Work around for installing ATI encoder with nvidia card.

[Occidio]

I have a nvidia 7800GTX and a ATI HDTV Wonder with XPpro. I know I had this thing installed a long time ago and working. I havent had the HDTVw for a long time. I recently decided to reinstall the card to watch some Over air hdtv signals. I go thru the install process and I cant get the 6-12_xcode_38463.exe to install on the computer. Essentially making the TV portion of the wonder useless. This is what ATI's stance on it is from what I can gather.

The information in this article applies to the following configuration(s):

* ATI Multimedia Center 9.15
* TV Wonder USB 2.0
* TV Wonder PRO
* Theater 550 PRO
* Theater 650 PRO
* HDTV Wonder
* Windows XP Professional
* Windows XP Home Edition
* Windows XP Media Center Edition

Symptoms:
Attempting to install the required ATI Encoder component for ATI Multimedia Center 9.15 with a non-ATI graphics card results in an error:

"Setup was unable to find components that can be installed on your current hardware or software configuration"

Solution:
Currently there is no solution.

ATI Engineering has been advised of this issue and is investigating. Any updates will be published when they become available.

I have 9.16 so I am not sure if this applies but it would seem so.
Anyone ever have this problem and got a workaround?

 

[binhqx]

I have the same issue with my ATI TV Wonder PRO card after I upgraded my main gfx card to Nvidia. I got this error when installing 6-12_xcode_38463.exe:

"Setup was unable to find components that can be installed on your current hardware or software configuration. Please make sure you have the required hardware or software."

Then I got the "Unable to start TV" error when loading MMC since the xcode didn't install.

I contacted ATI support and have been told that you can only run MMC 9.06/9.08 if you don't use ATI gfx cards (r5800 or up). I have got MMC 9.08 to install and work properly but the quality is worse (than 9.15+ MMC) and there is no timeshifting of course.

 

[mavalpha]

Do you have an older, junky ATI card you can swap in just for the install process?