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It chopped the rest of my message!
In WMC, all channels on that mux report 100% quality at 737.833. Waltham page says 738.8MHz. I loaded WinTV from Hauppage that shows all channels perfectly. 'Loading data for your location'?
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I've just been on to the Waltham page (yet again) and PSB2 (ITV etc) is now shown as 737.8MHz!
I copied the data on 13 June and it was 738.8! Still doesn't sort the problem - perhaps retune Media Centre again :-(
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Hi Steve,
I turned the house upside down to find my WinTV cds! To update to 7.2 Hauppauge say you need a WinTV 6 or 7 cd. I tried 5.5 - wouldn't update. Tried another three or so cds - all apparently too old. Then I found 'WinTV - WinTV-Nova series; WinTV-HDR series; myTV.t' version 4.6. It worked...
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Hi darrenG,
The wife just had to go out spend money today :-)
WinTV reports 738.0 freq 8500 SID
MCE reports 730.0(71% quality) or 737.833(100% quality), locator 9018:8200:8500.
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I have rescanned WMC with the network connections disconnected. No change.
We keep talking about May 29th, yet I recorded the new Poirot on ITV1 Central June 9th with no bother at all. Our problems really started a week after that when I tried to record the new Miss Marple (16 June). From a 2 hour slot (over adverts) WMC recorded about 50 Minutes!
After rescanning my other machine I'm getting 'Service is unavailable - There is currently no TV signal detected for this channel..... may be temporarily off the air. Try again later' where ITV1 should be...
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I think we're all moving to the conclusion that it is a WMC (Microsoft) problem, Dominic.
I've tried everything I can think of..
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Hi John,
I use ffmpeg to squish my recorded tv down for my iPad (using my own front end rather than scripts) and have not experienced the 'streams' problem there.
I use VideoReDo for editing and mux the wtv's out as dvr-ms. When WMC first changed from dvr-ms files to wtv I got 'elementary streams' errors frequently from VideoReDo and still do, very occasionally, when there is an error in the recording.
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Hi All,
Small change here - but first to summarize the position (here - can't speak for anywhere
else):
Problem is with Waltham mux PSB2:
(On or Off is the normal situation when using WMC - sowing picture or not. More4 I haven't
figured yet!)
ITV1 3 Off
Channel4 4 On
Channel5 5 Off
ITV2 6 Off
Channel4+1 13 On
More4 14 On/Off
E4 28 Off
ITV1+1 33 Off
This is mollified by having duplicate channels on different muxes as follows:
Ch5+1 44 On
ITV2+1 27 On
E4+1 29 On
So my problem is really limited to ITV1 - what idiot puts the duplicate channel on the same
mux?
Last weekend I happened to be on PC World's site and found they had a Hauppauge WinTV Aero
stick reduced from £59.99 to £19.99. I bought one - it arrived this morning.
I plugged it into my laptop (it was intended for a netbook but that machine has no CD drive)
plugged in a lead from the same splitter/amplifier as the other machines, loaded the Hauppauge
drivers, set up WMC and went for lunch while broadcasts were scanned.
As you might guess the first channel I looked at was ITV1. It works! It is by the side of me
as I write and it is still working!
I checked my main machine. ITV still black screen. I switched Hauppauge's Diversity mode on
(this has the effect of combining the two tuners to bring in a weak signal). After several
reboots and rescanning WMC I found no change. I applied the drivers for the stick received
this morning to the main machine's tuners. No change, still black screen.
But then I found that if I switched from BBC2 to ITV1 quickly and a number of times
(frustration building up :-)) I pulled in ITV1.
This is ridiculous! I do not believe it, so I have just left this box and done it again. Kick
up WMC select ITV1 - black screen. Select BBC2 let it steady then select ITV1 - this time ITV1
came in first try..
Suggestions welcome...
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Wednesday 19 June 2013 9:51PM
Hi All,
We are in the Vale of Belvoir - Waltham is almost line of sight!
I have been having problems with Media Centre and C54 (738.8MHz). Ch4; Ch4+1 and More4 seem to show OK - the rest, ITV; Ch5; ITV2; E4; ITV1+1 are a blank screen.
The matter may be intermittent - it came to a head when I left it to record Miss Marple last Sunday. Out of a 2 hour slot WMC actually recorded about 45 minutes.
Since then I can't catch the blanks on!
All channels on that mux appear to be tuning to 737.833 with 100% quality. The Waltham page says 738.8.
One last point - I updated to the latest WinTV from Hauppauge which shows all muxes OK. I come back to that 'loading data for your location'..
Sorry this is long.. :-)