Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 XP x64 analog audio problem

[Guest Mike De Petris]

I installed an Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 pci board in my AMD 3000+ XP

x64 pc, all the driver and software installation goes well. Digital tv

and radio channels are ok (still to try sat has I need a cable) but I

have problem with analog tv and radio channels, the audio is scattered

and cpu goes high in this situation.

 

Seems to me strange that digital channels are ok, where analog gives

problem, so I think I should update some driver or codec, how do you

suggest to proceed? May it be an hardware fault or incompatibility?

 

There is no audio cable, audio goes directly to the pci bus, the four

tuners of this board use a new technique that digitizes all the signal

then digitally filters channels.

 

Thanks for an help about steps to follow to try to fix it.

[Guest Tony Sperling]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 XP x64 analog audio problem

 

I think your problem is that you need an audio cable to take care of the

analog support - and most likely, you will find options somewhere that needs

to be setup correctly as well, or you'll have both channels playing at once

where one of them has a short delay.

 

I don't have the Hauppauge myself, so cannot help with the specifics. I have

a ComPro DVB T300 that I never got working in 64bit, but it does exactly the

same on a different machine.

 

 

Tony. . .

 

 

"Mike De Petris" <mikedepetris@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> I installed an Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 pci board in my AMD 3000+ XP

> x64 pc, all the driver and software installation goes well. Digital tv

> and radio channels are ok (still to try sat has I need a cable) but I

> have problem with analog tv and radio channels, the audio is scattered

> and cpu goes high in this situation.

>

> Seems to me strange that digital channels are ok, where analog gives

> problem, so I think I should update some driver or codec, how do you

> suggest to proceed? May it be an hardware fault or incompatibility?

>

> There is no audio cable, audio goes directly to the pci bus, the four

> tuners of this board use a new technique that digitizes all the signal

> then digitally filters channels.

>

> Thanks for an help about steps to follow to try to fix it.

[Guest Mike De Petris]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 XP x64 analog audio problem

 

On Aug 6, 1:13 pm, "Tony Sperling" <tony.sperl...@dbREMOVEmail.dk>

wrote:

> I think your problem is that you need an audio cable to take care of the

> analog support - and most likely, you will find options somewhere that needs

> to be setup correctly as well, or you'll have both channels playing at once

> where one of them has a short delay.

 

oh no, this board has no audio connector and no audio cable, audio

goes digitally by pci then decoded, this is why I think about a

defective codec decoder/driver.

[Guest Mike De Petris]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 XP x64 analog audio problem

 

On Aug 6, 3:20 pm, Mike De Petris <mikedepet...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 6, 1:13 pm, "Tony Sperling" <tony.sperl...@dbREMOVEmail.dk>

> wrote:

>

> > I think your problem is that you need an audio cable to take care of the

> > analog support - and most likely, you will find options somewhere that needs

> > to be setup correctly as well, or you'll have both channels playing at once

> > where one of them has a short delay.

>

> oh no, this board has no audio connector and no audio cable, audio

> goes digitally by pci then decoded, this is why I think about a

> defective codec decoder/driver.

 

I tryed a lot of things being not able to fix the analog audio

problem, maybe it's due to my integrated audio chipset and the

motherboard not being fast enough to decode pci audio.

 

I tested the board on another (XP 32 bit) PC and all works well, so I

will try with a pci audio board, if I find one.

 

Btw installing and reinstalling I am no more able to use the digital

tuners that are not seen by the Cyberlink Powercinema software, I

already used few time the hauppauge tool to remove driver and software

files to reinstall it cleanly withous success, all goes well but only

digital tuners are seen, even wintv can tune analog channels only.

 

What could I use to reset those devices? I see no error during

installation, so what?

[Guest Bobby Johnson]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 XP x64 analog audio problem

 

The most logical approach is to contact Hauppauge for

assistance with their hardware and software.

 

If you needed troubleshooting and repair on your Mercedes

Benz, you wouldn't take it to an Opal or VW dealer!

 

The same logic applies to computers. If you have problems

with third party hardware and/or software you don't expect

Microsoft to fix the problem! You go to the respective

vendor/manufacturer.

 

 

Mike De Petris wrote:

> On Aug 6, 3:20 pm, Mike De Petris <mikedepet...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Aug 6, 1:13 pm, "Tony Sperling" <tony.sperl...@dbREMOVEmail.dk>

>> wrote:

>>

>>> I think your problem is that you need an audio cable to take care of the

>>> analog support - and most likely, you will find options somewhere that needs

>>> to be setup correctly as well, or you'll have both channels playing at once

>>> where one of them has a short delay.

>> oh no, this board has no audio connector and no audio cable, audio

>> goes digitally by pci then decoded, this is why I think about a

>> defective codec decoder/driver.

>

> I tryed a lot of things being not able to fix the analog audio

> problem, maybe it's due to my integrated audio chipset and the

> motherboard not being fast enough to decode pci audio.

>

> I tested the board on another (XP 32 bit) PC and all works well, so I

> will try with a pci audio board, if I find one.

>

> Btw installing and reinstalling I am no more able to use the digital

> tuners that are not seen by the Cyberlink Powercinema software, I

> already used few time the hauppauge tool to remove driver and software

> files to reinstall it cleanly withous success, all goes well but only

> digital tuners are seen, even wintv can tune analog channels only.

>

> What could I use to reset those devices? I see no error during

> installation, so what?

