Tv @nywhere quality

I just installed my tv @nywhere and I must say the quality i'm gettin is absolutely horrid. My ati all in wonder from 1997 does better. I'm not sure if its the card I'm using but I am definitely going to exchange it, and if that still doesn't work, I'll buy the new version when it comes out.
And yes, I had stereo sound until I used the update!

Can U state more detail on this? (like what do U mean by horrible quality, do U mean comb lines/blurry/noisy?
And what software did U use? and SVideo/TV/AV input?)

Similar Messages

TV@nywhere Master poor video quality with 6800 GT

I have the TV@nywhere master (8606-020) and it was working fin with my NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT OC (256MB) but when I updated the driver to their latest version, every time I would go full-screen in MSIPVR it would make lines all through the video. I reinstalled drivers, MSIPVS and same thing. I then rolled back the NVIDIA driver, and the issue disappeared. Anyone have the same issue and know how to use the new driver from NVIDIA and get it working right? Thanks!
- Mike

Hi:
Thaniks for writing back. My comment really was directed at ellucidating how many others might have poorer quality using Nvidia 6800-based graphics cards as the originator of this thread implicated. Second, as to your comments, it would seem a good idea to stay with the old drivers. The new drivers were supposed to solve TitanTV directed recordings; this they do better, but still insufficiently at least in my hands. Maybe the only choice left is to stay with the originals. But before uninstalling the current version and installing the original, I had a third question that perhaps you could address.
Perhaps you could comment on why the driver scan at http://driveragent.com
reveals my currently up-to-date version MSI 8606 (TV@nywhere master) Audio Capture and MSI 8606 Video capture drivers are out of date? Based on the listings in Device Manager, they are currently Conexant version cx88aud.sys, 2.3.79.0 and C88Vid.SYS, 4.0.102.0. Did my drivers fail to update correctly, are there drivers for this available somewhere else, not listed on the MSI website, like Intervideo, etc, or is this website wrong? I hate to pay money to find out they are simply wrong. Do you get the same results?
doc john

Image quality on @nywhere master

1.How cand I improve the image quality on this tuner? It looks worse than my ex tuner (wayjet) on the same os(xp) and system(radeon7000,p41800,256ddr).
Where is the Invincible video quality supported by Silicon Tuner?
2.What can I do to see both cable and antenna programs in the same tv list?
I`ve tryed with free scan but it doesn`t work.
3.The software in soo buggy

The signal of the cable is strong, i don`t hve problems with catching any tv station..
The ideea is that the image quality is not as i expected(is not clear.I had two other tv tuners before and the quality of image of then was superior.I dont`t know what to do to improve de image.I`m not interested of capture, I want only to see my tv programs in a good conditions.So, pleasse help me someone to solve the problem...

