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| 641172 | 2008-02-17 09:14:00 | Hi i currently have a Hauppauge HVR 4000 and have it hooked up to the coax coming out of the sky box which has the analogue signal and UHF and also the current sky channel. Currently the analogue works fine in Mediaportal (with older svn tvEngine 3) but the sky channel comes out very jittery and unwatchable. I understand a better way to hook it up would be via s video / composite cables but this is very impractical as the sky box is in the lounge and computer in another room and as far as im aware they dont sell composite cables that long, not cheaply at least. I am wondering if this is just caused by the lack of hardware encoding on my card or whether its due to the coax cable. I am considering gettings a PVR 150MCE or 350 if that would solve the problem and allow me to view the current sky channel via the coax cable. Any suggestions |
hazza87 (12499) | ||
| 641173 | 2008-02-17 09:59:00 | Go to Jaycars and buy the cable and plugs etc and make your own composite cable. Cable A/V TRPL WB1554 PLG RCA MTL GLD PP0230 PLG RCA MTL GLD N PP0233 PLG RCA MTL GLD N PP0231 Coax cable connection is $h1t :( I know, I have been there and changed over :) |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 641174 | 2008-02-17 18:45:00 | hazza I set mine up with a pvr350 and a hvr4000. The 4000 is connected to a T in the ceiling to my Sky Dish. The 350 is connected to both TV in and Out by way of a Connexia 3-way selector box. (DSE) I have high quality cables installed inside the walls from Office to Lounge and Wall sockets. (All done by a professional Audio/Video bloke) In the lounge another Connexia 3-way selector box. and that is connected to the HDD Recorder, TV, and MySky. Depending on selection I record from Sky or HDD Recorder, or Send To TV from the PC. Analogue does not work properly in the 4000 card. You might be ok with UHF and try setting it to DVB-T I think I read somewhere that it works, might have been on Hauppage or the MediaPortal forum. Currently it all works fine with MediaPortal. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 641175 | 2008-02-19 22:24:00 | I can'r seem to find out if your card is PCI or PCI Express. Help appreciated. Rob |
Rob (6897) | ||
| 641176 | 2008-02-19 22:45:00 | It's PCI | hazza87 (12499) | ||
| 641177 | 2008-02-20 02:02:00 | There's no reason why a good quality coax cable won't feed good signals through the house. I used RG6 coax from my SKY box to a PVR-150 downstairs. Works fine. I personally can't speak for the HVR-4000 but I would be peeved if it wouldn't work with a good signal. |
linw (53) | ||
| 641178 | 2008-02-20 03:43:00 | All the other analogue signals work fine on media centre, win TV, powercinema and even media portal but the sky does the same thing on all the programs jittery and with long blue screens very often. I am glad to hear you have it working fine on a pvr 150 as im thinking of getting one to use in media portal for analogue and sky as the hardware encoding is much more supported in mediaportal. I am using RG59 for the analogue which works fine on a tv in the room but perhaps RG6 would be better for the tv card. | hazza87 (12499) | ||
| 641179 | 2008-02-20 07:47:00 | Nothing "jittery" on mine. The feed from MySky to the TV I have my leads running off from the TV end off to the Hauppage 350 card, works fine. WinTV picks it up fine as does Mediaportal and power cinema. for the 350 card From my Sky Satellite dish to the Hauppage 4000 has a splitter in the ceiling and also picks up the freeview fine. Mediaportal and WinTV pick up the 4000 card as well, but not power cinema. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 641180 | 2008-02-20 08:01:00 | If you do decide to go down the path of running another cable, you will only have to run sound as the coax can be used for your video signal. Simply termiate the coax with f-connectors and use an f-rca adapter (pudney sell them). | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 641181 | 2008-02-20 08:25:00 | If i was to use to current coax for video im fairly sure it would still be jittery as it is now, for running both. It seems nobody else has sky running through coax on a software encoding card such as the HVR 4000. It is encouraging to note that bantu and linw both have sky through 150's or 350's (Hardware based analogue decoding). It would seem that this is the problem with decoding the sky interlaced signal through coax cable. Or Perhaps even the vista 64bit drivers they are quite new for this card. | hazza87 (12499) | ||
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