Vista X64 & MCE500 problem

[vinisz]

Hi all,

Hope someone can help me out here.
I've got a 4gig vista x64 running here with a hauppage mce500 card in it.
This is working without any problems in vista mediacenter (using latest signed hauppage drivers)
However, in sagetv I get a bad picture from live tv, it's starting and stopping and showing green blocks randomly over the picture.
Same thing on the extenders.
However, Playing back movies recorded on an earlier windows xp box playback without any problems, dvd playback is fine also.
Does anyone know if this setup is supported ? Or anyone got an idea what the problem might be ?

Greetings,

Vincent.

[GTwannabe]

Have you tried disabling Media Center so that Sage gets exclusive access to the card?

Start -> Run -> GPEDIT.MSC -> User Configuration -> Admin Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Media Center

[ToxMox]

There may still exist an issue with Vista x64 and 4GB of RAM that causes problems with the PVR-500. Try pulling some RAM and see if the problem goes away. I don't think there is a fix yet but I haven't researched it in about a month. I ended up giving up and getting another Nvidia DualTV MCE card instead.

[vinisz]

I could try pulling out 2 gig but if this works or not is not very relevant. I need the 4 Gig's because of vmware machines running on the machine.
Buying another tuner is an option so how is the nvidia card working in x64 with 4 gig ?

[ToxMox]

I have two of them working great on my server running Vista x64 and 4GB on a Tyan Thunder n6650w s2915 motherboard. They are hard to come by since they don't make them anymore. PCAlchemy has some in stock though.

[vinisz]

Hmm.... pushing one step forward then.... what if I need to buy a new card wordking with digital cable TV in the netherlands (PAL) , any recommendations about that ?

Greetings,

Vincent.