This article is intended for Users of the pinnacle PCTV hardware , and the second part is relevant only to pinnacle PCTV vision users (PCTV pro/stereo/plus)
To edit the keymaps in your remote, navigate to \Program Files\Pinnacle\PCTV Stereo\Remote
and open the profiles.ini in notepad
first there will be a ```
key23=KEYBOARD ALT+TAB
key28=KEYBOARD ^ALT
the channel up button works as the program switcher, and down button causes alt lock to be released
now that you have configured the remote, time to make them do something!
Ill show screenshots for three players that i use.
map the hotkeys that you just made to the functions you want here
[](http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=winamprefspn8.jpg)
Winamp
[](http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mplayerprefsdr5.jpg)
mplayerc
[](http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fooprefsbn1.jpg)
foobar
The key maps ( and a more detailed guide ) are given in the last pages of the remote.pdf file in Program Files\Pinnacle\PCTV Stereo\Remote
Have fun with the remote!.
Now for the skins !
[BREAK=Skins]
Now some fun for pinnacle pctv vision users.If you feel bored with the stock skin that comes with it , you might be interested in some of these.
[](http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mediaks0.jpg)
Bluemediavision
[](http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=winxpbluemq5.jpg)
Rottens blue
[](http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=digvisyd2.jpg)
vega
All you have to do is , save these zip files to a folder, press CTRL+B when your PCTV is running in TV mode (without the controls , like in the winxp blue screenshot) and choose that folder as the skin folder...
Btw, i got these skins (and some more) [from the pinnacle fanboard](http://www.pinnaclefanboard.com/forumdisplay.php?f=68) It's all in german, plus they havent added any skins since 2005, so i wouldnt bother going over there..joining there was a story worth telling in itself 😂
Have fun 😄
nice. dint know that skins existed for this. just tried it & its great.
also wanted to know when u capture stuff in your pctv does it hang sometime meaning gives a blue screen & pc restarts. also anyway to record divx at a higher resolution on this like 580 x 384 or maybe 720 x 480
it used to when i had my nforce v5.10 SMbus and GART drivers installed i changed to the ones that came with my mobo cd and all was well. also, capture works fine only with vision 5.70 and that too with the motherboard acellerator utility that comes with the PCTV cd disabled . if i install that , or upgrade to ahigher version of pctv visio, the video and audio begin to lag.
about Divx, i dont think so… i record to 720x576 in Mpeg 2 and then encode to Xvid using Virtualdub
recording in mpeg 2 is disabled in 5.90 and upwards it asks for a key
Actually, havent tried much…dont record a lot :ashamed: mostly looked around at free third party viewers, and most of them suck
the only one worth was the tv input plugin for winamp one of my friends had trouble running PCTV vision on his 128 MB PIV 1.7G. winamp with the input plugin ran smooth
you learn fast, padawan 
it asks for a key 
