having a nightmare with my new TV capture card - Out fo all the channels not to work

[jamieuk]

Hi I have just recently just bought a TV capture card Hauppauge HVR-1100...

Ok my goal here was to be able 2 record the snooker over the 7 days which starts on sunday threw the BBC interactive service which would allow me to record all the live snooker while I was at work via pressing the red button.

I have set my TV capture card to DVB-T source and allowed it to scan threw all the channels for me..

everything seems to be going great as suddenly it finds all the freeview channels for me.

what I have noticed thou is that out of all the digital channels it has found in the scan is that I cant interact with the channels using the remote controle that came with my freeview. which = I cant press the red button to go interactive.

After going threw all the channels for ages I did find the channel I was looking for which allowed me to change channels + go interactive but the Quality of picture is terrible !! and I cant seem to make it better even trying fine tuning.


http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c27/jamieuk23/freeview1.jpg

I am even running my aerial threw a booster as well. Please note picture above looks 10 times worse than the actual picture

any advice ? please ?

[Latexxx]

Try without the booster. Some times they add too much noise to the signal.

[mg262]

After going threw all the channels for ages I did find the channel I was looking for which allowed me to change channels + go interactive but the Quality of picture is terrible !!
Is it just the channel-selection channel that looks bad? Or all your channels?

[jamieuk]

its just the channel selection channel that is bad mate the rest are fine.

thanks !

[mg262]

You could consider trying a different piece of software. My card doesn't have a channel selection channel at all; I was recommended to use WebScheduler, and I find it absolutely excellent for timed recordings. You can download channel information from the radio times website, and create a customised program guide. It displays program list for whatever channels you want, one in each column; and you can schedule recording of an upcoming program simply by clicking on it and selecting "Add". It can also record the transport stream, which prevents audio/video desynchronisation problems.

(The only limitation is that you can't use it to watch things in real-time.)