OK, i feel like im going to get yelled at a lot for posting this, but i have looked EVERYWHERE and haven't found an answer to my question so here it goes.

The volume for my live TV is very low, so i wanted to install FFDShow, as i did in XP to fix the issue.  For some reason i can't for the life of me get it to run when watching live TV.

This is what i have tried:

- Installed ffdshow64-v2546 checked "volume", and put the volume at 300%.  After this when i started live TV the ffdshow icon wasn't in the lower right.  (my assumption is that it is not running)

- I uninstalled ffdshow64-v2546, and installed VistaCodecs_v446 and x64Components_v1251.  When into the Audio section, checked "volume", and put the volume at 300%.  After this when i started live TV the ffdshow icon wasn't in the lower right.

What am i doing wrong??  This is all I did in XP and it worked perfect.

This is a long shot but...
the MCE gui is it running as a 64-bit or as a 32-bit process?
If its a 32-bit process install the regullar ffshow nog the 64-bit one.

Not sure.  How would i check?

Not sure for vista but for xp x64 32-bit process have a *32 behind them in the task manager

Just checked and all of the Media Center related processes did not have a *32 next to them.  So i assume it is running in 64 bit mode.

Any other ideas?

No, I'm all out of ideas :(

What TV tuner do you have? My tuner which comes with a software mpeg decoder and there's a seperate volume control. I pushed it to almost to the max and use Vista media codec pack to manage the volume.

 

I have a ATI TV wonder Elite, and the Hauppage HVR-1600.