help two dual tuner cards will not work

[rnewman]

Ok! I have tested the following:
1. Hauppauge pvr 350
2. Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 500 MCE
3. AVerMedia MTVP3DM5W PCI Interface AVerTV Purity 3D MCE 500 TV Tuner
4. NVIDIA DualTV
#1 works fine
#2 hard three boards, all three did not work
#3 single dual tuner works fine, two dual card only one one will work at a time
#4 single dual card works fine
one #1 works fine
one #3 works fine
one #4 works fine
one #3 and one #1 works fine
one #4 and one #1 works fine
two #3 does not work
two #4 does not work
one #3 and one #4 does not work
Ray

[ke6guj]

I don't know about any of the other combos, but when you tried two #4's, did you use the new prerelease DualTV driver, or the released verison that was included with the tuners. The released driver only supports 1 tuner card, and that's it. There is a beta driver out that is supposed to support multiple DualTV cards, http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...ghlight=dualtv .

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by rnewman

Ok! I have tested the following:
1. Hauppauge pvr 350
2. Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 500 MCE
3. AVerMedia MTVP3DM5W PCI Interface AVerTV Purity 3D MCE 500 TV Tuner
4. NVIDIA DualTV
#1 works fine
#2 hard three boards, all three did not work
#3 single dual tuner works fine, two dual card only one one will work at a time
#4 single dual card works fine
one #1 works fine
one #3 works fine
one #4 works fine
one #3 and one #1 works fine
one #4 and one #1 works fine
two #3 does not work
two #4 does not work
one #3 and one #4 does not work
Ray

two or more #4 will work with the beta drivers from the Snapstream BeyondTV website. I had put the link in a previous post.
I also had two #2 working with one #4

The issues you are having trying to run all probably has more to do with IRQs and the motherboard you are using. mb with via chipsets have been notorious for issues.


Gerry

[ke6guj]

did some searching and it appears that the #3's have a driver limit of 1 card, and that it uses the same chipset as #4. That may be a reason why 3+4 won't work with the released drivers.

[rnewman]

I only tried drivers with card.
I now only have:
one pvr350
one AVerMedia MTVP3DM5W PCI Interface AVerTV Purity 3D MCE 500
one NVIDIA DualTV

I only installed drivers that winxp asked for when booting up each card for the first time for the disc included (pvr350 & NVIDIA DualTV) or downloaded drivers from website (AVerMedia dual tuner)

I sent back all the other cards.
I figured somehow I could fix this problem.
Ray

[rnewman]

Originally Posted by ke6guj

did some searching and it appears that the #3's have a driver limit of 1 card, and that it uses the same chipset as #4. That may be a reason why 3+4 won't work with the released drivers.

Great!
I refuse to go back to pvr500 (I don't think newegg would sell me again)
I wonder if SageTV store would sell me a pvr500 tested??
Ray

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by rnewman

I only tried drivers with card.
I now only have:
one pvr350
one AVerMedia MTVP3DM5W PCI Interface AVerTV Purity 3D MCE 500
one NVIDIA DualTV

I only installed drivers that winxp asked for when booting up each card for the first time for the disc included (pvr350 & NVIDIA DualTV) or downloaded drivers from website (AVerMedia dual tuner)

I sent back all the other cards.
I figured somehow I could fix this problem.
Ray

Maybe try the beta driver for the nVidia card. Maybe the beta driver won't interfere with your AverMedia card. It's worth a shot. Try them from here: Multiple DualTV driver


Gerry

[rnewman]

Did not work.
Oh' well.
Returning tuner and will try and find a good working PVR-500 someplace.
Thanks all!
Ray

[rnewman]

changed to two dul tuners
AVerMedia Purity 3D MCE 500 ok
Hauppauge PVR-500 (used but tested)
motherboard: ASRock 939Dual-VSTA Socket
cpu: AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice
ram: 1gb
got stuttering, pixelation on Hauppauge PVR-500
(just like 2nd of 3 boards I got from Newegg)
SO....................
I changed motherboard/cpu/ram
MOTHER BOARD: gigabyte GA-K8NS PRO
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
ram:1gb

Now both dual tuners work fine.
Now I got some work to do.
Ray