I hooked up a Kworld ATSC 115 (PCI) card to my XP Home (SP2) machine. I got this card because it has QAM (HD) capability, and I wanted to simply plug in my Comcast digital cable coax into the thing and watch the clear QAM channels that they provide, and record shows. I know from others' experiences that Comcast does have a decent handful of unencypted QAM channels.
The problem is, I'll have the Arcsoft TotalMedia software (came bundled with it) scan for channels. It picks up a TON (300 or so). 90%+ are encrypted and locked though, which is what I expected. The problem is, of those that aren't locked, only SEVEN show video when I tune to the channel. The other 20 or so just have the SOUND of the tv show, and no video! It shows a little "radio" icon or symbol, telling me it things it's an radio station, so it doesn't even show a black screen or pixelation. The signal strength bar is FULL!
Of course, when I contact Kworld, they blame Arcsoft, and Arcsoft blames Kworld! Any help would be greatly appreciated. I wish this where simple...just plug in the cable and work!
If it could be the Arcsoft software, does anyone have a suggestion of a third party software that I could use instead that will let me utilize QAM/HD with Windows XP Home, that will function with the KWorld card??
Have the same card and problem. I even bought TotalMedia 3.5. The software just doesn't get the channels. The same card under MediaPortal gets all of the unscrambled qam channels. I have never been able to get MediaPortal or GBPVR to work at the level TotalMedia does for the channels it receives.
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