Primer: Dual Tuner Cards - Feedback Please

[Wakalaka]

Good info. I have 2 Hauppauge PVR150MCE tuners, anything you need to know that I can add to your info?

[jksmurf]

Good info. I have 2 Hauppauge PVR150MCE tuners, anything you need to know that I can add to your info?

LOL ... actually the original intention was a single card dual tuner solution due to fewer slots in newer smaller MB's, but I never made that clear in the blurb I guess:-).

By default two of anything serves the same purpose as a Dual Tuner option. I have a H PVR150 very plain vanilla, works great.

k.

[whurlston]

You may want to update the HDHomeRun entry.

[jksmurf]

You may want to update the HDHomeRun entry.

Urrrm... to what? Works / Doesn't Work, works when fuelled by bananas...what exactly? Help me out here ...

k.

[whurlston]

Sorry, I don't know why I was thinking that you had one of them :o

The current description (at the start of this thread and on the wiki) reads:

It's a dual ATSC/QAM 64 & 256. Some other site users have got it working with GBPVR. Refer these posts Post 1 and Post 2.

Those links no longer exist. They referred to using the External Recorder plugin and subsequently a plugin I wrote based on the External Recorder. The plugin is now deprecated because BDA drivers are now available for the device. So it is now "officially" supported in GB-PVR. It does require that the bda.ini entries be manually added because the filter name entries will be different for each device. Instructions can be found here.

I also wrote a small utility to add the entries to the bda.ini


Edit: by "officially supported" I mean as a BDA device. To anyone else reading this, please note that it is an ATSC device and sub cannot use or test these types of devices.

[jksmurf]

Sorry, I don't know why I was thinking that you had one of them :o

No worries, I'd like one, but can't buy them all :-) Thanks for your feedback on that, it's all good.
Edited the Homerun entry here (but not in the WIKI).

k.

[wolfie]

The PCI express version ov the Pinnacle DUAL DVB card does not work out of the box with 1.0.8, but adding the following lines to bda.ini makes it work:

[Pinnacle PCTV 3010iX]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=Pinnacle PCTV 3010iX BDA DVBT Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=Pinnacle PCTV 3010iX BDA Digital Capture DVBT
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

The strings were found using graphedit...

Hope that this can help someone, and that it's maybe added to bda.ini in the future.

[sub]

Cheers - I've added this to the master file.