>I just spent this afternoon getting my old PC up and running with XP after 1 of my drives in the Raid 0 array went kablooi. I want a PVR PC, and it’s been a long time coming. I had tried VISTA, then XP MCE after VISTA could only access the Digital tuner side of the card. As it turns out MCE uses the same set of drivers, so MCE could only recognize the digital side of the card as well.

So it was back to XP!

I got all the updated drivers from ATI, I’ve got the official CD for the DVD decoder… all set… and I received a ubiquitous error message:
“setup was unable to find components that can be installed on your current hardware or software configuration”
– turns out that means I don’t have an ATI Display card (I’m running a NVIDIA 7800 PCIex) and according to the website, this is the last version of the media player (tv player) that they’re making and there won’t be any updates – do not pass go, do not collect $200.

I knew there were a few free options for me at this point – no legit version of ATI that worked, so thought these might be helpful to others who may have an ATI HDTV Tuner card with a non-ATI video card:

GBPVR – The first one I heard of back in the day, looks just like XP Media Center Edition.

Media Portal – Another slick interface with available iTunes-like skins

Freevo – Sourceforge based – yet another option, doesn’t look quite as snazzy.