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post #8311 of 12370
11/19/06 at 4:38am
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Originally Posted by vfrjim View Post

OK, maybe I am being lazy(ok, yes I admit it) but have not been in this thread for some time but I have had an issue for some time and wonder if others have the same problem. I use Tuner2 as my primary tuner and when I use HOT keys to change from tuner to FILE, it works fine but after I am done watching a file and hit the HOT key to switch back to Tuner2, it says NO SIGNAL and I have to cycle the channel up then down to get a signal. This does not have aways, but many times. Am I alone?

Thanks,

Jim

Use to have the problem but I somehow fixed it. I would actually get locked out where a reboot was required.

What fixed; hmmm; I put in a new hard drive, new SATA controller, new PSU, and of course a fresh install of XP with 1.66 with updated driver....so no idea really but it is gone.
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post #8312 of 12370
11/19/06 at 8:04am
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Originally Posted by vfrjim View Post

switch back to Tuner2, it says NO SIGNAL


I could not reproduce this problem but as others have implied there was a problem very similar to this that was fixed on a previous driver upgrade. I would also suggest you confirm 1.66.
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post #8313 of 12370
11/19/06 at 4:59pm
Random question on audio...
I just bought a myHD and now need to hook it up. Currently I've been using my mobo's onboard audio (nothing great).

I see that the Myhd card has 5.1 output.

Do I need to get a sound card for my computer to take advantage of this?

I have a surround sound system for my home theater w/optical etc inputs already, so I'm trying to figure out how to connect my computer my surround sound system.

Does the connection come from myHD, or from the sound card that I may/may not need to buy?

I plan on using the computer for DVD watching, TV, and occcasional gaming (BF2).

If I need to buy one, any advice on a cheap basic sound card (nothing fancy)?
Thanks!
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post #8314 of 12370
11/19/06 at 5:26pm
Tyson, read The MyHD MDP-130 Meta FAQ (and the Cliff's notes on the DC site linked there) and all will become clear.
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post #8315 of 12370
11/19/06 at 5:32pm
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Originally Posted by TysonCook View Post

Random question on audio...
I just bought a myHD and now need to hook it up. Currently I've been using my mobo's onboard audio (nothing great).

I see that the Myhd card has 5.1 output.

Do I need to get a sound card for my computer to take advantage of this?

No, you don't need a sound card, there is a digital coaxial out (does 5.1), if your receiver can handle coax, there shouldn't be any issue
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Originally Posted by TysonCook View Post


I have a surround sound system for my home theater w/optical etc inputs already, so I'm trying to figure out how to connect my computer my surround sound system.

Does the connection come from myHD, or from the sound card that I may/may not need to buy?

It is directly out of the myHD card, there is a a setting in the MyHD control panel and the OSD menu to set it to MyHD SPDIF.
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Originally Posted by TysonCook View Post


I plan on using the computer for DVD watching, TV, and occcasional gaming (BF2).

If I need to buy one, any advice on a cheap basic sound card (nothing fancy)?
Thanks!

If you want sound for anything but the myHD, you will need a sound card...I have one cable from myHD card to my reciever (for MyHD 5.1 sound) and a stereo out of my video card for my other computer sounds (BeyondTV, games, etc). You might want to see if your onboard video card will support what you need for your games etc. You can buy a simple stereo jack (headphone out from your computer) to RH splitter (white & red) for input to your TV or reciever.
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post #8316 of 12370
11/19/06 at 6:32pm
Thank you both! This "little" HTPC thing is becoming a little more involved than I thought!

I appreciate everything!
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post #8317 of 12370
11/19/06 at 7:45pm
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Originally Posted by TysonCook View Post

Random question on audio...
I just bought a myHD and now need to hook it up. Currently I've been using my mobo's onboard audio (nothing great).

I see that the Myhd card has 5.1 output.

Do I need to get a sound card for my computer to take advantage of this?

I have a surround sound system for my home theater w/optical etc inputs already, so I'm trying to figure out how to connect my computer my surround sound system.

