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| Thread ID: 100815 | 2009-06-21 09:13:00 | Conexant Fusion 878a TV Tuner and GBPVR? | matt01 (15028) | Press F1 |
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| 784322 | 2009-06-21 09:13:00 | Hi, I have a 'TV Excel' TV Tuner card with Conexant Fusion 878a chipset. Is there any way that that I can use GBPVR software with this card? I have just downloaded version 1.31.3.7 of GBPVR and this card doesnt seem to be compatible. I wondered if there might be either an earlier version of the software, or maybe a plugin? Cheers |
matt01 (15028) | ||
| 784323 | 2009-06-21 11:43:00 | Welcome to PressF1! That card is a software tuner card. i.e. it uses the computers CPU power to convert the incoming signal into whatever format you chose - MPEG2, MPEG4 etc. I think that most of the media centre type software programs like GB-PVR, MediaPorta, Windows Media Center etc don't support software tuner cards. You need to look at a hardware tuner card, like the Hauppauge PVR150, which has its own MPEG2 encoder built in so uses minimal CPU power when you are watching or recording TV. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 784324 | 2009-06-22 00:46:00 | Well for a start this question should have been posted on the GB-PVR forums (http://forums.gbpvr.com/) You will probably get better replies and help through those forums than here. As far as I know, there are no software cards supported in GB-PVR (gbpvr.com) The Bt878 however is a very common and well known chipset, so it is supported in a fair few applications (GB-PVR just isn't one of them!) Some of the paid PVR programs can use Bt878 based cards though. (I think ChrisTV is one of them) I had some success with DScaler and a Bt878 card however while it worked perfectly, It would often crash my PC with a BSoD The card however works perfectly for me under Ubuntu with TVTime (I had to manually set the tuner type though) I personally use an Ati Theater 550 Pro with GB-PVR myself |
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