Software that Works with TV@nywhere

I'd like to hear from others as to what their experiences have been with 3rd party software using the TV@nywhere card. This information may help others who also own this card and would like to experiment with different software.
I own the TV@nywhere Master card, here is my experience with the software listed below. Some of this software can be trained to use the remote control with the program GIRDER. I rely on GIRDER for use with MSIPVS, PowerDVD, and Showshifter.
MSIPVS (WINDVR2) and FM Radio - Work very well. However, recorded shows (no matter what format they are recorded in) have a slight slur in the audio where the levels go slightly up and down. Also, timeshifting often causes sync problems between video and audio. The audio is just NOT steady and stable. Picture quality is very good. Not terribly flexible in recording formats. MPEG-4 support is there but it really sucks and can't be tweaked.
WinDVR3 - Unfortunately this software cannot tune my channels. When it tries to autoscan, it holds the channel for 2 seconds and drops it. This program is unusable. The remote control also does not work with this program; although I've heard there is a workaround for the remote where you can copy files from MSIPVS into the WinDVR3 folder.
Cyberlink PowerVCR - Excellent picture and audio. However, recorded shows have poor audio with pops and hisses. Timeshifting also can have some sync problems. Remote control doesn't work with this program either. Not very flexible with different recording formats.
Snapstream BeyondTV 3 - Wow, very cool package. Even has a built in channel guide that can be used in Canada. Groovy graphics, setup and options. But oh my god the picture quality totally SUCKS. The tv channels are murky and saturated and no degree of tweaking makes any difference. This program is proof that a slick package means nothing without the TV Quality to back it up.
Showshifter - Showshifter has some great options. It also has excellent audio and video quality. The only downfall with this program is that it uses Windows task scheduler to schedule recorded shows. As a result, many recordings don't work or disappear after they've been saved. If this program had a built in scheduler such as PowerVCR or WinDVD, it would be a terrific solution. On the other hand, if you don't record shows all the time, this is an excellent solution for the TV@nywhere card. It allows recordings to be created in VCD, DVD, SVCD, AVI (Divx), etc. etc. Excellent options. The program generally keeps CPU usage between 13-20% and the recording quality is superb. If you install Girder, you can even use your remote control with this program by adding the appropriate group.
IUVCR - works ok but is nothing pretty to look at. Scheduler also uses Windows task scheduler which is unreliable. Can be set up to use DIVX for recordings, etc. Functional, but not the best of the best.
SageTV - forget this program, didn't even recognize my TV Tuner Card.
Fly2000TV - Another program that I played with for several hours but couldn't get it to recognize my TV Tuner Card.
Hopefully this information will help some of you who are seeking other software solutions. If I've missed some compatible software packages, I'd be very grateful if others of you would add to this thread and provide detailed information as to your experiences.
Thanks
TVeith

Quote
Originally posted by tveith
Sorry for the late response.
1 - No, I did not need to do this workaround for MSIPVS. It worked fine when set to Canada. This is obvously due to the deal MSI arranged with Intervideo.
2 - No I never had to uninstall/reinstall to get it to work, it worked the first time I tried it.
Have you given Showshifter a try yet? It is the only program I've come across that has been 100% reliable with the MSI TV@nywhere card. Not to mention that it has a Show Guide capability. I should mention that I purchased the program last week and the support I've received has been outstanding.
TVeith
I tried Showshifter but I found on my system, it was not removing the interlacing, which was annoying. With my current uncertainty of whether or not the MSI card is working normal, I can't say that that problem is not unique to my setup.
The current state of my card is that, after all the jerking around I had to do to try to determine the cause of the MSIPVS freeze up, the card no longer allows itself to be setup. It no longer accepts country location, or cable signal source but always reverts back to Afghanistan and antenna. This prevents a cable scan from taking place and I am no longer able to tune any stations. I can therefore do no more testing to try to determine cause of the original program freezing problem. I don't believe that any tv tuner program using the Windows drivers will work with this card now. I would have concluded that finally the card has bit the dust except for the fact that I can use an alpha version of Dscaler to control the tuner and tune all the appropriate stations on my cable hookup. I am working with the developers to add sound support for this card to the program. The unique aspect of Dscaler is that it controls the card directly instead of using the Windows drivers. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, the next version (5) being developed will use the Windows drivers.