Does the connection come from myHD, or from the sound card that I may/may not need to buy?

I plan on using the computer for DVD watching, TV, and occcasional gaming (BF2).

If I need to buy one, any advice on a cheap basic sound card (nothing fancy)?
Thanks!

If you need optical then you either need the daughter card or a sound card. I run mine through a sound card.
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post #8318 of 12370
11/19/06 at 7:49pm
There are inexpensive S/PDIF to TOSLink converters also if your receiver doesn't have sufficient coax digital audio inputs.

The "problem" with HTPC is not lack of routes from A to B but too many of 'em.
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post #8319 of 12370
11/19/06 at 8:37pm
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Originally Posted by TPeterson View Post

I posed a similar request to MIT yesterday.

Just an update on the OSD corruption...unfortunately I still have not found a way to make the corruption happen. I am still getting about corruption once a day.

Today, I tried to I see if I could get "double corruption", i.e. once the OSD palette corrupts to a certain set of colors, waiting to see if it will corrupt again to a different set of colors. So far, the corruption colors have not changed.

Sometimes I'm not the most observant person, but today I was starting at the corrupted palette...in this case the big OSD "box" is light purple, the outline of the characters and blocks in the signal strength indicator is some kind of green, but the body of the characters and blocks is tranparent. I never noticed the transparency before, but I don't think it always happens that way.
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post #8320 of 12370
11/19/06 at 10:23pm
MyHD will not play Starz-HD (MPEG4) .ts files captured with a Dish 211 and Nextcom's R5000HD modification.

Does MIT plan to support playback of MPEG4 H.264 files?

Also, why does MyHD not play an HD .mpg files captured by an R5000-HD modified Dish 211 when controlled by SageTV?
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post #8321 of 12370
11/19/06 at 10:30pm
Murray--

No support for new file types is planned.

Your second question implies that MyHD (accidentally) does play .mpg files from the R5000/Dish when not controlled by SageTV. If that's so, then you need to ask SageTV about fixing their "broken" .mpg files.
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post #8322 of 12370
11/20/06 at 1:04am
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Originally Posted by mkerdman View Post

MyHD will not play Starz-HD (MPEG4) .ts files captured with a Dish 211 and Nextcom's R5000HD modification.

To add what has been pointed out, support couldn't be added if they wanted to. The card uses hardware MPEG-2 decoding. The chip doesn't do MPEG-4.
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post #8323 of 12370
11/20/06 at 6:53am
I have 2 MyHD 120's. One in an HP and the other in a Dell, both using 98SE.
Using latest software and drivers. The HP when booted will give error "cannot create MyHD dialog boxes". This happens about 30% of the time and is corrected on reboot. I have had both cards over 2 yrs. Now the Dell has started to do the same thing. Am I alone here? Any Ideas?
Dick
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post #8324 of 12370
11/20/06 at 7:51am
Dick--

You may be alone--in that few seem to be running Win98 on HTPCs these days. From your description I would guess that you've installed another app on those two machines now whose DLL set conflicts somehow with MyHD. I have a Win98 partition on only one machine left and haven't been able to make a working MyHD installation in it for a long time now. It's too low on "the list" for me to spend any more time beating that horse.
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post #8325 of 12370
11/20/06 at 8:31am
I have a MSDN Operating Systems subscription and I spent most of the weekend working with the final version of Windows Vista. Even though MIT does not officially support Windows Vista (and probably never will), with a little bit of effort I found a way to get both the drivers and MyHD software installed for my MDP-130 capture card. After getting the drivers and software installed, I was surprised to find that my MDP-130 capture card works perfectly under the 32-bit version of Windows Vista!

