AverTV Go 007 FM Plus card

[sub]

Glad you made some progress.

Things are usually much less painful if you've got a common, well supported card.

[vinodp]

Ok, the Aver card didn't work as expected. I can see the live video but the recording doesn't work. It just says failed.

Now, I'm thinking of buying an USB TV Tuner Card.
I'm looking at one, and the specification is as below:

RF (TV) specification:
Format : NTSC
Channel Support Ch. 2 through 125 (31.25kHz steps)
Sensitivity 50dBuV

Video Specifications

Video Format Mpeg-2 (4:2:0)
Capture Resolution : NTSC: 720x480
Frame Rate 29.97 fps-NTSC
Inputs NTSC: Composite and S-Video RF (for TV)
Playback Resolution Monitor: up to Full Screen
SNR 43 dB (up to 5 MHz with Modulated Ramp)
Chroma Gain +/- 2 degrees (75% Color Bars)
Luma Gain +/- 2.5 degrees (10 step staircase)
Sub-Carrier Deviation < 100 Hz
Frequency Response (-3dB) 3.25 MHz (compressed)

can this TV tuner work in asia as the supported format is PAL and specification above says NTSC ?

Thanks

[sub]

From those specs, it looks like its NTSC only.

[vinodp]

ok. Where should I look for the error message I'm getting " recording failed" ?

Also, this could probably a dumb question.

I tuned this card to the cable tv which is of course connected to a setup-box, but the signals are fed through only one channel. How do I get that working to receive multi channels. Will the XMLTV file solve this issue or I need to connect it to the S-Video input on the card instead of TV-in or do I need to do something with the IR-blaster setup.

Thanks

[sub]

For the WDM software recorder plugin, the messages will most likely be in the GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log. I'm not familiar with the log messages it produces though, so I cant really give you much more to go on than that.

I tuned this card to the cable tv which is of course connected to a setup-box, but the signals are fed through only one channel. How do I get that working to receive multi channels. Will the XMLTV file solve this issue or I need to connect it to the S-Video input on the card instead of TV-in or do I need to do something with the IR-blaster setup.

This sounds normal. If you're connected via a set top box, then the coax out of the cable box usually only carries the one channel - the channel the box is currently tuned to, usually on CH2 or CH3.

In the US where analog channels are often not scrambled, you can often place a splitter before the cable box, allowing you to tune all the regular analog channels without using a set top box. This obviously doesnt work for digital cable channels, or for analog channels that are scrambled.

For signals coming out of a set top box, you'll normally only get the one channel the box is currently tuned to, and you'll need to use an IR Blaster to tell the box to change channels at the appropriate time.