Tuning problem with GDI Black Gold - Please Help!

[dazzyb2k3]

Hope you guys can help me with this one - i'm really tearing my hair out!

After falling out with many PVR programs over the years (don't even get me started on MCE 2005!) I always liked the look of GBPVR. It's no nonsense yet funtional approach seems exactly what I need and the clean GUI looks great on the telly - it's only recently i've had the hardware to give it a go.

Am currently using 2 X GDI Black Gold Signature cards designed for MCE. I have the Cyperlink muxer and GBPVR sees the cards fine and has no problem installing them but when I scan for channels I get the following problem:

All the way through the scan it tells me that it's finding channels and the signal strength is over 80% but throughout the scan the preview window in the top right remains black until towards the end when It shows Sky Sports News for a few seconds followed by the hits (or it might be TMF - hard to tell in the small window). It then completes the scan and tells me no channels are found.

I know my reception is good and I have the correct transmitter settings and the card is obviously initialised otherwise why would it view the 2 channels?

I wondered if it might be something to do with having 2 identical cards?

They work fine with Media Portal and MCE.

It looks like a great piece of software and I'll be happy to make a donation if I can get it working.

Any ideas would be welcome before the wife throws the HTPC and me out on the street!

[sub]

Have a look in the config.exe-native.log and see if there is any errors. I suspect there may be some with something like "ConnectPin Failed...".

[dazzyb2k3]

Thanks for the reply, I already checked that last night and couldn't notice anything. I emailed you the log earlier today. I may well have missed something.

[dazzyb2k3]

OK, I just tried it again and can't see anything. Here's a copy:

