capture card not recognized

[howieg53]

I have an hp computer that came with vista home premium and I've "downgraded" to Win XP Pro.

All my devices in Device manager seem ok, no exclamations etc. but the video capture/tuner card is undetected by sage.

More detail than you can possibly want is listed below, the capture card is
ViXS PureTV-U 48B0 (NTSC/ATSC Combo).

I bought two of the same machine, left the other one running vista home premium and the card appears to be supported by Windows Media Center

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Howie



Motherboard:
CPU Type QuadCore AMD Phenom 9500, 2200 MHz (11 x 200)
Motherboard Name Asus M2N68-LA (Narra3)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce 6150SE-430, AMD K10
Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT (512 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Realtek ALC888/1200 @ nVIDIA MCP61 - High Definition Audio Controller

--------[ CPU ]
CPU Properties:
CPU Type QuadCore AMD Phenom 9500, 2200 MHz (11 x 200)
CPU Alias Agena
CPU Stepping DR-B2
Instruction Set x86, x86-64, MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A
--------[ Motherboard ]
Motherboard Properties:
Motherboard ID 02/21/2008-MCP61P-NARRA3-00
Motherboard Name Asus M2N68-LA (Narra3)
--------[ Operating System ]
Operating System Properties:
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
[ Devices ]
Display adapters:
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 6.14.11.7813
DVD/CD-ROM drives:
ATAPI DVD A DH16A3L SCSI CdRom Device 5.1.2535.0
Monitors:
MAG LT765 LCD Display 1.0.0.16
Sound, video and game controllers:
ViXS PureTV-U 48B0 (NTSC/ATSC Combo) 6.1.100.18

[ Sound, video and game controllers / ViXS PureTV-U 48B0 (NTSC/ATSC Combo) ]
Device Properties:
Driver Description ViXS PureTV-U 48B0 (NTSC/ATSC Combo)
Driver Date 9/7/2007
Driver Version 6.1.100.18
Driver Provider ViXS Systems Inc.
INF File oem12.inf
Hardware ID PCI\VEN_1745&DEV_2100&SUBSYS_48B01043&REV_00
Location Information PCI bus 4, device 0, function 0
PCI Device ViXS PureTV-U 48B0 (NTSC/ATSC Combo)

[goby]

I was able to install the drivers for this card, but sagetv is not seeing it. Has anyone got it to work properly?

[gplasky]

The card is NOT listed as being supported by SageTV.

Gerry

[goby]

I recently built a new PVR using the ViXS PureTV-U 48B8 card and I would recommend to anyone thinking about purchasing one that even at $20 it's not worth it. It took hours to find the correct winxp drivers and get them installed. I can now record ATSC signals but when I try to record on the analog channel (its a combo card with one HD and one analog) I get the following message:

"There was a problem setting up software audio compression"

I"m pretty sure this card has hardware encoding for the audio but the computer does not seem to think so. If anyone knows how to solve this issue please help, otherwise I would recommend sticking to Hauppauge cards.

[rosemary]

I have a ViXS PureTV capture card (not sure if it's the exact same model, but it came in a slimline HP purchased a year and a half ago). It's been a great capture card for Sage for about a year now. However, I was running with the Vista Home Premium that came with the PC, not XP.

So while it may not be supported by SageTV, that's not the same thing as saying it won't work with SageTV.