ADS Tech MCE-3000 (aka PTV-305) sub, or anyone else good at adding tuner cards...

[glassvial]

I know someone posted something about the MCE-3000 card in another thread, this card is AKA the PTV-305 card and is VERY close to a blackbird card (but selecting blackbird for the card doesn't work)

I am attaching the inf files that came on the driver CD so that we can come up with the proper entry for direct.ini and get this amazingly cheap card supported.

(see below for updated direct.ini entry)

Thanks

[whurlston]

Run filtercheck.exe located in you devnz\gbpvr folder and then post the filtercheck.log

[glassvial]

here it is, slightly edited out some stuff from my video card as to not get things confused with the PTV-305 entries.

[glassvial]

Updated direct.ini entry:

---
[ADS PTV 305]
INIT_MODE=DEFAULT
INIT_MSP=0
BLACKBIRD=1
CONEXANT=1
FILTER_CROSSBAR=ADS PTV 305 Crossbar
FILTER_CAPTURE=ADS PTV 305 Video Capture
FILTER_TV_TUNER=ADS PTV 305 Tuner
FILTER_TV_AUDIO=ADS PTV 305 TvAudio
FILTER_ENCODER=ADS PTV 305 MPEG Encoder
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_TUNER_IN=Video Tuner In
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_VIDEO_OUT=Analog Video
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_AUDIO_OUT=Analog Audio
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_IN=TVAudio In
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_OUT=TVAudio Out
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_TUNER_IN=Audio Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_DECODER_OUT=Video Decoder Out
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_VIDEO_IN=Analog Video In
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_DECODER_OUT=Audio Decoder Out
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_AUDIO_IN=Analog Audio In
PIN_CAPTURE_I2S_OUT=I2S
PIN_CAPTURE_656_OUT=656
PIN_WRITER_INPUT_IN=Input
---

The above settings work. Thanks whurlston for the suggestion. Maybe sub can add this one for the next release

[whurlston]

Great. I was just about to post an updated entry but saw you got it.

[sub]

Ok, thanks. I'll add it to the master file.

[glassvial]

Only thing with this card is it seems to be pretty grainy compared to other cards (ie hauppauge) someone in another forum suggested something about running graphedit and playing with the filters, but is/are there some tweaks we could make in the ini itself to help with quality, or no?

[sub]

Most of the properties exposed in filters are private, and not exposed to applications (so not settable via GB-PVR .ini files). Pretty much all you can change from the ini files is the bitrate.

[supplier]

Hi, It's my first post :p

just got this card myself and not happy with tuner -- picture is too low in quality to record, but, if i use a cable box and output signal via RF -- picture is better -- acceptable, connecting via S-cable give the best results for this card.
my next step is figure out how to setup remote/IR blaster to switch cable box channels. Any help or links to this particular card/remote is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance, Vlad

[atrickpay]

The previous didn't work. I'm assuming you just got this card on slickdeals (or just from Buy.com). But I rewired it just by switching the stuff for what I saw in the filtercheck.log . Thanks for the help! This is what i used:

[Conexant 2388x]
INIT_MODE=DEFAULT
INIT_MSP=0
BLACKBIRD=1
CONEXANT=1
FILTER_CROSSBAR=Conexant 2388x Crossbar
FILTER_CAPTURE=Conexant 2388x Video Capture
FILTER_TV_TUNER=Conexant 2388x Tuner
FILTER_TV_AUDIO=Conexant 2388x TvAudio
FILTER_ENCODER=Conexant 2388x MPEG Encoder
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_TUNER_IN=Video Tuner In
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_VIDEO_OUT=Analog Video
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_AUDIO_OUT=Analog Audio
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_IN=TVAudio In
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_OUT=TVAudio Out
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_TUNER_IN=Audio Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_DECODER_OUT=Video Decoder Out
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_VIDEO_IN=Analog Video In
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_DECODER_OUT=Audio Decoder Out
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_AUDIO_IN=Analog Audio In
PIN_CAPTURE_I2S_OUT=I2S
PIN_CAPTURE_656_OUT=656
PIN_WRITER_INPUT_IN=Input