[77fordtruckman]

I am not trying to record anything, only view it. windows media center works for a second and then says no signal, I could not get media portal to recognize the channel and I couldn't do anything with gb-pvr, it won't even let me go into live tv mode even after setting it up. Probably because I could not get it to recognize any channels for some reason, it should recognize that there is something on channel 3 but it doesn't. I could not get the a/v inputs to work with any of those either. didn't try mythTV I guess I will try that next.

No I didn't try contacting AVS support, my experience with that sort of thing is that you get nowhere, I do not see anything about a video codec or container but most of the settings are grayed out so I can't change them, I have have messed around with all the ones I can. I never would have thought that such a simple task as playing a game console on my laptop screen would be nearly, if not totally impossible.