TV@nywehre E-Duo problem in Win 7

[xjanj21]

I'm trying to get this card working, but always running into the same issue - getting video with a lot of freezes in MediaPortal and video with a lot of pixelation and green parts in MCE. I have tried the same card in another computer with XP installed and there was no problem running any features on it.
I was trying to find out some info about signal, but the only place where I could see anything was MediaPortal which is mostly showing me signal and quality at 100. However I am not sure if I should trust this info.
Is there a tool that I could use to easily find out info about signal and quality? (Was trying to find some info in the forum but to no avail)

Any other advices for what else could be causing these issues?

BTW: After fighting this for quite some time on current setup of Win 7 I tried to install clean windows and only the stuff required for running live tv in MCE (BDA driver and catalyst control center) and still got the same result.

My Setup:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
P6T SE
Core i7 920
Radeon HD 5870

 

[Stu]

Is there a tool that I could use to easily find out info about signal and quality? (Was trying to find some info in the forum but to no avail)

DVB? Have you looked at the sticky topic yet?

 

[xjanj21]

I did. However the link there doesn't seem to be valid anymore. And search on the other forum didn't bring me any result of a tool that could be used with my MSI card. Have you got another link that I could use? Or the name of the tool I should search for?

 

[Stu]

Fixed the link in the sticky. The topic must have been reposted there, but I found it again!

 

[xjanj21]

I have just tried the tool and for all channels I get average strength at 100 and signal for some channels is around 60, but even the channel that shows average close to 100 cannot be viewed without a lot of freezes in neither MCE nor MediaPlayer. Even more weired thing happened to me today when I saw that the channel shows 100/100 signal strength/quality I switched to MCE and it told me that there's no signal for that channel.

Any ideas what could be causing freezes? Driver conflict? Some setup of decoders that needs to be done on win 7 so that this would run?
Could this be bad hardware accelerated video decoding? Actually could someone help me with advice on how to test software decoding so that I have something to compare?

Just trying to sum up all ideas that are crossing my mind.

Thanks for help so far

 

[Stu]

Could this be bad hardware accelerated video decoding

DVB signals don't need any hardware acceleration, as the transmission is already in MPEG2 format (or MPEG4 for some HD channels)

Driver conflict? Some setup of decoders that needs to be done on win 7 so that this would run?

Quite possible. Did you install any Windows XP or Vista drivers, or did Windows 7 find them itself? Also, if you've installed the extra software (which you didn't need to as Media Center is included in Windows 7 Ultimate), then unnecessary codecs could have been installed which are now interfering with Windows 7's own built in codecs.

 

[ex_forum_user_3]

Try DVBDream, works best for me with software DVB cards.
If that doesn't solve it try 32bit W7, as it may not work ever with W7 64bit.

Mediaportal and DVBDream are 32bit!! software depending on hardware, such software mostly have problems with 64bit Windows.