with TV cards of the "Anubis
Typhoon" / "KNC One TV
Station" and the "Hauppauge
DEC" / "Technotrend TT-micro"
families
Let me introduce to You, my name is Rolf Hemmerling. I am
Your personal guide to TV and radio. Nowadays, by plugging a
'TV card' into a multimedia computer, you may watch TV and
listen to radio. A friend of mine owns the TV card Anubis Typhoon Tuner RDS, #50688, another
friend owns the TV settop box Hauppauge DEC2000-t, Modell 164. With these I
played around a little bit.
Please note that both me and my friend just have
german W2K and Win98SE operating systems, and that
some information might just be true just for Germany.
Notation on this page: "x" = checked option, "o" = unchecked
option.
"Anubis Typhoon Tuner RDS",
#50688 and "KNC One TV Station RDS,
with BT878 chip"
If you own other revisions of the TV cards of the "Anubis
Typhoon" and "KNC One TV Station" families not yet presented
here by photo, I would be pleased if you contact me and send me by
request a photo and the technical data of your hardware, so
that I may complete my collection here. Additionally, if you
own a WEB site which deals with any TV card or with legal TV
software, I would be pleased to put a link here, to you.
TV Software with direct hardware access, working
succesfully.
If you got an nVIDIA graphics card with video-in
hardware, please install the nVIDIA Capture Drivers, at
first, so that there are these devices in the W2K
device manager:
Installation:
When booting, W2K detects new hardware and creates
just two new driver entries in the device manager:
Audio-, Video- und Gamecontroller
Multimediacontroller
Videocontroller für
Multimedia
Use the device manager to install new drivers for
the detected devices. Especially, when pointing to
the directory with the new drivers, select:
Multimediacontroller
bt848 tweaked WDM Audio Capture
Videocontroller für Multimedia
KNC1 TV-STation RDS Video Capture
so that at the end of the installation process,
after a reboot of W2K and a replacement of the
"bt848 tweaked Philips WDM TvTuner C2" driver by
the "bt848 tweaked Philips WDM TvTuner C0" driver
with the help of the W2K device manager, there are
the following devices found in the W2K device
manager:
Audio-, Video- und Gamecontroller
bt848 tweaked Philips WDM TvTuner C0 (
PAL BG )
bt848 tweaked TV WDM Crossbar
bt848 tweaked WDM Audio
Capture
KNC1 TV-STation RDS Video
Capture
Finally, please install the BtWinCapSwitcher, which
prevents W2K from crashing, in case of direct
hardware access by some TV applications.
Configuration:
Load "KNC1 TV Control" to enable audio
Just if the TV application allows to configure
audio settings of the crossbar, sound can be
enabled without "KNC1 TV Control".
Please follow the installation instructions, so
that at the end of the installation process, after
a reboot of W2K, there are the following devices
found in the device manager:
Audio-, Video- und Gamecontroller
Conexant's BtPCI WDM Audio
Capture
Conexant's BtPCI WDM Video
Capture
Finally, please install the BtWinCapSwitcher, which
prevents W2K from crashing, in case of direct
hardware access by some TV applications.
[o] BTWinCap. W2K crashes if BTWinCap is
installed.
[x] WDM driver by iuLab
[x] The BtWinCapSwitcher prevents W2K
from crashing if BTWinCap is installed.
The settings "Anubis Typhoon BT878", "Anubis
Typhoon TV Tuner", "Askey Magic Tview" do not
provide sound, in opposite to the setting "KNC
ONE TV-Station" !
[x] TV
Configuration:
Einstellungen
Optionen
Video Auflösung
768 * 574 Overlay
Tuner
Philips FM1216
Videokarte
KNC ONE TV-Station
Multi Decoder 7.7 ( MultiDec 7.7 )
Infos:
[x] W2K
[x] no WDM driver
[o] BTWinCap. W2K crashes if BTWinCap is
installed.
[x] WDM driver by iuLab
[x] The BtWinCapSwitcher prevents W2K
from crashing if BTWinCap is installed.
[x] TV
No native sound support :-(
Please use
Kanäle
Kanalliste
and not
Kanäle
Nächster Kanal ( F1
)
Vorheriger Kanal ( F2 )
for switching channels, to avoid crashing of
W2K !
[x] WDM driver by nVIDIA, for nVIDIA graphics
cards with video-in.
