I just got my HVR-1600 and need help

[johnmilky]

Ok i got my HVR 1600 and got my system working but i got some problems.

The video quality is not that great im hooking up with an vga and have a ATI Rage XL 8 MB video card

I try getting the HD to work and had the hardness time makeing it work i just got the remote to work with SAge TV and my tv has a digital tuner and i miss the HD channel but i cant get them to work with the card i try a guide i found in the forum and no luck

I hook the cable up to the QAM and i get no signal but when i try using wintv i get good singal

I got a question when i want to use my comcast cable and the DTV channels do i need to hook two cables up one to Analog and the other to QAM

2.6Ghz
1GB Ram
HVR-1600
ATI Rage XL 8MB
samsung 46 LCD

SageTV 6.4.8.184
Java 1.6.0_11
SageMC 6.3.8a

[SHS]

johnmilky your going have upgrade your video card to sometime a lot more powerfully more like the Radeon HD 3650 or 3850 and don't forget to upgrade your Power Supplies 450watt or better the best valve I have found Corsair CMPSU-650TX

[bcjenkins]

The other thing you can do is get an HD Extender instead.

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[voorhees]

I am not sure about your first two issues/questions, but I may be able to help with the last two. At least these worked for me. I have two HVR-1600's up and running fine.

Originally Posted by johnmilky

I hook the cable up to the QAM and i get no signal but when i try using wintv i get good singal

I too received good signals and all of my channels in WinTV, but nothing in SageTV. I played with this problem for a very, very, very long time. I am sure I have days invested into resolving this same issue. After dozens and dozens of scans, installing the hardware and software many, many times, I stumbled up on this post. I downloaded the file for Windows, and replaced the DShowCapture.dll file in my SageTV directly that installed with my clean install of SageTV v6.4.8 with the one I downloaded from the post. After that SageTV could scan and receive all of my Comcast clear QAM channels. It has been working great for a couple of months now.

Originally Posted by johnmilky

I got a question when i want to use my comcast cable and the DTV channels do i need to hook two cables up one to Analog and the other to QAM

I am not sure of your situation and may be missing the point of your question, but the card has two tuners. One is analog and one is digital. If you want to use both the analog and digital tuner you will need to hook up a cable to both. With Comcast in the Denver area, I get my analog channels (first 70 or so) on the analog tuner, and I get about 20 or so digital channels on the digital tuner. However, I only mapped the major networks channels on my digital tuners for viewing in SageTV.

I hope this helps.

[johnmilky]

voorhees: i found that post too and tried it but no luck ill try it again.

Also about the video card can any one recommend a HDMI pci-x card


Thank You

[hedly]

Originally Posted by johnmilky

voorhees: i found that post too and tried it but no luck ill try it again.

Also about the video card can any one recommend a HDMI pci-x card


Thank You

Concerning the videro card, I personally like the ATI cards. I have a HDR2600 card, but if I had to do it today, I would probably get a passively cooled 4000 series card. For instance:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/HD_4550_passive/.
They take a bunch of the load off your CPU and are silent.

You can buy (if not included) a dongle from ATI that converts the DVI port to an HDMI port. The cards have a sound chip installed on them and output encrypted surround sound over the HDMI.

[johnmilky]

Originally Posted by voorhees

I too received good signals and all of my channels in WinTV, but nothing in SageTV. I played with this problem for a very, very, very long time. I am sure I have days invested into resolving this same issue. After dozens and dozens of scans, installing the hardware and software many, many times, I stumbled up on this post. I downloaded the file for Windows, and replaced the DShowCapture.dll file in my SageTV directly that installed with my clean install of SageTV v6.4.8 with the one I downloaded from the post. After that SageTV could scan and receive all of my Comcast clear QAM channels. It has been working great for a couple of months now.

Ok i done this i install a clean copy of Sagetv and copy the DShow over and still have no digital singal

[voorhees]

Sorry to hear it did not work for you. It was my "holy grail" after having the same problem, and working on it off and on over several months. The only other thing I can think of, even though I am not sure if it really has an effect or not, is to make sure your Hauppauge WinTV 418 TS Capture-x-QAM.frq and QAMScan-Hauppauge WinTV 418 TS Capture-x.frq files are deleted before trying a new scan. I am assuming they were deleted when you did a clean install though. I know how frustrating it is to have the cards work fine with WinTV and not work in SageTV. If I think of anything else that helped me, I will let you know.

Good luck.

[johnmilky]

Ok i just install beyone TV and scan qam and it work but when i try on SageTV it doesn't. Its a pain to try to get qam to work on sagetv. Is there anything i can try?

[jmarti31]

Hi everyone,

Not sure if this is the right post. I am not interested in QAM- only want to get ATSC locals. I get channels scanned ok but when i try to tune i get no signal. In windows media center they all come in at 100% signal and perfect picture.

Spent many hours searching posts with no luck.Lots of info for QAM but noting for ATSC over the air.

Thanks in advance.