TV WONDER USB refuses to work in XP

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati (More info?)

Does your notebook use Intel graphics
chipset?

Then it'll never work, there's an "overlay conflict"
somehow.

ATI blames Intel. Intel blames ATI. Been round and round
with both of them. Gave up.

Have had to live with it for 3 years. Capture works
OK, just not TV.

"Brian" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
news 6dLc.83165$iJ4.40819@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> I bought the TV WONDER USB to watch TV on my notebook here at school. I
can
> not for my life get the tuner to work. The ATI MMC software doesnt work,
the
> dreaded "The TV player failed to initialize the video". I've tried
numerous
> tv tuner programs.
>
> The last program I have used is DScaler. In the program I can see one
> channel (no audio), and if I attempt to change the channel the video
remains
> on the same one. So I can see the usb tuner has the capability to send one
> channel to my notebook (although very bad quality, I just want it to work
> for now).
>
> How can I harness this to get it to actually work? It seems no software
> wants to work. I do not wish to format my pc, I just did it earlier this
> month with XP PRO.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. Is there another usb tuner
that
> works better than this ATI?
>
>

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati (More info?)

Yes, it is an intel chipset. Thanks for letting me know. Looks like I will
sell this right back on ebay.

brian

"V Green" <vanceg@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:1090370817.130389@nnrp1.roc2.gblx.net...
> Does your notebook use Intel graphics
> chipset?
>
> Then it'll never work, there's an "overlay conflict"
> somehow.
>
> ATI blames Intel. Intel blames ATI. Been round and round
> with both of them. Gave up.
>
> Have had to live with it for 3 years. Capture works
> OK, just not TV.
>
> "Brian" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
> news 6dLc.83165$iJ4.40819@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> > I bought the TV WONDER USB to watch TV on my notebook here at school. I
> can
> > not for my life get the tuner to work. The ATI MMC software doesnt work,
> the
> > dreaded "The TV player failed to initialize the video". I've tried
> numerous
> > tv tuner programs.
> >
> > The last program I have used is DScaler. In the program I can see one
> > channel (no audio), and if I attempt to change the channel the video
> remains
> > on the same one. So I can see the usb tuner has the capability to send
one
> > channel to my notebook (although very bad quality, I just want it to
work
> > for now).
> >
> > How can I harness this to get it to actually work? It seems no software
> > wants to work. I do not wish to format my pc, I just did it earlier this
> > month with XP PRO.
> >
> > If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. Is there another usb tuner
> that
> > works better than this ATI?
> >
> >
>
>

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati (More info?)

Here's the dope from the Intel folks:

http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-004688-...

I just use mine in the field to cap small portions
of pipeline video inspections to grab still frames from...
at this it does fine. I would like to watch TV in
my spare time, tho'

"Brian" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
news:4CmLc.83260$iJ4.67971@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> Yes, it is an intel chipset. Thanks for letting me know. Looks like I will
> sell this right back on ebay.
>
> brian
>
> "V Green" <vanceg@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:1090370817.130389@nnrp1.roc2.gblx.net...
> > Does your notebook use Intel graphics
> > chipset?
> >
> > Then it'll never work, there's an "overlay conflict"
> > somehow.
> >
> > ATI blames Intel. Intel blames ATI. Been round and round
> > with both of them. Gave up.
> >
> > Have had to live with it for 3 years. Capture works
> > OK, just not TV.
> >
> > "Brian" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
> > news 6dLc.83165$iJ4.40819@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> > > I bought the TV WONDER USB to watch TV on my notebook here at school.
I
> > can
> > > not for my life get the tuner to work. The ATI MMC software doesnt
work,
> > the
> > > dreaded "The TV player failed to initialize the video". I've tried
> > numerous
> > > tv tuner programs.
> > >
> > > The last program I have used is DScaler. In the program I can see one
> > > channel (no audio), and if I attempt to change the channel the video
> > remains
> > > on the same one. So I can see the usb tuner has the capability to send
> one
> > > channel to my notebook (although very bad quality, I just want it to
> work
> > > for now).
> > >
> > > How can I harness this to get it to actually work? It seems no
software
> > > wants to work. I do not wish to format my pc, I just did it earlier
this
> > > month with XP PRO.
> > >
> > > If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. Is there another usb tuner
> > that
> > > works better than this ATI?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>