[x] TV
[x] With the special KNC1 edition, the
external FM radio "GlobeFM" can be called.
[x] Scheduler
Configuration of the OEM version supplied with KNC1
/ Anubis TV cards in 2002 ( CD installer "Version
2.11.tr" ), and with the TV card "Medion MD 5044" (
the ALDI-Nord TV card of 4.12.2002, CD installer
"Version 2.08" ), to overcome a bug in the
scheduler, which prevents you to setup scheduled
recordings for the current day:
The delicate full versions are shipped with
the text file "Z:\PowerVCR\Disk1\Custom.ini", on
CD. The text file contains:
[PowerVCR]
Vender=Medion_KNC1
WorkDir=0
Install the full version from CD.
Have a try and verify that you cannot setup a
scheduled recording for the same day ( e.g. setup
a recording for 20:00 o'clock, at 18:00 o'clock
). This should fail !
Install it and save a copy of the file
"SysRecSchedule.dll" at a safe place.
Now you can't access GlobeFM, GlobeTXT,
GlobeEPG from within "Power VCR II Version
3.0".
Deinstall the software, install the full
version from CD again, and copy the file
"SysRecSchedule.dll" you kept in the installation
directory over the original file.
Now you may setup scheduled recordings for
the current day, but still the starting time must
in the future from the present time ( e.g. +1
minute ).
You still can access GlobeFM, GlobeTXT,
GlobeEPG from within "Power VCR II Version
3.0".
[o] BTWinCap. W2K crashes if BTWinCap is
installed.
[x] WDM driver by iuLab.
[x] The BtWinCapSwitcher prevents W2K
from crashing if BTWinCap is installed.
no picture, no sound, although the frequency
scan works.
[x] TV
[x] FM Radio
[x] Scheduler
Configuration:
Settings
Misc
PHILIPS_PAL_BG
Tuner
Driver
0
1
2
x
WDM
x
Card
Typhoon TView TV/FM Tuner
Channels
Scanning
From
170
To
600
Step
0.25
Default system
PAL_BDGHI
Accept if
picture detected
x
radiosignal
detected
o
FreeTV!
[x] W2K
[x] TV
Error message "Sound processor not supported"
TV card resources, with focus on "analog" TV cards with
stereo TV sound and stereo FM Radio
TV tuners
TV cards usually support only "one " of the following
TV standards, due to TV tuner and stereo decoder:
TV standard
Countries
NTSC
Japan, Taiwan, USA, Canada..
PAL BG
European,..
PAL DK
Mainland China, Poland..
PAL I
Hongkong, UK, South Africa..
In opposite, the Pinnacle PCTVpro TV card by Pinnacle
Systems supports PAL B/G, I, H,
D/K and L/L with one single hardware
version, with the help of the new TV tuner Microtune. MT2032.
The new tuner Philips FM1216ME MK3 supports PAL B/G,
D/K, I and SECAM.
Terratec Cinergy 600 TV Radio ( 1, 2, 3, beta version infos, ftp,
vendor,
with RDS radio and TV teletext / videotext, stereo TV
sound. Internal audio capture frequency: 32 Khz ( neither
44.1 Khz, nor 48 Khz ) !
The hardware of the Terratec Cinergy 600:
Video decoder: Philips SAA7134HL
Stereo decoder: Philips SAA7134HL
Demodulator: Philips SAA7134HL
Tuner: Philips FI 1216
Lifeview 3000 ( = Elta 8681 LV ) with stereo TV
sound. Sold in April 2002 by Plus,
Germany.
Video decoder: Philips SAA7134HL
Stereo decoder: Philips SAA7134HL
Demodulator: Philips SAA7134HL.
Lifeview FlyVideo 98/FM
Video decoder: Conexant CN 878
Lifeview A2 ( = Elta 8680 LV ), stereo TV sound, no
radio
Video decoder: Conexant CN 878
Hauppauge WinTV PCI-FM Model 718 ( 1, vendor ), european PAL edition, with
stereo TV sound.
Old revisions of the "WinTV Go" and the "WinTV PCI-FM
Model 718" are shipped with the BT878 chipset, while new
editions are shipped with the BT881 chipset, since late
2002.
BoogerSoft PCTV Remote ( 1, 2 ) - Win98 & W2K driver for the
Pinnacle Systems Remote Control, to be configured with Jean-Francois Totain's "Remote
Configurator".
