Nebula USB Card recording issues

[jamesheath]

Hi,

Yep, another Newbie with Nebula problems!!
I've actually got most of the way and am LOVING GBPVR.

I have everything set up & working, and it's recording OK. The issue is that the playback of recordings is very poor.

I've previously had my card set up with the DigiTV software from Nebula & it's all fine. Those recordings (.mpg) play back through GBPVR perfectly, as do .avi files.

However, GBPVR seems to record in .TS (transport stream I think?) rather than Mpg. These don't play back well.

I've tried going back to the old DigiTV software & the recordings there are still fine (even with the BDA drivers)

My PC is not hugely powerful (celeron 2.4, 512mb, XP SP3), but copes find transcoding AVIs.

I've tried watching on my MVPs and on the PC, and the results seem pretty similar....

other people seem to have got the Nebula cards running nicely - how?

Thanks,

James.

[McBainUK]

However, GBPVR seems to record in .TS (transport stream I think?) rather than Mpg.

You can change this; BDA Multiplexer setting config app.

More info:
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=7229
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=25630

[jamesheath]

McBainUK,

Thanks for explaining what affected the recording format- I hadn't realised.

I had foolishly presumed that XP SP3 meant I didn';t need to worry about MUXes

I tried using the MS one, but that doesn't use mpeg of course, so there's still some transcoding needed I guess.

I'm now trying a cyberlink MUX which does produce mpg files & may work OK.

Is there a place in the wiki for people to list their TV card & the settings they've got working nicely? some sort of table might save newbies a lot of trial & error time...

Once I'm there I may try & remember all the steps I've done & write a brief Nebula walk through - setup could be a complete snap with a little more in the wiki, and I'm sure once I've got it right, I'm going to be inseperable from it!

Cheers,

James