TV Tuner problems with TV wonder VE

[elkinm]

I just bought a TV wonder VE and it works fine until I use the TV on demand feature of the MMC 7.6 TV program. With this enabled everything works fine but once I press the button aggain to dissable TV-on demand recording then the TV image becomes completely distorted. Going back to TV on demand mode gives a stable picture but of course uses more CPU power and hard disk space. Reboting the system restores to the old settings until I try tv on demand aggain and the same thing happens.

I have an ATI Radeon DDR video card, windows XP Omega v .71 display drivers and the latest capture drivers for XP. I also have MMC 7.6. If anybody knows what is gowing on and how to fix it, please help me.

Thanks

 

[masterc]

I've got a Regular TV wonder with a Radeon LE... and I have the same problem.
It's been there with just about every driver update i've tried.
MMC 7.2 seems to work a bit better, but it comes back once in awhile, after rebooting.

 

[elkinm]

I don't know what happened, but after hours of using the tuner with tv on demand, I swiched to regular mode so I could restart and watch TV normaly but the the view switched normaly and for the first time the screen did not become garbled. I did not try doing that aggain as I did not know what it would do. I changed the recording mode to 640x480 at 2 Mbps. I don't know what caused it so I am wondering if there are times when your player works normaly without reboting or is it alway garbled after recording.

Also it seems that the parts it recorded is still on my hard drive. Does anybody know if there is some way to clear all the recorded tv on demand files from within the tv tuner on maybee just by delieting some files.

Thanks

 

[elkinm]

I finaly tried switching back and I found a way to get a good picture reliably. I noticed that if I swiched to tv on demand mode (tod) and then quickly back to normal mode just when the tod picture would apear, then the normal mode picture would also be normal. It's almost like the display did not have time to realy swich modes so it remained normal in normal mode as well as tod mode. I takes a couple tries to get the timing right but at least it is faster then rebooting.

 

[masterc]

I'll try that...
By the way, by default the file that is recorded is on the root directory of my C drive. Every so often I delete it...