time of the program.

Fast Forward x 8 appears to FF x 0.25.

I also have seen Fusion times also many times the actual length of a program.

But I do not remember shorter times showing like you report. The incorrect longer times comes and goes but other files show more normal times.

Many reinstalls of both MyHD and Fusion since I saw this first.

Was there anything else you did, or was it just Fusion.

If I could just get to reinstalling everything with a fresh copy of XP SP3!

After I finally got one of my four remotes fixed, my brand new 2 TB Network Attached Storage (NAS) started failing.:mad:

I have one more movie left to get off it and then it's in for repair.

I was going for a record of lost data, ~ 600 Gigs! But I got all the rest off and the movie I may have on DVD anyway.

SHF

P.S. If you do not hear from me for a long time, I will be in jail for burning down Murphy's house a 1/2 mile away.

Anyone able to get Win 7 to allow the Fusion 5 to decode QAM?? Windows 7 only sees it as an ATSC tuner...

Thanks

I assume that you're talking about Media Center, since FusionHDTV sees all the tuner's functions under Win7 as well as under any other Windows.

I assume that you're talking about Media Center, since FusionHDTV sees all the tuner's functions under Win7 as well as under any other Windows.

I'm sorry, I am having the issue using Media Center.

I'm having the same issue, no QAM love in windows 7 RTM for a fusion 5 gold card. I've tried the powertoy registry hack as well and no luck with that either. Anyone had any luck with this card in media center?

Is it a matter of Dvico releasing Media Center driver?

Anyone able to get Win 7 to allow the Fusion 5 to decode QAM?? Windows 7 only sees it as an ATSC tuner...

Thanks

I also have this problem. All my ATSC channels are coming in on cable, but none of the Digital channels (which are there) including HD are being tuned.

Fusion HDTV 5 RT Gold
Win7 Ultimate x64 Retail from my Technet Subscription.
8 GB Ram
3.6 Ghz Quad CPU (bus is locked at standard speeds, all done with pure CPU multiplier and stable in 100 degree heat).
4870 ATI video


I'm open to two solutions:

1) Forcing MCE to Decode the unencrypted Digital channels (which were there before the clean install of Win 7) I prefer this because time-shifting in DVICO software has NEVER worked for me.
2) Installing *cringe* Fusion HDTV software. What version I don't know.

I've had SO many problems with fusion's HDTV software and drivers, I'm afraid they'll hose my system like so many times before.

Advice and comments VERY welcome.

I guess I got Fusion all upset but don't know how. I schedule a recording and it records in windows media format with a .wmv extension. I looked all over the configuration screens but didn't see anything. Is there a configuration or registry setting that fixes this?



Pardon me, I may have figured it out,,,,,,,,, just frustrating.

I have to stop leaving the Fusion card alone while on trips. I was gone all last week, opening of the TV season, and set up 11 recordings on the Fusion card. 1 mon, 2 Tue, 2 Wed, 3 Thu and 3 Fri. Got back yesterday and groaned. Mon and Tue nights it recorded fine. But come Wed, Thu and Fri it went dead or at least did no recording.:(

From now on, for trips, I'll just take the Fusion tuners out of the picture. I've got 4 others that can do the job.

Yes, Allen, I find that the Fusion tuner in my "production" system (i.e., the one that I'm not constantly fiddling with) is very reliable for recordings. But I frequently break something on the other two such that I need to fiddle with FusionHDTV again to get it backed out of the weeds. These HTPCs are fragile critters indeed and FusionHDTV appears to be more vulnerable than average to collateral damages.

P.S.: Dave P's tactic of restarting Windows via a scheduled task of "shutdown (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/shutdown.mspx?mfr=true) -r -f" on his recording PCs every week (or is it everyday?) is the best remedial measure that I know of.

My "away from home" schedule wakes the PC at 11:05pm, reboots the PC a few minutes later, schedules program for the next day, and then hibernates the PC.

