MRi Tech TV Tuner

Hi All,

Just wondering if anyone’s can help me with my TV Tuner nightmares. Bought an MRi Technology PCI tuner because it was one of the few that supported XP at that early stage. Big mistake.

The card largely works but tends to randomly shut down after five or ten minutes but sometimes it will go on for hours. The other problem was that I can only seem to record AVI files which end up being huge (200MB per min). The video compression option is greyed out. (codec installation problem???). Also can't get teletext to work.

It's really getting to me, I've tried pretty much everything including a wipe and reload of XP (home) and the latest drivers from MRi's website.

Any help greatly appreciated

Trev

What are you using to capture the tv pics? Have a read here

Thanks for the responce. Had a read and a quick play and managed to mess it up but think I may need to play some more. Have been using a program called Tview for windows 2000. Do I continue to use this program or is there 3rd party software I can use? Thanks again

Try this

assuming their is not a driver issue with the tuner card, i would try differnt viewer software. i use cyberlink power vcr II deluxe and i have only issues now because i am running server 2003, but when i was running xp pro it worked flawless, there are different profiles that you can record to mpeg2, and burn directly to (s)vcd. i think it is more software than hardware, the bundled software with my iomagic pc pvr card stunk and i got the cyberlink instead.


as far as compression goes, power vcr II deluxe creates a 650mb file for every 15 minutes with normal "excellent" quality encoding. i have a p4-2.53ghz 512mb 40mb hardware raid mirror

also, as long as the tuner card is support by the os, you should be able to simply replace the frontend and still use your tuner with whatever solution you choose.

Hi again

Thanks for all the help. I've tried the new drivers and they seem to have made it a whole bunch more stable but I tend to agree that the other problems especially encoding are software related. Busy looking at other software, any good freeware programs out there? Any recommendations other than fly and power VCR?

Shedloads Possibly the best site for tutorials and downloads.

Just a quick update, downloaded PowerVCR II evaluation. Good program loads of good features, little on the slow side but hey. Looking for freeware at the moment.