How I got my TV@nywhere working

I got the card a while ago and had to solve many of the problems I read about on the forum.
1. It took me 5 days of searching to figure out that the serial number for the MSI PVS player is actually on the label of the cd itself
2. Having solved that, I installed the software and hooked up the audio cable, remote receiver and coax for cable tv. I got it sort of working, with good remote functionality but fritzy audio. Basically, if I changed the channel, the audio would die until I changed it in the settings menu of the pvs software. Oh, and I think I just got lucky on the whole infrared remote thing: mine works fine.*
3. I solved the audio problem by installing the beta drivers that I got here and the updated msi PVS from here .
4. I haven't noticed the lack of stereo, and no mpeg4 hasn't affected me .... yet. So overall, I think the tuner has better picture than my Voodoo 3 3500, more features, but worse performance (it's a pig loading for the first time, and channel surfing is out of the question).
I'm running Win2KPro, SP3
1.2 GHz Athlon, 512 of PC 2100
on an MSI K7T266 Pro
MSI GeForce 4 Ti 4200 TD64
MSI Tv@nywhere
(yes, I like MSI)
Maxtor ATA 100 adapter
12GB total storage, DVD, CDRW, et cetra
with:
TV@nywhere beta drivers here
updated PVS software here
* I read in another post about someone with a nonfunctioning remote system saying that the indicator on the remote wouldn't light up. Score a point for good reporting of all suspicions, but unfortunately, the LED on the end of the remote is an infrared transmission diode. Unless you have some very special eyes, you shouldn't be able to see it light up. Radioshack happens to sell a little card that indicates the presence of infrad radiation, designed specifically for diagnosing remote problems like this.
ALSO, anyone having problems with the remote: Make sure it's plugged all the way in. It clicks several times and you have to push the plug uncomfortably hard. Also make sure you have the Intervideo WinCinema Manager running. It appears as a circular blue icon in the system tray.
I kinda wish MSI had expressed more judgment before deciding to release an obviously incomplete product like the TV@nywhere. Oh well, c'est la vie. Or something.

Well, I originally had stereo until I updated to the new drivers and my stereo went away. So I retreated back to the original pvs drivers. Not sure why the newer drivers are only mono. Also, unlike most posts I read, my picture and sound quality are excellent. I have a geforce4 4400, asus A7V-133 motherboard 640mg ram. I ran a dvd and vhs through the inputs of the msi tuner card, all worked great, even recorded in vcd format (mpeg1). I don't use the remote since my cable input comes from my digital TV cable box and I switch channels with that remote. I understand everyones frustration with the drivers, software and docujmentation/support. I am satisfied with this product, since it adds some more fun to my multimedia entertainment.
I did fine tune station 3 in my setup screen to enhance some color, just moved a couple of ticks. But, I am not experiencing the hugh problems some people complain about. (eg. snowy picture). My am working with my friend that has a real crappy picture. I have reloaded all my drivers and never once witnessed any poor video and audio. My suggest is for you to keep playing with it. Also, i am using ME.

Tv@nywhere Master - Cant capture higher than 352X288

Hi
I have a Tv@nywhere Master and i cant capture any higher that 352x288 resolution.
I tryed VirtualDub and Adobe Premier . They both say : Unsuported Video Format when i try to select 640x480 or 720x576 . (PAL mode)
The original software (MSIPVS) lets me choose the format and resolution but i dont want to use it because it offers poor quality.
I am capturing from VHS at maximum quality possible and storing it in AVI uncompressed and then use TMPEGenc to SVCD.
Can anyone comment on this ?
Doesnt this board capture higher than 352x288 ???
Thank you
Filipe

I use it in 768x576 without any problems
you just have to look for a Use Smart Tee Filter setting because the card can`t both capture and preview over 288 so you`ll need to split the data on the Capture pin in order to provide preview over 288 lines.

TV@nywhere Master Recording Problems

The TV@nywhere Master works fine for viewing, but I can't record without problems. There is a sound problem with all available versions of WinDVR. The recorded sound regularly "warbles" or pulsates. It is detectable when a musical tone is playing, otherwise it may be hard to hear. It is very annoying once you pick up on it. Other interVideo programs WinProducer and WinDVD Recorder exhibit the same problem.
I tried PowerVCR and I get an error message when attempting to record in MPEG2:
S0009 : Unable to render preview video stream.
I have all the latest drivers and software versions. I even tried a clean install of Windows several times and a different sound card, but no luck. I'm getting nowhere with tech support. Very frustrating.
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe MB
Onboard nForce2 sound (also tried Soundblaster Audigy)
AMD 2800+ Barton CPU
512MB DDR RAM
GeForce 5600 Video Card
250 Gig Hard drive
Windows XP

Using PowerVCR II 3.0, and there is no Use Smart Tee option available.
Here's all the options:
Video -> Overlay Options -> Overlay/Non-Overlay (Non-overlay causes a crash)
Profiles
Check boxes for MMX, SSE, 3DNow and Enhanced 3DNow. All are checked.
Recording / Advanced -> Advanced Options
Video Smoothing (during recording) - unchecked
Intelligent Noise Removal (during recording) checked
Enable Time-Shifting when recording - unchecked
Have tried changing most of these settings but always get error message, unless I use MPEG1 which is not acceptable quality.
I did a search in Help for "Smart" and for "Tee" and there are no matches.

