Newbie Problems With MyGica A680B on Win XP

[whitedavidp]

Hello and thanks for your help. I have been using my USB TV Stick for antenna DTV use for some time now on my XP computer. I have used the included ArcSoft TotalMedia software with decent success. I can play live TV, record, and playback. But basically, this software and its support are not up to snuff. So I hope that NPVR offers a better solution.

I have downloaded and installed the most recent NPVR. At first the Settings->About indicated that DirectX wasn't being found. So I again downloaded and installed from MS and that issue seems fixed. One small step!

In settings->Devices I see an ATSC Device called Auvitek Dongle Digital Tuner which would seem to be the MyGica device. But when I have the channels scanned, I get only 5 channels on the physical channel 8. With TotalMedia, I get MANY more channels! I am telling it to scan all frequencies. So what is going on here?

David

[johnsonx42]

you have to post your logs after doing a scan. See the link in my signature for the location of the log files and other hopefully useful info.

[whitedavidp]

Thanks for the pointer to what is needed. I have stopped the service and NPVR, deleted all the files, started the service and NPVR, deleted the channels that had been found on this device, and re-run the scan. I then stopped both NPVR and the service as WinZip reported errors unless I did. I have zipped and attached the contents of the log directory. Thanks for your help with this.

[whitedavidp]

Here are the theoretical results for my location at tvfool <http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d0b86285fa5d355>. These map well to the results I get via ArcSoft TM. Thanks

[whitedavidp]

Since in the logs I saw what seems like numerous .net errors, I double checked and the machine in question has the following .net packages installed:

Compact Framework 1 SP3 Developer
Compact Framework 2
Framework 1.1
Framework 2 SP2
Framework 3 SP2
Framework 3.5 SP1

[sub]

It basically looks like this device is ignoring tuning requests and staying on the frequency it was originally one. I have no idea why that would be the case. Must be something quirky with the drivers for this device.

[whitedavidp]

Thanks for the response. Do you think that this could have anything to do with Total Media still being installed?

[sub]

No, I doubt it.

[whitedavidp]

Well, it sounds like there is nothing to be done save uninstall NPVR and keep looking for some other replacement for Total Media. Thanks.

[sub]

Personally I'd look for other versions of the MyGica drivers for this device. Other versions may behave differently.