What software works with it? I haven't found any PVR software that works with it. Anyone gotten it to work with anything besides the built in tuner software?
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Hey, hope you're still checking this discussion. I'm the guy that wrote that review so you can be sure that what i tell you will be accurate. The software that was on the disk works perfectly with the tuner; video, audio, remote, and all. Search around in the CD that came with the tuner. If you still can't find it, I'm not sure if I can help you there. You see, a lot of the software is third party, and the company that made the pvr sofware stopped supplying the software for this tuner. I wish you luck finding it. It should be in the CD.
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Does this work with windows vista? And maybe windows auto driver downloads from windows update can find the software/driver.
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How were you able to determine that it was a faulty tuner and not user error? I am going through the same situation, although it is over the air and not cable. I was told that I could plug in a standard antenna and receive digital as well as HD channels due to the HD tuner. Please educate me in this matter as I am not versed in this matter.
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I also got a laptop. I bought a Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 and it works well with MixCraft. At first I was scared 'cuz it didn't recognize the 3rd and 4th inputs from the Focusrite, but I just needed to change some settings in the Preference section, to ASIO and it was solved. Four channels at the same time, which is sufficient for me, for the moment. I also got a Zoom H4N and it also works fine with it. I still havent tried to connect both the Focusrite and the H4n and check if I can do a simultaneos 8-channel recording.
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In response to Joshua's comment, see my earlier comment about installing the software disc and then uninstalling the lousy software. I use Vuescan from Hamrick software.
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do you know any good avi to mpeg converters or something because the ones that i tried will either convert part of the file, or leave its logo in the center; and of course the zen converter doesnt work at all for me. thanks
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From what I can gather, the digital tuners should work. The analog support is very new, so you may need a newer kernel or an updated module for analog. There is no IR support yet, so you may want to buy the cheaper OEM package that doesn't come with the remote and IR receiver.
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I had the same problem. I could not get it to work, I gave up and purchased ProShow Producer 5 (very easy to use and it's awesome!)
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This model has no tuner at all. I use the tuner from an older VCR and connect it to the Panasonic DMR-EH59 with RCA cables. I set the Panasonic unit to the DV1 channel and let the VCR tune to my channel of choice.
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Well I use it with the mutilive software provided, it plays on my windows media player software, also you can e-mail info@sharx.com for tech support their great I own several cameras and have no problems.
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I have mine hooked to my Dish Network receiver, I just put the receiver on the channel I want to record from, I do have to change channels through the receiver for different programs, so I would say YES, you will need an external tuner. I do like this DVD recorder, I purchased another one for my bedroom.
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This tuner is best used with Windows Vista; I used it for a short while with Windows 7, and experienced a lot of problems before finally uninstalling it. Probably will not work well with Windows 8.
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Ubuntu 12.04 had built in drivers so I imagine later versions will have the same. Most people I know use MythTV as the tuning software. Good luck!
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Sorry to say I don't have an answer for you. I was never able to get it up & running, so I just donated it to our local Public Radio used gear sale!
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Can you please recommend me any recording software to use with this? I just don't know any! :-) Thanks!
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Hi, I have it on the network and it streams to my Debian server running Zoneminder. It works OK for the money. If you have a decent recent version of linux (Ubuntu for instance) with java support in the browser, you can configure it on the browser just fine. I didn't try it with motion, but I see no reason not to work, since it works in Zoneminder. This is the url I user in zoneminder: http://&lt;username&gt;:&lt;password&gt;@&lt;ip&gt;/cgi/mjpg/mjpg.cgi Replace the stuff in &lt;&gt; with the proper info. I hope this helps. Even though this works fine, I would recommend you a better quality camera in the same price range, like the new D-Link. If you do a research, you can buy one with about $35 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/D-Link-Wireless-N-Network-Surveillance-Camera-W-iPhone-Remote-Viewing-DSC-930L-/360817167462?pt=US_Security_Cameras&hash=item5402610c66)
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I was curious about this too. With old VCR units in the past, you could set the VCR to a public station like channel 3 and have it record from the TV tuner itself.Perhaps one could use a cable box output via coax to this unit and set the unit tuner to channel 3 or similar. This would however remove any automatic facets unless you set your EyeTV software to record channel 3, and make sure the cable box was set to the correct channel ahead of time.Anyone know if this would hold true?
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I haven't messed with the software that comes with it, but I recommend checking out iSpy. Free, and works very well with these camera handling motion detection and recording.