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I have a problem watching TV in Media Center. The TV constantly pauses 1/2 second then plays 1 second, pauses 1/2 second, plays 1 second - it is constant and does not vary. This problem occurs on all channels, live or recorded. The bottom 5th of the screen is solid green. I know the problem is Media Center because I can use Pinnacle's TVCenterPro and there is no skipping/pausing (and not green on bottom).
I was using cable, and switched to DirecTV (satellite). Trying to do "Set up TV signal" in Media Center seems to be what broke it. I get an error "IR Hardware not detected." I can use the remote to "try again" - so the IR hardware works fine (Media Center's remote/sensor). I tried plugging the IR Blaster into both ports, and I tried a different USB port for the IR receiver. I can't complete the setup. Media Center was playing it okay before I tried to run setup. (I ran setup to try to do recording with Media Center.)
Pinnacle PCTV 800i HD PCI card (coax cable from DirecTV tuner), ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics, Windows XP SP3 Media Center Edition, AMD Athlon Dual Core 2.5 GHz, 1.75 GB RAM.
I have both the IR Blaster and IR sensor - they were part of the official Media Center package. Media Center is saying it doesn't detect the IR Blaster. – Carl – 2010-04-15T21:41:18.523
Tried Google, and followed the two possible matches. No virtual IR blaster matches. My search was ""media center" xp "+virtual +ir +blaster" -vista" - the "+'s" are to make an exact string match - Google was dropping "virtual." I also tried ""MCE virtual IR Blaster" XP" – Carl – 2010-04-15T22:05:25.137
Did more Googling, dropping the "-vist" and using MCE. Several people are looking for a virtual IR blaster for XP, nobody has replied. – Carl – 2010-04-15T22:14:45.350