TV@nywhere Plus Cable problem

Hello folks...
I have recently gotten a TV@nywhere Plus card and installed it in my machine. It scans for channels and seems to find them, but the picture quality is terrible. However, If I choose antenna as the input it picks up the channels 2 to 12 and the picture is great! (I don't have an antenna connected, so the signal just is picked up out of the air) But, as soon as I choose the Cable input it sucks. I live in Canada and my machine is an AMD 1800+ with a MSI KT3 Ultra motherboard, 1 GB of RAM, a MSI FX 5500 viodeo card, Running XP Home with service pack 2 and all updates applied
Hope someone can help,
Nets

Lets start from the bottom and work up. Have you eliminated the cable & splitter hookup as the source of the problem by connecting to a TV? I had a problem similar to that when I first installed my TV@Plus and I had to remove/re-install the software and get a new cable & splitter before I could get it work.. No you don't need to use RG6. It does not hurt to have better but it's not a requirement.

@nywhere conflict with cd rom.

I have windows xp pro 2.0ghz p4, 256 ddr,128 geForce4,tv@nywhere master, and a brand new dvd rw,.. Anyways the problem occered that once i finished setting up all my drivers and software for my tuner card my cd rom drive stopped working,.. so i took it out today and put in the dvd rw same error:Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.
Anyone have any idea whats going on or more importantly how i fix it?

Quote
Originally posted by Wonkanoby
Powersupply: Generic 300W, combined: 140W. I`ll give you more information about it.
by the sound of it that might be at back of a lot of it
I guess this makes 3 votes for the PSU being the most likely cause. As Osnavi pointed out, your old mobo likely took most of its power from the 5V line, and this one takes a lot from the 12V line, which has always been the main supply for drives.
Having only 140W combined load says this PSU must be an older unit, and most older PSU's are not up to the task of powering newer systems. Most newer 300W PSU's, from quality builders, now supply closer to 180W-220W combined 3.3V/5V.

TV@nywhere and ProLink driver/soft?

Had anybody tried ProLink PlayTV HD driver/software with TV@nywhere card? Both cards are based on the same CX23881 chipset and ProLink card has very good marks according to this ( http://www.3dvelocity.com/reviews/playtv/playtvhd.htm ) review.
The driver/soft package could be found here: http://www.prolink.com.tw/download/multimedia/881pl+/881PL+.zip

Well, I am using XP, and WMM 2 comes with XP. The recording quality seems to be the same in MSIPVS and WMM 2.
Something else I noticed... I downloaded some new webcam software, and it lists 2 drivers: the same WDM video driver (with the same problems I described) and also a DIRECTX capture driver, which lists the Conexant chipset by name, and captures fine.
Could this be a DirectX issue? I am using DirectX 9.0a . I e-mailed MSI 3 days ago with a question about this but received no response. This forum is my only hope in solving this.
Quote
Originally posted by kody
I am curious. Is the picture recording quality better then the intervideo msipvs software when you record with windows movie maker 2? If it is, I might buy windows movie maker 2
and then I will let you know if it works properly under
windows ME. Maybe, it is a windows 2000 issue?

