I have an issue where I cannot watch HD channels Live (either via TV Guide or Live TV). I can watch SD channels with no trouble, but when I try to watch an HD channel I get a blank screen with the "No Signal detected" message appearing after a few seconds. The quality and strength bars are both 0.
The funny thing is that if instead of trying to watch the HD channel I just record it, I can then later on go in the Recordings menu and watch it with no problem at all. So obviously the signal is there as pvrx2 can record and play it fine. It is only the live tv bit that doesn't seem to work.
This problem is only with the HD channels. SD channels work OK.
I've tried the following but I get the same result:
* tried Cyberlink and TS Mux BDA muxers
* tried with and without FFDSHOW post-processing enabled
* tried with and without built-in TS reader
* tried with and without live preview mode enabled
* other minor settings but believe they are not important
My setup:
* gbpvr 1.2.13
* windows vista home premium 64 bit
* run config and pvrx2 with "run as administrator"
* tuner: Technotrend TT-connect S2-3650 CI
* using Sky HD in the UK
* HD channel used for testing: BBC HD; also tried Luxe TV HD
Other points:
* My tt 3650 tuner is not supported natively. I followed the instructions on the wiki and updated bda.ini. I can post the bda.ini section I added if that would help; but it seems it is probably working OK as I am able to watch SD channels and record HD channels (just the live HD not working).
* If I use the built-in TS reader, then the result is actually worse. It doesn't even play the recorded HD videos in that case. So I have disabled the built-in TS reader. I am using the second patch to the GBPVRTSReader from the post "DVB-T .ts playback max time is 12:48".
I have attached the logs (from only the most recent run). I created the logs with debug logging level and with log flushing. I did the following for this run:
* watch "BBC Three" SD channel for a few seconds to show that it works
* watch "BBC HD" HD channel for a few seconds to show that it doesn't work
* record "BBC HD" HD channel for a few seconds
* watch the recorded "BBC HD" channel to show that it works.
Anyone have any ideas please as to what I can try next?
after insalling 1.2.13 I had strange problems. There were many channels missing and recorded TV programs where stoping and starting with huge sound and picture sync problems. I noted that others were also suffering missing channels with this version so I reinstalled 1.2.9 and this has solved the missing channels, but not my playback issues.
The strange thing is that if I exit GB-PVR and restart, recorded programs will play without error. If I play without a restart its awful and stops starts until it freezes. This is exactly what happens when Live tV is selected.
Attached logs if anyone could help. :o
My system runs two DVB-T cards, 1 Pinnacle and one Peak.
Intel Pentium 4 2.0ghz
I'm using this plugin, more and more. Another cool release!
A couple of thoughts:
- I'm hoping the "Id" field will be displayable in some future release.
- At the moment, the Categories field is scrollable. This can be slow if you want to jump to a particular entry. Perhaps a drop down list could be a faster alternative?
I like the "Offline" highlighting. Every update is most welcome.
Newly installed Vista Home Premium, and I've been attempting to get the Aver m780 PCIE ATSC card to work.
It seems with the newer Vista drivers, the m780 tuner filter can only connect to "Microsoft Network Provider" and cannot connect to "Microsoft ATSC Network Provider" which is what GBPVR is expecting as can be seen from the picture attached.
Some have had similar problems with the ATI-650, but worked around it by installing the XP drivers over the Vista ones (post here: http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...ostcount=6 )
Does anyone have an older driver set for XP that I can test with?
The config logs do show "Failed to start BDA graph"
When I select a movie from the video library, it takes 15 to 20 seconds before it actually starts playing. It was with version 1.2.9 and with the new version as well. This does not happen when I play a recording. Oh, the video library is on a network drive, but I think it still shouldn't take so long. Is this a common problem or should I send some logfiles?
I bought an XPC Shuttle a week ago, 2.8GHz Celeron D, 1GB RAM, ATI 9600 256MB and a NOVA-S-Plus PCI card. My wife let me buy it because I said we could use it to watch Freeview. Well many hours later I still haven't delivered on that promise.
I'm sure it's just the fact that I'm just not setting something up correctly, my knowledge of satellite TV tuning is little at the moment. My initial attempt with WinTV managed to get a working TV1 and TV2 but that was it.
After much searching I came across GBPVR and I've got to say it looks very professional compared to WinTV but unfortunately I haven't been able to get it to work properly.
After even more searching of the forums I managed to set the capture source so that when it scans for Freeview channels it now finds them but I get no picture in the preview box and no picture when I try to watch live TV via PVRX2.
I have used a splitter between our SKY decoder and the NOVA-S-Plus, the power pass through connection at the splitter goes to the SKY decoder. I have a dual LNB fitted to the SKY dish.
I used the settings:
LNB LOF 1 10750
LNB Switch 10750
LNB LOF 2 10750
Optus D1 (NZFTA)
Unchecked powered
DiSEqC to none
When scanning for channels I'm getting:
@ 12456H strength -1899 & quality 100 (should the strength settings be negative amounts?)
When I try to watch live TV via PVRX2 I get the message "no signal detected...", the quality bar is max and the strength bar zero.
I have a clean install of XP Pro and I downloaded the latest drivers from ATI and Hauppauger.
I hope someone can help me get it up and running, my wife has promised me a reward if I'm successful.
