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PC radio to receive cable channels?
Anyone know of such a software radio? I am using the Hauppauge WinTV card
and its radio receives via antenna only, from what I can tell. TIA Rua |
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PC radio to receive cable channels?
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thlink.net, Madra Rua posted : Anyone know of such a software radio? I am using the Hauppauge WinTV card and its radio receives via antenna only, from what I can tell. =20 TIA =20 Rua http://www.viddiradioplayer.com/ --=20 Danni |
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PC radio to receive cable channels?
"Juo Of C" wrote in message ... while surging the Net thlink.net, Madra Rua posted : Anyone know of such a software radio? I am using the Hauppauge WinTV card and its radio receives via antenna only, from what I can tell. TIA Rua http://www.viddiradioplayer.com/ -- Danni Thanks Danni. I am looking for one for cable (tv cable), not for the Internet, which I can receive via browsers. TIA Rua |
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PC radio to receive cable channels?
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 23:50:32 GMT, "Juo Of C" Enlightened the world by
saying: while surging the Net thlink.net, Madra Rua posted : Anyone know of such a software radio? I am using the Hauppauge WinTV card and its radio receives via antenna only, from what I can tell. TIA Rua http://www.viddiradioplayer.com/ I just love the ambiguity. ...:: Requirements ::.. Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4 or later, or Windows XP ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.01* ^^^^ NT 4.0 with *any* service pack, wont support WMP 7.0 and above. -- Some people hate Blacks, Some people hate Jews Some people hate Republicans, but I hate the GNU! |
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PC radio to receive cable channels?
"Madra Rua" wrote in
thlink.net: Anyone know of such a software radio? I am using the Hauppauge WinTV card and its radio receives via antenna only, from what I can tell. I can't help, but I'm curious. Your cable carries radio channels? I've never heard of this except when transported as a TV channel. How do you hear them when not attached to your computer? via the 75 ohm connector on your radio? If so, you could attach the cable to the antenna jack. Does it come in via a TV channel? Then tune to the correct TV channel and listen. If its some other way I'd like to know. |
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PC radio to receive cable channels?
"Carey Carlan" wrote ...
I can't help, but I'm curious. Your cable carries radio channels? I've never heard of this except when transported as a TV channel. How do you hear them when not attached to your computer? via the 75 ohm connector on your radio? If so, you could attach the cable to the antenna jack. Does it come in via a TV channel? Then tune to the correct TV channel and listen. If its some other way I'd like to know. They send "regulation" FM channel signals in the "regulation" FM band (88-108MHz). Many are just reproduced from off the air (as for local TV) and others they get from their sattelite providers (CSPAN, BBC, etc.) Received merely by connecting a split of the cable RF to the F-connector on your FM tuner/receiver. (Which is why I don't understand the OP's question. The answer seems too obvious.) |
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PC radio to receive cable channels?
