1.4.7 Configuration Problems - Can´t get any TV-channel

[immigrant]

I have a Medion PC MD 8838 with Vista 32 and the built in TV card is SAA7231 Triple Capture Device from Creatix. On the roof I have a 90 cm dish with 2 Universal LNB´s (1 for ASTRA and 1 for Hotbird) in a multifeed holder and a 60 cm dish with one Universal LNB. The dishes are connected to DiSEqC switches so that I could have 4 Koax connections inhouse.

Since about one year I watch all three satellites on my PC with the built in Media Center with no problems. But from the beginning I didn´t liked it too much. Than I heard about GB-PVR and I thougt to give it a try.

Installation worked fine. But than I had to learn that my TV card is not supported. But thanks to your excellent WIKI I found out how to add a not supported capture card. The modified BDA.ini is included in the attached zip-file.

After modifying the BDA.ini I started the config program. Here comes what I did:

I got to Capture Sources tab
I entered a name for my capture card
I picked the Digital Recording Plugin as the Recording Source
I clicked "Settings" for the Recording Source
In the upcoming window I picked as Device Type "SAA7231 Triple Capture Device DVB-S"
As Device Number I picked "1"
As Satellite I picked Astra 1E, 1F, ......
As DiSEqC I picked A
Than I hit the OK button 3 times and
the Digital Channel Mapping screen popped up with the arrow changing in to a sand clock.

But nothing happend. After about 15 minutes I killed GB-PVR with strg-alt-del.

Unfortunately I don´t have a screenshot of the Digital Channel Mapping window and I also can´t get to it anymore. When I start GB-PVR config now and hit the Capture Sources tab it looks like the screenshot enclosed to the attached zip file. Also enclosed is a screenshot of the recording source and the source configuration window as well as the logfile.

I also searched the support forum but I coudn´t find a similar problem. Therefore I would be very grateful if someone could give me a hint whether I did something wrong or how to solve this problem in order to get GB-PVR running. Thank you very much.

A nice weekend for everybody.

[sub]

Can you post the config.exe-native.log aswell?

[immigrant]

Can you post the config.exe-native.log aswell?

Of course, see attatchment. I also included the tecnical specifications of the built in TV card.

[sub]

Unfortunately that config.exe-native.log was pretty much empty, and didnt show a scan. You'll need to reproduce the problem and repost that config.exe.log and config.exe-native.log.

[immigrant]

Unfortunately that config.exe-native.log was pretty much empty, and didnt show a scan. You'll need to reproduce the problem and repost that config.exe.log and config.exe-native.log.

In order to reproduce the whole configuration procedure I removed the already installed capture device, I closed GB-PVR and restarted the PC. I opend config GB-PVR , clicked ADD and underwent the whole procedure again (see attached screenshots). I started configuring at about 05:20 am and I hit the button OK on screenshot 06 at about 05:35 am.

After doing so, the Digital Channel Mapping screen popped up with the arrow changing in to a sand clock. I tried to make a screenshot but it didn´t work and this window with the sandbox looked like the screenshot 07. So the program was frozen and after waiting another 20 minutes I killed the process by hitting strg-alt-del at about 05:55 am.

The two requested logs are attached. Thank you very much for your endeavours up to now.

[sub]

Unfortunately I cant see an obvious cause in those. Sorry.

[immigrant]

Unfortunately I cant see an obvious cause in those. Sorry.

Any hint what I can or should do in order to get GB-PVR working?

[Graham]

Run filtercheck.exe from the GBPVR folder and post the log file that it creates. It may be that there is something a bit wrong with your BDA.INI.

[sub]

Any hint what I can or should do in order to get GB-PVR working?

Normally I'd offer to make a patch to add more logging in the problem area, but my build is no longer compatible with 1.4.7 so I cant do that. I will be putting out a new release in the next couple of days though, and if you're still having problems with that version, then we can go down that path.

[immigrant]

Run filtercheck.exe from the GBPVR folder and post the log file that it creates. It may be that there is something a bit wrong with your BDA.INI.

Here comes the filtercheck log file as an attachement.