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    I'm at a loss here.

    Up to two days ago I was able to use Windows Media Encoder 7.1 to capture and stream from the Pinnacle PCTV Rave tvcard. It produced a WMV stream containing WM 9 video and ACELP audio. I could play this stream from any other machine on my LAN.
    (I did try Windows Media Encoder 9 but it gave a "not connected" error. I deinstalled that and installed WME 7.1. Tnx to WME9 I could select WM 9 for video in WME 7.1.)

    Yesterday I reinstalled WinXP (SP1) which didn't change anything. Neither did installing SP2.

    The input-screen in WME 7.1 stays blue displaying the phrase "not supported". Here's a screenshot with WME 7.1 and ChrisTV running:


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    I used to be able to start ChrisTV for selecting channels and WME 7.1 for capturing and encoding after that. The input-screen would display the tvcard's output. Now WME 7.1 always shows "not supported" in its input-screen whether I start ChrisTV or not.
    I've always used the generic drivers at http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/ that worked like a charm. I did try uninstalling those (btwincap comes with a great uninstall function) to replace them with the Pinnacle drivers. Same result though.

    BTW: this entire setup is running on a headless machine which I control using Remote Desktop. This was also the case in the "working situation".

    Any idea guys?
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    Problem was perhaps too obscure to be recognized by anyone .

    I haven't solved it myself yet but I've found another util which does those things I wanted from WME and more:

    Star Media Center (http://fightersoft.openvision.ro/smcenter/index.htm). Perhaps worth to be mentioned in the Tools-section, if it isn't already there.

    Features include (copy/paste from http://fightersoft.openvision.ro/smcenter/overview.htm):

    Star Media Center is designed to be a fast and smart tool that enables you to do pretty much everything with your audio-video hardware. At the moment Star Media Center has 5 main functions:

    1. A very low resource demanding video player with tons of features. Refer to the howto section.

    2. A TV viewing program. Star Media Center requires a TV-card with wdm drivers installed. It should work with every card out there as long as it's drivers are fully compatible with DirectX9.

    3. A FM tuning program. Star Media Center requires a TV-card (or a specialized radio capture card) with wdm drivers installed.

    4. A DVD player. Star Media Center is capable of DVD playback as long as you have proper decoder installed in your system.

    5. A video broadcasting server. This means that you can use your TV-card to broadcast (share) your favorite TV programs with your LAN friends and even on the Internet. When in broadcasting mode Star Media Center becomes a chat server and users can connect to it with Star Remote Chat to chat about, get and set channels. Also, Star Media Center supports broadcasting from video files on your harddrive and directly from your desktop.
    Now I can tune channels while directly streaming the tvcards's output. It's even possible to change the channel remotely .

    Check out my stream:

    1. Download Peercast client.
    2. Click on the Play-button at http://yp.peercast.org/?find=addict&Submit=Search.
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