Hi all,
I don't watch much TV, but I watch enough that now my TV has decided to have no audio, I thought a cheap TV tuner for the PC would be worth getting. Seeing a £10 device at Amazon with good reviews, I grabbed it. It works, and comes with software that's okay but it's far from great, so I went looking for a replacement. GB-PVR looks awesome, but I can't set it up.
The hardware is as generic as they come! The actual product is this :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-DVB-T-Do...817&sr=8-1
There's no brand name. That packaging just has 'Taiwan Technology' on the bottom. The USB driver is supplied by 'Silicon Vendor'.
I tried a good number of the available devices in the GB-PVR Tuning-Assistant list but none worked. Are there any generic solutions that'll work for me?
Thanks.
Assuming it BDA drivers, then it should be usable with GB-PVR to receive DVB-T channels.
Did you try setting up a BDA capture source, and selecting ticking the 'only show cards detected in this machine' checkbox?
It says it finds no hardware and defaults to 'MCE DVBSbridge'. Upon scanning for channels it says it finds no hardware.
Run filtercheck.exe located in the program files\devnz\gbpvr folder and post the resulting filtercheck.log
Thanks for your help. I'm not able to find this file. I have no 'files' folder in the GBPVR folder, and a Windows file search doesn't find 'filtercheck.exe' on my computer. I couldn't find a 'files' repository at the GB-PVR website either. I'm probably missing something obvious!
Its installed with the release and should be "c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\filtercheck.exe". If you're sure you dont have it, then try reinstalling.
Reinstalled. Here's the output
20:02:40.328 INFO Log started
20:02:40.328 INFO Filter Check v1.0
20:02:40.328 INFO
20:02:40.328 INFO
20:02:40.328 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CAPTURE filters
20:02:40.406 INFO found: E-DSP MIDI Port [C000]
20:02:40.546 INFO - (input) MIDI
20:02:40.546 INFO - (output) Output1
20:02:40.546 INFO - (output) MIDI
20:02:40.546 INFO - (input) Input3
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO found: E-DSP Wave [C000]
20:02:40.546 INFO - (output) Recording Control
20:02:40.546 INFO - (input) ADC
20:02:40.546 INFO - (input) Volume
20:02:40.546 INFO - (output) DAC
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_ENCODER filters
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CROSSBAR filters
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVTUNER filters
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVAUDIO filters
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_VBICODEC filters
20:02:40.562 INFO found: NABTS/FEC VBI Codec
20:02:40.906 INFO - (input) VBI
20:02:40.906 INFO - (output) NABTS
20:02:40.906 INFO - (input) HWNABTS
20:02:40.906 INFO
20:02:40.921 INFO found: CC Decoder
20:02:40.968 INFO - (input) VBI
20:02:40.968 INFO - (output) CC
20:02:40.968 INFO - (input) HWCC
20:02:40.968 INFO
20:02:40.984 INFO found: WST Codec
20:02:41.046 INFO - (input) VBI
20:02:41.046 INFO - (output) Teletext
20:02:41.046 INFO
20:02:41.046 INFO
20:02:41.046 INFO
20:02:41.046 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_NETWORK_TUNER filters
20:02:41.046 INFO found: USB DVB-T TV Tuner
20:02:41.156 INFO - (input) Input0
20:02:41.156 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
20:02:41.156 INFO
20:02:41.156 INFO
20:02:41.156 INFO
20:02:41.156 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_RECEIVER_COMPONENT filters
20:02:41.156 INFO found: BDA Slip De-Framer
20:02:41.171 INFO - (input) NABTS
20:02:41.171 INFO - (output) IPv4
20:02:41.171 INFO
20:02:41.187 INFO found: BDA MPE Filter
20:02:41.234 INFO - (input) MPE
20:02:41.234 INFO - (output) IPv4
20:02:41.234 INFO
20:02:41.250 INFO found: USB DVB-T TV Capture
20:02:41.250 INFO - (input) MPEG2 Transport
20:02:41.250 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
20:02:41.250 INFO
Open the file "c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\bda.ini" in notepad and add the following entry:
Code:
[Easy TV DVB-T]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=USB DVB-T TV Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=USB DVB-T TV Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
Your tuner should then be detected in Config.
Thanks!
that's got it found. No joy with a picture though but I don't think that's a problem with GB-PVR; the device is being funny. It was getting a signal fine on the included software, and then the strength dropped to 28% when the connection is through the home ariel and its driving the downstairs box just fine. Something's probably up with the tuner.
