FusionHDTV 3.3 official version has been released - Page 29  

In XP your best bet is a "system restore" to the closest date. If no workie then pull the card and boot up and shutdown and reinstall the Fusion app.

sounds like an electrical glitch(my guess is the power was put back quickly and might have caused a surge) has caused your motherboard to not see the fusion card. try removing the fusion card entirely from the computer, then turn the computer on and check the bios to make sure all settings are correct. then reinstall the fusion card again. then do a remove and re-install of the fusion app using my procedure. try a different version of the fusion app.

it's difficult to diagnose a problem like this, but it could be a low cmos battery has lost your bios settings when you lost power. or you may have to clear your cmos and then put in the correct settings again, because the glitch has caused a corruption in the bios.

do you have another computer to test the fusion card in? just to see if it is recognized as being installed in the socket.

ep45 is the same error you get when running the software with out a card in the computer, so it's difficult to tell if its hardware or software.

Thanks for the advice,

After uninstalling, pulling the card, booting, shutting down, placing the card, and reinstalling,

Its now working,
Thanks again

Not there. Files are still locked. :(

Today we seem to have Alpha2:

ftp://ftp.dvico.com/Products/FusionH....01_Alpha2.exe

It took them more than a month for any update, now it looks like we are back to an almost daily affair.


Tim

As a data point, I've never used anything but Add/Remove programs to uninstall the software and never had any issues uninstalling or installing new versions.
I'm just sayin'.


Also, I never did get a copy of Alpha1 downloaded yesterday. It repeatedly failed after about 2.5 MB. I'm attempting Alpha2 now.

Is this info from DVICO or a guess? I'm loathe to go through the uninstall/install deal if I'm just going to wind up blocked from 1/5 of my clear QAM channels again, but I'm generally a "keep up with the versions" kinda guy.

I haven't followed this thread for a long time and it's too long for the search to even return something useful. So forgive me if this is an FAQ type of question.

Does the latest softwae allow custom naming of QAM channels? It maps subchannels in an unhumanly fashion in the last version I tried, which made it even worse than just main.sub combination.

Nope, the crazy mapping is still there. For channels with proper PSIP information it maps to a recognizable name, but there are so few of those it's practically worthless. There basically hasn't been anything substantive changed/fixed related to QAM in quite a while now AFAIK.

Terry Peterson is the correct source for help on your inquiry. However, I am attaching an image of my Registry after editing under the supervision of Terry to demonstrate a working unit for frequencies greater than allowed by FusionHDTV.
The numbers in the ( ) are the frequencies of the clear QAM channels I wish to receive. These frequencies are also in hex(2e90edd0=781250000), and they must be entered as hex. The numers 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 are the numbers I chose to replace the RF numbers used by Fusion to select a given frequency. I chose these small digit numbers, because they permit me to do an auto scan and stop the scan at 10 or higher and avoid getting the 350 channels I don't use as well as save a lot of time.
I use TsBrowser2 to identify the frequencies I wish to insert into my Registry. Note that a number of the frequencies are above 800MHz, and not available in the FusionHDTV. Your frequencies will not be the same as above unless you are connected to Comcast cable in P.G. County,MD. Many of my channels have sub-channels, and some of the sub-channels are encrypted, which seems to confuse my FusionHDTV5USB software. At the present time I find Ver. 3.30.00 as best in sorting out the clear channels and avoiding the encrypted channels.
I hope this will be useful to those trying to extend the frequency range of Fusion tuners. Our requests for a software upgrade have been ignored.

THANKS!

Can you elaborate on how you use TSBrowser2 to identify the frequencies? My use of TSBrowser, when using autoscan, does the same scan as autoscan in FusionHDTV.

Incidently, I did use your keys from your earlier post because I knew Cox in Fairfax also used the 843Mhz for some channels. Simply followed the instructions at the snapstream site... copied the block of text, renamed reg, good to go. But I am seeing several keys in my registry besides TS0-1... can they be deleted, anyone know? Looks like the results of previous autoscans or something.

I don't see those other keys, and I don't feel safe in removing things from Registry.

I am attaching a small image from my TsB2, which can tune to RF channels up to 135.
I entered the number 126 into the CH window, and then clicked twice on Live TV. The program tuned to 805,250 KHz, listed the signal level, and entered the channel info into Sub-Channels window. Note that D1260 is encrypted, but D1261 is not. I then enter 127, 128,129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, and 135 to find which channels are available along with the info about encryption. You can also enter numbers below 126 to get similar info.

Is the TSB2 file you attached to this post still the latest? I never got it to work and the file size is slightly different expanded (641K) versus the other one that does work (647K). Anyway, I wondered if another updated TSBrowser was coming especially if they tweaked the channel scanning in 3.4.alpha.

