To automatically change channel after ATSC recording

[linx]

Hi,

I live in an area where one OTA ATSC station's signal is weaker than others. I have a Hauppauge 1600 HVR card and I use GBPVR on Windows XP. What happens is that if I record shows from this station (specifically, PBS), after a few days the 1600 card will lock up and neither GBPVR nor WINTV can watch TV on ANY ATSC channels. (GBPVR will show "no signal".) However, once I reboot the machine, both GBPVR and WINTV can watch ATSC channels again. I search on the web, and this kind of lock-up problem seems to be an open issue for the 1600 card if the ATSC signal is weak. (For example, see here http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/archive/i...14232.html).

So I tried to think of a solution. One thing I found is that, if after recording on this weak channel, I add another recording on a strong channel immediately after, then the occurrence of 1600 lock-up seems to be reduced. I assume that this is perhaps because the circuits on the 1600 card is still operating even if GBPVR is not recording. Therefore, by switching to a strong channel immediately after the recording of the weak channel, I put less stress on the card.

However, it is quite tedious to do this manually for each recording. My question is: is there a way to automatically switch 1600 to a different ATSC channel after each recording?

Many thanks in advance,

linx

[sub]

Sorry, there is nothing that would automatically do this for you.

[linx]

Thanks for the quick response, Sub!

I was thinking that maybe there is a command line I can add into the postprocessing.bat to switch the channel after recording. So there is no command line interface to instruct the driver of the tuner card for switching channels?

Thanks,

linx

[sub]

Sorry, no there isnt.

[Ted the Penguin]

maybe you could tell it to open wintv... is there some command line interface for that?

another solution would be to create a very short manual recording every day, on some good channel.

[linx]

Thanks for the suggestions, Ted! I will look into the WINTV option.

I did try the manual recording at the same time every day. It does help. The only problem is that there is no option to automatically remove the old manual recordings. it seems that the "keep xxx recording" option is not available for manual recordings.

[JonnyCam]

You could look at finding the smallest show you can on a good ATSC channel, and set that as a recurring recording, only keeping the last 1 recording.

Hopefully one of your channels has a 5 minute new break or something similra which appears in the guide data.