Here is how to install the MyHD drivers and software under the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista (This configuration is unsupported by MIT. I have not had any problems so far, but proceed at your own risk.):
  • Install the MyHD and remote drivers in Windows XP SP 2 compatibility mode by right-clicking on the driver installer and picking the compatibility mode on the compatibility tab. After setting the compatibility mode, run the driver installer executable.
  • Install the MyHD software in Windows XP SP 2 compatibility mode. Be sure to pick the application only option during the install.
  • If you have the Windows firewall enabled you may get a message asking if you wish to allow or block the MyIRC application. Select Allow.
  • Reboot
  • Right click on the MyHD shortcut on the desktop (or start menu) and select the Windows XP SP 2 compatibilty mode
After following these steps, the MyHD software and remote works perfectly under Windows Vista. I have been able to watch both digital and analog channels, as well as schdule captures and use the program guide with no problems.

Hopefully this will be useful to someone.

Please Note: This procedure will only work properly on the final retail version of Windows Vista, which is currently only available from MSDN, TechNet, or MSVLS. This procedure will not work on the beta or release candidate versions of Vista.
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post #8326 of 12370
11/20/06 at 2:36pm
wbo,

Thanks for the great news! I've been sweating bullets worried that my beloved MDP-100 was going to be a Vista casualty since it's a doorstop under RC2.
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post #8327 of 12370
11/20/06 at 4:56pm
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Originally Posted by wbo View Post

... Even though MIT does not officially support Windows Vista (and probably never will), with a little bit of effort I found a way to get both the drivers and MyHD software installed for my MDP-130 capture card. ...

Nice effort and thanks for sharing a peek into the future. Now, don't go too far away... some folks might need you when the rubber starts meeting the road for them.

--Dale--
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post #8328 of 12370
11/20/06 at 8:28pm
"Are you using version 1.66 app and at least the updated driver from last December (1.66.0.1)? If not, please get the updated app and driver to see if they fix the problem."

I will check that out and see what I am running, thanks!

Jim
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post #8329 of 12370
11/20/06 at 9:20pm
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Originally Posted by wbo View Post

I have a MSDN Operating Systems subscription and I spent most of the weekend working with the final version of Windows Vista. Even though MIT does not officially support Windows Vista (and probably never will), with a little bit of effort I found a way to get both the drivers and MyHD software installed for my MDP-130 capture card. After getting the drivers and software installed, I was surprised to find that my MDP-130 capture card works perfectly under the 32-bit version of Windows Vista!

Here is how to install the MyHD drivers and software under the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista (This configuration is unsupported by MIT. I have not had any problems so far, but proceed at your own risk.):
  • Install the MyHD and remote drivers in Windows XP SP 2 compatibility mode by right-clicking on the driver installer and picking the compatibility mode on the compatibility tab. After setting the compatibility mode, run the driver installer executable.
  • Install the MyHD software in Windows XP SP 2 compatibility mode. Be sure to pick the application only option during the install.
  • If you have the Windows firewall enabled you may get a message asking if you wish to allow or block the MyIRC application. Select Allow.
  • Reboot
  • Right click on the MyHD shortcut on the desktop (or start menu) and select the Windows XP SP 2 compatibilty mode
After following these steps, the MyHD software and remote works perfectly under Windows Vista. I have been able to watch both digital and analog channels, as well as schdule captures and use the program guide with no problems.

Hopefully this will be useful to someone.

Please Note: This procedure will only work properly on the final retail version of Windows Vista, which is currently only available from MSDN, TechNet, or MSVLS. This procedure will not work on the beta or release candidate versions of Vista.

Are you sure that it doesn't have to be run as administrator too? I was under the impression that anything that writes the registry has to be run that way.
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post #8330 of 12370
11/21/06 at 2:53pm
I am using version 1.66.06 of the MyHD exe file (the one that came with the CW_EPG program). The following procedure is how I get the OSD stuck on screen every time (completely repeatable on my system):

Load file and begin playback.
Enter Full screen mode.
Stop playback with remote.

OSD appears on screen and does not go away. Top left line of OSD is the text "Press FAV for Play List".

Exit fullscreen mode.
Load file and begin playback again.
Enter fullscreen mode.
OSD is on screen and does not go away.

I have to exit the MyHD app and reload to get the OSD to fade away after 5 seconds like it's supposed to.

