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Hi,
I heard Happuage is bringing a PVR USB stick TV Tuners. Is there any way to get the PCI TV Tuners working, like Happuage WinTv PVR500 Pro (Which i have :) ) Its showing with the string "iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder" Any software + driver to get it work ? Any one has success with same / similar / other PCI TV Tuners ?? |
Hey guys,
rohitpatil thanks so much for creating this thread!! I also wish to get my tv tuner (Happuage HVR 1600) to get it to work with my mac! That will be the best if someone can get it to work. |
Yeah...but no one is replying here, i guess no body is interested in TV Tuners on Mac :)
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I think you will find it hard to get card specific drivers for tv tuner cards. Plus you also need tuning software which is not in leopard. Many USB tuners will work with elgato eyetv, if you are lucky yours might work. I bought a elgato USB tuner and it works very well, but for the best tv experience you should use vista media center to watch and record tv, with a bit of effort I got the epg in media center that will do simple recording and also automatically record shows whenever they are on. The epg in media center kicks ass on the eyetv epg. To make up your own mind you would have to try both.
Eyetv has some cool features though I would recommend getting the full remote as I only have the mac remote and it sucks compared to the media center remote. Good luck, sorry to say I don't think you will find and drivers for pci tuner cards as companys that make them just don't support mac as tuning software is needed too. |
I am already running vista home premium and my card is dual TV tuner perfectly compatible with media center. But when i am working on Mac, sometimes i would like to put on TV for quick cricket or any other sport's score or say any movie...thats why i would like to know if i can use it in any way with Mac.
Eye TV not recognising it. First need driver Kext. |
As far as I know usb is the only option until either, someone ports the window drivers, or vmware fusion/parallels somehow allow windows direct access to the underlying hardware.
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in vista in vmware you cannot use media center even if you can install the tv card, because media center needs more dedicated graphics ram and vmware only gives 256 which is not enough. Running media center just gives an error.
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So i have complete 2 GB Ram and complete 512 MB GPU memory. |
I never suggested anyone was running vmware in vista, if you actually read my post I am explaining that running vmware in leopard and installing vista as a virtual machine has its limitations. It matters not how much ram you have or what graphics card you use, in vmware the virtual machine will only ever have a 256mb shared memory virtual graphics driver meaning you cannot use media center or do many other graphics intensive tasks as the virtual graphics adapter in vmware does not take advantage of your actual graphics card potential.
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