Michael O’Donnell

Recently i had been having trouble with my HDVR2 Directtivo Box with pixelating of the recording and live images comeing from my second tuner of the box.I tried rewireing the dish,no luck

I tried Running new wire direct for the dish to the reciever NO LUCK

I tried swaping the cables on the back of the reciever and was able to narrow it down to the tuner 2 inside the box itself. Now faced with the dilema of having to replace the unit i was unhappy to say the least.

Hours of rearanging the wires for nothing.

I searched and i searched for an answer using HDVR tuner trouble , second tuner on hdvr2 pixelated nothing.

HDVR2 tuner 2 out nothing

finally i found an answer and the answer was not what i expected, this may work for you if you have found this while searching as i did.

STEP one … are you using S-Video to connect to the tv… if yes this may help

Step two UNPLUG S-Video wait five minutes did this fix it. TADA

Surprised it worked SO WAS I . I found the answer here and here,But hopefull you will find this with a little quicker searching HOPE THIS HELPS

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb…d.php?t=318681
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb…d.php?t=333631

Today i discoverd that i had an entire directory of Quicktime Movies from an old Camera I had, that only did them in that format. The Challange with so many .mov files was trying to decipher what was what in a timely fashion. By default windows xp does not display Quicktime thumbnails but i have an answer and it is working for me. A project called quickthumb to the rescue http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~mbarrien/projects/. It’s a “.dll” file that you can install to show quicktime thumbnails. I’ve tried it and it works great fine. In case you’re not sure how to install it (ignore this if you are!) - download the dll (binary) file and copy it into the c:\windows\system32 folder. Then open up the “command prompt” from start>all programs>accessories. At the blinking prompt type c:\windows\system32\regsvr32 quickthumb.dll
You should then get a confirmation message. Now browse the folder you want in thumbnail mode and you should see the quicktime thumbnail
Tada . Thanks to Paul Argyle