Thought it best to start a new thread rather than HJ.
My W7 machine in fact has windows media center (WMC) already installed. Today I picked up a unused eyeTV one in the original box, never opened.
Problem is getting them to work and recognize each other. So far, no joy. Perhaps I'm missing something?
Plugged in EyeTV tuner using USB. Attached OTA antenna coax. W7 recognized it, found a driver, 1.20122.122.202 dated 11/11/2009, tells me "the device is working properly". Verify no yellow exclamation marks in Device Manager.
Assuming WMC can scan for TV tuners and find them, I boot WMC > Tasks > Settings > TV > Set up TV Signal > Region > US > type in zip code > Prog. Guide ToS Ver. 5, dated Oct 2008 > agree > MS PlayReady PC runtime EULA > agree (though I have no cable/sat only OTA) > Install Playready > error..."not be able to watch or record premium TV. Error Info: Element not found (exception from HRESULT: 0X80070490).
If problem persists try later from Tasks > Settings > Gen > WMC setup > Install Playready. I go this route and find no joy.
"Element not found" indicates just that...so where is it found? Is PR necessary when cable/sat won't be used? Or is it a necessary hurdle for WMC to check all of it's boxes before continuing?
Next, I load the eyeTV disc. After selecting eyeTV one, it offers to install the same driver W7 previously found...that's it. No user manual, no application SW, no quick start guide...nothing.
So I look over the box language again: EyeTV 3 SW for Mac, driver for W7, PDF product manual. Interesting that....so out comes my MB running 10.6.8, in goes the disk, and soon appears the pdf product manual + eyeTV SW! Obviously this product contains all you need for a Mac, but despite the verbige on the box, on the W7 driver!
The Mac info is nowhere to be found when browsing the disc from W7.
I note a single card in the box directing me to elgato.com/gettvsoftware "if I wish to dwnld ETV3 rather than use the disk". I'm xnsfrd to geniatech.eu, which evidently bought ETV.
So I dwnld the ETV3 owners manual and nowhere in its 60 pages does it mention Windows...at all. It's all OS X.
On the packaging, it mentions "Works with WMC..ETV One is compatible with W7 and works with WMC". Really? How? Perhaps this is why ETV is Tango Uniform??
I discover THC is avail. for Windows. Not sure what THC stands for. Current dwnld time is 29m (87.3Mb).
Further mousing-around reveals this:
Not sure what the diff. is between the two, but "Total" is even larger at > 90MB....
Found this interesting. Perhaps will run on one of my two old PPC iMacs:
Two Q's:
1. How to remove the roadblock from WMC so it will work. Is it presently stuck because RP isn't found?
2. Given I have the driver for ETV One, is that all I need from them/ETV/Geniatec/etc? I'd prefer to use WMC rather than either THC or Total. Obviously I won't be using ETV3 on W7....
Advice? Suggestions? Any WMC users out there?
My W7 machine in fact has windows media center (WMC) already installed. Today I picked up a unused eyeTV one in the original box, never opened.
Problem is getting them to work and recognize each other. So far, no joy. Perhaps I'm missing something?
Plugged in EyeTV tuner using USB. Attached OTA antenna coax. W7 recognized it, found a driver, 1.20122.122.202 dated 11/11/2009, tells me "the device is working properly". Verify no yellow exclamation marks in Device Manager.
Assuming WMC can scan for TV tuners and find them, I boot WMC > Tasks > Settings > TV > Set up TV Signal > Region > US > type in zip code > Prog. Guide ToS Ver. 5, dated Oct 2008 > agree > MS PlayReady PC runtime EULA > agree (though I have no cable/sat only OTA) > Install Playready > error..."not be able to watch or record premium TV. Error Info: Element not found (exception from HRESULT: 0X80070490).
If problem persists try later from Tasks > Settings > Gen > WMC setup > Install Playready. I go this route and find no joy.
"Element not found" indicates just that...so where is it found? Is PR necessary when cable/sat won't be used? Or is it a necessary hurdle for WMC to check all of it's boxes before continuing?
Next, I load the eyeTV disc. After selecting eyeTV one, it offers to install the same driver W7 previously found...that's it. No user manual, no application SW, no quick start guide...nothing.
So I look over the box language again: EyeTV 3 SW for Mac, driver for W7, PDF product manual. Interesting that....so out comes my MB running 10.6.8, in goes the disk, and soon appears the pdf product manual + eyeTV SW! Obviously this product contains all you need for a Mac, but despite the verbige on the box, on the W7 driver!
The Mac info is nowhere to be found when browsing the disc from W7.
I note a single card in the box directing me to elgato.com/gettvsoftware "if I wish to dwnld ETV3 rather than use the disk". I'm xnsfrd to geniatech.eu, which evidently bought ETV.
So I dwnld the ETV3 owners manual and nowhere in its 60 pages does it mention Windows...at all. It's all OS X.
On the packaging, it mentions "Works with WMC..ETV One is compatible with W7 and works with WMC". Really? How? Perhaps this is why ETV is Tango Uniform??
I discover THC is avail. for Windows. Not sure what THC stands for. Current dwnld time is 29m (87.3Mb).
Further mousing-around reveals this:
Not sure what the diff. is between the two, but "Total" is even larger at > 90MB....
Found this interesting. Perhaps will run on one of my two old PPC iMacs:
Two Q's:
1. How to remove the roadblock from WMC so it will work. Is it presently stuck because RP isn't found?
2. Given I have the driver for ETV One, is that all I need from them/ETV/Geniatec/etc? I'd prefer to use WMC rather than either THC or Total. Obviously I won't be using ETV3 on W7....
Advice? Suggestions? Any WMC users out there?