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Lee13

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#64312 13-Jul-2010 08:14

i have installed hvr3000 and pluged in the satilite dish with win tv i only get 2 tv channels
i have scaned with windows media center 7 i see all the channels listed there but it wont work for some reason on my kathern topbox i get 15 channels the list that media centre has them there but something is missing
any help please

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#350596 13-Jul-2010 12:32

So, to clarify, you are trying to get WIN TV supplied by Hauppauge to work?

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Lee13

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#350608 13-Jul-2010 12:44

i have tried wintv and can only find a few channels on dvb-s, and gave up unsure why only 2 or three channels

im running windows 7

so then i tried the media centre it scans and finds all channels but will not play them am i missing a patch file

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#350614 13-Jul-2010 12:58

Not sure if it is still the case but I know it used to be that you should not have wintv installed if you want to use media center. Maybe an idea to uninstall all the software for the 3000 and then just install the drivers (make sure they are the latest from the the UK site).

Windows 7 MC should work out of the box but always best to make sure you have all the current patches anyway.

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#350623 13-Jul-2010 13:07

When you say it won't play them, what does it say? It usually will give some info like "missing video codec, please restart media centre" or something like that

Usual process that I do is
1 Install drivers only for tuner card
2. Reboot
3. Setup Media centre for channels etc.
4. Reboot
5. Enjoy.

Possibly some un-needed rebooting but it was required fo XP which is what I started with.

Also, don't rely on the auto setup from MC - it will "find" the NZ chanels without the aerial cable plugged in or the wrong LNB settings. I have to ask - you have the sat aerial plugged into the F connction? (Seen this done wrong too many times)
Delete all channels and do a manual scan of freq 12456 & 12483 (22500 symbol rate)
See what it picks up