AfaTech AF9005 BDA Device

[drw25]

My thoughts exactly - I'm wondering if the BDA driver is actually pretty useless, or incomplete. I've tried gbpvr, mediaportal, Media Centre in Vista Beta 2, ProgDVB and possibly more, and nothing has managed to show me more than a single channel. Blaze, on the other hand, clearly have some of their own ways of interfacing with the AF9005 in addition to the standard BDA stuff, as there's an AF9005.dll in C:\Program Files\BlazeVideo\BlazeDTV2.1\Plugins.

http://www.dayc.vispa.com/faq/dec2000t.htm says "The driver type required for DVB-T cards in Media Center is called BDA (not WDM) and a requirement of this is that the whole transport stream (i.e. mux) can be sent at once." If this is the case, it looks like Blaze will be the only software available for the time being. But why did Afatech release a BDA driver when the device couldn't conform to the standard?

[SWK]

My only intrest is getting the AF9005 to work with GBPVR, otherwise its useless to me.

The strange thing is that the Blaze s/w detects and works OK with my other DVB-T cards using thier BDA drivers. So it many be its a tweak to BDA interface ?

[Angela]

I can get it to work ok with the BlazeDTV 2.0 supplied s/w but it does not always recognise the channels and shows them as 'unknown'. Try increasing the retries in the advanced scan page. I tried it 50 (default is 10) on mine and it took a very long time, and found 73 channels but did not appear to ID any more channels!

Just got feedback from Blaze, they improved the software and improved the function of identifying channels' ID, you can download a new version already
http://www.blazevideo.com/download.htm#blazedtv

[easytv]

hi i'm a italain,
i have got the same usb tuner but i have a different problem!
when i go to see some channels, the viewer Blazed tv crash:mad:
Anyone have the same problem and has solved it?
thx

Hi, pls download this file from http://www.blazevideo.com/download/BlazeDTVSetup.exe
then replace it with the old one in your cd, then reinstall. Ok.

[pam5]

Hi all, just come across this forum - and quite relieved to find others experiencing the same problems!

I've tried with the drivers that came on the CD, the older, certified drives from this forum - the blaze software, plus other drivers for other usb's (freecom). Also cyberlink powercinema. but no progress at all.

my usb is connected to the main aerial which is connected to a booster. the other freeview box in the house can recieve - but when unplugged (therefore the signal dedicated to usb) it still doesn't recieve anything...

i'm thinking this is an unreliable piece of kit - and should refund it, and try the freecom one as it seems to have more support. and an actual website for drivers!

[jay]

hi i downloaded the new version on there website and it does find the channels now but no epg (where as the old version, when it did find channels it did have epg)

so ive emailed them and told them to sort it out so it

[teevee]

Just searched for info on this device and see that other people are having problems with it. I too had problems with the device finding and naming channels - it gave 'unknown' for most. I've finally managed to get it working using the channel scan universal and I think the new software off the blazevideo site. The signal strength isn't as good as a freeview stb with the same aerial in the same position - but you can get most channels if you point it right and cross your fingers. You can re-scan and tweak using the advanced settings on the player.

The main problem I have with this device is that it can't be used with other dvb software - I've tried with progdvb and it gets the channels and the epg but only one channel - like someone said on here - the last channel viewed with blazevideo.

Are there 3rd party drivers which can interface with the device?

[martinleonard]

i have the fix file which in the UK will give you all the channel listings instead of them all coming up as unknown channel

if you want it e-mail peck_bob@hotmail.com with blaze tuner file as the subject line

[boss126]

Hi
This driver also works with AF9005 sticks, and after your stick will be recognized as CINERGY T USB XE.
Also incuded in the download is the Terratec home cinema app, which works.
I think this is a newer driver than the Afatech one, so maybe someone can get it working with GBPVR.
Cheers.

http://supportuk.terratec.net/modules.ph...t&lid=1335

[kev]

Hi, thanks for the file, i just read all 4 pages and i too am hoping to get a fix ,
iam getting the 'unknown channels plus iam also getting a lot of stuttering on the channels i can recieve
the aerial i have is a decent one and picks up all the chans on a set top box without any hassle whatsoever ,but for some reason this just gets a few and then some are audio only ,
Terratec home cinema app doesnt seem to recognise my usb dongle whatchamacallit...where it says scan is greyed out, did you have to make any mods or anything like that ?