help on new tv-card

hi, first, i am sorry that i don't type proper danish...

and i am looking for help. here is my stuff

1. MB: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H (onboard graphic card - ATI Radeon HD3200)

2. tv card: Terratec Cinergy C PCI (DVB-C-modtager)DVB-C + Viaccess

3. OS: windows Vista

4. TV: Pioneer 5090H

I have everything installed. the PC works fine normally. But when i try to watch TV (using Cinergy software), i have several problem:

1. if watching "free to air" TV content, e.g. TV2, the image is flickering all the time. it looks like some problem with decoding.

2. if watching "scrambled" TV content (i do have a subscription
), e.g. CNN. the image starts for 2-3 sec, and goes completely dead.

 

so, are there any special configurations i should pay attention to?I am using all default setup of the software, and the screen resolution is 1280*960

 

Flickering normally means poor signal...

How is the quality af your signal?

Using signal splitter?

Quality af antenna cable?

 

Try a setup where the splitter temparay is not used...

If your computer/software then is working OK, then maybee you have use an amplifier... (or better cable)

this is the CAM i am using

http://www.proshop.dk/showproduct.aspx?prodid=168919

Is it bad? i found this through the forum.

good advice on the wire, thanks a lot avh and Patriarken. I will check that tonight to see if possible to do some improvements.

pfreedom skrev: by the way, where can i buy such F-terminator??

pfreedom:

the F-Termination unit looks like this:


Any store that sells satellite dishes should have it in stock. You can find all you need here

Also your CAM looks like a Smit CAM so you should be allright with that.

I don't have that much experience with Terratec Tuners and I can't say if there could be a software(at driver or at frontend level) problem that causes decryption to malfunction.

There are several users on this forum that uses Terratec Tuners, one beeing "Cyberguyen". He can probably help you with CAM(SoftCAM) related problems.

Also do note that the software that comes with TV-Tuners often is Crap. My advice would be to get DVBviewer for your particular tuner.




Redigeret af Patriarken - 14-Juli-2009 kl. 16:52

I think I am too positive...

actually, The problem is " 90% " resolved.

after running DVBviewer a while. i still found some image problems with HD channels. when i watch HD channels, it seems like i am playing a scratched DVD. I don't know how to describe this....

I guess it's related to decoding, but don't know how to deal with that.