Help in lieu of guide

[eagle13]

Hi all

I have noticed a few ppl touching on getting their foxtel signal to port into an analogue tuner to view in MCE.

I have never really grasped how this actually works with MCE, but now I have VMC I am keen to give it another go.

I have picked up bits and pieces of what I need from the foxtel guide sticky, but now without a VMC guide I was hoping for pointers from other members who may have got it going.

For example:
1) Plug foxtel SCART into analogue tuner via SVHS or composite
2) Configure foxtel box by ......
3) Configure VMC by .....

I know that the above is very simplistic, but I feel at my experience level I think I need it this way.

Who know, this might have the makings of a Vista/Foxtel guide.

Your knowledge here please!

Richard

[Astrotoy7]

I think alot of stuff has been written about this already ! I dont think there is a discernable difference between vista and foxtel setups

make sure you use freeEPGs excellent service for the Foxtel EPG !!

good luck !!

astro

[eagle13]

I'll probably get flamed for this but I can't see how your reply, Astrotoy7, was at all any help.

Did you just post for the sake of posting?

I asked for help and all I got was a "go find it yourself".
If I wanted a useless post then I could have got my 3 year old son to bang on the keyboard for 10 seconds.

And by the way, there are significant differences between MCE and VMC. All I was asking for here was a typical person with a foxtel to VMC setup to give me some insight on their working configuration.

If I can't get any bites then thread closed.

[MperR]

Hi Eagle13

I'm in a similar boat, so I'll offer what I know. However, my experience with VMC totals only two weeks, so this info may not be complete.

I've been trying to get foxtel and DTV into my HTPC and I'm almost there. It's taken lots of searching, but I think most of the answers are here somewhere, you just really have to look. I've just copied and pasted everything I find useful or think is going to be useful into my own jumbled instruction manual.

My experience is if you are trying to get foxtel only then it is pretty straight forward.

Plug in the foxtel to your analog card via S-video (scart to S-video). Set the foxtel set top box to output in S-video. Install the correct drivers for your analog card.
Install the Vista hotfixes (in the forums somewhere) so that your EPG won't have problems later.
Register with Free EPG and then install their setup program (again there's a guide in the forums somewhere).
Open VMC and follow the setup wizard. Can't remember the exact steps, but it was pretty straight forward.
You'll probably need the MS remote control if you want to change the channels on the foxtel box with one remote.
Select the guide option (you want to use it), enter in your postcode and select the appropriate guide.
Then just select the channels you want.

If you want to get DTV and foxtel to work together then it gets a little harder. You have to find the guide for how to get DTV and analog to work together and combine it with how to get more than 2 tuners to work (took me a few attempts before I got it working, but that's half the fun). I've now found that using Free EPG doesn't allow me to get EPG for both foxtel and DTV so I'm heading down the Bladerunner Pro/OzTivo extreme path. Should hopefully have something up and running soon.

Let me know if you need to clarify anything and I'll do my best.

Regards
MperR