I added the reboot step because my Fusion installs would sometimes crash on exit, but i have not seen that problem in a long time. I still like the daily reboot since it clears any issue that happened during the previous 24 hours.

-Dave

... But I frequently break something on the other two such that I need to fiddle with FusionHDTV again to get it backed out of the weeds. ...

Hi,

I have had much fewer problems with FusionHDTV since I stopped using "VLC media player".

Not to say that it is OK, just not as bad.

SHF

I have to stop leaving the Fusion card alone while on trips. I was gone all last week, opening of the TV season, and set up 11 recordings on the Fusion card. 1 mon, 2 Tue, 2 Wed, 3 Thu and 3 Fri. Got back yesterday and groaned. Mon and Tue nights it recorded fine. But come Wed, Thu and Fri it went dead or at least did no recording.:(

I use the Fusion 5 USB Gold product, and have encountered the same problem. It appears that when Fusion application crashes after a particular scheduled recording, any subsequent recordings in the schedule queue are lost. I once lost 2 weeks worth of programs while away from home, so I feel your pain :)


My "away from home" schedule wakes the PC at 11:05pm, reboots the PC a few minutes later, schedules program for the next day, and then hibernates the PC.

I added the reboot step because my Fusion installs would sometimes crash on exit, but i have not seen that problem in a long time. I still like the daily reboot since it clears any issue that happened during the previous 24 hours.

-Dave

Are you running WinXP, by chance? How can I set up my HTPC to do what you've described here? TIA.

Are you running WinXP, by chance? How can I set up my HTPC to do what you've described here? TIA.Yes, I am using XP.

Assuming your are familiar with Task Scheduler, a good wakeup task is "cmd /c", since this command does nothing. I prefer to use a command that does nothing for the wakeup task to give the PC a few minutes to stabilze after waking up.

A few minutes later, you can schedule "shutdown -r -f". This command will force hung applications to close and reboot the PC.

You mentioned that your schedule queue is lost after the Fusion app hangs. The only way to get around this is to use a scheduling app such as CW_EPG or Record_This. The "shutdown -r -f" command will clear a hung Fusion app and prepare Fusion to receive the next day's reservations from CW_EPG or Record_This (both of which can be scheduled in Task Scheduler).

After scheduling, you can let the PC go to sleep on it's own using the Windows Power Settings, or you can use a utility, such as Hibernate.exe that you can find by doing a Google search.

-Dave

Yes, I am using XP.

Assuming your are familiar with Task Scheduler, a good wakeup task is "cmd /c", since this command does nothing. I prefer to use a command that does nothing for the wakeup task to give the PC a few minutes to stabilze after waking up.

A few minutes later, you can schedule "shutdown -r -f". This command will force hung applications to close and reboot the PC.

You mentioned that your schedule queue is lost after the Fusion app hangs. The only way to get around this is to use a scheduling app such as CW_EPG or Record_This. The "shutdown -r -f" command will clear a hung Fusion app and prepare Fusion to receive the next day's reservations from CW_EPG or Record_This (both of which can be scheduled in Task Scheduler).

After scheduling, you can let the PC go to sleep on it's own using the Windows Power Settings, or you can use a utility, such as Hibernate.exe that you can find by doing a Google search.

-Dave

Thanks for the reply. I hope you don't mind, and would please bear with me (I've never used Task Scheduler in WinXP... or any version of Windows!), but I've done some research, and have come up with a question: Did you use the Task Scheduler Wizard to set up your task(s), then edit the properties of the sceduled task item... or did you use the command line string "at.exe" to run a "*.bat" file? I read about the latter *here* (http://www.onlinetoolworks.com/docs/winTaskSched.doc).

Here's what the above linked source says regarding "Command Line Scheduling" using "at.exe":

Command Line Scheduling

Windows provides a command line utility called at.exe that can be used to add, delete and change scheduled tasks. For example, to run a .bat file called test.bat at 2pm every day could be setup by typing the following at a command prompt (cmd.exe):

at.exe 14:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su c:\test\test.bat

Using the command line to maintain your tasks can be convenient especially if you need to setup the tasks on multiple computers. You could create one .bat file that has all of your tasks and then just run it on the computers that have the need to run the same tasks.