21:04:51.421 INFO Log started
21:04:51.421 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
21:05:12.296 INFO BDARecorder:::StartRecording(Blockgold GDI, 1, c:\test.mpg, T:C25,505834,0,0,8)
21:05:12.296 INFO Initializing DVB-T tuning request.
21:05:12.296 INFO tuning@1
21:05:12.296 INFO tuning@2
21:05:12.296 INFO tuning@3
21:05:12.296 INFO tuning@4
21:05:12.296 INFO tuning@5
21:05:12.296 INFO tuning@6
21:05:12.296 INFO tuning@7
21:05:12.296 INFO tuning@8
21:05:12.312 INFO tuning@8
21:05:13.437 VERBOSE About to auto detect correct tuner filter
21:05:13.437 VERBOSE Looking for associated filter
21:05:13.437 VERBOSE - Genesis BDA Transport Capture
21:05:13.437 VERBOSE Successfully auto detected tuner filter: Genesis BDA Transport Capture
21:05:13.453 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'MPEG2 Transport' to 'MPEG-2 Stream'
21:05:13.453 VERBOSE About to try to add VMR9 preview window
21:05:13.484 VERBOSE Adding VMR9 preview window
21:05:13.484 VERBOSE getSetting(EPGProcessingMode)
21:05:13.484 VERBOSE Mapping Video PID 101
21:05:13.484 VERBOSE Mapping Audio PID 102
21:05:13.484 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredDecoder)
21:05:13.515 VERBOSE FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: default
21:05:13.734 VERBOSE locked=0 present=0 strength=41000 quality=0
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE - Default DirectSound Device
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE - BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE - VMR9
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE - Mpeg2Dec Filter
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE - MPEG Audio Decoder
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE - Genesis BDA Transport Capture
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE - Genesis BDA Tuner
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE - Microsoft DVBT Network Provider
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
21:05:13.890 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StartRecording() finished
21:05:13.906 VERBOSE BDARecorder::ScanTransponder(T:C25,505834,0,0,8)
21:05:13.906 INFO ScanTransponder@1
21:05:13.906 INFO ScanTransponder@2
21:05:13.906 INFO DVB-T CarrierFrequency:505834 Bandwidth:8
21:05:13.906 INFO ScanTransponder@3
21:05:13.906 INFO tuning@7
21:05:13.906 INFO ScanTransponder@4
21:05:13.906 INFO ScanTransponder@5
21:05:13.906 VERBOSE locked=1 present=1 strength=9000 quality=90
21:05:16.906 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:16.906 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:19.921 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:19.921 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:20.421 VERBOSE BDARecorder::ScanTransponder(T:C22,481834,0,0,8)
21:05:20.421 INFO ScanTransponder@1
21:05:20.421 INFO ScanTransponder@2
21:05:20.421 INFO DVB-T CarrierFrequency:481834 Bandwidth:8
21:05:20.421 INFO ScanTransponder@3
21:05:20.421 INFO tuning@7
21:05:20.421 INFO ScanTransponder@4
21:05:20.546 INFO ScanTransponder@5
21:05:20.546 VERBOSE locked=1 present=1 strength=-4000 quality=70
21:05:23.546 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:23.546 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:26.546 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:26.546 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:27.046 VERBOSE BDARecorder::ScanTransponder(T:C32,561834,0,0,8)
21:05:27.046 INFO ScanTransponder@1
21:05:27.046 INFO ScanTransponder@2
21:05:27.046 INFO DVB-T CarrierFrequency:561834 Bandwidth:8
21:05:27.046 INFO ScanTransponder@3
21:05:27.046 INFO tuning@7
21:05:27.046 INFO ScanTransponder@4
21:05:27.171 INFO ScanTransponder@5
21:05:27.171 VERBOSE locked=1 present=1 strength=-5000 quality=70
21:05:30.171 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:30.171 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:33.171 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:33.171 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:33.671 VERBOSE BDARecorder::ScanTransponder(T:C28,529834,0,0,8)
21:05:33.671 INFO ScanTransponder@1
21:05:33.671 INFO ScanTransponder@2
21:05:33.671 INFO DVB-T CarrierFrequency:529834 Bandwidth:8
21:05:33.671 INFO ScanTransponder@3
21:05:33.671 INFO tuning@7
21:05:33.671 INFO ScanTransponder@4
21:05:33.796 INFO ScanTransponder@5
21:05:33.796 VERBOSE locked=1 present=1 strength=-5000 quality=70
21:05:36.796 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:36.796 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:39.796 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:39.796 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:40.296 VERBOSE BDARecorder::ScanTransponder(T:C34,578166,0,0,8)
21:05:40.296 INFO ScanTransponder@1
21:05:40.296 INFO ScanTransponder@2
21:05:40.296 INFO DVB-T CarrierFrequency:578166 Bandwidth:8
21:05:40.296 INFO ScanTransponder@3
21:05:40.296 INFO tuning@7
21:05:40.296 INFO ScanTransponder@4
21:05:40.421 INFO ScanTransponder@5
21:05:40.421 VERBOSE locked=1 present=1 strength=-5000 quality=70
21:05:43.421 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:43.421 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:46.421 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:46.421 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:46.937 VERBOSE BDARecorder::ScanTransponder(T:C29,537834,0,0,8)
21:05:46.937 INFO ScanTransponder@1
21:05:46.937 INFO ScanTransponder@2
21:05:46.937 INFO DVB-T CarrierFrequency:537834 Bandwidth:8
21:05:46.937 INFO ScanTransponder@3
21:05:46.937 INFO tuning@7
21:05:46.937 INFO ScanTransponder@4
21:05:47.062 INFO ScanTransponder@5
21:05:47.062 VERBOSE locked=1 present=1 strength=-5000 quality=75
21:05:50.078 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:50.078 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:53.078 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
21:05:53.078 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)
21:05:57.296 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StopRecording()
21:05:57.437 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StopRecording() finished

Hopefully you can shed some light on this

Thnaks again

[sub]

You could try editing config.exe and changing the BDAScanType setting to <BDAScanType>2</BDAScanType>. It might help.

[dazzyb2k3]

You are a genius Sub!!!

That did the trick.

Keep up the good work - I obviously made the right choice switching to GBPVR!

Thanks for the fantastic suppot. I'll be sure to make a donation