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post #21 of 33
9/26/03 at 12:00pm
What are recommended antennas?
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post #22 of 33
9/26/03 at 12:10pm

Re: V4.24 download problems

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Originally posted by aussie
Well I just downloaded and installed the new TV Studio software (Version 4.24) from Sager's web site.

TV mode works fine. I have picture, sound etc. but when I go to VCR record mode or Time Shift, I get the "we are sorry..." error report.

I know ayasin gave us the link to the 8887 HT version of the TV Studio software but I was wondering if anyone has got the new v4.24 software to work in record and/or timeshift mode?

Is the v4.24 software HT compatible or not?

Aussie,

My record function doesn't work either... I spent an hour with Sager on the phone last week, and the tech couldn't figure it out either. He told me to reinstall windows, but I don't think that is the problem, and I simply don't have time to do that. Call Sager with your problem, or email them, so they will get to work on a patch to figure out the problem.

(furthermore, so they won't think I am crazy.

Cheers buddy,

Rakewell
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post #23 of 33
9/26/03 at 1:41pm
now I am crazy.
I managed to revert back to a system checkpoint I had before I started changing stuff.

Guess what, TV record now works perfectly .

Right now I need to sleep. Between thinking about blotchy screens, colour depth, learning XP and playing with sound cards, my brain hurts - too much information.

Bottom line for me is when I revert to this pristine state, my screen is perfect - no blotchy effect or colour banding, no dead pixels, TV record works, great sound - in a word, the whole system is perfect. Now all I have to do is work out what is going on with everybody else's system.

Driver hell IMHO.
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post #24 of 33
9/26/03 at 9:01pm

Re: re- no sound with tv turner

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Originally posted by BoonDockSaint
well i must have been having a brain fart or something, but i finally got the av problem solved, just took a few new connectors and wham bam thankyou mam it was solved. to answer the question about hooking my dvd player to my laptop which by the way does have a dvd player in it, i just wanted to use it so i could capture some of my dvds on my pc, and just to kind of tinker around a bit, was thinking about also hooking my vcr up and arciving some of my videos i havent watched in a while

thanks for all your help
Why bother recording it from a TV tuner? Get a good DVD ripping software, like GordianKnot and you can have the DVD on your hard drive at FAR better a quality than what you'd have with a TV tuner...
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post #25 of 33
9/27/03 at 12:52am
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Originally posted by stevo9er
What are recommended antennas?
It depends on the reception in your area.

The best of course is a roof mounted aerial with coax right to your laptop. If you do have an existing coax you can get splitters that will allow you to tap into the coax so both your laptop and TV set can operate at the same time.

If you don't have a roof aerial then one of the powered amplifying aerials works well. Look for one that does VHF and UHF. The long aerials are for VHF and either a rectangular/circular disc is for UHF.
The downside of the powered aerials is of course you need a power point. The advantage is that in poor reception areas you can increase the "gain" or amplification of the signal that they receive so your tuner module will be able to decode the signal.
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post #26 of 33
9/28/03 at 1:48am

Help

Ok i am having a problem. I cant get my record to work, but now the program dosent crash. I get a codec error. Here is the link to the desktop screenshot.

http://www.angelfire.com/games3/darkangel/sager.jpg

Any help would be great. I am running the newest bios and vid/audio drivers from sagernotebook.com. The tv tuner works in all other areas.

Oops the interactive record dosent work either.
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post #27 of 33
9/28/03 at 10:00am

Success at last - how to get a fully operational TV/VCR

It all works: record, timeshift, interactive, scheduler - finally.

You must, must, must, do a three stage install to get the new v4.24 TV studio software from Sager's website to work properly:

1. Remove the TV Studio software.
2. manually upgrade the drivers
3. Reinstall the TV Studio software

detailed instructions here.
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post #28 of 33
9/30/03 at 12:06am

still not working

I installed the new software, and reinstalled the drivers using the above procedure (uninstall tv studio software, manually update drivers, and reinstall software), but the program STILL crashes when I try record or interactive record. Has anyone else had it crash with the new version of the software? I'm at a loss. Is there anything else to try??
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post #29 of 33
9/30/03 at 12:15am

driver hell

Sorry to hear that.

If you can, post or pm me the versions of all the drivers assoicated with the TV Tuner - you can find these in Control Panel -> System -> Hardware manger.

Which version of XP are you running and was it a Sager install or your own install?
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post #30 of 33
9/30/03 at 12:34am

driver versions

Alright, there are 2 drivers under sound,video and game controlloers:

AVerMedia AVerTV WDM Audio Capture (878) - Version 7.0.2.0
AVerMedia AVerTV WDM Video Capture (878) - Version 7.0.2.0

The driver date is 6/10/2003 on both. I'm running Windows XP SP1 installed by me.

There used to be two other devices (crossbar and tv studio I think), but I uninstalled them since there were no updated drivers for them in the new software folder. I figured they would be replaced when I reinstalled the TV Studio software 4.24, but they weren't. Maybe that's the problem? Anyway, if you can think of anything, let me know. Thanks!
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post #31 of 33
9/30/03 at 6:17am

Re: Success at last - how to get a fully operational TV/VCR

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Originally posted by aussie
It all works: record, timeshift, interactive, scheduler - finally.

You must, must, must, do a three stage install to get the new v4.24 TV studio software from Sager's website to work properly:

1. Remove the TV Studio software.
2. manually upgrade the drivers
3. Reinstall the TV Studio software

detailed instructions here.
Thanks for posting this, it worked for me. I tested it last night & it did crash once, but time-shifting & record both worked fine(they never did before)
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post #32 of 33
9/30/03 at 7:21am
John, do you have the Bluetooth stack in your system?
If you have, you may find that causes the crash as I had that issue too. I am about to load the new version of the Bluetooth software and track down the problem.
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post #33 of 33
9/30/03 at 7:31am
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Originally posted by aussie
John, do you have the Bluetooth stack in your system?
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No, I have integrated wireless but not Bluetooth.
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