Trey’s Blog|brain spillage!

Okay, I found a post somewhere that stated that had an IRQ conflict, so they moved some PCI slotted devices around and it fixed their problem. I decided to try this, but I also figured that perhaps, my Leadtek WinFast TV2000XP Deluxe (simple TV Tuner) was conflicted with some sort of systemwide TV Capture ability. I removed the Leadtek card and moved the HDTV Wonder into its position on the board. I booted up, reintalled the software, rebooted, then BAMMO. DTV is working. The picture is a little gittery, but I found some folks that said adjusting the position of the antenna can fix that problem in most cases.

One thing I did noticed was that there are a lot more channels available than I thought there would be. Some of them have widescreen displays, while others have station-branded blue bars to the left and right. Either way, the picture seemed nice. I think I’m going to look for a way to crank up my CPU usage for this to give me better performance. I typically use this machine for single tasks, so this shouldn’t cause any issues.

Compared to my cable TV on this same PC, the picture is phenomenal. I do think that the picture might be a bit better if I had it hooked up to a TV or CRT monitor instead of my Samsung Flat Panel.

There are still some bugs to be worked out, but I got it working nonetheless.