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-18°F here with a wind chill of -45°F. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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First of all the disclaimer:
This is an ultra-old-tv-capture card.
You know that each new year there are some resolutions done... my wife has just decided to double use the elliptic cardio machine we have in the home office, I trust her, I know she will (I'm worried about having to use that hell machine by myself (which I believe it's in her plans)).
Having said that, time to make the question:
I'd love to be able to remove a small TV we have in the office and replace it by our PC capturing the TV signal (we have a 24" screen in the computer which would be much better than the one on the small TV).
Having that old capture card, I wanted to install it, but, it's become a problem as in the card manufacturer there is no drivers for Windows 7 and the ones for the XP OS are not working on 7.
I was posting that here just to see if anyone here had done something similar before and could offer some help...
It seems it has a Philips chip installed but I could not offer more information apart of:
AVERMEDIA
AVER TV STUDIO 307
PCI card
inputs: analog TV + FM + remote + composite video.
outputs: sound jack.
After searching the net for information I've found plenty of Russian pages (which I don't understand and that link to "strange" files).
I've also found a Microsoft TechNet publication in which someone was recommending to get the solder and remove some soldered parts on the card... 
I've tried to use drivereasy to automatically find the right drivers but it has not worked.
Also I've tried to use the XP drivers in windows 7 but no luck.
Any idea? Apart of going to the shop to get an usb card for 20$ which is something I could think about... 
Thank you in advance!
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If you have Sky, you could use SkyGo directly, and cut out the TV completely? Or NetFlix?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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No Netflix or sky, neither HULU here...
"Network TV" is still starting here... 
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No idea... I have cable TV, sitting next to a wireless router that's super high speed for streaming multimedia to any and all devices in the house, and I still can't figure out a way to send the TV signal to my PC in the next room. I can easily send PC content to the TV, but it doesn't seem to work the other way.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Just in case the data that is being send is DLNA, you can always use XBMC as a DLNA client for your PC for free.
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Streaming the signal isn't the problem; squirting it into the router from the cable TV box is the problem. It's not supported. I'm guessing that, if I invest in one of these new-fangled flat TVs with all the bells and whistles, the TV might have a port that allows injecting the current program into an IP network. I don't see any other way it could work.
Will Rogers never met me.
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You probably would be able to insert a capture card in your pc and then use VLC or SERVIIO to make the streaming at real time.
That would work only for the program you would have set in the TV BOX.
See VLC ==> MEDIA ==> Capture device ==> Digital TV
And then you could select EMIT to send that capture as a stream into your network.
For sure there will be better options out there...
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Roger, looking for new ways to configure serviio I've found this video about a product from avermedia which could help you to send the TV signal to any amount of devices...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as7qnfqC-mo[^]
Hope this helps... 
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Nobody suggested trying Linux.
So can I suggest trying Linux.
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Of course you can, but this breaks the first requisite of Windows 7... 
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I will keep my Linux suggestion to myself then. 
I just thought I would suggest it as I recently removed Win7 from a laptop and installed Ubuntu and I have been quite impressed with it.
I thought my non-techy wife would hate it but she actually quite likes it too.
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Ubuntu rocks, I've tested it a couple of times (mainly to recover data from dying laptops) and I've liked it. It's easy to use and intuitive, but now that I have everything ready to work at home changing from 7 to Linux is not a choice...
Who knows, I could try to install it in a virtual machine and cross fingers to make the TV-card work...
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Just had to write a .DAT and a .BAT file!
I will not embarrass myself by explaining why, just say that a lack of programming skill has been made evident by a small report I needed to have uploaded to a website each morning!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Why what is wrong with cmd files or powershell scripts.
If you are going to performing such hacks, and least move forward with the times a few years!
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What I did, works.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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And that is all that matters
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Yes, but it is very crude and nasty.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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No, crude and nasty is booting from a DOS6 CD to edit the BAT file...and yes, I do have one in my folder 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Dalek Dave wrote: What I did, works.
And that is all that matters...
Too many folks these days think they "have to" use all the latest toys/tools from Buzz&Hype, without actually gaining anything beyond what was available and still gets the job done for the last 30+ years...
Ralf
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Nothing wrong with that; I write BAT files all the time.
"Do the simplest thing that could possibly work."
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Same here, as:
PIEBALDconsult wrote: "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work."
is what I go by as well for the most part.
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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I couldn't agree more. I've had to write many a batch file in my career. Sometimes, the old simple solutions are the best.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work."
Agreed, although I'd amend it slightly, to say "Do the simplest thing which does work."
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I'm shameless .bat user. In fact I just edited one of my script this morning. I have repetitive mundane work and I write a batch file to do the work for me.
Some of the tasks I do with batch files
- Compare my local source code against source control
- Get/Refresh latest code from source code
- Build projects and solutions
- Compare a number of folders I regularly touch.
- Check who is logged on to which shared servers
The list goes on and on. It saves me a lot of time using .bat files instead of typing commands and/or clicking. 
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