Novice question - installation issues

[zimmatt]

I have just bought a Nova t500 card (dual tuner) and installed it with only the drivers from the Hauppage website. Then I installed gbpvr v13 - I have read that the wintv app is poor and gbpvr is good.

I have linked my music folders and can hear music through gbpvr but when I try live tv I get a stuttery picture and no sound. I have a dual x3800 chip, xt1900 card and when I run gbpvr, cpu usage is at 10%. AMD dual optimiser is running and affinity is set to a single processor. Logs are attached. I also dont get any EPG info for the scanned channels

Sorry to be a first post burden but I'm lost here.

I am in the uk about 8 miles from transmitter (Leeds)

[sub]

Does setting your audio renderer back to 'system default' help with the stuttering?

On the no audio thing, you probably need to install and use a different audio decoder.

[Lorry]

Try using the card with WinTV. If it works there, then it'san issue with codecs in GBPVR.

If it's the same problem in WinTV, check the signal strength. If the signals to low I think there is a registry hack that can help you( if it's the nova-TD 500 you are using). More info at http://www.hauppauge.co.uk.

If your motherboard has a VIA chipset, then that could be the problem.

[zimmatt]

I installed wintv and scanned but it found no channels - gbpvr found 60+ yesterday and now wintv is installed gbpvr finds none ! I coundnt find that registry hack but red mist from this thing is getting in the way Grrrr !

I have an asus a8n sli delux mobo

[Lorry]

The motherboard shouldn't be any problem.

And if you set a set-top box to the same antenna cable you get picture?

Do you have the latest driver for the nVidia chipset?

If you have tried the above you have two options.

The hard way
Do a clean install. then first install WinTV and see if it works.

The soft way(That often lead to the hard way)
Uninstall WinTV and GBPVR, then install WinTV again. (there shouldn't be any conflict between GB and WinTV, but to eliminate problem sources uninstall).
If WinTV now works, then there was an codec issue the first time.

[zimmatt]

Just wanted to give closure to this so that those searching in the future aren't frustrated.

It was a signal issue - I bought a booster and all is good now - the EPG shows a lot of 'no show details' but I'll search through here for a solution to that. Otherwise it all looks good.

Thanks for the help folks.