Numerous Problems with New TV@nywhere Master

Greetings all. A few days ago, I purchased a TV@nywhere Master card. I own two MSI mainboards and an MSI video card that I think are great, but so far this product has been nothing but junk. I am having numerous problems with it that I have not been able to resolve:
1. The remote control just plain doesn't work.
2. I am unable to adjust the TV volume within the MSIPVR tuner software. Turning it up and down or muting it does nothing. However, whenever I exit the program, it mutes the line-in jack on my sound card and doesn't unmute it when I run the program again! I have to run the Creative Surround Mixer and unmute the jack before I get any TV audio.
3. Originally when I booted up, the radio tuner kicked in with a fuzzy feed, even though the software was not running. I had to run the software and exit it to make this stop. I believe this has resolved itself.
4. The MSIPVR software seems very unstable.
I have tried updating all the software from the official MSI drivers page and I also tried the unofficial releases of both the drivers and the MSIPVR 3.0 beta from this forum. The 3.0 beta build seems even more unstable (though it is a beta so this is understandable), but none of my other problems have been resolved either. I've perused the forums looking for ideas, but haven't found anything that's worked. I've also tried all these steps on two different systems that I have with the same results.
I'm really shocked that MSI would release such a low-quality product as most of their other things are quite well made. I am looking to see if anyone has suggestions I can try to resolve this. I am interested in keeping this card if these can be fixed, but if not, I'll be returning this unit and picking up something from ATI instead. There's absolutely no reason for a card to be runnign this poorly and be in a shipping state.
Below are my system specifications should they be of any help:
AthlonXP 2800+ FSB333
MSI K7N2 Delta-L nForce 2
1024MB PQI PC3700 LL
Sound Blaster Audigy
ATI RADEON 9600XT
Promise FastTrak TX2000
2x40GB Western Digital 8MB (In RAID 0 Stripe)
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
All Latest Drivers/Updates for Windows and All Hardware

Quote from: TunerFAQ on 17-February-05, 10:17:47
One more note (great stuff Stu:))... with regards to the remote... try to give it a slight extra push into the socket :D.
As stupid as it sounds, it happens :p... at least with me it did. I kept on trying to get the remote to work in the beginning, only to find out in the end that I hadn't played it ALL the way into the input socket. After the click, it worked.
I hope you can get the sound stuff working though. That's definitely a pain :(. I'm personally having issues with the original card and new software now... but yeah, I shall wait on your feedback first:).
OK, I've finally had some time to try out the various other suggestions that have been made and unfortunately, have met with no success. I tried changing my audio to CD In on my Audigy which still has the same sound problems. I also checked out the connection with the remote and it is in all the way. Still no go on that one. My power supply ratings are:
+5V: 35A Maximum/0A Minimum
+12V: 24A Maximum/0.8A Minimum
+3.3V: 28A Maximum/0A Minimum
-5V: 0.5A Maximum/0A Minimum
-12V: 1.0A Maximum/0A Minimum
+5V SB: 2.0A Maximum/0A Minimum
At this point, I'm pretty much at my wits end. If anyone has other ideas, I can entertain them, but tomorrow if I don't have this up, I'll be taking it back. This card is demonstrating itself as just poorly designed and built. Thanks for your help all!

Can't get TV@nywhere to initialize

I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I just purchased a MSI TV@nywhere. I used to have a ATI TV Wonder VE, but wasnt' happy with the tuner quality. I'm running WinXP Home.
Before installing the @nywhere, I did a complete uninstall of all the ATI drivers, MMC, everything - even cleared the registry of any leftover ATI references. Deleted all ATI files from the various windows directories. I had heard that ATI drivers don't really do a thorough de-install.
After installing the @nywhere and the MSIPVS, everything looks good - no yellow !'s in the device manager, but when I start MSIPVS, the InterVideo splash screen comes up, but that's it. It just hangs there, and it doesn't look like the tv card is actually initializing.
I tried the beta drivers talked about on this board, and still nothing, I also tried installing iuvcr to see what would happen, it still nothing - it hangs on the message - "initializing a/v crossbar" or something like that.
I'm running XP Home - did a reinstall of xp when I encountered this problem, but still nothing.
Here's my setup
WinXP Home
ABIT Siluaro TI4200 vid card
Hercules Game Theatre XP 6.1 sound card
ASUS PS533 mobo
The drivers listed in Device mgr under Sound, Video, and Game Controllers are:
Audio Codecs
Hercules Game Port
Hercules Game Theatre XP 6.1
Hercules Game Theatre XP 6.1 WDM Interface
Legacy Audio Drivers
Legacy Audio Capture Devices
Media Control Devices
MSI PVS Crossbar
MSI PVS Tuner
MSI PVS Video Capture
Video Codecs
In the driver details under the MSI entries, there's the actual driver and a bunch of Microsoft programs - ksxbar.ax, ksuser.dll, ks.sys , etc.
I also uninstalled all the extra codecs that I was using with the ATI card, Dscaler, and Virtual Dub.
Also - I did put the card in a Win98 machine that I have, and it did install and initialize correctly there, so I know the problem is not the card itself.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled in all sorts of permutations to try to get it to work - everytime it looks like things install fine, but it never gets past the splash screen on the MSIPVS/Windvr. If I uninstall the @nywhere drivers and just run MSIPVS, then it starts correctly, but of course gives me the message that TV-Tuner not found.
if anyone can give me some clues, I would greatly appreciate it.
thanks!
bobk