The hardware of the "old" PCTVpro:
Video decoder: Conexant BT848
Stereo decoder: Micronas MSP3410D
Tuner: Temix 4006FH5
The hardware of the PCTVpro, early 2002:
Video decoder: Conexant CN 878a
Stereo decoder: Micronas MSP 3450
Tuner: Philips FM 1216
The hardware of the "LIDL" PCTVpro, May 2002:
Video decoder: Conexant CN 878a
Stereo decoder: Micronas MSP 3410 or 3450
Demodulator: Philips TDA 9886
Tuner: Microtune MT 2032
BoogerSoft PCTV Remote ( 1, 2 ) - Win98 & W2K driver for the Pinnacle
Systems Remote Control, to be configured with Jean-Francois
Totain's "Remote Configurator".
media
Tools ExperTV - video capture application for W2K,
with focus on nVidia VIVO devices, with own VIVO
drivers.
The
FlyDS - shareware TV tuner software for TV cards with
WDM drivers, W2K/XP only. 30 days expiration.
Fly 2000 TV. Version 1.2: Freeware, Version
2.0 and newer: Shareware, 30 days expiration. TV tuner
software for TV cards with WDM drivers, W2K/XP only.
Cyberlink
PowerVCR II Pro 3.0 - commercial TV tuner software
for TV cards with WDM drivers, 30 days expiration, 2
minutes recording time limit.
InterVideo WinDVR - commercial TV tuner
software for TV cards with WDM drivers, 45 days
expiration.
Mike Crash: AMC2000 ( ATV2000, ATFM2000
& ARC2000 ) - free TV tuner and FM Radio software for
some TV cards, with direct hardware access, and for TV
cards with WDM drivers. Software for infrared remote
control devices. ATV - TV tuner software for TV cards
with VfW drivers.
ExoTV - TV tuner software for some TV cards
incl. BT869 ( Elsa Erazor III Pro Video ), with direct
hardware access and WDM drivers ( forum
).
Miroslav Flesko: Radioator - free FM Radio
tuner software for TV cards with WDM drivers by
iuLabs.
MeuhMeuh TV - ( 1, 2, ancient ) - TV tuner software for TV
cards with WDM drivers. Forum ( 1,
2 ).
MainConcept PVR - commercial TV video
recorder with timeshifting, for TV cards with WDM
drivers.
Sage - SageTV, SageTV Client and
SageRecorder, 15 days expiration, for TV cards with WDM
drivers. This is Java2 software !
Sagebrush - TVactive and VCRadio. 30 days
expiration, for TV cards with WDM drivers.
Maksil MsDVR 2000 - TV video recorder, free
expireing beta releases, for TV cards with WDM
drivers.
TV software with direct hardware access, mostly for BT8xx
TV cards with special TV tuners
BTWinCap ( 1, 2 ) - WDM drivers for graphics cards with
Brooktree's Bt848 / Bt849 / Bt878 & Bt879 chipsets.
No support for my Elsa Erazor III Pro Video with BT 869
chipset. The BtWinCapSwitcher enables compatibility to TV
applications which directly access same hardware.
Borg bTV, bRadio & bRemote - TV tuner
and FM Radio software for some TV cards, with direct
hardware access. Software for infrared remote control
devices.
K!TV XP - TV tuner software for some TV
cards, with direct hardware access.
The
Fly98 - TV tuner software for some TV cards, with
direct hardware access ( freeware for Win98SE, shareware
for W2K/XP ).
JTV ( en1, en2, ru1, ru1
) - TV tuner software for BT848/878 TV cards, with direct
hardware access ( forum ).
Ferro - Shareware TV tuner software
with scheduler for TV cards with BT878 chipset, WDM or
VfW drivers.
Meilenstein Televio - TV tuner software for
some TV cards for Apple Macintosh, with direct hardware
access.
Video Live - shareware TV tuner for graphics
cards with video-in and video-out.
FreeTV! - TV tuner software for some TV cards, with
direct hardware access.
MultiDec - TV tuner software for some TV cards, with
direct hardware access. Version 7.7 ist the latest and
last version for analog TV, version 8.0 and newer is just
for digital TV.
