Ok, my cousin gave me his Tv Tuner Card. Its an AverMedia (as you can tell by title). I can’t seem to find the correct driver for WinXP, and the websites support page might as well have been organized by a 2 year old without any fingers. Anyone know about this product, plEase help
thanks
-Mith
I just went to their website, and chose Support, Downloads, which led me to this page. From there, it looks like choosing the product you’ve got, and choosing WinXP as your OS, gets you to the manuals, the drivers, all kinds of stuff. I’m not familiar with their stuff, but it sounds like you’ve got “AverTV,” which is the first product on their list.
If it’s any consolation, I’m having the same problem. I got the card a while ago, but my harddrive was erased, and I lost the CD, so I don’t have the software anymore. I’ve tried every driver on the site and none of them work. It’s pretty irritating.
Ill give it a shot (cause having 1 tv and 4 roomies doesnt always work out)
Ill keep ya posted 
-Mith
NOPE…still not working. When I run setup i get message
“CoInitialize Fail!”
Arrg…this is UBER-frustrating…HELP!!
well…i have managed to actually install this damned piece of @#&$*( drivers…took me a solid hour of trying every possible combination. Heres what the readme file says: (NOTE: If you actually get to the point of actually installing everything…you have to contend with a STUPID message askin you for a cd key (which it didnt ask for the first time I installed it). So if you have one, fantastic…if not, then youre stuck up shit creek w/o a paddle. Which in my case might as well have left me w/o installin the damn thing.
Please help
NOTE: When you install this WDM driver, you need to input “Product-Key.” If you
don’t have Product-Key, you may set channel in-correctly while running application.
This readme shows you how to install WDM driver for your TV card. There are
three cases to install WDM driver. Please refer to the following instructions to install
WDM driver. If you have any problem about installing WDM driver, please visit our web site
at http://www.aver.com.tw to find a solution or just e-mail to AVerMedia Technical Support:
support@avermedia.com.tw.
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(A) If you want to switch your current VxD Driver to WDM Driver, the following
shows you how to do that:
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Remove Vxd Driver. In Device Manager, select “AVerMedia TV Series Device–
Audio Section” and “AVerMedia TV Series Device–Video Section” devices,
then delete both of them. -
In c:\windows\inf\others directory, you will find the
“AVerMediaTVFleeta.inf” and “AVerMediaTVFleetv.inf” files. Please delete
them. -
Restart computer. The wizard will find new devices, follow up the wizard
instuctions to install new driver. Note that you should indicate new
drivers’ location to the wizard. -
After the installation of drivers is completed, you will see the device
names: “AVerMedia, AVerTV WDM Audio Capture”, “AVerMedia, AVerTV WDM Video Capture”,
“AVerMedia, AVerTV WDM TvTuner”, and “AVerMedia, AVerTV WDM Crossbar”. If you
see the above device names, you have succeeded the installation of divers.
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(B) If you had not installed any video capture driver for your TV card,
do the following steps to install your new WDM driver.
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In Control Panel, double click Add/Remove Hardware icon. Then
“Add/Remove Hardware Wizard” will show up. -
Select “Add/Troubleshoot a device” item, and then click “Next” button.
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In “Choose a Hardware Device” dialog, select “Multimedia Video Controller”
device. Then click “Next” button. -
Click “Finish” to Close “Add/Remove Hardware Wizard.”
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Then “Upgrade Device Driver Wizard” will show up and follow wizard to
install drivers. -
After installed “AVerMedia, AVerTV WDM Video Capture”, “AVerMedia, AVerTV WDM TvTuner”,
and “AVerMedia, AVerTV Crossbar” driver. Then again go to control panel and open “Add/Remove
Hardware Wizard.” -
Select “Add/Troubleshoot a device” item, and then click “Next” button.
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In “Choose a Hardware Device” dialog, select “Multimedia Controller”
device. Then click Next button. -
Click “Finish” to Close “Add/Remove Hardware Wizard.”
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Then “Upgrade Device Driver Wizard” will show up and follow wizard to
install “AVerMedia, AVerTV WDM Audio Capture” driver.
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© If you have already installed WDM driver on Windows 2000 Professional, the
following shows you how to upgrade driver:
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In device manager, double-click “Sound, Video, and Game Controllers.”
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Click “AVerMedia, AVerTV WDM Video Capture,” right-click the device, and then
click Properties. -
On the Driver tab, click Update Driver to open the Update Device Driver
wizard. -
Click “Next.”
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Click “Display a list of the known drivers for this device so that I can
choose a specific driver” radio button. -
On “Select a Device Driver” dialog, click “Have Disk…” button.
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Browse to find “bt878.inf” which be download from web-site.
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On Select a Device Driver dialog, click “AVerMedia, AVerTV WDM Video Capture”
and then click “Next” button. -
Click “Yes” to install new driver.
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Click “Next” to start install new driver.
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Click “Finish.”
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Restart computer.
Ah, yes! I finally got it working. Here’s what I did:
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Selected “Add Hardware” in Control Panel
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In the “Choose a Hardware Device” dialog, I selected “Multimedia Controller”.
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After that, I just clicked finish. Then some new wizard windows will popped up, and I just pointed them all to the folder on my desktop from the zip file, eventually having to restart.
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After that, clicking the Setup file in the folder no longer caused the “CoInitialize Failure” error, but actually installed the program! And I didn’t even need a CD key or anything.
sweet…my comp just got fried…so as soon as I get it back…hopefully within 24 hrs…ill give it a shot
Thanks
well…$110, a new 450W power supply later…my comp is up and running again and everything is working as it should…*sigh…so much for going camping next weekend :’(
-Mith