HOWTO: LifeView FlyDVB-T Hybrid & MediaPortal (MCE Alternative)

HOWTO: LifeView FlyDVB-T Hybrid & MediaPortal (MCE Alternative)

Here is a quick how to for anyone who wants to know how to get the LifeView FlyDVB-T Hybrid card in the Sagers (Clevo) working with MediaPortal due to it not working in MCE.

What is Media Portal (Taken from www.team-mediaportal.com)

MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more.

I'm just going to explain the hardest part of getting it up and running which is getting the tv tuner working. Everything else is straight forward and generic for any hardware.

If your card is the same revision as mine just add the following to the bottom (above the last </capturecards> line)of the CaptureCardDefinitions.xml in your MediaPortal directory and when you go into Setup/Television/Capture Cards it should detect it automatically:

<capturecard commercialname="LifeView FlyDVB-T DUO Mini" capturename="713x BDA Digital Capture" devid='ven_1131&amp;dev_7133&amp;subsys_33075168&amp;rev_d0'>
<capabilities tv="true" radio="false" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="true"/>
<tv>
<interface cat="capture" video="2" audio="3" mpeg2="1" sectionsandtables="5"/>
<filters>
<filter cat="networkprovider" name="Microsoft DVBT Network Provider" checkdevice="false"/>
<filter cat="tunerdevice" name="713x BDA DVBT Tuner" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="capture" name="713x BDA Digital Capture" checkdevice="true"/>
</filters>
<connections>
<connection sourcefilter="networkprovider" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="tunerdevice" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tunerdevice" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="0"/>
</connections>
</tv>
</capturecard>


If your card is not listed you will need to download GraphEdit from the link below below:

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/Add_TVCard_to_natively_supported_list

Follow the Step 3 that's about getting the moniker of you card and ignore the rest of the stuff on that page. Just edit the devid of what I pasted above and replace it with your cards moniker and hopefully it should be working. Remember to put amp; after any & in your moniker.

NOTE: For some reason once you install MediaPortal the bundled tv tuner software stops working. I don't know why but i'm not really bothered as it wasn't good anyway.

Thats it. You have probably noticed that I suck at writing howto's but the information above should be enough for most people to get it up and running.

Let me know how you go

vetrun

 

Since software but in no way i am able to make the TV work . lol.

I have the same hardware as you, as I checked. The card is begind detected ok. Now for the tuner I keep a message I can't get tuner information or such. I've downloaded the tvgiude stuff from xmltv and start to be comfy with giude generation.

FM Radio doesn't seem to work also... Is there something special to do for anything analog? Be kind i'm new to this lol ;-).

 

I had a similar problem, I ended up having to reinstall XP.

 

So it shows up as the lifeview card in the mediaportal setup? Once you have done that you should just be able to set your region and autotune the channels.

vetrun

 

Are you using this only for DVB reception? What about analog cable? Like I said in the other thread, unfortunately DVB is nonexistent for north america...

The default software is ok for viewing analog cable TV (though radio never worked for me), but I can't get it with MP.

Anyways, this makes me reiterate that North American Clevo rebranders should stop offering this option ...

 

I'm only using it for DVB-T and not analogue so that explains why it doesn't work for you. It's strange that Sager offers a DVB Hybrid card when it doesn't exist in the USA.