How can you or can you add Composite input as channel

[cbigdawg]

Hi. I am trying to add channels for the TV portion of the program but have had no luck yet, I Have the TV Wonder Elite Pro. How do I setup channels for this card to include the S-Video and Composite inputs

[sub]

Just add an additional capture source, set to either svideo or composite. Set the EPG Source to 'none' and manually create a channel called something like 'svideo' or 'AV1'.

[pastro]

Just add an additional capture source, set to either svideo or composite. Set the EPG Source to 'none' and manually create a channel called something like 'svideo' or 'AV1'.

I did everything above with one note. I had to set another source and pick the same capture card device (board number) as the one I want the composite to use when setting up the card, I used no epg source as well.

Question: Will gbpvr figure out a conflict if I am recording and I try to use the composite input or does that look like another source to gbpvr?

[sub]

Question: Will gbpvr figure out a conflict if I am recording and I try to use the composite input or does that look like another source to gbpvr?

GB-PVR knows if multiple capture sources relate to a single device, and wont allow recordings to scheduled on both at the same time.

[ike]

I'm trying to do the same thing. I added composite on one of my 3 tuners
I can schedule a manual recording of the pseudo-channel just fine. But what if I want to pick it from the TV-Guide or surf to it with the assigned channel number? My TV-Guide displays a blank line for the composite channel, and if I try to navigate to the assigned channel via remote, it just drops me on the previous real channel. Is this normal behavior?

[sub]

Yes, that is the normal expected behaviour. You can still switch to that channel when watching live tv though.

[ike]

Thanks. I'm new here. I'll have to experiment some more. It seems that I cannot switch to that channel while watching live tv. GBPVR gave it a channel number of 84. My last cable channel is 82. If I type 84 on the remote, I get channel 82 instead after a really long pause. I can still schedule a manual recording of 84, though. I just can't there any other way.

[sub]

You might need to check the channel number in the main channels tab of the config app rather than the capture source channel list.

[ike]

Thanks, sub.

Originally, I set the channel to 99, main channel was set by gbpvr to 84. Neither channel worked from live tv. I tried changing 99 to 84, thinking that making them match might do the trick. No go.

This is not a huge deal. Ultimately, I wanted to use the composite input to monitor, via EWA, a security camera when I'm away. I can't figure out how to manually record the composite channel from the web interface anyway, so this may be an excercise in futility.

Still, for what this app was designed to do.... WOW! Way better than TiVo!