"Richard Crowley" wrote in message ... "Carey Carlan" wrote ... I can't help, but I'm curious. Your cable carries radio channels? I've never heard of this except when transported as a TV channel. How do you hear them when not attached to your computer? via the 75 ohm connector on your radio? If so, you could attach the cable to the antenna jack. Does it come in via a TV channel? Then tune to the correct TV channel and listen. If its some other way I'd like to know. They send "regulation" FM channel signals in the "regulation" FM band (88-108MHz). Many are just reproduced from off the air (as for local TV) and others they get from their sattelite providers (CSPAN, BBC, etc.) Received merely by connecting a split of the cable RF to the F-connector on your FM tuner/receiver. (Which is why I don't understand the OP's question. The answer seems too obvious.) Thanks to all for the comments. As the subject line suggests I am looking for a software radio, which may or may not exist. I don't want any more clutter around my computer, so the hi-fi receiver is out. The TV cable is connected directly to the PCI WinTV card. It is possible that this card does not carry the radio signals that are on the cable. As mentioned in my first post it comes with a software radio that uses an antenna, but I live in an area where FM air broadcasts are mostly poor. Hope that clarifies the situation some. Thanks again Rua |
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"Richard Crowley" wrote in message ... "Carey Carlan" wrote ... I can't help, but I'm curious. Your cable carries radio channels? I've never heard of this except when transported as a TV channel. How do you hear them when not attached to your computer? via the 75 ohm connector on your radio? If so, you could attach the cable to the antenna jack. Does it come in via a TV channel? Then tune to the correct TV channel and listen. If its some other way I'd like to know. They send "regulation" FM channel signals in the "regulation" FM band (88-108MHz). Many are just reproduced from off the air (as for local TV) and others they get from their sattelite providers (CSPAN, BBC, etc.) Received merely by connecting a split of the cable RF to the F-connector on your FM tuner/receiver. (Which is why I don't understand the OP's question. The answer seems too obvious.) Thanks to all for the comments. As the subject line suggests I am looking for a software radio, which may or may not exist. I don't want any more clutter around my computer, so the hi-fi receiver is out. The TV cable is connected directly to the PCI WinTV card. It is possible that this card does not carry the radio signals that are on the cable. As mentioned in my first post it comes with a software radio that uses an antenna, but I live in an area where FM air broadcasts are mostly poor. Hope that clarifies the situation some. Thanks again Rua |
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"Madra Rua" wrote ...
The TV cable is connected directly to the PCI WinTV card. It is possible that this card does not carry the radio signals that are on the cable. As mentioned in my first post it comes with a software radio that uses an antenna, but I live in an area where FM air broadcasts are mostly poor. Still seems as simple as spliting the cable signal to the FM radio antenna connector. You will need to provide specific model numbers, etc. if you want a more detailed response. |
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PC radio to receive cable channels?
"Richard Crowley" wrote in message ... "Madra Rua" wrote ... The TV cable is connected directly to the PCI WinTV card. It is possible that this card does not carry the radio signals that are on the cable. As mentioned in my first post it comes with a software radio that uses an antenna, but I live in an area where FM air broadcasts are mostly poor. Still seems as simple as spliting the cable signal to the FM radio antenna connector. You will need to provide specific model numbers, etc. if you want a more detailed response. Thanks Richard. I misunderstood your earlier post - thought you were referring to my hardware tuner/receiver. I added the BTWinCap WDM drivers to my system recently, which have far more features than the Haupp drivers. My progs show both drivers as choices but my Haupp software, incl the radio, is screwed. Will have to look into it. Meantime, I'll simply connect the tv cable directly to the FM imput to check for the radio signals - if I can get the Haupp radio working or if I find what I was originally looking for in these posts. Thanks again. Rua |
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To refresh, after I installed the BTWinCap driver, my Hauppauge software
wouldn't even open. I found the discussion (in German) below very useful. It suggested using Dscaler and a Czech radio called Radiator from http://flesko.cz/. This was a very good suggestion and Dscaler indeed looks a better prog than the Hauppauge. It works very well with BTWinCap. I installed the "Radiator" which is an FM radio but couldn't get any noise at all from it with the FM antenna in place. I connected the TV cable to the radio antenna input and found no signal there either. I suspect that the TV cable radio signal may be in a different format - voltages/frequencies, etc. - from the antenna signal. There is little info with the Radiator and I suspect it is for use with an antenna. Looks like something is missing in my setup. Thanks to all for the suggestions. Rua Danach ging weder WinTV32, noch WinTV2000, Radio oder Videotext. :-( Ja, die kannst du dann abschreiben- die Funktionieren nur mit den original Hauppaugetreibern. Ein weitaus besseres Programm zum Fernsehschauen ist DScaler (http://www.dscaler.org/downloads.htm)- funktioniert auch mit den BtWinCaps Videotext ist auch dabei. Zum Radiohören versuch mal den Radiator: http://flesko.cz/ Zum Aufnehmen guck dir mal den IUVcr an: http://www.iulab.com/ Oder Andere- zu finden z.B. hier: http://www.vcdhelp.com/tools Gibt es irgend eine Chance, dass ich das wieder reparieren kann, ohne dazu den Rechner aus dem neu eingerichteten Computertisch rausmontieren und die TV-Karte aus- und wieder einbauen zu müssen? Oder gibt es einen Trick, wie ich trotz des neuen Treibers die Programme zur Mitarbeit überreden kann? Nimm einfach das Installationsprogramm der BtWinCap-Treiber und gehe auf "Uninstall any blabla", das sollte alles entfernen. |
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PC radio to receive cable channels?
