Sunday, November 13, 2005
Maybe - A Break-Through - Maybe
In the previous post, I mentioned that SageTV was selling and obviously supporting the AverMedia 180 HDTV capture card; and that I also ordered one.
I installed the new card --- and gained exactly nothing.
It functions (doesn't) just as the Fusion 5 card. I'm now convinced it's in the Front-End software.
To date, I've not been successful at getting either card to work with Meedio or SageTV. While not ready to give it up, I was getting pretty frustrated.
One of the blogs I follow is: HD Beat and they recently had a post announcing the release of Beyond TV 4 from Snapstream - SnapStream . Beyond TV 4 had received PC Magazine's Editors choice award, and according to the product specs - supported both the Fusion 5 Card and the Avermedia 180 card. So, what the heck - I downloaded a twenty one day free trial of Beyond TV 4.
The darn thing works, with both cards - wow. I set it up on both cards, and found that the Fusion 5 card indicated the best signal strength, so I'm using that card as the default tuner/capture card.
I still need to play with it some more to understand how all the features and functions work.
I'm seeing some inconsistency in audio, but that may be corrected by trying alternate drivers.
So far, I like the interface, the guide is nice, and once I work out a few kinks, I think I may have an HD Tivo-like capability.
I installed the new card --- and gained exactly nothing.
It functions (doesn't) just as the Fusion 5 card. I'm now convinced it's in the Front-End software.
To date, I've not been successful at getting either card to work with Meedio or SageTV. While not ready to give it up, I was getting pretty frustrated.
One of the blogs I follow is: HD Beat and they recently had a post announcing the release of Beyond TV 4 from Snapstream - SnapStream . Beyond TV 4 had received PC Magazine's Editors choice award, and according to the product specs - supported both the Fusion 5 Card and the Avermedia 180 card. So, what the heck - I downloaded a twenty one day free trial of Beyond TV 4.
The darn thing works, with both cards - wow. I set it up on both cards, and found that the Fusion 5 card indicated the best signal strength, so I'm using that card as the default tuner/capture card.
I still need to play with it some more to understand how all the features and functions work.
I'm seeing some inconsistency in audio, but that may be corrected by trying alternate drivers.
So far, I like the interface, the guide is nice, and once I work out a few kinks, I think I may have an HD Tivo-like capability.
