tv card black screen problem
 

Got a TV Card but am getting only sound and a black screen. The VGA card is Radeon 9000 VIVO which supports Overlay Mode, so that should not be the problem. Any ideas? :(

I have an old WinTV card that has multiple input types. What types of connections does yours support? VGA, and/or RF? I sometimes get a black or blue screen when the program is set to recieve from the wrong device (like my webcam or the cards VGA-input). Chances are you've already ruled this out, but I thought i'd mention it anyway.

driver problem. Kill the vidcard and the TV card drivers and reinstall.

Thought I'd be more specific, in case it matters: It's an XPERT TV PVR 878 tv-tuner card. All I get is a black screen, with audio, if I get that far at all. Most of the time the application crashes, complaining access violations or read errors or something to do with honestech.exe. I've read from other boards that if the VGA card does not support overlay mode, then that could be it, but I've a Radeon 9000 VIVO as a VGA card and it does support overlay.

I can watch TV by using ATI's VideoIN feature, but am unable to capture to MPEG2 without losing about 99 % of the frames since the software relies on hardware-based encoding, which is something that the XPERT TV PVR does not have.

I would simply use Radeon for the TV input as well, but don't know how that would work, if even possible, seeing as the ATI card has no coaxial input, only rca and svideo in/out. The TV Tuner has coaxial input, and rca output. That's all.

I really had hoped I could get the software provided with the XPERT card working. I've updated the Radeon drivers and the XPERT drivers and software, nothing helps. My DirectX is up to date as well.

I do realize that tv tuners and capture cards (VIVO) are not friendly with one another when used in one and the same machine. I've had to disable Radeon's WDM driver just to be able to access the XPERT card at all.

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that I should try erase both sets of drivers and reinstall them, or that I should remove the Radeon altogether and then reinstall the TV Tuner? Which I cannot do since the Radeon is my main video adapter.

Remove the drivers for the video card AND the TV card, restart, then install the vidcard drivers, restart, then install the TV drivers.