I'm not using SP-1, so that's not the problem. I just downloaded the trial version of PowerVCR II, but basically the same thing happens as under MSIPVS Windrv - splash screen and then it stops dead.
In poking around in the Device Mgr, I do have one question maybe someone can answer. Under the entries for the MSI PVS Tuner, Crossbar, and Video Capture - under the Driver details, the following files are listed (in addition to the basic CX88 MSI drivers.
ks.sys
lyuv_32.dll
ksproxy.ax
kstvtune.ax
ksuser.dll
kswdmcap.ax
ksxbar.ax
msh263.drv
msyuv.dll
tsbyuv.dll
vfwwdm32.dll
The files are all version 5.1.2600.0 with the exception of msh263.drv which is version 4.4.3400
I tried looking up those files in the knowledge base at microsoft, and the only references I see to any of those files are under Windows 98, not XP. I'm starting to wonder that since I upgraded from Win98 to XP instead of doing a totally clean install, that these driver files came along for the ride and now are messing things up. (I know I'm probably grasping at straws). So if anyone of you who have a working @nywhere, I would appreciate it if you could take a look.
bobk

TV@nywhere Master problems

I recently purchased TV@nywhere Master to use on my Dell Dimension 4550 which runs WinXP, and would like help with the following issues:
•   The signal for the TV card is provided by an antenna however, it is not strong enough to reach the tuner’s threshold, so none of my channels show as available in SETUP. I have already downloaded and installed the three latest driver versions from the MSI website. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can remedy this situation? The same antenna provides the signal to our two TVs, and our reception is perfect.
•   I have twice attempted to register this card on your website, and have been told both times that my sessions, which took about a minute, had timed out! Can you fix this, please?
•   The radio comes on unbidden whenever I start my computer, and after it comes out of standby mode.

I have a TV@nywhere master and I live in the UK.
I do not have any problems with tuning the stations with MSIPVS. All 4 main channels work fine, it also tuned in to some weaker signals. The only terrestrial channel I can not get is channel 5 but that is because they is no channel 5 by aerial in my area.
You could try fine tuning the channel that BBC2 is on, it may help, how to do it is in the manual.
The drivers on MSI web site are not for the master (MS-8606) version they are for the original TV@nywhere and the TV@nywhere Master drivers are the same version number as the one on the website but have probably been tweaked to accommodate the new Microtune MT2050 tuner.
The only gripe I have about the MS-8606 is the drivers for the tuner. They do work BUT if you want to use any other software that works with the new CX2883 and MT2050 chips, you have to run MSIPVS first to get the tuner to work. The display within MSIPVS also leaves a lot to be desired especially after using Dscaler (no tuner - video-in only). Video-in is not a problem and works with most well know freeware/shareware software. The capture quality (which is my main concern) is excellent when using the higher setting. I have captured some footage of an holiday video that was transfered to an very high quality VHS tape nearly 12 years ago, and converted it to an SVCD. The quality of the end results is as good as the original VHS tape. I have also capture from the Tuner in DVD quality and it is almost undistinguishable from a real DVD`s play back and certainly better than some cheapo DVDs.
As the Tuner and encode/decoding chips are very new (product only released 3-4 weeks ago) support and new drivers will take time to appear, BUT even without the support etc. I can still see the quality that this card as to offer.

