I have the Hauppauge HVR-1600 tuner and I'm looking for a solution to the 'case 13' msg,  I updated to the latest drivers and still get the case 13 msg but also getting 'Audio Error COOD11B1"

 

Any help would be welcome

Im not sure about the audio thing, but as far as the error 13 goes, as long as I used the mouse to use the plugin, it never happened, but as soon as I used the remote to try it, I got the error.

can anyone please tell me step by step how do i get the qam to work with MCE?

 

 

thank you

I followed the instructions supplied here to the letter with no luck.

I have an HVR-1800 card using Vista Ultimate with SP1 installed. Everything went fine (beta driver install, reboot, plugin install, swapped coax input, reboot, qam scan, etc) but when I scanned for channels with QAM plugin, it found 36 stations but I get an error message at the end of the scan:

'IScanResultPt1' is undefined

The other thing I noticed is that during the scan, the screenshots show the the channels as "Scanning X of Y". Mine only showed "Scanning Y." I think the X variable is the the IScanResultPt1 variable that the error is referring to (I looked in the debugger and I think I'm right).

After reboot the channels do not show up on my digital strength indicator, so I went ahead and backed everything out. I'm back to the Hauppage standard drivers and ready to go again if anyone has ideas. :)

The thing is, I have an HD antenna that I'm using in combo with basic cable so this isn't completely required, I keep basic 22-channel cable so my internet rate stays low.. but the one HD channel I really watch a lot is PBS. In my area the PBS HD only broadasts over the air from 8PM to 11PM, but on the coax it runs 24/7, how's that for )(@#*$ up?

My TV picks up a lot of extra stations using the built in tuner that aren't OTA, so I know I have plenty of extra channels there as well.

Thanks in advance...

I tried this at one point too, but it was a pain.

But Hauppauge is 'probably' releasing an official QAM for media center driver soon. I've waited this long, I can wait a little bit longer and get the damn thing to work natively.

See CycleWriter's thread:
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/288316.aspx

Ok newb question here... what connection do I need to use to get QAM? I mean will it come from my Comcast setup box to the digital connector of my 1600 or just straight from the cable wall?

Sorry newb here :)

straight from the wall.





I also have a question.  I got this all setup today and wanted to know if I ran a 2 way split (1 cable to the analog input and 1 to the digital on the card) if I can have all of my cable channels with this?

Or is that not possible with the qam setup currently?

ClearQAM channels, if your cable provider has them, come through the bare cable feed. One thing I've found on my own Time/Warner system is that the QAM channels do not have the same signal strength as the analog channels on the same cable feed. I had to put a +10db signal amplifier on the feed going to the QAM tuner before it could find any channels during a scan. After I did that it found all of them. I had the same problem with the QAM tuner on my Samsung HDTV until I put a booster on it, as well.

The problem for most users is mapping.  If you are getting scanned and locked channels then it is just not mapping it correctly to your guide.

I have emailed support for information about how the plugin maps the found channels to the guide and they will not release any information.  Very annoying.

Couple things I have found (with the help of message boards across the internet).

1.  Scanned channel information is stored in the registry at HKLM -> System -> Current Control Set -> Services -> hcwcqam.  You can find the call sign of the located stations.  By looking through this I know it found all of my OTA locals and none were encyrpted (there are 6 of these, the plugin can only map 2).

2. C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome\EPG\prefs\atscprefs.xml stores the mapped channels.  You can test this by altering the file and re-running the scan.  You will find entries for any channel it succesfully mapped. I attempted to add the OTA channels I know it located to this file to see if it would tune them from the guide, no luck.

Maybe if all the users that are having the black screen\no signal found issues start emailing support for information about mapping rules we can solve this together. 

I for one know if I understood how it mapped I could get all my OTA channels via QAM as I know they were found in the scan via evidence in the registry.

 

I am also looking for a solution to map my channels.  The scan showed 32 channels with full strength signals, but I've only managed to tune 4.

wilkcards:

The problem for most users is mapping.  If you are getting scanned and locked channels then it is just not mapping it correctly to your guide.

I keep seeing a lot of people saying that they are getting blank screens in MCE but how many of you have tried to tune via WinTV?  I get 31 locked stations using the MCE QAM plugin.  None of them map, so I fired up WinTV and I scanned just for clearQAM channels, and sure enough it found them... and sure enough, every one of them was black. 

