Pinnacle PCTV PCI drivers for Windows 7 64-bit?

Hello,

I can't find any working drivers for my PCI TV Tuner. It's a Pinnacle PCTV Rave, I went through pinnaclesys website, nothing that I downloaded works. I don't know the exact model of my card, it's PCI, analog, doesn't have FM receiver. Maybe this helps?

Does it show up in Device Manager? If so you can right click on it and choose Update Driver.

Nope, unfortunately, I get 2 unknown video controllers in Device Manager...

This is what I found on Windows 7 Compatibility center, Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be alot of info about Pinnacle cards and even the Pinnacle website doesn't offer much in the 64 bit versions.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/Search.aspx?type=Hardware&s=pinnacle%20PCTV%20rave&page=1
These are Vista drivers from Pinnacle, If you can find out more about which card you have you might want to try one of those.
Pinnacle PCTV drivers
I hope this will help you out and welcome to the forum.

Dont know if you're still looking

the 100i drivers I found here

Driver

work for my old PCTV Stereo PCI card on Win7-Pro 64.
At least it allows OpenVideo and Windows Media Center to read/control it.

Hope this helps. Better late than never, huh?

doesnt work for me guygo.
I have pctv pro on win 7 x64.

in update driver it shows no driver found

derekimo said:

Does it show up in Device Manager? If so you can right click on it and choose Update Driver.

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in update driver it shows no driver found

I had THE Same problem but found à driver for my rave pci it idee THE wdm Philips driver so i poster à new treat here with THE driver search it on this website
Greats jd

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gkscorpio, Did you ever get your Pinnacle card working?

If you did what driver did you end up using?

I have the same card given to me from my Dad and would like to get it working if possible.

Thanks,
Bobby

Nope.. I eventually gave up..

I just put it in my secondary PC and I use it there..

I think I will do the same. Thanks.

Problem Solved

Hi guys
Been very busy for awhile and i almost forgot this post of mine. I have finally found the driver for this device and Luckily it might also work on your cards. here's the bt878.inf file and what it contained when i edited it...

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; BT848.INF --- Read READMEFIRST.txt before proceeding!!!
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;

[Version]
;LayoutFile=Layout.inf, Layout1.inf, Layout2.inf
signature="$CHICAGO$"
Class=Media
ClassGUID={4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Provider=%Msft%
CatalogFile= bt848.cat
DriverVer=02/24/2007, 5.3.8.64

[ControlFlags]

[Manufacturer]
%MsftMfg%=BtCard,NTamd64

[BtCard.NTamd64]
%BT848.VideoDeviceDesc%=BT848.Main , PCI\VEN_109E&DEV_0350
%BT848.VideoDeviceDesc%=BT848.Main , PCI\VEN_109E&DEV_0351
%BT848.VideoDeviceDesc%=BT848.Main , PCI\VEN_109E&DEV_036E
%BT848.VideoDeviceDesc%=BT848.Main , PCI\VEN_109E&DEV_036F
%BT848.AudioDeviceDesc%=AudioSection, PCI\VEN_109E&DEV_0878
%BT848.AudioDeviceDesc%=AudioSection, PCI\VEN_109E&DEV_0879

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; These are the files we need installed
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[BT848.CopyDrivers]
BT848.sys

[DestinationDirs]
BT848.CopyDrivers=12

[SourceDisksFiles]
bt848.sys = 1,,

[SourceDisksNames]
1 = ,%DiskID%,,

[AudioSection]

[AudioSection.Services]
AddService = , 2 ; null service install

[BT848.Main.NTamd64]
Include= ks.inf, kscaptur.inf, ksfilter.inf
Needs= KS.Registration,KSCAPTUR.Registration.NT,MSPCLOCK.Installation
AddReg= BT848.AddReg
DelReg= BT848.DelReg
CopyFiles= BT848.CopyDrivers

[BT848.AddReg]
HKR,,DevLoader,,*ntkern
HKR,,NTMPDriver,,BT848.sys
HKR,,PageOutWhenUnopened,3,01
HKR,,DontSuspendIfStreamsAreRunning,3,01
HKR,,OkToHibernate,3,01
HKR,"DriverData","Card",0x00010001, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","Tuner",0x00010001, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","HasTDA9855",0x00010001, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","TVTunerDoesFM",0x00010001, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","TVAudioUsedForFM",0x00010001, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","AutoGamma",0x00010001, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","AutoSaturation",0x00010001, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","AutoSharpness",0x00010001, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","BacklightCompensation",0x00010001, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","Brightness",0x00010001, 0xee, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","ColorEnable",0x00010001, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","Contrast",0x00010001, 0x64, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","CurrFreq",0x00010001, 0x50, 0x27, 0x02, 0x04
HKR,"DriverData","Gamma",0x00010001, 0x0e, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","Hue",0x00010001, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","LastAudioSource",0x00010001, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","LastVideoSource",0x00010001, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","Saturation",0x00010001, 0x64, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","Sharpness",0x00010001, 0x32, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","TunerMode",0x00010001, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","TunerVideoStd",0x00010001, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","VideoStandard",0x00010001, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10, 0x00
HKR,"DriverData","WhiteBalance",0x00010001, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00