Notice that the user was not specified in the above command. The user will be that of the Task Scheduler service which is by default the Local System Account. This may or may not be sufficient for running your task. The at.exe command line syntax does not provide a way to set Windows account and password.


Once again, thank you. I appreciate any additional insights you can provide here.

i have never tried the AT command. Also, I don't use the wizard.

I just go to Scheduled Tasks from the Control Panel, right-click inside the Scheduled Tasks window, and select New>Scheduled Task. I name the task, double-click on it, and then select all the options I want.

I suggest you start with something simple, such as a task that launches Notepad. Once you get the hang of it, it is pretty easy to use.

Most of the commands are pretty self-explanatory. For example, you need to check "wake the computer . . ." for your wakeup task.

-Dave

@DPlettner

Thanks for your responses! I'm getting closer...

I successfully created the Restart task to execute "shutdown -r -f".

The creation of the Restart task (not to mention *any* scheduled task) requires you to enter a password for your WinXP user account. So I made a password, and set the task to restart the PC.

When the PC rebooted, WinXP prompts for the login password before it will finish loading the Windows desktop. Is there any way around the password to log in?

Thanks again for all your help, Dave :)

Sorry that I forgot about all the password stuff. This is what I do.

1) Add a password to your XP account (you have already done this). Since you really do not need a password, make it something simple. You can also make the password hint equal to the password itself.

2) Set Windows to supply the password on bootup. My favorite way to do this is to grab the TweakUI Power Toy (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx) from Microsoft. Run TweakUI, expand the logon tree, and click Autologon. If you don't want to install TweakUI, you should be able to do the same thing by going to Run from the Start menu, and launching:

control userpasswords2

3) When you create tasks, first uncheck "Run only if logged on" and click Apply. In the Run As box, supply your computer name and username, and then set the password. Click Apply. Then check "Run only if logged on" and click Apply again. I am not sure why all this is necessary, but it does seem to make all my tasks run smoothly.

If you follow all these steps, hopefully your "shutdown -r -f" task will work perfectly.

-Dave

Sorry that I forgot about all the password stuff. This is what I do.
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If you follow all these steps, hopefully your "shutdown -r -f" task will work perfectly.

-Dave

Thank you once again, Dave. I will try out your suggestions and report back :)

Vlad--

You also will want to uncheck the box that says "Prompt for password upon resume" in Power Options configuration.

Vlad--

You also will want to uncheck the box that says "Prompt for password upon resume" in Power Options configuration.And if you run a screen saver, don't forget the checkbox on the screen saver page that requires you to enter a password when you exit the screen saver.

Thank you once again, Dave. I will try out your suggestions and report back :)

Okay, I installed TweakUI. Took a few trial-and-error attempts to get the scheduled reboot perfect without password login (and in one particularly scary instance, I temporarily locked myself out of my XP machine :eek:), but I finally got that one down. Thanks a bunch, Dave.


Vlad--

You also will want to uncheck the box that says "Prompt for password upon resume" in Power Options configuration.

@TPeterson:
Thanks, that option had been previously set. Quick question, though. Do you know if the Fusion 5 Gold USB product works better when waking up from WinXP standby (settings saved to RAM) or WinXP hibernate (settings saved to hard disk prior to PC shutoff)? I ask because under Device Manager I've had to set all USB hubs to disable the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" option. If I didn't do this, the PC would wake up from standby, but would be unable to connect to the Fusion USB Gold device via USB (Fusion application gives a device error message). It seems the USB hubs were not properly turning back on when the PC wakes up. I was thinking that maybe I should try hibernate, but wasn't sure if I would have the same issue (USB does not resume properly from a system wakeup). Do you have any suggestions here? Thanks!


And if you run a screen saver, don't forget the checkbox on the screen saver page that requires you to enter a password when you exit the screen saver.