I'm running it to see what frequencies have active QAM channels from my cable provider. I suppose I could just map all the lowers to uppers and from the articles and do a channel scan in FusionHDTV, catch them in my favorites, then remove the mapping...

Terry,

A2 did not work for me; I had to revert to the 01 in the usual three plus hour procedure of manually cleaning the registry of 100’s of DVICO, BLUEBIRD, ZULU et al. entries manually.

That three-hour procedure is because that DVICO does not know how or does not care to program in a method, style, or format that is recommended by Microsoft using current tools and third party libraries and/or object code that is designed and compliant for a Windows XP in a post Service Pack 2 operating environment. DVICO is using very old development tools.

DVICO needs to use a MSI 3.X compliant installation routine, and be working on a MSI4.X routine (needed for x64 and Windows Vista). If DVICO is going to produce such “dirty†code, they need to provide a tool (with full logging) that would remove and deregister all reference to their product and applications. Other manufacturers already are doing so for their products; it just may not be “publicâ€, but still available.

The scanning on A2 is “brokenâ€; it “trapped out†at the end of the initial first scan of the digital channels. I attempted several installs.

DVICO needs to get their act together, forget about everything else (such as PVR, EPG and so forth) and just produce an application that does work correctly with QAM, and all US major MSO’s. This idea of just one application for the product line worldwide is ridiculous; we are probably going to need a highly customized version just for the US, considering the uniqueness of the US MSO’s, and their tendency not to adhere to specifications 100%.

We still have not a good explanation for the six-week hiatus in application development from DVICO.


Tim

Is there a Readme online that discusses the functionality in these Alpha's?

-- Rich

No README or CHANGELOG, typical of what I expect from DVICO.


Tim

Not true, they are using a Korean programing style, that is not typical anywhere else in the world. I also suspect something else, and I beleive that may very well the reason that DVICO has not upgraded.

The DVICO application will not work under the final released version of Windows Vista; thus they need to get moving real fast.

IMHO, all DVICO software has been "beta", and what they (DVICO) call "beta" is really "alpha".

Any word as to why the six-week break?

Thanks,


Tim

Unfortunately for us HTPC enthusiasts, I agree with you, that DVico's most valuable time is probably spent developing the more consumer friendly products that would sell more in mass, and I can't blame a company for wanting to make money. However, I also feel DVico is doing a huge disservice to both itself and its customers first off because they cannot seem to get the software right after years of practice, and secondly by deciding to not let other 3rd party developers work on a program that could actually make their PC "tinkertoy add-ons" into awesome products without those developers having to pay a lot of money for DVico's tools.

I have several PCs with TV tuners, but only 1 with a Fusion because of the software, and I have many friends who have tuners now but were interested in the Fusion at one time, and I even know quite a few more that would purchase one for their own PC if the software wasn't so flakey. It's too bad, as in this case I believe DVico is cutting of their nose to spite their face!

In my opinion, if their PC products had good software, even if written by 3rd parties who didn't have to pay DVico for their development suite, they would be flying off the shelves and DVico would be making a lot more money on them just because of point of sale, and probably a lot more money than they are now with their current software package and all the time they have spent and are spending still trying to develope software that works properly and is stable ... it seems to be a waste of their time and effort spent on the PC software side of these cards if their other products like TViX are going to be their bread and butter going forward, so it's time for DVico to start giving their darn development tools away to companies the likes of Snapstream and SageTV or (insert your favorite company here), and let them develope working software for their cards, we would hopefully (probably) end up getting software that was acceptable , stable, and user friendly, causing sales of DVico PC products to rise dramatically IMO, and all the while DVico could then focus all their attention to their other bread and butter products even more cost effectively ... in the end the consumer is made happy and DVico should be making more money on the sales of the hardware, regardless if they don't make money licensing their tools (have they even sold 1 license to another developer yet!?!) ... am I way off base here or what?

i posted the portion of the readme included with the 3.40.01 that pertains to the newer versions in this post:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...&&#post7460355

Unfortunately, many companies lack the foresight to grasp that, if they get a reputation among us "noodlers" for putting out junky/clunky products, that reputation carries over into the mainstream entertainment product world when early adopters (again, us "noodlers") ignore their mainstream products or give the company bad word of mouth.

Bottom line is that any product a company puts out, no matter the intended audience, reflects upon the quality of all its product lines.

Thanks. Hmm. I do not see the allowing of other readers so I could play a recording with TheaterTek while it is being recorded.

Where are they coming up with the urgent need for zoom and slow motion :rolleyes:

-- Rich