The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    L702x built in tuner codecs problem

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by allidea, Aug 16, 2011.

  1. allidea

    allidea Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    11
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have L702x with built-in TV tuner AverMedia H339 Hybrid Analog/DVBT tuner and I'm using Win7 x64 Ultimate.

    I have tried several DVBT programs like DVB Dream, DVBViewer, ProgDVB, Windows Media Center and MediaPortal in order to be able to watch TV, but without any success. ProgDVB just hangs and crashes, while DVBViewer, Windows Media Center and MediaPortal suggest there is something wrong (missing) with installed codecs and my guess is AAC one exactly.

    Each of mentioned programs can find available TV channels (digital), but cannot play them.

    Problem is I have Shark007's codecs installed (both x32 and x64), and I never had any problems playing any files with them, but seems like they're just not enough for AverMedia tuner to work. I'm just unable to find a solution, so I was hoping someone already came across the same problem and hopefully solved it and is willing to share the solution with me.

    And I forgot to mention that AverMedia TV tuner driver is installed and device is working properly, so isn't a driver problem (I guess).

    Thanks.
     
  2. leavenfish

    leavenfish Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    84
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Bump...I may be having the same problem. Tuner can find channels...but they are not displayed. I have the original factor install parts.
     
  3. allidea

    allidea Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    11
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I've got some time to experiment with my issue and have found a solution which consists of 2 parts.

    1st) I've uninstalled Windows 7 codecs (both x32 and x64 versions) and installed K-Lite Codec Pack Full (latest version, both x32 and x64 versions, although everything seemed to work fine with x32 version)
    It simply seems K-Lite codecs are better solution for this.

    2nd) I actually decided to use x32 version of ProgDVB, even x64 version is available. I've ran across several reports that x64 version is a bit buggy sometimes (most of time for me) and honestly I really don't see any advantages of using x64 over x32 version of ProgDVB. I doubt TV tuner cares about it.

    After above 2 steps I got my tuner to work properly ;-)

    I hope this will help others too.