Check. I use the XP Powertoys Wallpaper Changer app as my default screensaver, with the no password required option set :)


My sincerest appreciation goes to the both of you for your generous assistance!

Hibernate's resume may be less troublesome, since that involves a more complete hw reset than S3 resume.

As Terry pointed out to me version 3.81 can do H.264 if the proper codec is on the machine. First question, how do I know if I have the codec and if not how do I get it? Second, is upgrading from 3.68 a slick and painless.

Oh, someone got a link?? Thanks.

Allen, I suspect that your TME installation has supplied the H.264 codec that FusionHDTV 3.81 (ftp://anonymous:fireftp@example.com@ftp.dvico.com/Products/FusionHDTV/down/FusionHDTV3.81.exe) needs.

if you are unsure if you have h 264 go to http://www.afreecodec.com/26/h264-codec/ or http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/x264.shtml

And the 64..... question, do I do the full KaxKid procedure or can I get away with an over install?

You need to uninstall and reinstall, but you can save the Fusion registry (via the "save" button in config) and then reload it after the reinstallation so that you'll have all of your settings and channels back. Do the uninstallation from Add/Remove Programs.

I'm in the process of doing a Windows7 Ultimate 64 install (dual boot 'cause I'm chicken). Does anyone have any experience with the Fusion5 Gold & Windows7? Will they be happy together?

The latest FusionHDTV (3.81) installs and runs fine in Win7 without needing any "compatibility" settings (just make sure that you give it write permissions to the needed folders). I haven't installed an F5 Gold under it yet, so there's possibly an issue with that that would require a compatibility switch, but I'd try it first without one.

running both F5-RT(2) and F7 Dual (1) under Win7 Prof x64 - it's all good w/3.81 drivers !!!!
Been running the RTM release for @ 2 months.

until they update the rest of the driver series, the only one that got updated in 3.81 was the express version. the rest of the drivers are from 2 years ago
ever since tv pack came out and going on to windows 7, i have been unable to to run my 2 fusion 5 usbs at the same time. if i have 2 installed one is usually bugged in the device manager with an exclaimation point and resuming from standby causes them to be unavailable and the driver to use up insane amounts of cpu time

DViCo does not recommend running more than one USB tuner per PC.

I'm running a fusion 5 lite and a fusion 5 gold in SageTV. On the lite card I will get fluctuating signal strength from 100%, 99% and then it drops to 0%, then back up to 100%. I've tried to remove the amplification, I've tried removing splitters, I've tried adding splitters.. and updating drivers....

I'm out of things to try anyone have any suggestions for me? Edit: I just noticed that I sharring an IRQ with my video card, I will see if I can try swapping slots tomorrow.

flips

Flips, I suspect a loose connection someplace. I hope that it's in the cable/antenna leads and not on the F5 lite itself....

DViCo does not recommend running more than one USB tuner per PC.

where exactly does it say that?

if you go to this page http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/Eng/Support/FAQInstallation.aspx?act=RD&id=119&pg=1

it says this
Does a 3rd party software support multiple FusionHDTV cards?



It definitely does. FusionHDTV BDA driver supports multiple card configuration so you can watch one channel and record another. Any combination of our cards can be multiply instantiated like the following:

1) Same model of multiple FusionHDTV cards
2) Different model of FusionHDTV cards
3) Same model of multiple FusionHDTV USB modules
4) USB + PCI model combinations.

I have 3 fusion gold usb devices and use to be able to with A LOT of work and luck get all 3 to work together. But I haven't been able to even get 2 to work together any more (It was hard with XP but impossible with Vista). Tech support was USELESS and I finally gave up on using more than 1 at a time. The other two are just collecting dust.

where exactly does it say that?Email from DViCo tech support on 4/13/2008:

"We don’t recommend 2 USB device now."

Perhaps this has changed, but I suspect that the link that you quoted refers only to using 3rd party apps with the BDA driver and not FusionHDTV.if you go to this page http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/Eng/Support/FAQInstallation.aspx?act=RD&id=119&pg=1

it says this
Does a 3rd party software support multiple FusionHDTV cards?....In any case, I've not had good luck using more than one USB tuner at a time.

