Hauppauge HVR11xx Analog Capture not working?

[repli]

Hi NPVR experts,

my son and I have had a half day spent in trying to set up NPVR for an internal PCI card from Hauppauge for analog capture via S-Video input. We have installed all the prerequisites including WinTV mux files according to walkthrough, and we are working on a Win 7 Home Premium 64bi system. NPVR installed under x86 path, manually added analog capture driver according to filtercheck output, added svideo channel to analog driver after it has shown up in devices list correcly.

Result: Black screen in LiveTV ;-(

In other software like TVcentral, S-Video input is shown correctly (however, recording does not work there, it's a phased-out program)...

Any hints? Or is the HVR11xx simply not supported - yet?

Thankful for any support,
Reinhard and Leon

[Reddwarf]

Does the card have a hardware encoder onboard? What decoders have you selected for MPEG video under Settings? It would help if you zip and post the logs found in C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Logs and also include filtercheck.log plus your modified AnalogDevices.xml.

[repli]

Wow, what an instant reply! The Hauppauge 11xx has got software encoder only.

Here is the filtercheck.log entry concerned:

12:07:28.477 INFO found: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 713X BDA Analog Capture
12:07:28.480 INFO - (input) Analoger Videoeingang
12:07:28.480 INFO - (input) Analog Audioinput
12:07:28.480 INFO - (output) Capture
12:07:28.480 INFO - (output) VBI
12:07:28.480 INFO - (output) Audio
12:07:28.480 INFO
12:07:28.483 INFO
12:07:28.483 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_ENCODER filters
12:07:28.484 INFO
12:07:28.484 INFO
12:07:28.484 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_MULTIPLEXER filters
12:07:28.484 INFO
12:07:28.484 INFO

And here comes the AnalogDevices.xml entry:

<Devices>
<Device filter="Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 713X BDA Analog Capture">
<Name>Hauppauge HVR11xx</Name>
<Type>SOFT_ENCODE</Type>
</Device>

In case u would like to take a look at the full files, how do I zip-attach them to my posts?

Any ideas from what I have posted?

Regards,
Reinhard

[repli]

Hello Reddwarf,

to the encoder settings: I have tried several options like EVR, VRM9, VRM9 custom, VRM7. I have the shark 007 toolkit installed, for both 32 and 64bit. I understand NPVR is a pure 32bit app.

After having altered the encoder setting, I have not restarted the computer, nor NPVR. Just confirmed 'Ok' and found the LiveTV screen black again.

Do I have to try a different sequence of changing the options?

Ur slogan is German, so it seems like we could switch language? On the other hand, I suppose the majority of forum members is English-speaking, isn't it?

Regards from Bergisch Land,
Reinhard and Leon

P.S.: Found Attach option in the advanced reply options in the meantime

[Reddwarf]

EVR, VMR9 etc are not decoders, they are renderers and on W7 I recommend staying with EVR. The decoders can be downloaded from various sources, google for SDPack and/or CCCP and install them. You need to select some decoder for MPEG2 Video and MPEG1 Audio.

The prefered language on this forum is english, I'm not even sure you are allowed to write another lang.

[repli]

Ok, got it. Decoder is ffdshow Video Decoder (from shark007 package). Tried MainConcept MPEG-2 as well, to no avail.

Attached I have added zip file w/ complete logs, filtercheck log and AnalogDevices.xml. Hope it helps...

[Reddwarf]

Looking at your Nrecord.log I belive the problem is here:

Code:

2011-08-07 12:18:17.947    [ERROR][21]    Failed to route audio crossbar
2011-08-07 12:18:17.947    [ERROR][21]    Failed to route video crossbar
2011-08-07 12:18:17.947    [INFO][21]    About to start graph
2011-08-07 12:18:17.950    [DEBUG][21]    Setting top field first
2011-08-07 12:18:18.451    [ERROR][21]    Device failed to start

It may be because the pin names are in native language, but this is something Sub has to take a closer look at.