TV@nywhere and WDM driver problem-a weird one!

I just bought a TV@nywhere card, as an upgrade to my old Hauppauge WinTV card... I installed all the driver updates, and it looks and works great using the MSIPVS software. But, whenever I try to use the card with any software that uses the "Microsoft WDM Image Capture" driver, the video is either green or black and white with tiny vertical lines running through it. ;(
I made sure all the references to my old card were deleted from the registry, I reinstalled the TV@nywhere drivers... Nothing seemed to help.
Some Windows programs (like netmeeting) don't even recognize that I have a video device at all, and the ones that do give me the b&w or green screen.
Here's the weird part:
Finally, out of desperation, I opened Windows Movie Maker 2, the default program that comes with Windows. It named the Conexant chipset by name, and I was able to use it to record from my TV@nywhere card! Success! After doing this, I tried the programs that provided the B&W/green screens before, and they worked fine!
I thought I had permanently fixed the problem!
But now, every time I reboot, those programs that use the "Microsoft WDM Image Capture" driver go back to B&W/green... I have to run Windows Movie Maker 2 every time I reboot, record like a 5 second video, and close it to make these other programs behave normally. I'm out of ideas as to why this is happening. Can anyone help?
SPECS
Windows XP Pro SP1 (clean install 1 week ago)
MSI TV@nywhere card (correctly installed with no !'s or ?'s in Device Manager)
All 3 MSI TV@nywhere patches applied
Athlon XP 2000+
512MB RAM
120GB HD
MSI Geforce 4 MX
SB Live
ECS K7S5A MB (with latest BIOS and SIS chipset drivers)

Well, I am using XP, and WMM 2 comes with XP. The recording quality seems to be the same in MSIPVS and WMM 2.
Something else I noticed... I downloaded some new webcam software, and it lists 2 drivers: the same WDM video driver (with the same problems I described) and also a DIRECTX capture driver, which lists the Conexant chipset by name, and captures fine.
Could this be a DirectX issue? I am using DirectX 9.0a . I e-mailed MSI 3 days ago with a question about this but received no response. This forum is my only hope in solving this.
Quote
Originally posted by kody
I am curious. Is the picture recording quality better then the intervideo msipvs software when you record with windows movie maker 2? If it is, I might buy windows movie maker 2
and then I will let you know if it works properly under
windows ME. Maybe, it is a windows 2000 issue?

MSI TV @nywhere Stopped Working

Ok, so I got my MSI TV @nywhere about a week and a half ago, great card. Nice quality etc. Now all of a sudden it doesn't work! It came with WinDVR, and now when I load it up I get an error when the TV should pop up (this program has encountered a problem and needs to close). So I reinstall it. Nothing. I Uninstall it, and clean the folder out then install. Nothing. I reinstall the driver for my card. Nothing. I remove everything from the card in the device manager, uninstall WinDVR completely, take the card out, boot up, then shut down and put the card back in and install everything again. Nothing. ARGH! I download the trial for Power VCR II or whatever just to see if it's WinDVR with the problem. But Power VCR can't detect any channels! It says MSI TV @nywhere as the TV Tuner (so it knows it's there). WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS WRONG!?!?!?
Please help!

I do beleive the MSIDVR is another re-badged InterVideo product from MSI... they are sooooo prone to this type of error it's not funny.....
In fact, I can almost bet you that if you get that message again and click the "more info" link you'll see the problem in the Windows "C" Library file called "MFC42.DLL".
I myself did have the exact same problem with WinCoder, another MSI released InterVideo product... and I received the same sort of strange result. I am led to believe that there is a major issue that combines a driver error and InterVideo's software.... I posted my "reply" to a previous article located at:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/e_service/forum/viewindex.php?threadid=2660&boardid=9&styleid=1
Too much to re-post, have a look.

Tv @nywhere quality

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for