#HOW TO BUILD TV TUNER FOR PC HOW TO#
#HOW TO BUILD TV TUNER FOR PC SOFTWARE#
#HOW TO BUILD TV TUNER FOR PC CODE#
#HOW TO BUILD TV TUNER FOR PC WINDOWS#

In my country a proper channel has more to do with the last one and with S-channels for cable. Here it is possible to select analog TV (or FMRadio) and select the wanted channel.įor TV the range of selectable channels seems to be for cable 1-368, and for antenna 1-69. Well, a normal capture program gives access to the old fashioned looking Vfw tuner property.

#HOW TO BUILD TV TUNER FOR PC HOW TO#

Of course the first question that came up was how to tune. Happily I used by accident two programs at the same time, and than there was sound.Īfter some debugging it turned out that some pins were not connected.

#HOW TO BUILD TV TUNER FOR PC CODE#

The first one was quite easy to find because the code was just missing. Second, the needed (crossbar) pins were not connected. įinally I found that the example did do two things incorrectly:įirst, the sound was not rendered to the default WAVE device. Trying to figure out how every works and how everything should work. Thanks to the ChrisTV 4.70 TV program I got the idea what was going wrong: the TV-card is on a PCI busĪnd the TV-card does not have external audio. The good thing was that it the functionality I wanted to make, worked with Graphedt. Most interesting for me was Amcap and Audiocap, see I discovered that when I tried to compile some SDK Samples. The DDK is needed in some cases because some header files and libraries are missing that seems to

#HOW TO BUILD TV TUNER FOR PC WINDOWS#

How? By looking around on the internet, getting the DirectX SDK, getting the Windows DDK. The next step was to get insight information on DirectX. The example I started with, did not provide TV tuner support and could not switch pins. I started with DSPack (see Prodigy for DSPack in Delphi.Ī great package, only I did not have the DirectX knowledge yet. Very nice utility is Graphedt.exe (a Directshow graph tool in Microsoft's DirectX SDK), see So programming looks easy until something does not work. The disadvantage is, that it is rather complex and that in some cases, many many code is needed. Happily the main concept of the DirectX looks quite simple. My idea is that the DirectX functionality I want to use have not been changed. Look here.And than there is Microsoft's Video Control (MsVidCtl), the new Multimedia interface in Windows XP. Programs, such as DirectX (especially Directshow) is really needed. To get access to all media capabilities of the Windows computer, interface knowledge of specific Microsoft

#HOW TO BUILD TV TUNER FOR PC SOFTWARE#

Than I have some older external TV hardware that could be controlled by modern software.Įven maybe even by real third-party programs.įinally I want to have user software (such asĪmcap) that can be used just within Windows to capture webcam video or VCR recordings. Surfing through the Teletext pages, just bij clicking the mouse or cursor on a 3-digit number looks great to me. It does not have a real high priority, but nevertheless I can give it a try. Why is the UPC info screen on 10 while I never look at it, give met Omroep Flevoland or Talpa. Than I want to have an better interface for adding and modifying the TV broadcast station list. The main reason, give me a good oversight of all broadcast stations (38 at this moment!) that I can receive. You can get most of the broadcast stations, but the order, that is something that you should not want to change.Ī little bit strange because I can imagine that house-member has its/her own 10 favorite broadcaststations he/she wanted to choose easily.Īs result I am programming now, my own software using informatie available on the internet.įirst of all I want to make a good FM radio plugin, programma that can be used on the Media Center computer,Īnd maybe also within the Media Center program itselfs. That TV-card is quite similar to the Hauppauge PVR-150.īut after some time I discovered that the FM radio was unusable and the TV was hard to control.Ĭompared with the FM radio, the TV was really great. I choosed the Hauppauge Amity2 TV-card (with radio and teletext). In november 2004, I decided to buy Windows Media Center Edition 2005.

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