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mcdruid
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Hi all,
I've got the UK version of the Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card, which is basically a free-to-air digital TV card.
It works okay, although the software for it is really temperamental & it works in a strange way - showing up as a Network Adapter in Device Manager, and using the UDP protocol to feed the TV stream into the PC as if it was a network card.
The problem I'm having with it is that I cannot get it to work with Sygate Personal Firewall installed (under Win2K).
I've tried setting Sygate so that it 'Allows all' over the TV card as a network interface, and giving full permissions to the WinTV DVB software.
However, although the Sygate logs seems to say that it's not blocking anything at all, I can't get the TV app to work. It loads up okay, and is getting some data through, because it shows the little text details of what's on now & next etc.. but there's no picture and no sound.
It even refuses to work with Sygate switched off - the only way I can get it going properly is to totally uninstall Sygate.
I've e-mailed the UK technical support for Hauppauge, but I'm not holding my breath - I think they'll regard it as an issue with Sygate rather than with their product, as it works okay with SPF uninstalled.
So, my questions are these:
1. Has anyone else had this problem & found a solution?
2. Can anyone recommend a different (free) firewall which I might be able to configure to leave the WinTV network interface totally alone, whilst still protecting my network card - which is how I connect to my cable modem. (See below for built-in XP firewall.)
3. Does anyone know of a bit of (3rd party) software I can use to capture from the card? Because of the unusual way it works, VirtualDub won't work, and I doubt iuVCR etc.. will either.
Thanks in advance for any help!
cheers,
mcdruid.
PS. If it helps, the rest of the specs on my PC are:
Win 2K Pro / Win XP dual boot (2K main OS - the XP firewall works fine with the TV card as I can enable it only on my LAN card)
Athlon XP 1700+
Lex Ultra BN780 (VIA KT133A chipset) m/board
512mb PC133 SDRAM
60gb WD Caviar / 80gb IBM DeskStar
GeForce2 200MX 64mb w/TV-out
Toshiba DVD / LiteOn CD-RW
AverTV98 (analogue capture)
Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI (digital capture)
USB SiPix WebCam / USB Artec 2000 Ultima scanner
SB PCI128 / 56k Modem / Ethernet card to 600k Cable Modem
I've got the UK version of the Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card, which is basically a free-to-air digital TV card.
It works okay, although the software for it is really temperamental & it works in a strange way - showing up as a Network Adapter in Device Manager, and using the UDP protocol to feed the TV stream into the PC as if it was a network card.
The problem I'm having with it is that I cannot get it to work with Sygate Personal Firewall installed (under Win2K).
I've tried setting Sygate so that it 'Allows all' over the TV card as a network interface, and giving full permissions to the WinTV DVB software.
However, although the Sygate logs seems to say that it's not blocking anything at all, I can't get the TV app to work. It loads up okay, and is getting some data through, because it shows the little text details of what's on now & next etc.. but there's no picture and no sound.
It even refuses to work with Sygate switched off - the only way I can get it going properly is to totally uninstall Sygate.
I've e-mailed the UK technical support for Hauppauge, but I'm not holding my breath - I think they'll regard it as an issue with Sygate rather than with their product, as it works okay with SPF uninstalled.
So, my questions are these:
1. Has anyone else had this problem & found a solution?
2. Can anyone recommend a different (free) firewall which I might be able to configure to leave the WinTV network interface totally alone, whilst still protecting my network card - which is how I connect to my cable modem. (See below for built-in XP firewall.)
3. Does anyone know of a bit of (3rd party) software I can use to capture from the card? Because of the unusual way it works, VirtualDub won't work, and I doubt iuVCR etc.. will either.
Thanks in advance for any help!
cheers,
mcdruid.
PS. If it helps, the rest of the specs on my PC are:
Win 2K Pro / Win XP dual boot (2K main OS - the XP firewall works fine with the TV card as I can enable it only on my LAN card)
Athlon XP 1700+
Lex Ultra BN780 (VIA KT133A chipset) m/board
512mb PC133 SDRAM
60gb WD Caviar / 80gb IBM DeskStar
GeForce2 200MX 64mb w/TV-out
Toshiba DVD / LiteOn CD-RW
AverTV98 (analogue capture)
Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI (digital capture)
USB SiPix WebCam / USB Artec 2000 Ultima scanner
SB PCI128 / 56k Modem / Ethernet card to 600k Cable Modem