I've started a ticket with Hauppauge but I'm not feeling warm and fuzzies about this.  It's odd that it can actually lock on a QAM station knowing a signal is there but not tune it.  I have gotten down to only one splitter in front of the Hauppage and my analog signal is fantastic so I really don't htink it's a splitting issue.  I get QAM fine everywhere else in the house as well.

 

(I updated a couple of things)

No need to mess with the plug-in! Just get your hands on the "TV Pack 2008". Here are the directions I followed that someone else posted elsewhere and I modified based on my installation.

1. Reinstall Vista Ultimate 64 and all drivers (NOT HVR-1800 yet) (I chose not to do a clean install. I had one problem, but I don't know if it was related to this. I'll explain later below.)
2. Update windows
3. Install HVR-1800 and Hauppauge latest driver (previously used beta driver but no longer available. latest driver works fine.)
4. Install TV Pack 2008 ( http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331431,00.asp ) (search for it on the web, you're bound to find it somewhere. NOTE: Removed the link where it was once found because the site had a TON of popups.)
5. Install PlayReady PC (from MS download site.)
6. Install 2 patches (see link above for all files) (KB951685 and KB950754 from MS download site.)
7. Update windows (you will see a cumulative update for TV Pack too)
8. Open the registry (run/regedit)
9. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\HCW85BDA
10. Add new Folder (key) and name it: Parameters
11. Add a new DWORD to that and name it: AllowQAM_PowerToy
12. Make the value for the new string: 1
(here are the regedits for the other type of HVRs)
; HVR-1250, HVR-1290, HVR-1500q, HVR-1800, HVR-1850
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HCW85BDA\Parameters]
"AllowQAM_PowerToy"=dword:00000001

; HVR-1600 (only some models support QAM; should list them here)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HCW18BDA\Parameters]
"AllowQAM_PowerToy"=dword:00000001

; HVR-USB2, HVR-1950
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HCW73BDA\Parameters]
"AllowQAM_PowerToy"=dword:00000001

; HVR-950q
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HCW72DTV\Parameters]
"AllowQAM_PowerToy"=dword:00000001

; HVR-2250
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\hcw89\Parameters]
"AllowQAM_PowerToy"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\hcwPrx89\Parameters]
"AllowQAM_PowerToy"=dword:00000001

13. Restart system
14. Load Media Center and go through setup
15. For TV signal, it should find both tuners, when asked for which guide to us, I had several choices, but i went with the digital selection and it worked fine. Some people have tried all the choices to get different results, for this one you are on your own. (I had both analog and clearQAM signals and continued. When setting the channel listings, I chose the "analog" listings for my area for the analog signal and chose the "digital" listings for the digital/clearqam signal. Then came the scanning for channels...read below)

The part that did not work for me was the scanning for channels. I scanned and scanned, rebooted, reinstalled different drivers, but  VMC kept reporting "0 channel(s)". So finally I decided to move forward and see if i could add channels manually. I went into the "Guide/Edit Channels" settings and found that there were a bunch of channels enabled and disabled. So i went through them and tested most of the ones that were enabled and most seemed to work just fine. As for the QAM channels. They were also in the listings, just not enabled for some reason. I found the channel codes by using this site, http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/channels. The channels matched the "channel" and "program" digits. I enabled/added the channels, clicked on the channel for editing it's settings. Then clicked on "Edit Listings" to set the listings for the channel. Since I had chosen the "digital" listings for the digital signal, the listing for all the digital channels should be there. You can scroll through them or if you know the call letters, you can also type the letters and VMC will search for them. Then I found the digital channel listings. And that's it. Finally got QAM working with VMC. No need for WinTV.

thanks for the guide.

I got all ready to do this, but when running the install for TV Pack 2008 I got the message:
"The update does not apply to your system"

Is this because I'm not doing it off of a clean Vista install? It doesn't seem like anyone else had a problem with that.

oops, I'm off to a real good start - I accidentally clicked the x64 folder instead of x86 for my 32 bit.
I'll update the group on how it goes.

Thanks biocoder,

I think you nailed it.

I was able to tune in all the same channel that my Samsung HD TV receives( Cable from wall).

I read alot of forums and took a little from each, but you put it all together and it work great.

If I was able to get Clear Qam on VMC, anybody can.

Thanks again.