which software to use with tv tuner card??

[ankitalmighty]

i bought a tv tuner and got totalmedia with it, somehow it is not working with the tv tuner, i tried powercinema, it works but it is not giving sound. is there any other good tv tuner software which i can use??

 

[SpaceVoid]

Try MythTV.

On some of the older cards, for sound to work, you need to plug a audio cable from the audio-out of the card to the audio-in/line-in of your souncard (onboard audio). Have you made the connections properly ?

 

[ankitalmighty]

yes connections are proper,its a usb dongle type tv tuner and it used to work properly with powermedia( it was a trial version), but now its not working with the newer version...i tried mythtv but it is not working.

 

[vivek.krishnan]

If you can provide the name of the card, or what it shows in the device manager, we can help you......

 

[6pack]

try media player classic home cinema.
In that File > Open Device.
You need to switch on the tuner and keep it on some channel first. You can use MPCHC to record too i think.

 

[ankitalmighty]

my tuner hytech ht1725 , it worked well with powercinema earlier...i'l try media player classic home cinema...

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Is this your TV tuner? also the info given is insufficient/hytech drivers are not there.

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[ankitalmighty]

no its not the one, i think its the newer version of what i am having, the sofware given with it is not working and there is nothing on the website..

 

[vishal2055]

^ why dont you try and seek the software which it was working with. What is it powermedia or powercinema ??

 

[ankitalmighty]

it is powercinema..it is working but it is not giving sound, there is one other software, blazehdtv which is giving both sound and video but it has a major bug that its brightness automatically becomes zero, it is a bug with this software when it is cracked.

 

[SpaceVoid]

check this link, there are some softwares mentioned, you may try your hand at them.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1417172

 

[ankitalmighty]

huys nothing seems to work...

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Well, in this case can only suggest to try linux.....

 

[6pack]

try windows media center?

 

[ankitalmighty]

i am having windows 7 basic....it is not having widows media center...can we download it separately??

 

[6pack]

no, its not available to download separately. you can try Media Portal - MEDIAPORTAL - a HTPC Media Center for free!

or XBMC - XBMC

both require dotnet installers (100s of MB of download) i think. i tried installing media portal once and it wanted to download dotnet runtimes on my pc so I didnt install that software.

 

[ankitalmighty]

even i tried mediaportal as suggested, but it is not downloading the other files so its not working out..il try xbmc !

 

[The Sauron]

Leave recording apart, as far my experience no one can beat stability as well compatibility by directly open device in media players like Dscaler, KMPlayer, Media Home Classic.