Analog (SD - Standard Definition) input on an ATI HDTV Wonder

[pax]

After moving my Hauppauge card to a system in the living room running MCE, I tried setting up BeyondTV 3.7 with an extra ATI HDTV Wonder - SD/Analog input.

The interesting thing is the video is working on all of the local analog SD cable channels. However, the problem is there is no audio. I've tried all of the options for Audio input but none of them work.

Anyone have any ideas?

Hopefully I've indicated 'Standard Definition (SD)' enough to avoid any confusion.

Thanks,
Pax.

[kgrodrigues]

so i tried this too with the same results. I think its cause the hdtv wonder doesnt use an input on the sound card to decode audio. it does it internally. i.e there is no cable from the ati hdtv wonder to the sound card. the audio options in BTV get you to pick the audio from the inputs on your sound card.

I tired the amcap2.exe program that comes as part of the directX 9 sdk, and got the same results. I guess BTV need special support for tuner cards that directly handle the audio, rather than passing on the task to your sound card. I do believe there are other tv capture card that do it this way.

i would also dearly love to use the analog (SD) input on my HDTV wonder.

[Rich A]

I've used the HDTV in an MS MCE op. system for a few months. There are specific install procedures to use. Check this link to another forum post (not SS) by "Puwaha" (post # 4). He details the way to set up an MCE system so your ATI HDTV wonder will work with both the HD and analog input. (not at the same time of course).

Keep in mind the HD recording default is not encoding anything .. it's just dumping the received HD Transport stream directly to your hard drive. Ergo, very little CPU is used.

However the analog input uses the ATI encoding engine (software based) and that can use up a lot of CPU, depending on the quality setting. That capture is encoding real time. The HD transport stream save is not encoding.

Here's the URL for that post:

http://www.xpmce.com/forum/ftopic90558-10.html

You might get some ideas there. BTW, that's the way I had mine running which worked fine. Er as fine as Windows MCE could work that is. I've long since gotten rid of MS MCE in favor of running XP Pro with a better PVR software ... ..

[pax]

Hmm, do you have the ATI HDTV Wonder working with Snapstream in HD mode?

BTW, I ended up getting a Hauppauge 500 for my MCE system and moved the 250 to the Snapstream box. The main reason I set up MCE was for HD PVR...

[Rich A]

Originally Posted by pax

Hmm, do you have the ATI HDTV Wonder working with Snapstream in HD mode?

BTW, I ended up getting a Hauppauge 500 for my MCE system and moved the 250 to the Snapstream box. The main reason I set up MCE was for HD PVR...

Yes and it works quite well. I do have some small problems with live HD TV, but have determined that is my video card. Capture and playback of full 1088i HDTV works great.

However I also do not use the ATI HDTV Wonder's analog input at all. Only the HDTV OTA input. I have two other Hauppauge PVR-x50s that handle the cable analog input for me.