Nova-TD on Windows 7

[NumberFive]

Hi,

I've been having problems with my Nova-TD on Windows 7, it seems to be suffering from the x64 driver problem discussed here:

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/showthr...189&page=8

Anyone had any experience of this, and success stories or suggestions?

Thanks

[sub]

The only issue I'm aware of with the Nova-TD devices is in New Zealand, where a much higher bitrate is used on DVB-T than in other parts of the world, and it looks like every so often (for me every minutes), a byte of data is corrupted as it is copied from the device. In countries that use H.264 video, like New Zealand, this one byte of data can leady to a relatively large visual corruption on screen.

I've not aware of any confirmed problem with this device in the UK.

[NumberFive]

Hi sub,

My bad, was a bit tired when I posted this. Isn't the Nova-TD, it's the new Nova-T-500. According to the Hauppauge UK support forums there is a known issue with some of the newer Nova-T-500 PCI cards, they seem to have problems only on Windows 7 (not clear if it is only x64 or also x86). The same card in the same machine works okay on Vista / XP. The issue is that on Windows 7 you get what appears to be a weak signal problem (glitching, dropping the signal), apparently this is caused my the signal strength being polled too often.

They say they're working on a new driver, but since they've been at it for about 4~5 months I'm not holding my breath. Still, the card only cost me £15 new (figured it was a bargain), so I'm not majorly worried. Just wondering if the folks here had any solutions that haven't cropped up on the Hauppauge support group.

[sub]

That issue being discussed on the last few pages of that closed thread you linked, (about the Nova-TD-500 and Nova-TD sticks) confirmed by Hauppauge and being investigated by the driver guys, was that issue I mentioned. For the most part the discussion in those few pages was NZ guys, related glitches or garbage on the screen fairly regularly with DVB-T. There was also one or two guys from the UK adding a "me too" type post, but those have been discounted as unrelated.

[systemshark]

New Nova-T-500

I've got two of these running in two windows 7 machines, both appear to be working fine, 1 machine is 32 bit and the other is 64bit.

Do you want to compaire drivers and card types ?

[NumberFive]

Hi systemshark,

I've got a "Hauppauge Nova-DT Dual DVB-T Tuner Device (+IR)".

It is using driver 4.3.27240.0.

On the board itself, it says it is "99101 LF".

I have Windows 7 Professional x64.

The first tuner "Dev 1 Path 0" seems to be fine, but the second tuner "Dev 1 Path 1" seems to glitch ever few seconds, manifesting itself as a pause in the video or a jitter in the audio. My signal is quite strong, so I doubt that is it.

Any tips much appreciated.

[systemshark]

I'll check tomorrow if you can wait that long !

[NumberFive]

That will do nicely.

[systemshark]

HeyHey, My Wife's just gone to bed after watching Slient Witness.....


My driver is 4.3.2724.0 same as your and my board is also a 99101LF.

I'm running Windows 7 64 Bit on this machine.

I'll run BDAScan tomorrow and see what the effects are.... I think I'm getting good output on both channels but I'll check...

The error your seeing ... are you seeing several times or just once ?

[NumberFive]

Hi systemshark,

Interesting, seems we've the exact same setup. It's been a little hard to get a handle on this glitch, but at the moment I'm thinking it is something to do with the LiveTV buffer. When running in near-instantaneous playback, on Dev1/Path1 I get glitches in the sound as though there isn't enough data in the buffer to meet demand. However, if I have the playback chase from 10 seconds behind it seems okay. Don't quote me on this, I'll play with it more over the weekend and see if I come up with anything!

Thanks