I can make part of the OSD go away by using the OSD keyboard command (S), but the "Press FAV for Play List" always stays on screen.
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post #8331 of 12370
11/21/06 at 3:00pm
Mark--

That OSD problem has been fixed in the upcoming release, along with several other things, including QAM channel scanning up to 135. I thought that you were talking about the OSD palette-corruption problem, which has not been solved.

BTW, you can make the "stuck-on OSD" problem go away in the version you're using by unchecking the box for "show OSD on overlay".
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post #8332 of 12370
11/21/06 at 3:26pm
Cool. Thanks Terry.
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post #8333 of 12370
11/22/06 at 6:28am
I don't know if this is a bug (or if it's even been discussed), but I discovered something odd last night.

If you turn on CC, and then start recording (or a scheduled recording), you can't turn off the captions while it's recording.
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post #8334 of 12370
11/22/06 at 6:44am
taz--

I wasn't aware before of this limitation, but I think that it falls into the same category as not being able to change output resolutions while recording--i.e., a design limitation rather than a bug.
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post #8335 of 12370
11/22/06 at 7:21am
Ever since I updated to V1.66 and installed CW_EPG, every time I start playing a DVD the onscreen text comes on and doesn't go away. I'm referring to the normal text that comes on in the upper left corner when in full screen mode. I have to press "Enter" twice to get it to go away, but then it still displays "Play" in the upper left corner until I press the "Play/Pause" button twice. I thought this was just a bug in the beta CW_EPG MyHd.exe file, but since we're well past any beta versions now, I don't know what's causing it. I recently uninstalled the app and driver, deleted any file with a reference to *MyHD*.*, *MIT*.*, *MDP*.* and even had it look inside all my files for references to any of these. I also searched the registry and did the same thing, deleting any entry that referenced these. I rebooted in between each time and then reinstalled the app and driver after doing a fresh download from MIT's FTP site. I still get the same display problem. Does this happen for anyone else?
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post #8336 of 12370
11/22/06 at 7:34am
Read four posts above yours.
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post #8337 of 12370
11/22/06 at 7:42am
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Originally Posted by TPeterson View Post

Read four posts above yours.

Doh! I hate it when that happens. Any rough time-frame for when the new release will come out? Is it going to be beta first and then released officially later?
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post #8338 of 12370
11/22/06 at 8:22am
The "plan" is "before the end of the year". Does unchecking the mentioned box do the trick for you or is this a different problem?
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post #8339 of 12370
11/22/06 at 4:06pm
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Originally Posted by TPeterson View Post

taz--

I wasn't aware before of this limitation, but I think that it falls into the same category as not being able to change output resolutions while recording--i.e., a design limitation rather than a bug.


Not a big deal, just thought everyone would like to know. I check up every now and then on our station's broadcast to make sure CC is working properly, and last night, I happened to do it just before a scheduled recording (on the same channel). I was stuck watching the opening of Veronica Mars with captions until the commercial break (and unfortunately, VM's openings are about 10 minutes long).
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post #8340 of 12370
11/22/06 at 6:12pm
Here's an update on my OSD palette corruption experiments...this should prove rather interesting to those who are following this issue...

Last Sunday afternoon, during football, the pallete corrupted. The computer and MyHD have been up and running full time since the last corruption. I did not reboot, because I wanted to see if the corrupted palette colors remained the same. The corrupted colors remained the same...until today. I checked tonight...and the OSD palette had returned to normal.

There's no way the PC could have rebooted, because I have password protected login, and I start MyHD manually after logging in. When I fired up the display and receiver tonight, the sound and picture were right there, indicating that MyHD was running as expected. There's nothing in the Event viewer, other than a message that one of my software programs checked for an update.

After about 1/2 hour of watching tonight, the OSD palette corrupted back to the exact same colors that it did last Sunday afternoon. I don't know when the palette returned to normal...sometime between the time I went to bed last night and when I fired things up tonight.

Somehow, something managed to reset that OSD palette...
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