; For WinXP, to ensure VFWWDM mapper autodetects again the formats of the new driver
[BT848.DelReg]
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VfWWDM Mapper"
HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaResources\msvideo"

[VideoCapture]
AddReg=VideoCapture.AddReg

[VideoTvAudio]
AddReg=VideoTvAudio.AddReg

[VideoCrossbar]
AddReg=VideoCrossbar.AddReg

[VideoTvTuner]
AddReg=VideoTvTuner.AddReg

[VideoTvTuner.AddReg]
HKR,,CLSID,,{266EEE40-6C63-11cf-8A03-00AA006ECB65}
HKR,,FriendlyName,,%BT848.Tuner%

[VideoCapture.AddReg]
HKR,,CLSID,,{17CCA71B-ECD7-11D0-B908-00A0C9223196}
HKR,,FriendlyName,,%BT848.Capture%

[VideoTvAudio.AddReg]
HKR,,CLSID,,{71F96462-78F3-11d0-A18C-00A0C9118956}
HKR,,FriendlyName,,%BT848.TvAudio%

[VideoCrossbar.AddReg]
HKR,,CLSID,,{71F96460-78F3-11d0-A18C-00A0C9118956}
HKR,,FriendlyName,,%BT848.Crossbar%

[BT848.Main.NTamd64.Interfaces]
AddInterface={65e8773d-8f56-11d0-a3b9-00a0c9223196},"GLOBAL",VideoCapture,
AddInterface={6994AD05-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196},"GLOBAL",VideoCapture,
AddInterface={a799a802-a46d-11d0-a18c-00a02401dcd4},"GLOBAL",VideoTvAudio,
AddInterface={a799a801-a46d-11d0-a18c-00a02401dcd4},"GLOBAL",VideoCrossbar,
AddInterface={a799a800-a46d-11d0-a18c-00a02401dcd4},"GLOBAL",VideoTvTuner,

[BT848.Main.NTamd64.Services]
AddService = BT848,0x00000002,BT848.ServiceInstall

[BT848.ServiceInstall]
DisplayName = %BT848.VideoDeviceDesc%
ServiceType = %SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER%
StartType = %SERVICE_AUTO_START%
ErrorControl = %SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL%
ServiceBinary = %12%\BT848.sys

[Strings]
Msft= "Conexant"
MsftMfg= "Conexant"
BT848.VideoDeviceDesc= "Conexant's BtPCI WDM Video Capture (AMD64)"
BT848.AudioDeviceDesc= "Conexant's BtPCI WDM Audio Capture (AMD64)"
BT848.Capture= "Conexant's BtPCI Capture"
BT848.TvAudio= "Conexant's BtPCI Tv Audio"
BT848.Crossbar= "Conexant's BtPCI Crossbar"
BT848.Tuner= "Conexant's BtPCI Tv Tuner"
RunOnce= "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce"

SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER=1
SERVICE_AUTO_START=2
SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL=1

the underlined hex are the ones i edited. thanks to google btw...you may copy this content to your bt878.inf file just don't forget to remove the underline on those hex ok? i wanted to upload this inf files but i don't know how.

Hope this helps. God Bless..

Ooops! i have manage to read how to upload files here and here you go guys... hit thanks if it helped.

wow, please i need the same driver but for pinnacle PCTV b878 , i cant modify .inf myself

i'm waiting

PC TV PRO (PCI) Win7 / 64 bit drivers

I have PC TV PRO (PCI) Pinnacle TV card and cannot find correct drivers.
Device manager shows two nodes :
+ "Multimedia controller"
+ "Multimedia video controller"

Does somebody know where to get correct files, i have original CD with XP drivers but even when installed in compatibility mode, card is not working.

Thanx in advance !!
JD

driver page

you might try some of the possibilities here:

Driver

I found a workaround without using drivers:
PCTV pro (TV + FM stereo receiver) and Windows 7 x64

source: PCTV PRO driver - drivers - windows-7

DScaler direct mode. Nice trick. I'll remember that one. Thanks.