Avermedia M780 QAM

[mk000]

If it's not a hassle, just run a very long coax out of the basement, to outside with an ATSC attennta (hopefully you have one) and find out. If not, its cool.

I will try to look at the system device config and disabling and re-enabling the bridges like you suggested when I get home late tonight.

I am thinking, maybe its something in the settings, something is just stopping it from working... The dumb AVer Media Center works, and it is so wretchedly bad! It's not even easy to change channels.

[Bobb1300]

sslusser, I did make the changes to the bda.ini as described earlier, however, when I looked at the qam.ini file, it didn't have any of the frequencies in it. That's what I'm hoping you can guide me through. How do I determine what frequencies should be placed in the qam.ini file. Is there a file that the Aver MHC program creates that I could check?

[mk000]

Question for anyone on cable qam... how are you doing that? Are you outputting coax from an HD box, or are those digital signals just unencrypted and can be decoded in the tuner plugged straight from the wall?

If anyone has an M780, or suggestions to get it to work on GBPVR, I would love that too.

[mk000]

I tired the suggestion to disable the bridge in the device manager, i also had the tuner and I forgot the other one... anyhow, disable, then re-enabled, rescanned and still no channels.

By the way, Aver Quick setting does list all the frequency info for all my OTA digital channels if i look into each one. Any way I can manually set GBPVR to one of those?

[sub]

By the way, Aver Quick setting does list all the frequency info for all my OTA digital channels if i look into each one. Any way I can manually set GBPVR to one of those?

No, its all done by channel numbers, unless you're using QAM -

[sslusser]

If it's not a hassle, just run a very long coax out of the basement, to outside with an ATSC attennta (hopefully you have one) and find out. If not, its cool.

I will try to look at the system device config and disabling and re-enabling the bridges like you suggested when I get home late tonight.

I am thinking, maybe its something in the settings, something is just stopping it from working... The dumb AVer Media Center works, and it is so wretchedly bad! It's not even easy to change channels.

I have a little phillips antenna, if I stick it out my window I can get a signal for NBC and CBS. Looks terrible, and drops tons of frames. You will have better luck with a better antenna

[sslusser]

sslusser, I did make the changes to the bda.ini as described earlier, however, when I looked at the qam.ini file, it didn't have any of the frequencies in it. That's what I'm hoping you can guide me through. How do I determine what frequencies should be placed in the qam.ini file. Is there a file that the Aver MHC program creates that I could check?

The way I did it was to first scan with AverTV6. I got lots of channels detected but only a few will actually be ClearQAM. You need to figure these out and write them down. Once you have them all, click into the advanced button in AverTV6 for each of the ClearQAM channels. It will display the frequency for the channel number. Write the frequency down for each channel. Then go into the GBPVR qam.ini file. Edit the qam.ini file and put in the frequency you wrote down out of the AverTV application for the channels. I only had to do this for channels above 125.

[scb147]

I just bit the bullet and bought the M780 today... can't wait to get it. I'll know where to ask if I have questions too

[mk000]

SSlusser, can you tell me all your settings for the OTA channels? I mean how can the media center software get them perfectly, and GBPVR not see them all?

[rdb4133]

It did take some time to figure out how the card tunes QAM but mk000 is looking at tuning OTA ATSC, which is standard and doesn't require the extra steps that I took for QAM. The analog side worked with the standard configuration right away.

I did not have the same kind of problem that mk000 is having. It looks like something is either locking up the card or the OS is losing track of its resources. It also looks like mk000 is running Vista (mk000 is that correct?) I run XP Pro, so that could have something to do with it.

I got the M780 because I wanted a pci-e card with a hardware mpeg encoder for the analog tuner and digital QAM. If you don't need pci-e, I would go with a PCI card. I had the HVR-1800 and I could not tune OTA ATSC or QAM with it. I also have the DVICO HDTV5 Express, which I can get to tune QAM in GBPVR, but I could not get the analog side to work with the software plug-in. So, if you need pci-e, then the M780 is a good choice. Or, you could wait for the ATI Combo pci-e next month and you might be able to create a configuration for it that will work in GBPVR.

sslusser, you mentioned that you were able to get the DVICO HDTV5 Express to work via QAM fine. How exactly were you able to do that? I have the DVICO HDTV5 USB Gold and from what I have researched in the forums so far it pretty much been a resounding "No" on getting any DVICO devices to work with GB-PVR using QAM. You are the only one so far that I have seen say that you have been able to get this to work. Any advice or instructions on what you did to get this work would be greatly appreciated! (I would think that your card and my USB one are pretty much the same except for the interfaces)