smallman Posted April 13, 2007 Posted April 13, 2007 G'day folks, I am having trouble installing an Ext USB tuner onto my laptop which only has a USB1.1 bus. Does anyone know how to get around this problem ? Is there another ext. USB tuner that will work wth USB 1.1 bus ? Thanks in advance to anyone who reply to this post. Smallman
mtv Posted April 14, 2007 Posted April 14, 2007 The requirements for most (if not all) USB digital tuners is USB2.0 What brand/model tuner are you using? Does it say what the minimum system requirements are? USB1.1 is probably too slow for the data transfer rate required.
smallman Posted April 14, 2007 Author Posted April 14, 2007 Thanks MTV, It is a Twinhan Magic Box II DVB T - on the paperbox that comes with it said system requirement is VGA card with 32MB memory; P4 1.6G CPU or above; 256MB RAM or above but no mention of whether it would work with USB 1.1 or not. Looks like I might have to buy a new laptop if I want to watch TV with it.
garyvx Posted April 14, 2007 Posted April 14, 2007 You can buy a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card (provided your laptop has a PCMCIA slot. e.g http://www.swiftlink.com.au/doubleh4portus...l?cPath=562_563 (approx $22) Regards Gary
videokid Posted April 17, 2007 Posted April 17, 2007 G'day folks, I am having trouble installing an Ext USB tuner onto my laptop which only has a USB1.1 bus. Does anyone know how to get around this problem ? Is there another ext. USB tuner that will work wth USB 1.1 bus ? Thanks in advance to anyone who reply to this post. Smallman You need USB 2 and 500mA available.
joeybloggs Posted April 18, 2007 Posted April 18, 2007 A long long time ago there where USB 1.1 tuners available. They demuxed the TS in hardware and only sent the selected audio and video streams across the usb interface (thus almost sometimes scrapping under the theoretical 12 Mbit/s limit of USB 1.x). I doubt you could buy one today even on eBay but you never know ~ Even if you find one it won't have BDA drivers, won't work with any software but it's own. It's a dead dead end. Probably better to put the money into a newer laptop or a portable tv. The PCMCIA card route might work. You could also look for something like the Avermedia PCMCIA tuner card which was being sold very cheaply on eBay for a while last year... But firstly install a s/w dvd player on the laptop and make sure it has enough grunt to even cope with decoding and displaying video at all...
smallman Posted April 22, 2007 Author Posted April 22, 2007 You can buy a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card (provided your laptop has a PCMCIA slot.e.g http://www.swiftlink.com.au/doubleh4portus...l?cPath=562_563 (approx $22) Regards Gary Thanks guys Bought myself one of this card and wa la the TV screen comes up after I updated with the latest software from Twinhan. However as my laptop is of a low spec 1.6G hz with 512MB RAM and 20g hard disk ; it just didn't cope very well. But I am still very please with the support the forum users have given me. Much appreciated.
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