asia said:
Never had that problem. What is your system spec?
Mine is:
Windows XP MCE 2005
THEATER 550 PRO TV Tuner Drivers (all the lastest from ATI)
CATALYST 5.3 AIW Driver (tried the MCE too same result)
MMC 9.06
Using the ATI DVD Decoder from ATI website
Asus P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard
2 Samsung (one that was recommend by Asus) 512Mb Ram (1024)
P4 3GHZ
Creative SB Live 5.1 Platinium
ATI AIW 9800 Pro
ATI TV Wonder Elite
My Problems:-
#1 - Blue screen of death after installing all the video drivers and signal searching - I believe it is due to the TV Turner in AIW cause it never got recognised in all my first search attempt (only Elite got found) and appears 2 turners after BSOD. (the reason why I know which card got found cause I have reinstalled many times with cable attached to both or either one card only) Btw, no more BSOD on signal search as long as I don't reinstall video drivers.
(having my finger crossed)
#2 - Constant warning and errors about CLI (Catalyst Control Panel) - not too sure when it started but after I updated the .net, I am sure it keeps showing up in eventlog every couple minutes especially when I move from Media Center to desktop. I tried to uninstall .net and reinstall it and it doesn't help. I ended up uninstalling CLI to avoid seeing more warnings
#3 - Media Center hangs while quiting - Once in a while my Media Center will hang when I quit while watching live TV. As long as I stopped Live TV before closing Media Center, I have not yet experienced any more application hang again while quiting. (having my finger crossed)
#4 - 20+ warning of ati2mtag in eventlog - It happened everytime I boot up the machine and there will be 20+ warning in system eventlog about ati2mtag, It didn't happen when I used the default one that comes with MCE. I am still figuring out how to avoid this warning messages.
So far I am quite happy with MCE, it is running pretty smoothly. The picture quality of live TV and DVD is very good. The TV is a bit blur and not vivid enough but no grainy effect or moire effect at all even at full screen. Consider stretching a 320x240 window to 1600x1200, it is in very good quality. I hope the ATI will have a new Plugin to adjust the sharpness of the images. The current ATI MCE Plugin to adjust brightness and contrast is not that useful as we all can adjust it from TV or monitor.