medion tv tunercard work media center

My Medion TV-Tunercard ( Medion TV-Tuner 7134 MK2/3 + Medion (7134) WDM Video Capture ) doesn't work with Media Center. Thanks in advance for a solution !
deeppurple1998

MCE requires a hardware mpeg2 encoder. If your card use a software enconder it will never work under MCE.
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My Medion TV-Tunercard ( Medion TV-Tuner 7134 MK2/3 + Medion (7134) WDM Video Capture ) doesn't work with Media Center. Thanks in advance for a solution !
deeppurple1998

"Peter M" wrote in message

MCE requires a hardware mpeg2 encoder. If your card use a software enconder it will never work under MCE.

Flatly untrue.
The ATI HDTV Wonder (and ATI All-In-Wonder series) all use software MPEG2 encoding, and all are supported in MCE 2005 (additionally, the HDTV Wonder is supported *standalone* since Vista 5456). MCE 2002/2004 *did* require hardware MPEG-2 support, but that isn't true of either MCE 2005 *or* Vista.
Christopher L. Estep

You have it backwords All HDTV tuner cards need no encoder since the digital ATSC broadcasts are already encoded. ATI introduced a software encoder with MCE 2004 for its AIW N TSC tuner cards which was approved by Microsoft as long as a HT or dual CPU system was used due to the high CPU utilization required for software encoding. With the introduction of multiple tuner support by MS with the introduction of MCE2005 MS would no longer approved software encoders in order for a vendor to qualify their cards for the MCE2005 logo program. ATI of course supports this implementation on their own. In early summer of 2005 ATI upgraded the software encoder that worked with MCE 2004 so it would work with MCE 2005 and provided it to AIW card purcharsers as part of the ATI MMC media center application. AFAIK ATI has not upgraded this software encoder again for VISTA so that it can be used with AIW cards or with the NTSC tuner on the HDTV tuner card. Since Vista does not require an NTSC tuner card in order for a ATSC tuner card to be used the ATSC tuner side of the HDTV wonder should work fine with vista since as I stated before all ATSC video is already encoded so no encoding hardware or software is required.
"Christopher L. Estep" wrote in message

"Peter M" wrote in message MCE requires a hardware mpeg2 encoder. If your card use a software enconder it will never work under MCE.
Flatly untrue.
The ATI HDTV Wonder (and ATI All-In-Wonder series) all use software MPEG2 encoding, and all are supported in MCE 2005 (additionally, the HDTV Wonder is supported *standalone* since Vista 5456). MCE 2002/2004 *did* require hardware MPEG-2 support, but that isn't true of either MCE 2005 *or* Vista.
Christopher L. Estep

"deeppurple1998" wrote:

My Medion TV-Tunercard ( Medion TV-Tuner 7134 MK2/3 + Medion (7134) WDM Video Capture ) doesn't work with Media Center. Thanks in advance for a solution !
deeppurple1998

Hello deeppurple1998,
I managed to get Vista MCE working on my Medion 8800 with exactly the same Tuner as yours. You have to install the MCE Software decoder, from Cyberlink, and then everything works fine. Just google for MCE Software decoder and Medion and you'll find what you're looking for.