Fitz(Elite) posted this on Monday, 28th August 2006, 10:14
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced the following anomaly with FM radio in Windows XP MCE.
I`ve recently bought a Hewlett Packard M7415.uk desktop which has MCE installed. I`ve discovered that you can`t use the FM radio facility if the TV tuner card (a Hauppage Amity2 I think) is set to receive Freeview although it works if the card is set to receive analogue TV. This seems a bit odd to me. There doesn`t seem to be any mention of this in the PC manufacturer`s user manual (such as it is) and I even sent the PC back to HP under warranty thinking there was something wrong with the card and it came back with "fault not found".
I`d be interested to learn if anyone else has this problem or has the card got a weird fault ?
Thanks
JF
RE: Problem with FM Radio in Windows XP MCE
MikeElliot(Elite) posted this on Monday, 28th August 2006, 10:48
That is to be expected. Freeview uses a different tuner. FM uses the same tuner as analogue TV but at VHF as opposed to UHF of TV channels. There is no fault with the card nor MCE.
If you want Freeview, analogue TV and FM as part of the same channel line up, try Media Portal (www.team-mediaportal.com). There are still issues with this software but the development is very promising and it allows all your tuners to be part of the same channel line up.
