ATI Theatre 550 Pro PCIe

[wandering213]

I've attached my latest logs. I've posted before relating to this problem but I'm trying to approach it from a different angle. Some time ago I added another TV tuner (ATI TV Wonder 650) to my PC and ever since then I cannot get the other card to work properly in GB-PVR. I think it has something to do with both cards using the same set of drivers.

Currently what I've tried to do to get it working is I have setup only the non-working card. I select ATI Theatre 550 and device #2 as Device one is most definitely the other card. Then I run gbpvr and try to watch tv. Most of the time I get static. I can get it to show a picture if I first run gbpvr setup for the other card, close the program and configure it for the 550 card. This leaves me stuck on the channel I left the other card on with no sound.

What I'm thinking is that the communication is being goofed up by the overlapping drivers.

Is their any other drivers out there that I can use to make sure that the cards are clearly identified as different? Or some other method to force the cards to use two different sets of drivers?

[sub]

From memory with two ATI550/650 cards in one machine you need to set <AutoDetectEncoderMethod>0</AutoDetectEncoderMethod> (or was that "1") in the config.xml.

[wandering213]

From memory with two ATI550/650 cards in one machine you need to set <AutoDetectEncoderMethod>0</AutoDetectEncoderMethod> (or was that "1") in the config.xml.

Are there any other steps to that solution because it doesn't have any effect for me?

[sub]

Since you've got live preview mode disabled, did you restart the recording service when you tried each of those settings? If not, the recording source would just keep using the same old cached value.

[wandering213]

Yes, I did and I switched live preview on and tried changing it.

I found that if I added the 550 first and then the 650 (One for HD and one for analog). Then GB-PVR will use the 650 card and I can watch TV but if I set the 650 to record and then attempt to watch Live TV again GBPVR will return me back to the main menu and not show any video or it'll show a blank screen.

I've attached another set of log files.

[sub]

Sorry, I'm not really sure. I cant see anything in the logs.

Maybe the ATI drivers arent correctly handling this combination of devices?

[wandering213]

Any suggestions for where I might find a different set of drivers?

[sub]

Any suggestions for where I might find a different set of drivers?

Sorry, no not really.