I'm not sure wtf is going on but just recently it has started to fail recordings, or it creates a 0-size file. It appears only 1 of my 2 tuners is recording (?) I'm not sure what the deal is or what I should do to attempt to fix it without breaking something. Logs attached, but there's not much in them that I can see. Wondering perhaps if I have a corrupted driver or something.
Posted by: ram4x4nut - 2007-10-24, 04:57 AM - Forum: Hardware
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I just installed one of these and have my 50" plasma connected via VGA. I have live tv set to 9200kbs. I've tried PureVideo decoder, ATI decoder, MPV decoder, and Intervideo decoder. I don't see any stuttering but my picture quality is pretty bad. Some ghosting and slight tearing happens on panning shots. Sometimes shadows will be washed out and peoples faces will look like something displayed in 256 colors. I'm not sure what else to try to get better quality. Any suggestions?
Tonight I marked two items for recording in my Guide... both were tonight on the same channel, one from 8-10pm, the other from 10-12. I marked them to record by selecting them in the guide, and choosing Record from the details screen, not Quick Record. The right programs were recorded, but in the Pending Recordings list they show complete different descriptions.
Here's a screenshot from the Guide for the first recording:
And here's the Pending list, showing one in progress and one upcoming. Both have incorrect titles, but do actually show the correct channel.
I'm sure both Working From Home and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre are great movies, but they weren't what I wanted to record, and not what was recorded. The correct channel and program was recorded thankfully, but you can see from the logs that the incorrect title was even used for the mpg filename.
Next, here's the recording log:
Code:
2007-10-23 20:00:08.218 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording(1, 1, 41, 0)
2007-10-23 20:00:08.218 VERBOSE target filename: \\Cav\drive_f\Video\Recent Recordings\Work From Home\Work From Home_20071023_08300900.mpg
2007-10-23 20:00:08.218 VERBOSE Capture Device is based on BlackBird architecture
2007-10-23 20:00:08.218 VERBOSE Capture Device is using Conexant (derived) drivers
2007-10-23 20:00:08.218 VERBOSE Loading filter names
2007-10-23 20:00:08.218 VERBOSE Found names:
2007-10-23 20:00:08.218 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
2007-10-23 20:00:08.218 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
2007-10-23 20:00:08.218 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvTuner
2007-10-23 20:00:08.218 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvAudio
2007-10-23 20:00:08.312 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Analog Audio' to 'TVAudio In'
2007-10-23 20:00:08.578 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Audio Decoder Out' to 'Analog Audio In'
2007-10-23 20:00:08.578 VERBOSE Looking for encoder filter
2007-10-23 20:00:08.578 VERBOSE GetMedium(pCapturePin) returns: {7D82C13C-452C-445F-A55E-90227B0F26C3}-002D3BB6-00000000
2007-10-23 20:00:08.578 VERBOSE getSetting(AutoDetectEncoderMethod)
2007-10-23 20:00:08.578 VERBOSE About try all encoders until we find one that works...
2007-10-23 20:00:08.578 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Encoder
2007-10-23 20:00:08.578 VERBOSE Encoder.GetMedium(p656Pin) returns: {7D82C13C-452C-445F-A55E-90227B0F26C3}-002D3BB6-00000000
2007-10-23 20:00:08.578 VERBOSE Pin mediums match...
2007-10-23 20:00:08.593 VERBOSE using instance: 1
2007-10-23 20:00:08.625 VERBOSE put_Mode(AMTUNER_MODE_TV)
2007-10-23 20:00:08.625 VERBOSE put_CountryCode(1)
2007-10-23 20:00:08.625 VERBOSE put_TuningSpace(1)
2007-10-23 20:00:08.625 VERBOSE put_InputType(0, 0)
2007-10-23 20:00:08.625 VERBOSE put_ConnectInput(0)
2007-10-23 20:00:08.625 VERBOSE put_Channel(41, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT)
2007-10-23 20:00:08.781 VERBOSE get_VideoFrequency() returns 325250000
2007-10-23 20:00:08.781 VERBOSE get_CountryCode() returns 1
2007-10-23 20:00:08.796 VERBOSE About to query available formats
2007-10-23 20:00:08.796 VERBOSE Set to MPEG2 width:720 height:480
2007-10-23 20:00:08.796 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::SetConfigurationECP()
2007-10-23 20:00:08.796 INFO Firmware Version 2.5.32
Audio Firmware Version 0.0.42
Model 26032 Rev C182
Serial No: 2964406
Tuner[1]: Model 82 (LG TAPC_H791F)
Decoder: 28
AudioIC: 35
IR
Input Map: C= 0x000f, S= 0x0003
2007-10-23 20:00:08.843 VERBOSE getSetting(EnableTeleText)
2007-10-23 20:00:09.625 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
2007-10-23 20:00:09.625 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
2007-10-23 20:00:09.640 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Writer
2007-10-23 20:00:09.640 VERBOSE - Encoder
2007-10-23 20:00:09.640 VERBOSE - Capture
2007-10-23 20:00:09.640 VERBOSE - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
2007-10-23 20:00:09.640 VERBOSE - TV Audio
2007-10-23 20:00:09.640 VERBOSE - TV Tuner
2007-10-23 20:00:09.640 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
2007-10-23 20:00:09.640 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done
And then when 10pm rolled around, here's what the log shows:
what should my optimum video playback settings be? Live TV is a it choppy and static-y.
AMD Athlon 1.33Ghz
DFI AK75-EC motherboard
640MB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 video card
OS is on a pared down 6GB hard drive.
GBPVR/BeyondTV are outputting to a dedicated 300GB Seagate hard drive.
I would like to install GBPVR on my Vista machine. Can you please tell me what files I need and the steps I need to do to install GBPVR. I want to make sure I do it right the first time so I don't have problems.
I'm hoping someone is able to help me before I go crazy.
I have finally managed to get my Nova T-500 card recognised by my machine (an Asus Pundit-R running XP Pro SP2) and GB-PVR recognises it too.
Only thing is I am unable to map the channels. The Config program just crashes when it gets to processing 2 of 7 (?).
I have searched this forum and found some info advising me to update all my drivers to avoid any conflicts, which I have done, but to no avail. It just cannot get past 2 of 7.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as GB-PVR looks so much better than the Hauppauge software that came with the Nova T-500.
After multiple attempts to get GBPVR 1.08 working and several days searching the forums here I'm still having no luck.
My card works fine with the Pinancle software, great reception on all the channels I'd expect to get. I have installed the latest BDA drivers from pinnacle and the card is detected by GBPVR (although the name doesn't match exactly with any of the 3 names I get in device manager).
I've used XMLTV GUI to import Radio Times epg data and I have a channel list in the GBPVR config, yet when I scan for channels, no channels are found. GBPVR is definitely detecting a signal while scanning, as indicated by the strength and quality numbers.
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