Hauppauge WinTV Nova HD

[Tripitaka]

Hello,

 

Hopefully there is a good soul here who can help me set this lot up before I tear all my hair out.

 

I have a satellite dish which is plugged into the card, it seems to be receiving ok, I did get a spanish channel last night, I have installed the drivers from the Hauppauge installation cd but I haven't installed the Win TV software.

 

Found lots of codecs and installed them according to the included instructions and in my settings there is a codec for each requirement except for AAC audio, I have installed the AAC but it doesn't show up in the settings, it just states 'system default'

 

I scanned the astra 19 thing but all I get are spanish channels, the English channels all seem to be hidden, where are the English channels? Where are the HD channels?

 

It's a standalone pc, I am the admin. I have included the support file hopefully someone can point me in the direction of HD free to air English channels.

 

I was hoping this would be easy but there are SO many settings that us mere mortals get confused

 

 

Kind Regards,

Tripitaka

support.zip

[uglyned]

If you want UK English channels you'll need to point your dish at (or scan) Eurobird / Astra at 28.2 degrees east. You seem to be scanning Astra at 19 degrees east. Wrong bird.

Edited March 18, 2010 by uglyned

[Tripitaka]

thanks for the reply,

 

I have tried to scan that one but it keeps freezing, it gets as far as this (below) then stops and I have to ctrl alt del to shut it down

 

 

If I try to scan it from dvb I end up with this..

 

 

but all I get are spanish channels no english at all.

 

Why do I have a list of 50,000,000 ini files for foreign tv? I only want English and HD?

 

Is there a step by step guide for receiving only English and HD channels?

 

 

Regards,

Tripitaka

[PeterF]

Where ist your dish pointed to? Astra19,2° or Astra28°? This is the first thing you must know, if it isn`t pointed to the right direction, you can scna 100 tmes and you can`t find any channel you are searching.

 

PeterF

[Tripitaka]

 

Yes you are correct of course. The foundations must be good for the structure to be sound.

 

So today I refreshed my pc, updated .net and did a full uninstall/reinstall of programmes and codecs.

 

Scanned the Astra28 and bingo, High Definition

 

I do have a couple more questions though, which is the best Video Rendering setting? and Where do the freesat tables go?

 

 

Thanks for the advice.

support.zip