I installed the "Radiator" which is an FM radio but couldn't get any
noise at all from it with the FM antenna in place. There is little info with the Radiator and I suspect it is for use with an antenna. There is some kind of confusion here. There are no pure software radios. There are software that can be used to control harware radios, for example radios on a PCI card that can be installed in a PC. What kind of antenna signal you can use will depend on the actual radio, the hardware, not on the piece of software you use to control the hardware (and possibly also to read the audio data streams from the hardware and send it to the OS mixer). Doesn't you radio (the hardware) has any manual specifying what kind of input signal it wants? Does whoever installed and runs the cable operations you use (TV and radio) have any information on what kind of "radio" they put on the cable? Looks like something is missing in my setup. I suspect what's missing is crucial info on how your radio hardware works as well as info on what is on the cable how. Regards /Jonas |
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Thanks again J.
"Jonas Eckerman" wrote in message . 1... As I haven't got such a card that you have, the stuff below are guesses based on common hardware. That's true but I wanted to make it clear that I wasn't looking for hardware. You may have missed the early part of the thread. I use a WinTV-FM PCI card. The WinTV-FM PCI card is hardware, and that's the hardware I meant. As I understand it, the PCI card takes the signals from the antenna and passes them to the sound card. Is there any cables going from the WinTV-FM card to the soundcard? Yes, I receive TV sound ok. If not, then the WinTV FM card does not pass anything to the soundcard, but the software reads the audio stream from the WInTV-FM card and sends it to a Windows audio device. In any case, the WInTV-FM card probably does not simply send the radio signals to something else in the machine. The WInTV-FM card should have TV and FM radio tuner and receivers, and probably converts the input signals to digital audio that can be streamed by the computer. The software "radio" tunes the signals and plays whichever one is selected. The software tells the tuner on the radio card wich frequency to tune to. The actual tuner is on the card. The above is all I know. That makes it difficult to know if the problem is the antenna, receiver, tuner, software or all of them. I'll check the BtWinCap driver installation again. Thanks for the input Regards /Jonas |
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PC radio to receive cable channels?
"Madra Rua" wrote in
link.net: As I understand it, the PCI card takes the signals from the antenna and passes them to the sound card. Is there any cables going from the WinTV-FM card to the soundcard? Yes, I receive TV sound ok. That's not what I asked. I asked if there's any cables going from the WinTV-FM card to the sound card. Is there? If not, then the WinTV FM card does not pass anything to the soundcard, but the software reads the audio stream from the WInTV-FM card and sends it to a Windows audio device. /Jonas |
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PC radio to receive cable channels?
"Jonas Eckerman" wrote in message ... "Madra Rua" wrote in link.net: As I understand it, the PCI card takes the signals from the antenna and passes them to the sound card. Is there any cables going from the WinTV-FM card to the soundcard? Yes, I receive TV sound ok. That's not what I asked. I asked if there's any cables going from the WinTV-FM card to the sound card. Is there? Opppss!!! Yes, there is one cable. I removed all the drivers today and reinstalled Haupapuge software, incl the radio, and all work fine. I shut the radio down and try the "radiator radio" and get no sound at all. This radio has many settings, including one to select the card manufacturer. Hauppauge is not on the list, yet in the old German discussion (on a newsgroup) there is a claim that it does work with the Haupp and BtWinCap drivers. Looks like I'll have to go back there for more info. If not, then the WinTV FM card does not pass anything to the soundcard, but the software reads the audio stream from the WInTV-FM card and sends it to a Windows audio device. /Jonas Thanks again. Rua |
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