LiveTV has only sound on AverTV Hybrid Volar HX USB dongle.

[hadarbd]

just seen version 1.4.7 is up. will give it a try and hope it will solve the problem.

Hi!
I have installed GB-PVR 1.3.11 and there was no built in support for my tv card. I have an Avermedia AverTV Hybrid Volar HX USB dongle.
I searched the forums and added these lines to bda.ini:

[AVerMedia Volar HX DVB-T]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=AVerMedia Hybrid TV BDA Tunera
FILTER_CAPTURE=AVerMedia Hybrid TV BDA TS Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

and it now seems to 'recognize' it.
however,
when I go to LiveTV I can only hear what is been broadcasted, and the screen shows the program's menu, but the screen is black other than the blue bar with buttons.

I can get audio and video with the program that came with the dongle.

reading more into the forum I found it may be a codec problem.
so I went to free-codecs.com and downloaded and installed the audio and video MPEG codecs. still no picture, only sound.

tried to change the renderer and mark the 'use FFDSHOW if installed', no picture, only sound.

I tried to do a mini hack -
I recorded some station and went to c:\temp to see what happens there.
I found a .ts file there that VLC was able to play and there i saw picture and sound. so I guess the coder is ok. so its something with the Decoder or renderer.

any suggestions?

thanks in advance.

I am using windowsXP sp3, avast antivirus , zonealarm.
2 gigs of RAM
directx 9.0c

logs attached

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What do your have your H.264 and HE-AAC decoders set to in the playback tab?

[hadarbd]

version 1.4.7 is now installed on my system.
I set H.264 to ffdshow video decoder
I set HE-AAC decoder to MONOGRAM

now i CAN see a picture, BUT it suffers from heavy pixelization (something like a corrupted MPEG file..)

suggestions?

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If you record, does the file playback correctly in VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)? if not then its probably reception problems.

If it does play correcly, then its probably the ffdshow decoder. Personally I'm using the ArcSoft decoder for H.264. The Cyberlink H.264 decoder also works well. The ffdshow decoder never worked well for me with H.264.

[hadarbd]

it plays perfect on VLC. i will try another decoder and let you know what happens.

[hadarbd]

i have installed the latest k-lite mega codec pack v5.0.5
this updated ffdshow.
now i can see and hear just fine. no need for special codecs other than this pack.

thanks.