[Af9015 Bda Driver 9.6.3.1 Download Movies
Julieann Rohde
SichbroPVR works with my KWorld DVT- PC160-2T (twin tuner) with the BDA drivers, unfortunately on only one tuner. Big step down from Windows Media Center on Win 7 where I could record 3 different channels at once. (Third is a cheap USB stick with a Realtek 2832U chip).
Since 10122 came down, video and audio work well. Do have the LAV filters installed, but they made no difference on the previous version of Win 10. There, I had to use Opera browser to run a Youtube video, then video would work in sichboPVR - otherwise, just a blank screen.
SichbroPVR picks up all my local channels, but refuses to respond to the USB stick, and uses only one tuner in the dual card - ie won't record one channel and allow me to swap to a different channel. So not a satisfactory replacement for Win 7 + WMC giving me 3 recordable tuners.
Tried SichboPVR with my Pinnacle 73e nanostick USB tuner in Win10.
No picture or audio at all
The USB tuner is not being accessed
Drivers are Win XP/Vista/7/8, installed, and Windows itself can see the tuner.
Boys and girls, try this one, I have it working with W-10 on two machines, one with twin tuner and the one with a singular tuner, working a1. Closest I've found to the original WMC: -totalmedia-tv.software.informer.com/
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So much for being hopeful.
ArcSoft TMT is useless as it's a payware program, which is no longer supported by ArcSoft.
On first launch after rebooting after installing, you are presented with an enter license screen.
I have been testing MediaPortal on my windows 8 box.
My thinking is when win 10 is released just about everything that works on 8 will work on 10. MediaPortal is still being maintained so that's a plus and it has no trouble with my 2 dual tuner cards so it is currently first on my list.
My thinking is when win 10 is released just about everything that works on 8 will work on 10. MediaPortal is still being maintained so that's a plus and it has no trouble with my 2 dual tuner cards so it is currently first on my list.
Good luck with "everything that works on 8 will work on 10". Windows 10 is likely to have a video display model different to windows 8, as it needs to be able to display video on a much wider range of devices and screen sizes.
Seeing MediaPortal is still being maintained, they should be able to get it running on Windows 10 once the final version is out.
Downloaded a copy of ArcSoft TotalMedia v3.5.9.530 from Shareware Junction.
I had already installed the KLite Codec Pack, Mega version and the update to that, from when I had tried to get Sichbro working.
Installed TM v3.5.9.530 in build 10122, and went through the TV setup wizard. It detected and accessed my USB tuner without a single bug. All TV and digital radio stations found.
Very happy with this older product.
If I remember rightly, 3.5 was a tuner non specific version, later versions were always tuned to one specific card, and needed a serial number. ie it was sold as part of a package, tv card + software.
I use a Pinnacle PCTV nanostick 73e -GB/Default.aspx
It's a basic single tuner USB DVB-T stick. No dual tuner record one show and watch another at the same time.
No analog radio capability at all, so no commercial FM radio, just DVB-T digital radio, which here in Brisbane means 3 SBS radio channels and 2 ABC radio channels.
ALL FTA TV channels found and working. :)
Haven't tested its record/playback of TV yet, so I can't comment about how TotalMedia behaves.
It's video playback is limited to certain filetypes. .AVI and .MP4 depending on the file encoding. I have some .MP4s which crash the program, and I haven't yet looked to see how they are encoded, to trace the crash bug. It will not see or play .DIVX or .FLV
Never played with this aspect of the program, I usually go to GOM player as my default video player, seems to do just about everything! (On Win 7, haven't really played with it on Win 10 but it may be worth a look.)
Wouldn't let me use the second tuner, but, when I got to the recording section it realised I have a two of them and asked whether I wished to use it to record another channel while I watched something else.
Haven't found how to exit Fullscreen mode yet, other than using Task Manager to kill TotalMedia and start all over. With an all black screen it's hard to see even the mouse cursor let alone any icons.
Signal Strength meter is very erratic, high and low, with no steady signal at all. Maybe it wants some attenuation to kill off the extra strong, amplified, twin array, quad-shielded install. Sound is shocking. It stutters very badly indeed.
Possibly that is when you purchased them, but the DTV + FM + DAB have been around for . . . .well, there is a thread here that dates back to 2010. Certainly the software that comes with them goes back that far.
