skystar 2

[APN]

can anyone help just installed skystar2 card,iget satellite tv on astra1 mostly german tv but on astra2 when i try to bring up the tv stations iget the message: CANNOT LOCATE B2C2 MPEG 2 FILTER AUDIO/VIDEO CTRL, INTERFACE ERROR:91000101
my computer is only 1year old a TIME one 120gb thanks for any help
tony

[rolfw]

What is your dish setup tony?

[APN]

sorry iam new to this do you mean my 90cm dish with the ivacom .3db

[rolfw]

Tony, use one of the links in the stickies and download either MyTheatre (If you have XP or 2000) or ProgDVB.

I presume that you are moving the dish to Astra 28.2 when you get the message?

[APN]

Tony, use one of the links in the stickies and download either MyTheatre (If you have XP or 2000) or ProgDVB.

I presume that you are moving the dish to Astra 28.2 when you get the message?

yes rolf i am moving the dish i will download as you suggest
thanks
tony

[APN]

downloaded my theatre scanned astra 2 came up with lots of channels found but cant view any or sound. perhaps i am not doing something right ,did come up with a message saying:OPERATION ABORTED ERROR CODE 0X 80040154

[rolfw]

Sounds like it may be the graph, right click on the screen and see what graph you are using, try switching to another.

[APN]

tried them no luck,thanks

[rolfw]

Try going into device Manager, disable the card and then after a restart, enable it, you are using XP or 2000?

[APN]

rolf i do have windows xp i did what you suggested still no luck. on the original dvb viewer i did get Sky news on astra 2. on my theatre still no picture or sound but epg information comes up,still experimenting with the keyboard,cheers tony

[rolfw]

on the right click, is the video enabled?

[APN]

where it says video on/off yes it was clicked to on ,but got OPERATION ABORTED ERROR CODE.then CANNOT INITIALIZE DIRECT SHOW PLAYBACK

[rolfw]

May be worth taking out the card and putting it in another slot if there is one available, sounds like you may have a conflict there, see Pullet Surprise post lower down this forum.

[APN]

it is my theatre version V2.55 dont know if that matters thanks again.

[rolfw]

Try the later one, it's in the top sticky, 2.76.

[APN]

will try that tomorrow it was the last slot i do have a tv card in would that cause problems it works okay if i transferred cards would it help

[APN]

just one last thing i rememberi now have broad band usb i took out the old card ethernet ithink did not remove any information and put the skystar card in that slot

[rolfw]

Could be clashing with your TV card, it is sometimes hard enough to get one to work, two can be a real challenge.

[FoneFreak]

this sounds like a codec problem or direct draw problem

Try installing the elcard codec and direct draw drivers etc

[rolfw]

That shouldn't make any difference with MyTheatre Fonefreak, only with progDVB, MyTheatre should be totally self installing.

I would hope that APN has got this sorted by now though.

[FoneFreak]

okay thanks m8, i didn't know that!

Sounds like a wierd problem tho?!?!

[rolfw]

These cards can do that, take the thing out, re-install and it's fine, no reason why it should be, just is.

[FoneFreak]

Hi friends just come across this info - this is the 'official' fix for this problem:

If only one channel is concerned (or few channels), you most probably have selected an encrypted channel. Please have in mind, that some channels are only part of the day not encrypted. If the channel is not encrypted, some of its values in the channel list may be incorrect (particularly the audio or video PID, see Editing Channels in chapter 6 )

If all channels are concerned, it may be caused by a crash or a malfunctioning of the drivers. Solution: Terminate all programs which use the SkyStar2 card (DVBViewer, Sky4PC) and disable and re-activate the card via the device manager (windows key + pause). You may also use the FreeLNB-Tool. If this does not work, try to unplug your PC from the power supply for a few seconds, in order to completely reset the SkyStar2 card.

This behaviour was also observed in conjunction with Norton AntiVirus®, which sometimes interrupts the network connections when the SkyStar 2 card is initialized. In certain cases your SkyStar2 card may have been locked permanently. This is mostly caused by EON® (Europe Online) software. Acting without precaution can damage your card perma*nently. Using some of the "unlocking" patches found at various upload-centers should help but will void your warranty. All credits to the author, Might even get sticky status