[Guest Mike De Petris]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 XP x64 analog audio problem

 

On Aug 11, 4:04 pm, Bobby Johnson <rjohn...@aol.NOSPAM.com> wrote:

> The most logical approach is to contact Hauppauge for

> assistance with their hardware and software.

>

> If you needed troubleshooting and repair on your Mercedes

> Benz, you wouldn't take it to an Opal or VW dealer!

>

> The same logic applies to computers.  If you have problems

> with third party hardware and/or software you don't expect

> Microsoft to fix the problem!  You go to the respective

> vendor/manufacturer.

 

I would expect from MicroSoft to be told a way to do what I am asking,

that is due to the Operating System architecture:

> > What could I use to reset those devices?

 

What is the procedure to "deeply" uninstall devices to let me install

a device again as it would be the first time?

[Guest Bobby Johnson]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 XP x64 analog audio problem

 

I don't think there is any such action internal to Windows.

I have had to obtain utilities from the

vendor/manufacturer on previous occasions to do a "deep

clean" of an installation.

 

 

Mike De Petris wrote:

> On Aug 11, 4:04 pm, Bobby Johnson <rjohn...@aol.NOSPAM.com> wrote:

>> The most logical approach is to contact Hauppauge for

>> assistance with their hardware and software.

>>

>> If you needed troubleshooting and repair on your Mercedes

>> Benz, you wouldn't take it to an Opal or VW dealer!

>>

>> The same logic applies to computers. If you have problems

>> with third party hardware and/or software you don't expect

>> Microsoft to fix the problem! You go to the respective

>> vendor/manufacturer.

>

> I would expect from MicroSoft to be told a way to do what I am asking,

> that is due to the Operating System architecture:

>

>>> What could I use to reset those devices?

>

> What is the procedure to "deeply" uninstall devices to let me install

> a device again as it would be the first time?

>

[Guest Tony Sperling]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 XP x64 analog audio problem

 

More often than not - to perform a 'full' un-install procedure, you'd have

to uninstall the software part(s) using the same procedure you used to

install.

 

This means that you should preferably use the products own uninstaller (if

it exists) or (if you must) the Add/Remove Software applet in Control Panel.

 

After that you find the hardware in Device Manager and delete it there. Now

you power down and remove the hardware and restart and disbale the entry

from your BIOS if that applies or makes sense.

 

I recommend that you reboot after every single step from now on!!!

 

Now, you must manually clean up all the leftovers from the uninstaller.

These are folders most likely in Program Files or in your Documents folder

tree - sometimes there are *.DLL's left all over the place in the system

directories and much of the time it isn't even possible to identify all the

pieces.

 

When you are satisfied, you power down and re-install the hardware and let

Windows detect it and set up the basic system. Re-boot and Prepare to

install the device support from the begining.

 

On grounds of existing old installation leftovers, I recomend to NOT use the

default installation folder when you re-install. Browse to somewhere else

and create your own folder (on a different partition if you have one?) to

re-install anything of that sort of troublemakers. This will also circumvent

possible troubles emanating from most instances of leftover Registry keys

from the old installation.

 

 

Tony. . .

 

 

 

 

"Bobby Johnson" <rjohnson@aol.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message

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> I don't think there is any such action internal to Windows.

> I have had to obtain utilities from the

> vendor/manufacturer on previous occasions to do a "deep

> clean" of an installation.

>

>

> Mike De Petris wrote:

> > On Aug 11, 4:04 pm, Bobby Johnson <rjohn...@aol.NOSPAM.com> wrote:

> >> The most logical approach is to contact Hauppauge for

> >> assistance with their hardware and software.

> >>

> >> If you needed troubleshooting and repair on your Mercedes

> >> Benz, you wouldn't take it to an Opal or VW dealer!

> >>

> >> The same logic applies to computers. If you have problems

> >> with third party hardware and/or software you don't expect

> >> Microsoft to fix the problem! You go to the respective

> >> vendor/manufacturer.

> >

> > I would expect from MicroSoft to be told a way to do what I am asking,

> > that is due to the Operating System architecture:

> >

> >>> What could I use to reset those devices?

> >

> > What is the procedure to "deeply" uninstall devices to let me install

> > a device again as it would be the first time?

> >

[Guest Mike De Petris]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 XP x64 analog audio problem

 

Tony Sperling wrote:

> More often than not - to perform a 'full' un-install procedure, you'd have

....

> On grounds of existing old installation leftovers, I recomend to NOT use the

> default installation folder when you re-install. Browse to somewhere else

> and create your own folder (on a different partition if you have one?) to

> re-install anything of that sort of troublemakers. This will also circumvent

> possible troubles emanating from most instances of leftover Registry keys

> from the old installation.

 

I thank you for this really useful guide that will help me a lot.

 

This night I had another thought btw, I remember that booting in "safe

mode" let me see various devices entry in the device manager that are

not showing after a normal boot. Could it be a good idea to remove all

this "dead installed" device entries in safe mode too?

[Guest Mike De Petris]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 XP x64 analog audio problem

 

I booted from xp x64 cd and reapired my installation, all is back to

normal now, btw the starting problem is still there, analog audio is

bad.

 

For what the OS is concerned I think I have anything more to try,

following step will be:

 

- find an audio board to put into my pc to check if could be the

integrated audio giving the problem

- find a way to analyze wich codecs come into play and how to change

it if possible, using differend decoding flow

- upgrade my pc to something more performant -__-

 

thank you for your support