I use GOM as my go to video player as well. But since this seemed like a WMC replacement, I figured I'd use a USB stick I still had loaded with videos for copying them to another system, and throw them at TM.
GOM is good and it works just fine in Win10.
Still, at least the major job I have for TM is a go, using it as a WMC replacement for TV viewing.
It's VERY slow at getting the EPG, and I've yet to test it for recording.
I only have the one USB tuner, which I purchased as an impulse buy at JB HiFi, Chermside, back in October 2008.
Till I tried it in Win10, it's worked flawless and I've never had a need to replace it.
The problem with Win10 is caused by MS. Their dumping of WMC.
Since one of the things we want to do with our combinations of hardware and software on Win 10 is watch TV, I've been scouring the net for a suitable icon for Win10.
Finally found one that is flat enough and simplified enough to look like it came out of Redmond.
_tv_icon
I installed Kodi a while back on my Steam Box (My main Win10 machine) and while I did only use it for an hour or so, it did everything I tried, and seemed to do it well. I don't have a TV card / dongle to use for testing, so I was hoping someone here would report.
Not mine either. TotalMedia 3.5 is the only software that seems to work with just any tuner, and it is the only piece of software that gives me FM and DAB on my USB tuner.
Tried Kodi, MediaPortal, Myth, Mythbuntu - none want to see my tuners.
Win 10 is on a Kingston SSD, if I swap it into another machine it adapts easily, so I could experiment with Win 10 and PCI cards on my desktop, but seeing Win 10 is so close to final release, I may as well wait until then with further experimenting.
I have a feeling that anything with an AF9015 chip in it will work, with some fiddling. 2832U, not so likeley.
I've installed a number of DTV software programmes, tested them, then deleted them if they didn't work, but a few left a lot of drivers behind, so my setup may be using some of those stray drivers. ie I may have fluked on a working combination.
The AF9015 based Tiny Twin works fine under Windows 10 with the default driver Windows installs (identifies as a Winfast but it's the same thing), on a USB2 controller. I've not tried it on a USB3 controller but odds on it'll fail as it did under Windows 8.
The AF9015 based Tiny Twin works fine is recognised under Windows 10 but only limps along with Total Media sometimes when YouTube is run simultaneously as Pavlov so kindly twigged to. Mine does work fine under Windows 8. Suspect it's an early Tiny Twin as bought off eBay.
Total Media being the problem not the tuner. The solution is simple. Stop using crappy software. There's plenty of decent free DVB programs out there. Why limit yourself to payware that doesn't work properly?
My laptop has an Intel i3 CPU with integrated graphics and the AF9015 + TotalMedia 3.5 works flawlessly. Haven't tried Win 10 10130 + TV tuner on my desktop which has an AMD APU but I'm guessing it won't work, sure didn't with an earlier build of Win 10.
(Prove me wrong on that point please if it works on the current build!)
I suspect MS has done a major revamp of their video driver model to make it easily adapt to different screen sizes, but breaking drivers for older hardware in the process. If you have integrated graphics on an Intel CPU, you should be fine off the bat, but older graphic cards may take some time to be supported, or may never work properly under Windows 10.
I imagine AMD are having a great time updating their APU drivers to work with Win 10.
Simply because there is a wide range of hardware involved. The fault is not with the tuner. It is the software. The tuner has nothing at all to do with audio presentation, all it does is present the whole transport stream, or if requested only certain PIDs, to the software performing the decoding. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Yes I have, even though you seem to have decided that I haven't, but I don't have to justify myself to you. You put up a challenge and I answered it with several completely free programs. If you tried nextPVR and it didn't work for you try one of the others. There's plenty of them out there, my list is hardly all-encompassing.
Just don't bitch and moan about it being a problem with the tuner device when anyone that has any clue about how DVB works would know that the audio muting with 'youtube' open has nothing at all to do with the tuner itself.
Yes, but I've worn my copy of Google out taming an iPad Air. Have a look at the Whinge thread. I've been bloody flat out and going back in for another cystoscopy on the 19th. Nearly lost count. That's 2, 3 or 4 I think.
Obviously a piece of hardware that works well to put a DTV picture with sound on the screen in windows 7 is not at fault, the main cause of the problem in them not working in Windows 10 will be how the changed parameters of the new OS handles a DTV video transport stream. ie the problem lies in the interface between the software and the way Windows 10 handles things.
As a "savvy" computer user, that's how you need to interpret any comments like "my DTV hardware doesn't work!"