Hauppauge HD PVR Playback

[Ommina]

So, it's been a while since I've posted in this forum. It's good to back.

I just spent the afternoon poking at my brother's new PVR installation, built around the Hauppauge HD PVR. He's emailing me the logs, so will attach them later, but here's the story so far:

No video, no sound. Other than that, everything is working great.

OK, a bit more detail. I recored a few minutes of whatever channel the STB was set to. The .ts file was created fine. If I play it back in Media Player (most recent version), it does play, although I'm a bit concerned there are going to be some synching problems. But the video is there, and the sound is there. So I'm pretty confident that the recording itself is OK, it's just the playback within PVRX2.

Now then, within Media Player, ffdshow audio and video decoders DO load, along with Haali splitter. From within PVRX2, neither ffdshow nor Haaily appear in the tray. This leaves me guessing it has something to do with the filters being loaded.

For MPEG2 Playback, I have ffdshow selected as the video and audio decoder, save with the h264 decoder. AAC decoders are both at "System Default", no other options are provided there.

Hm. What else. Originally, we had Power DVD installed, which gave us the CyberLink decoder as an option. With this, we got video, but no sounds - recording playback also froze after a few seconds. Live TV video was fine, still no sound though.

ffdshow video decoder DID load.

We uninstalled Power DVD for kicks -- which took away the video.

So, any thoughts? I'm not adverse to learning new things, but right now I'm not even sure where to begin.

Logs incoming when I get them. Thanks all!

[sub]

You initially have H.264 and AAC decoders on your machine. You need these to watch recordings from the HD-PVR.

Try installing Arcsoft TME that came with the HD-PVR, then select these as the H.264 and AAC decoders in the config app.

[Ommina]

Thank you, as always, for the quick reply. I'm heading back over there tomorrow, so will give those decoders a try.

Here are the log files if they're still useful. I notice the -native.log file is surprisingly long (~1.2MB uncompressed), consisting of a whole lot of repeated text.

Will post back after we goof around with the Arcsoft decoders tomorrow.

[sub]

Install the decoders I mentioned. Also set the audio renderer back to 'system default'.