Laptop TV Tuner

[lotus_flamingo]

Hi,

I have a laptop with Windows Vista Operating System - AMD Turion Dual core Mobile processor. I recently bought a Tech-Com USB2.0 Laptop TV tuner [SSD-TV-813] and made all the necessary connections. But, when I try to open the Honestech TVR Schedule it displays "Could not initialize the capture device"

I thought that there was some problem with the TV tuner and got it exchanged. To my surprise the new one also displayed the same thing.

So, I searched in the net for a solution and came across people with similar problems posted their threads and a solution was also posted which says

"could not initialize capture device": In Device manager under Sound, video and game controllers, you have to manually update driver for the "USB Video Device", so it shows "USB 2821 Video" instead using EMAUDIO.INF file."

I visited Tech-Com [www.techcomindia.com] and downloaded the driver for this particular package, but it was of no use.

I don't know if I had to again purchase the driver which was not mentioned anywhere in the Laptop TV tuner package or should I change settings to the existing drivers?

Please, could anyone help me out. Also, please tell me if I have got the right TV tuner.

Thank you very much,
lotus_flamingo

[lohithvnm]

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[lotus_flamingo]

Hi Lohithvnm,

Thanks a lot for your reply.

I downloaded the latest Honestech TVR Plus; and still faced the same problem. After surfing for a long time in the net I came across a solution [the attached PDF].

I just got rid of the initialization problem; But still, the TV is not displaying anything. It is blank. Please could you advice if I need to change and apply any software settings.

Thank you very much,
lotus_flamingo

[Zero]

I just thought I let you know that it may be that all the tv signals have gone digital as of yesterday. I believe that it may have effect your tv tuner. You may have to get a digital tuner for it. Not sure but it would not hurt to loook into that. Good luck

[lotus_flamingo]

Hi Lohithvnm,

Thank you very much for your reply. You were the only one to reply me. Anyway, my laptop was never satisfied with Tech-Com TV tuner. So, I got it exchanged again with MRon Rolf TV stick and it is working fine.

Anyone looking for a TV tuner for Windows Vista Operating System, I advice not to go for Tech-Com since it is not compatible with Vista, but it works fine in Windows XP.

Thank you very much,
lotus_flamingo

[jayakamala]

How to make the tech-com TV runer work with windows 7 ? I am facing the same problem "could not initialise the capture device. But it worked for two days . now it is not working what might be the reason? Need some help urgently. thanks

[Networx]

Reinstall the drivers and see. Is the card detected as of now ? Try using any other program and see if you can get the signal. VLC support streaming for cards (think so).

[Christy]

Recently bought a dirt cheap Zebronics My Media ZEB2010 TV tuner. Worked like a charm without any configuration.
Zebronics sell's separate versions for CRT and LCD monitors. I bought the CRT version, worked on my 1980 model CRT TV monitor and my 2009 model Samsung CRT monitor.

The 1980 TV is quite a specimen, it has non standard AV ports, and cannot tune the entire TV frequency, i guess they dint have so much of frequencies for tv tx back then, and supports 16 channels.

[nanu yaru]

could any one please explain the complete steps to connect the dth receiver to computer via tv tuner card? If you provide the link also i will be thankful
thanks in advance