I'm assuming, since DVICO doesn't mention the 7 USB device in the Windows 7 3.81 update, that there is no windows 7 driver for the 7 USB? Or is that only referring to support under WMC?

Thanks,
CHris

Chris, I believe that all the Fusion devices work under Win7, although some of them may need to be installed using an XP compatibility mode (not the XP VM machine). I'm not happy with some of these (e.g., F7USB and F7 Cool) even under WinXP but AFAIK they should work as well in Win7 as in XP (after you've turned off UAC at least).

3.81 up and running on my dev machine. After I got the decoder 'correctly' setup it now can display H.264 with a faint jerkiness. My proc is maxxed out as I figured it would be. Thanks.

I programmed my Fusion Gold 5 USB to record "Heroes" tonight, but when I went to check the recording, I was greeted with this:
(Spoiler tags used, click on the "Show" button to see the image.)

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh18/FoolsTalk/fusionerror.jpg

Anyone else ever see this happen on their HTPC?

...And, of course, Fusion didn't record "Heroes", dammit :mad:

I haven't seen that for quite a while on a stable configuration, Vlad. I think that it means that your installation is not correct (anymore). It can happen if you make changes to your PC, even ones that you wouldn't expect to impact FusionHDTV's operation.

Time to brush up on KAXKID's procedure and reinstall.

I programmed my Fusion Gold 5 USB to record "Heroes" tonight, but when I went to check the recording, I was greeted with this:
(Spoiler tags used, click on the "Show" button to see the image.)

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh18/FoolsTalk/fusionerror.jpg

Anyone else ever see this happen on their HTPC?

...And, of course, Fusion didn't record "Heroes", dammit :mad:

Ah, yes. Happens every once in awhile. I only wish I knew what the error message meant.

I haven't seen that for quite a while on a stable configuration, Vlad. I think that it means that your installation is not correct (anymore). It can happen if you make changes to your PC, even ones that you wouldn't expect to impact FusionHDTV's operation.

Time to brush up on KAXKID's procedure and reinstall.

Hi,

No reinstall was necessary when I saw this message(s). Just restarting your HTPC will clear this up, you may need to start task manager to kill FusionHDTV (Needs to permanently killed perhaps, see others comments.).

I think this is due to starting FusionHDTV when the previous run has not ended cleanly, or not even been given time to exit before starting again.

The last time I saw this was when I clicked twice very quickly on the Icon starting two copies.

SHF

Flips, I suspect a loose connection someplace. I hope that it's in the cable/antenna leads and not on the F5 lite itself....

Thanks for that tip... I Checked all the cable connections, tightened everything up and no difference.

Then I took out the card to swap slots, and gave it a once over looking for any broken solder connections or something. I found that one of the screws that attaches the case bracket to the card was loose. I tightened that up, put it back into the original slot and 'poof' the problem went away! Now I get rock solid hd signal.

All the messing around that I did on that card and it was just a stinkin' loose screw...

Thanks again,
flips

I'm glad that the problem went away. It may have been the loose screw, or possibly just reseating in the PCI socket was the fix.

I have a FusionHDTV5 USB Gold. Is there some way to get Windows Media Player in Windows 7 to see it as a QAM tuner? It only detects analog channels.

I have a FusionHDTV5 USB Gold. Is there some way to get Windows Media Player in Windows 7 to see it as a QAM tuner? It only detects analog channels.
I sent Dvico a query about that and the answer is no, they don't have QAM support for it and it will "take some time" to "[work] towards a solution" for it.

That's disappointing. I'm not a Media Center addict or anything, but I just had Fusion's own player BSOD for the first time ever yesterday so I thought I should look for an alternative. I've run the Fusion player under Windows 7 before with no major problems, but yesterday for some reason I got a BSOD when I tried starting Yahoo Messenger with Fusion running. It's probably some Aero problem, but I like Aero.