DVB-S trouble - No Signal!

[jsimo01]

Hi All,

I have tried and tried to get sage working with my setup; WinXP Sp2, TT S2-3200+ CI with Dragon/T.Rex CAM. CoreAVC Codecs. PC- 2.8GHz CeleronCPU, 2.00GB RAM, ATi 9550 (256MB) GPU.

In DVB Viewer everything works perfectly; however with Sage the reception is intermittent, I can only get Movie Channels but no Sky mix channels (What is up with that??) and after reinstall I am not receiving any channels whatsoever! just the No Signal icon.

I will be soon getting MCE 2005 to complete the build but I am yet to find a suitable solution for this, I have tried MediaPortal but crashes too frequently, which has got me thinking might be hardware related except DVB still perfect, even get BBC HD! TT Media Center also works can anyone explain, does anybody have a working solution to SKY on PC?? (That is with all channels working!)

J

[StephaneM]

Hi,

Originally Posted by jsimo01

I have tried and tried to get sage working with my setup; WinXP Sp2, TT S2-3200+ CI with Dragon/T.Rex CAM. CoreAVC Codecs. PC- 2.8GHz CeleronCPU, 2.00GB RAM, ATi 9550 (256MB) GPU.

In DVB Viewer everything works perfectly; however with Sage the reception is intermittent

As you own DVBViewer, you can try my network encoder for DVBViewer (see signature).

Benefits :

* If DVBViewer always work for your setup, then it will be as reliable when used with SageTV
* The TS files produced (if you choose to record in TS) are way far better than those produced by SageTV
* You can extract teletext subtitles and play them in real time in SageTV

Cons:

* Use a little more memory (with 2GB of RAM it is ok though)
* Tuning to a channel will be a little longer (it depends on your CAM speed)
* SageTV has some timeline issues with DVBViewer recording (nothing serious though, it is a pain though to playback subtitles and keep them in sync)

Regards,
Stéphane.

[jsimo01]

Thanks will give it a try!