(Moved from the support forum... seemed to belong here)

I saw the other thread about the 801e SE but none of the possible solutions in that thread workd... and the OP didn't seem to ever get it resolved. So I thought I'd start a new thread.

I have an 801e SE connected to analog cable on a WinXP Pro SP3 machine. It works fine with the Pinnacle application and with Beyond TV 4. However, I cannot get it to work with GB-PVR 1.3.7.

I have tried modifying bda.ini and direct.ini with what I think are the correct filters and input/output names as seen in filtercheck.log. I have gotten as far as GB-PVR detecting the stick with the "only detected on this machine" checkbox checked, I have successfully set up the EPG and it initiates and completes a channel scan. However, it doesn't appear to find any channels and trying to watch live TV results in a screen with the channel number and program info but no video and no audio.

I also see that the LED on the 801e is not lit, so it does not appear to be powered.

If I start the Pinnacle application and view video, the LED lights, but goes out again when I close the Pinnacle application even if I immediately try to use GB-PVR while the LED is still on.

There must be something fundamentally wrong here but my hacking attempts have so far failed Can anyone help? I can't help but notice that almost no one is using Pinnacle sticks here.... are they perhaps simply not compatible with the GB-PVR interface? I hope not.... the stick works great, although the supplied Pinnacle application is a joke.

Thanks,
Paul

"hand" should be "hang" - fat fingers over here :p

Fire up watch it now. Previews work, browsing my queue works, browsing various lists work. Select download of a movie (any movie, this is an example) and download appears to start, display reverts to whatever was under the popup for the selected movie, and then... nada. UI seems hung until, a bit later, pvrx2 errors out

Relevant bit from end of debug log pvrx2.exe.log

Hi Guys,

A quick note as I'm not near the htpc right now. Last night I hooked my hvr-1600 backup and it runs fine with Hauppauge's WinTV.

With GBPVR I get a black screen with no audio, but if I hit record I then get video and audio and it does record and I can play it back.

Any ideas where to look when I get home?

Thanks!

Steve

Hey all. I just updated to 1.3.7 yesterday and I am LOVING the slick skin. I have noticed a problem though.

I used Wiz metadata grabber to grab the covers and data from 1 folders worth of my movies. The problem I have found is when I am using my remote, the data will update for each movie but the cover will stay the same, until it gets to one that doesn't have a cover. It will show no cover, then the next one I get to that does have a cover will be right, but then that one will be stuck again... showing the same cover for every movie.

If I jump straight to a movie using my mouse it will show it's correct cover so I know the xml and pictures are correct, but if I use my remote it never updates the picture.

Edit: I will say that this is my first time using metadata like this for GB-PVR, so if this is a known issue and is not just with slick skin, then I didn't know. But I did search the forums and wiki first.

The idea of this thread is to tryout suggested xml layouts for both CS-SD and CS-HD and perhaps decide what gets included in the default installation.

When I open PVRX2 I instantly get an error that says:
PVRX2 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

If I move the window over and just keep on using the program it works fine. The only problem is that the picture quality is terrible compared to the ATI Catalyst Program but the Catalyst program wouldn't even record shows properly. I have a ATI TV Wonder 650 and right now I am just running it with analog cable. I went through and made sure I had all of the settings to what I think is right and I made sure that I installed the prerequisite programs. I am running Windows XP 64bit.

Why do all the TV cards record in MPG format ?
What format do the digital cards record to natively ?

Lastly, what do I need to get to use a digital card. Do the cable companies block digital if you don't get the set top box ?

Folks
I am a new user (second week) of the HDX1000 NMT.

I am trying to use GBPVR and MVPMCX2 to link my Vista server to the NMT.

I used the Dummies Guide to perform the install of all components. It showed one error in the install when it failed to copy NativeUtilities.dll into GBPBR directories so I did this manually.

When I start up the HDX1000 and use the Network Browser to get to and activate the GB-PVR.html I get the menu to choose GP-PVR via Network Share and then I get a blank screen.

The blank screen stays there as long as I let it and the HDX appears "hung". The only way to reset the HDX is to power off and on again.

I am connecting over ethernet via a gigabit netgear switch. I have added the program rules to Norton 360 firewall and when I telnet from my server to the HDX I get a connection (well blank screen no errors)

Any thoughts?

Cheers
Sprogger
Quad Core, Vista Premium and HX1000

This was mentioned in another thread and I thought I had it resolved, but I just discovered with my first set of recordings this evening that it's not.

I have a 1 PVR500 (dual tuner) using the internal tuners and set as #1 and #2. I then have a 1 PVR150 using the internal tuner set as #3. Because the nitwits at Comcast Cable decidd to move one of my most recorded channels up to the digital tier, I had to hook up the cable company's STB to my PVR150 composite connection and also set it to #3. There is only one channel in the EPG for this capture device. The sort order of the capture devices is:

PVR500 Tuner #1
PVR500 Tuner #2
PVR150 (Internal Tuner)
PVR150 (STB)

I rarely use GBPVR to watch LiveTV, so I figured the best place for the PVR150 is the bottom of the list.

So Thursday evenings are rather busy for recording shows at my house, and when I checked on my first set of recordings, I noticed that the PVR150 STB was in use (as it should be to record the one digital channel), but then a recording on another (analog) channel starting at the same time for some reason chose the PVR150 (Internal Tuner) for the recording (which is supposed to be a physical impossibility). Why wasn't the PVR500 Tuner #1 chosen? I thought scheduled recordings started from the top of the tuner list and LiveTV started from the bottom? I understand why the one digital channel went with the PVR150 (STB) at the bottom of the list, since that's the only capture source that offers that one channel.

I checked my config.xml and made sure that "PreferAlternatingCaptureSources" setting was set to False.

I double-checked (actually triple-checked) that the both the composite and the internal tuner capture sources for the PVR150 were set to be the same number (#3).

I double-checked that I was using the PVR150MCE driver for both of these capture sources (that's what was causing my problem in the other thread -- I was using PVR150 for one and PVR150MCE for the other).

Is there something else I'm missing in the config or the setup of the tuners that could cause this problem?

I've added a second GBPVR server to my system so I'm looking to cross populate my gbpvr.db3s so that anything recorded on one appears in Recordings on the other (eventually).

I've seen lots of stuff relating to this sort of thing in the Forum, so I should be able to work it out (eventually).

But... if anyone is already doing this, and would like to save an old geezer a bit of leg work - well, there's no harm in asking - eh?