Hi all

This card has been mentioned before on here a few times and I thought I'd share my experience with you.

First up, I have the PCIe version and couldn't believe the price (I bought it from Aria but it's even cheaper from play.com @ £17.99 delivered!!! - play.com).

The card works really well, although I've found that you need an aerial lead plugged into each of the two inputs on the card in order to use both tuners. A cheap four output active booster / splitter from Argos sorted that.

I struggled at first to get all the UK channels, and couldn't see any on MUX 2 (Channel 4, ITV channels etc.). Having scooted around the Internet I managed to find a fix:

http://www.dvbviewer.info/forum/index.ph...=0&start=0

The crucial bit being:

Quote:I suspect that your problem with channels not being found is due to the default configuration not supporting automatic offset locking. You can enable it by setting EnableAutoOffset to 1 in the Registry, as a DWORD. To find the location to where to create EnableAutoOffset search for TDA8275A_LNA_ and create it in the same location. Reboot after making the change.

So, weird. Hauppauge HVR-1600, comcast cable.

I am pulling in all the clear QAM channels I should (local broadcast guys, and 1000 HSN channels ) *except* one. I cannot get a stable tune for the NBC station.

Is there any "fine tune" I can do on the raw tuning numbers? I tried moving the frequency around (it's the T:xxxxxx number, I am assuming?) and it did change things, anywhere from "even worse" to "no quality" - but there are V: and uh, P:? whaver... there are a bunch of other numbers there in the capture source listing/mapping view of the config app...

I am just wondering if there is something else I can try to pull that last channel in stable.

What it's doing now is, choppy video and audio (vid more then audio, but audio drops out too...) it's a 1080i broadcast, but so is PBS and CBS, both of those come in solid.

Any ideas? For now I just unmapped it, since the recordings off that channel are unwatchable.

Hauppauge PVR 150 standard PCI version
Hauppauge MVP (rev D3A)
Everything works, includes old & new style Hauppauge remotes.

Both $45.00, you pay shipping.

Located in Mesa, AZ.

Thanks

Here's my history:

I set up GBPVR with a HVR-1600 on an inadequate system. Everything seemed to work right in terms of channel changing, recording etc. except that when I tried to play back HD content the computer would lock up and have to be hardbooted. I got rid of that computer and now I have a better system (marginally), but I believe it is adequate for HD. However, I am having different issues that I didn't have before. Likely these are configuration problems, but I am having a hard time troubleshooting them. I have searched, but I am not coming up with results that help.

Here are my problems:
I can't record. When I try to record from Live TV the record screen comes up, but I am unable to initiate the recording. I can hit cancel and exit the screen, but hitting the record button does nothing. Sometimes when I try this it kicks me out of live TV and when I try to get back into live TV it tells me that the tuner is currently unavailable - but doesn't give me the option to watch the program being recorded. It's like the tuner goes to sleep.

On a possibly related note. I also have the WinTV software that came with the tuner. In WinTV I can watch live TV, and I can record live TV, but when I try to play back the recordings in Windows Media Player there is no picture, only sound.

Is this a decoder issue? Does it have to do with my hard drive setup? I have two hard drives - both on the same IDE channel, one is set as master and one is slave. At first I set up my TV buffer to the C: drive and recordings to the other hard drive, but in an effort to troubleshoot I switched both to the C: drive. No change in performance.

Here are the specs of my setup:
XP Professional - SP2
P4 2.8 HT
1gb RAM
FX 5200 (purevideo is not currently installed - but I have the free trial available)
HDD 1 - 7200 rpm 40gb IDE
HDD 2 - 5400 rpm 60gb IDE
HVR 1600 (using OTA ATSC only - no QAM or NTSC currently being used)

Sorry for the lengthy post. Please help me if you can.

Installed GBPVR fine and config went ok, I think...but PVRX2 will not start. Help.

Orlando

anyone here have one of this version of the MediaMVP ?? the one that come with the rf-output.
the case is, in this MVP i wasn't unable to load the mvpmc dongle, i follow step by step this link [ http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=24372 ] and nothing. i don't know the real revision of this mvp since the label that says Rev E1M was just on top of the real revision that says Rev E1.

i hope i as clear with this

I'm trying to transcode a bunch of avi's that are all in the same folder. I selected the first file in the folder and then click on the "Do All" button after selecting the correct profile. A bunch of instances of FFMpeg launch, but less than half of the files are transcoded. Are there any particular steps to get this to work? This is a GREAT tool by the way!

Forgive me if this question has come up before - i have had a look and cannot see anything resembling my problem.
NZ digital channels work fine - TV1, TV2, TV3, but on changing to or from TV3 the picture locks up and I have to stop PVRX2 using task manager or sometimes just reboot the computer.
The frereview1 HD channel gives startling pic and sound but runs for a minute or so then just locks. (I believe this is the same problem happening)

Using latest pvrx2 clean install Win xp sp3 all updated.
HVR 4000 card with good signal. Core Avc h.264 decoder (H264-ATI as default but neither changes this).

Is anyone actually using this feature?

I was consiring adding support for the WMP playlist format but no point if the feature is not used.

Thanks

Of late, my BIOS is getting reset to factory defaults... I have to go through and change all of the settings again (for example, remove floppy as the first boot in the order)... this is messing up my pc and ability to use gbpvr. any thoughts?