DVB-S Scan Problem - PCTV Dual Sat Pro 4000i

[Graham_Shepherd]

Hi

I am working on a new install of NPVR 2.0.3 on a new install of Vista Ultimate having had a working GBPVR & NPVR Beta setup under XP.

I have 3 tuners;

1 x Hauppage Nova DT DVB-T card with 2 tuners, and
2 x Pinnacle PCTV Dual Sat Pro 4000i cards with 2 tuners each

All tuners are detected in NPVR and I had no problems tuning the DVB-T tuners.

However, when I scan the DVB-S tuners the Digital Channel Setup tuning dialog box appears and nothing else happens.

Depending upon whether I have selected 0280 Freesat only it just sits there "Scanning: 12607/V/28250/3/4 (DVB-S2)" or 0282 Astra 2 Eurobird 1 it just sits there "Scanning 10714/H/22000/0".

There are no error messages.

I then updated the device drivers on the DVB-S cards but this did not help. But now I have 2 sets of DVB-S tuners showing, one set is shown as "not present". I can change the redundant tuners to "not enabled" but cannot delete them.

NPVR shows the devices as PCTV Stargate Tuner.

I seem to recall that there was something odd about these tuners in the late GBPVR or early NPVR days when they were overrunning the input buffer but this had been fixed.

I've attached log files - Hopefully someone can help please?

Many thanks

Graham

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If you try running NPVR with 'run as administrator', does it make any difference in the scan?

[Graham_Shepherd]

Great Sub

This now allows me to scan on these tuners.

Thanks

[sub]

You might find it now works as a regular user.

Basically it was unable to find a 'DVB-S Tuning Space' on your machine, so it tried creating one, but because it was running as a regular user it didnt have the permission to do it. Now that it's created, it should be ok.