AverMedia M779 PCIe PAL/SECAM/DVB-T

[Arnes]

Hi,

my out of the Box Dell PC has a built in TV tuner card that shows up in the device manager as "M779 PCIe PAL/SECAM/DVB-T" and manufacturer AverMedia.

Funny enough: I didn't found that card on avermedia.com (already sent mail to them asking, what I have then). But it's here and it's capable of analog, DVB-T and DVB-C. I tested that with WindowsMCE. And i guess it has a hardware compressor, because cpu is low while recording.

I followed the steps described in the wiki and managed to use the analog part with GBPVR (Direct Recording Plugin) . But I did not succed with the digital part, config.exe-native.log states tuning errors and beeing unable to start the BDA graph.

So my questions are:

1. Anyone knows the M779?
   
2. Is it actually possible two use the two tuners at the card at the same time?
   
3. Do I have to remove the "Direct Recording Plugin" configuration before starting to configure the digital part?
   
4. Windows MCE lives - as part of Vista Home Premium - on the box with no planned recordings. Does it interfere, do I have to disable it in some way?
   

Any help is very much appreciated!

Arne

[wired]

The entry required for the M770 in BDA.ini is as follows. I have this running in a DELL machine (NZ config) and are watching the Freeview high definition channels.



[AVerMedia M779]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=M779 PCIe BDA DVB-T Tuner 2
FILTER_CAPTURE=M779 PCIe Digital Video Capture 2
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=Mpeg2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=Mpeg2 Transport

[sub]

Thanks - I'll add that to the master file.