The tuner is an Avermedia M780. And it is certified for Vista, unless MS allows companies to sell Vista Media Center PC's with unapproved hardware.

And to be clear, this is not an SAP setting. The video AND audio that are supposed to play on 55.3 also plays on 55.1.

The drivers are the newest that were available through "windows update"

I wonder if the EPG has the wrong subchannel info for that station.  If you manually add the channel, does it tune then?  I have to manually add a channel that already exists in the EPG (32-1) because it has the frequency wrong, and then "copy listings" from the EPG version.  (Win7's guide has it right for the first time!!)

You can also take a look in the TV Pack lineup file to see if it's wrong.  [C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome\mcepg1-0\backup\lineup].  Pop open one of those files in notepad and scroll down, you should start to see your channels listed there.  I'm not sure if that lists ALL the channels or just the ones currently enabled, but it does have the data in there.

Suddenly it's working. I'm sure what happened VMC's auto-detect used the wrong frequency. I happened to add 55.1 manually with the correct frequency so I just removed "the other 55.1" from the guide. I think part of the problem could be VMC getting screwed up by the fact that there is a 55.1 and a 55.3 but no such channel as 55.2.

So after spending over a week of playing with Tv Pack 2008 I finially restored it back to my pre-tv-pack-2008 image (used Acronis to create back up before tv pack 2008). I was getting lots of stutering and some channels were giving me problems when I manually added them. Living in Canada the Tv Pack didn't offer me too much so I reverted back and now everything is working perfectly again.

I think I will stick with my current confuguration as it works perfectly, and saves me headaches in trying to explain why things are not working to my live in girl friend because of the TV Pack update. I guess it's like the old saying, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

My two cents on TV pack 2008 problems:

'Had a stable & happy VHP which I decided to convert to a HTPC: Added a Hauppauge 2250 (dual hybrid) tuner and TVp2008 (as I read cQAM wasn't viable under vanilla VMC).  'Couldn't get cQAM working, so added an AVerTV Volar Max [USB hybrid], after which I could get the setup to readily permit some cQAM selection, allbeit unreliably.  Setting up was awkward and unsatisfactory, and VMC/TVp never quite seemed to work as I intuited it should -- let alone the AVer drivers, which usually indicated the signal was missing.

After a month of successfully recording [non-HD] TV, the system ceased being able to play any saved programs.  I guessed it was a codec issue, but couldn't get any answers on the web.  VMC/TVp continued recording shows, but that wasn't as much fun without being able to viewing them!  MS community forums were useless, and I didn't find answers elsewhere, so I reformatted/reloaded everything and tried again. 

This time it lasted only a week before it refused to SAVE shows -- though it would play recorded shows!  The inverse of my previous problems.  'Couldn't find any useful info from MS or elsewhere, so I reformatted/reloaded the world again.


In this third round, I switched to Windows 7 Beta.  The MC experience was MASSIVELY improved.  From square one thingsinstalled [relatively] sanely and cQAM support was just THERE.  What I -expect- to happen just happens in the W7 setup. 

W7 has its bugs/shortcomings, and no doubt there are show-stoppers for some folks, but I couldn't be happier about walking away from VMC/TVp.  The most aggrevating W7MC issue for me is that things hang about once a day:  I occasionally have to reboot to regain control of the Media Center; occasionally Windows Explorer [WE] hangs on some directories, looking like it's doing an infinitely long Search [I'm guessing it has something to do with Libraries.]; and sometimes WE refuses to let me delete files [until I reboot] -- shows which MC never properly deleted.

Perhaps "Bugtrack" isn't the right place to make this sort of observation, but: the gap between VMC/TVpack2008 and W7MC is so great for -me- that I prefer to walk away from the former and embrace the latter.  I'm unenthusiastic with some of the frills of W7 [e.g. Libraries], but VMC/TVp left me feeling I was dealing with a mental patient whom I'd never understand or persuade to behave.  I wish W7MC could be rolled back into Vista: that would be the perfect bug-fix for me.

Apologies for this rant!

All I can say is that for the last 3 months I have been tryingto get TV Pack 2008 working on Vista
DVB-T and DVB-S with a
Huppage HVR4000 (http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_hvr4000.html)
ATI HD3450

simply put if you have these 2 combos do not bother its coimpletely unusable.

The system works only 5 % of the time with Video Codes being the biggest issue, continnually reporting codec malfunction errors.

I haev tried the Hacked HD MSDTVVDEC.DLL's as well as other 3rd Party codes using
the following utility
(http://mediacenterexpert.blogspot.com/2006/07/vista-media-center-decoder-utility.html)
Ive tried PowerDVD ATI Accellerated Codecs ....

I have even tried this from a completely fresh install and bild of vista and then applied the 2008 pack over an unconfigured MCE.

It simply is unusable.

My Advice if you have a HVR400 would be to stick without the TV Pack and use Hauppage's hack to fool Vista into thinking that the DVB-S card is a DVB-T Card.

Shame because without this bloody awful codec issue TV Pack 2008 has lost of usefull features and support ofr DVB-T and DVB-S (albeit nobbled HD Support)

In my Recorded TV folder some recordings do not have a thumbnail. Where a thumbnail should be displayed all I get is a blank "blue" thumbnail. For most problems the thumbnail is displayed correctly. Is this a TV pack bug?

i know i just did a fresh install of windows 7 7260 and everything seems to work fine except for. the zooming for HD and regualer analog dosnt stick for jsut one type of content it keeps one zoom for all content. that and all HD channels are coming in but what woudl be channel 6.1 for my area comes up no signal. and i did the scan twice and it sees the channel threw the scan jsut wont show it when i select it in the guide.