Technical details: The device
contains the oldfashioned chipset "TI AV7110" of Texas
Instruments. USB 1.1 provides 12 MBps, while the typical
MPEG2 data stream transporting 4 TV channels is 27.07
MBps "brutto", 14,745 MBps "netto", for Germany. So the
USB device demultiplexes the DVB-T data steam and
extracts the datastream of the selected TV channel, which
is transfered by USB 1.1.
AREA DVD - "Das digitale Fernsehen
der Zukunft: DVB-T vor dem Start". For Germany, it is
important that DVB-T receivers support the "VHF III"
frequencies of 174 - 230 MHz ( channel 5 - 12 ).
Das ÜberallFernsehen - settop
boxes with TI ( TMS320AV7200 ) chipsets might supply
"VPS" signals for analog video recorders !
Hauppauge Computer Works / HCW ( 1, 2 ) - OEM
versions of the "TT-micro family" USB devices:
Philips 200P3M ( 1, 2, 3,
support ), a 1600x1200 TFT display,
for "video" computers and DV cams. Picture-in-Picture
with PC and video !
Advantage: If used commercially in Germany, "each"
device with a TV tuner causes a monthly "GEZ" fee: The TV settop box is 1 device,
the TV set a 2nd device, but a computer montitor without
TV tuner does NOT count.
Disadvantage: Teletext / Videotext cannot be
processed by LCD monitors, but just by traditional TV
sets and by TV software.
Note that LCD displays with 800x600, 1024x768 and
1600x1200 resolution fit with the 4:3 dimension of a
european PAL TV frame, while LCD displays with 1280x1024
resolution have a 5:4 dimension :-(.
BDA Development ( 1, 2 ) - Windows drivers according to BDA (
Broadcast Driver Architecture ), for DVB-T TV cards.
I was told that BDA needs the original unfiltered
non-demultiplexed data stream, with the data of 4 TV
channels. Btw, DVB-T receivers with USB 1.1 interface
demultiplex the data stream internally, and so the data
stream of a single TV channel, transfered by USB 1.1, does
fit the needs of BDA :-(.
DVB-T differs from DVB-C by modulation: DVB-T
uses COFDM, DVB-C uses QAM. Additionally, DVB-C and
DVB-T have some slightly different bits in the
transport stream descriptor.
DVB-S devices differs from DVB-T / DVB-C devices
by the tuner, and by the power supply of the antenna
/ LNB. They need a different software tuning-in
algorithm.
Resources for VHS video recorders, which cooperate with
settop boxes
With some VHS video recorders, recording can be controlled
by a settop box ( DVB-T or SAT receiver ): If a video
signal is detected at the SCART input of the video
recorder, this is interpreted as command to start the
recording. So the settop box must have a timer to switch on
and off the video source at the SCART jack.
With the "Philips" VHS video recorders VR 550, VR540,
VR750 and VR752, this feature is named "Record Link
E2".
With the S-VHS "Panasonic" VHS video recorders "NV
SV121EG-S", "NV-HV61" ( stereo, with Showview ),
"NV-HV51" ( stereo, without Showview ), "NV-MV21",
"NV-MV16" ( mono ), this feature is named "External
Link".
With the "Sony" VHS video recorders SLV-SE640D/E (
without Show View ) and SLV-SE740D/E, SLV-SX740D/E /
SLV-SE747E SLV-SE840D/E ( with Show View ), this feature
is named "Synchro Recording" ( recording in sync ). Just
the SLV-SE840 offers timer programming by display without
a TV set. Be aware of a concept bug of this series: With
non-timer programming, these items can just might record
4,5 / 9 hours and not 5 / 10 hours as necessary for E300
VHS cassettes :-(.
Resources for VHS players and VHS recorders, without TV
tuner
TVG "VHS14-POS" - 37cm color Video monitor with
integrated VHS video player, line recording ( mono, 5 hours,
230V ) without TV tuner.
Videotronic International GmbH "VHS 360
POS" and "VHS 141 POS" - 37cm color Video monitors with
integrated VHS video player ( mono, 5 hours, 230V ) without
TV tuner.
Check these WEB sites which establish a reference to this
WEB document, as award for its usefulness and
importance: Tv-cards.com, ChrisTV ( 1, 2 ), USH
TVMail. There is a complete list of
referers for this WEB site, too
german WEB site
Download
of the Showshifter trial version, here !
Buy 'Siemens
Gigaset M 740 AV' at Amazon.De !.
Buy
it !.
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