Thread: Prof 7301, 7500 and 8000 Tuners

I think I bought it from the on-line site but I can't remember and no paperwork. The web site says one year warranty....

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It's possible you have a hardware problem with regard to S2, but I would look first elsewhere. I have 5 Profs running on Linux (3 x 7301 and 2 x 7500) and 2 on Windows XP (1 x 7301 and 1 x 8000). I've subjected a considerable amount of S2 to all of them, and during last year's Galaxy 15 festival some of them ran 24 x 7 for several weeks on the high SR S2 transponders without incident. So I can attest there is no systemic heat or other problem related to S2 use.

I can't say much specifically on AltDVB - I tried it out in 2009, didn't like it and haven't bothered with it since. I do use DVB Dream 1.4i and have tested several of the 1.5 versions. The 1.5 versions contain some wicked bugs in the processing of certain transport streams, and I finally had to give up on them. So I've been using the 1.4i version without serious issue for longer than I can remember. It has a few problems and limitations, but nothing I cannot work around, and it has always been my Windows workhorse. My two copies of DVB Dream run continuously without intervention for months, however as they are only a front-end to my multimedia server, they perform no rendering and all codecs are disabled on that machine. That is probably different from the way most people run their FTA PCs.

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I would like to install Prof 7500 on XP SP3 (momentary installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 and Microsoft Framework 2.0, Windows Media Player 11, Mainconcept Decoder Pro, DirextX 9.0c, Acrobat Reader X, I`m not sure I need or not upgrade to Microsoft Framework 3.5 Family and Microsoft Visual C++ 2010...as I know one "little" detail can make problems.... with Windows.... and usb receiver... and now I`m not sure what I need to do...), as I can read this and Rick`s forum I`m too too much confused. Please tell me what I need to do for properly installation, step by step. As you said DVB Dream 1.4i is better and I respect you and will try that. But I dont know about drivers and bda module differencies, what I need to install and which version. Someone else tell me it is latest driver but someone it is some other.


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Your experience, and knowledge, is great and you know after all the best. Thank you beforehand for help. Still my Prof 7500 is not arrived to home, 6th day, and I would like to prevent nervous days with crashes and other problems on Acer Aspire One D150, especially with stability and DVB-S2 reception. Maybe Smart DVB is better, but I love too much DVB Dream and must be my first choice for beginning with new USB receiver. Untill now I tried Skystar PCI 2.6B, Skystar USB Plus Box, Skystar USB 2 and Skystar HD2.

Thank you again and best regards

Sorry Edoh, I've been out of town for several days and haven't had time to check on forums. The only PC tuners I run on Windows at the moment are the Prof 7301 and 8000. However I did use a 7500 on XP(SP3) for several months and it worked fine. That was up until about a year ago, so i can only vouch for the latest driver for that time period. If you run DVB Dream 1.4i with a Prof tuner and want to use DiSEqC and/or USALS, you will also need their version of the bda.dev module. I can't find it anywhere on their new website, although they do have an image that shows a URL that redirects to the AdvanceTune site where you can find the software:

I didn't try it, but for the 7500 it appears the file you want is at:


http://www.prof-tuners.com/download/...dvancetune.dev

thank you for answer, never mind when important is it happened

maybe your driver was Prof7500_Driver_1.0.1.2_W32 (from 5.6.2009) ? i found it on proftuners.com

i`m afraid to try wrong (with bad results i mean) driver, maybe newest version Prof7500_Driver_2.0.0.2_XP32 is not better and is buggy.....

else i dont need diseqx or usals because i have inverto twin ultra lnb and one coax. attached to opticum 7100c (for my long experience most reliable receiver for moving strong 2100 diseqc1.2 rotor) and other coax. cable will be attached to prof 7500 (still not arrived, if not arrive tomorrow i must wait 4.5. because 1.,2. and 3.5 not working days , i hate wait too long, from 20.04.)....because from that days trying to be utilized for prof 7500....too long for me....pih....

Has anyone tried the new Prof 7301 Beta! Driver for Win7 (64 bit, PTG Engine) 2.1.0.0 that was post on ProfTuners website yesterday? Or know what's new with these drivers?

I see there's also a 32 bit version posted as well.

Qbox3 from TBS is equipped with TDA10071 and built in blind scan

But is there software for it ? esp linux software, I personally couldn't care less about windows

Do these tuners support 4:2:2? Blind scan?