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Ceton BDA drivers?

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Post by kd6icz » Mon Oct 23, 2017 6:33 am

Do they exist? Would like to get ITV to work with Plex DVR.

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Post by Crash2009 » Mon Nov 13, 2017 7:36 am

ServerBDA will tell you if you have them
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Post by kd6icz » Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:53 pm

Crash2009 wrote:ServerBDA will tell you if you have them
So this won't add the drivers if they're not present but rather tells me if there present?

I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center so I'm pretty sure BDA is part of the OS. The issue is with the Ceton drivers not supporting BDA. At least that's what I've gathered from the Plex forums.

It just seems weird that every other tuner out there is BDA compliant and the InfinTV isn't.

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Post by Crash2009 » Tue Nov 14, 2017 12:19 am

Your opening statement was a little vague. I wasn't quite sure what to suggest, as I am not familiar with the project you are trying to complete. ServerBDA will collect BDA drivers, and inject the drivers in an O/S that is unable. Here is a little bit on why we were using it.

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Post by kd6icz » Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:09 am

Crash2009 wrote:Your opening statement was a little vague. I wasn't quite sure what to suggest, as I am not familiar with the project you are trying to complete. ServerBDA will collect BDA drivers, and inject the drivers in an O/S that is unable. Here is a little bit on why we were using it.

viewtopic.php?p=109054#p109054
Right. So this patch is for Windows operating systems that don't have BDA (i.e. Windows Server xxxx).

Plex DVR is dependent on tuners that use the BDA platform. It seems pretty much every WMC compliant tuner also conforms to this standard except for Ceton.

Plex has officially said they're not going to bother with Ceton due to them being non-existent. I'm not so sure if they're completely non-existent. The commercial products that use the InfinTV 6 PCIe PRO are still being produced and sold. I talked to the company (ATX Networks) and they're still there.

So it makes me wonder if somewhere out there Ceton did produce these drivers and just never released them. Unfortunately, we'll probably never know...

I'll still give the file you attached a try. What could it hurt?

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Post by Crash2009 » Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:26 am

Running the grab files will at least identify their names and where they are located. As I recall there are 17 in system had another 17in sxs.

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Post by kd6icz » Thu Nov 16, 2017 3:53 am

Crash2009 wrote:Running the grab files will at least identify their names and where they are located. As I recall there are 17 in system had another 17in sxs.
So I attempted at see if ServerBDA would help me out with the Ceton driver package. It didn't. I read through the readme file and it states you have to have a working Windows 7 64bit install to retrieve the files and then transfer them to a Windows Server 2008 box.

I'm positive that my Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center machine has the BDA stack built into the OS.

Where my problem lies is that the Ceton drivers don't interact with Windows BDA.

So I'm back to square one. I wonder how NextPVR talks to the Ceton tuners?

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