Recording OK, Live Tv not working

[sub]

Ok, but thats not the same as a PVR250MCE. Try selecting the 'Hauppauge Rosyln' option. Its a little bit further down the list than the other Hauppauge cards.

[sephiro499]

Reinstalled roslyn drivers, AMcap displays live tv fine, gb pvr hangs when I click on live tv. Attached are the logs.

Also when I click on live tv the small icon in the taskbar turns yellow, before it just stayed red.

[sub]

You might be out of luck. The roslyn is not really on the offically supported list. It was a very short lived design that is very different from all the other Hauppauge cards. It seems to work for some people and not for others. I dont have one of these devices, so I dont do any testing or support for it. That said, there is a couple of things you could try.

The logs indicate you machine seemed to be failing is failing to render the playback graph. You may be able to fix this by change MPEG2 video/audio decoders. You do have an MPEG2 decoder installed right (missing video decoder could cause this)?

You could try setting 'deinterlacing' to 'none' and re-enabling live preview mode. Actually, try this first.

[sephiro499]

After installing the 'Ace Mega Codecs' package, live tv now works. My understanding was this card had an onboard MPEG encoder. Why would I need to install a decoder? I thought it would just pass the digitized video straight over to my video card, hence lightening the cpu load.

[sub]

My understanding was this card had an onboard MPEG encoder. Why would I need to install a decoder?

Because your card has an onboard MPEG encoder, it produces MPEG video. Something needs to decode this MPEG video to turn it into pictures/frames that can be displayed on your monitor, which is what the decoder does.

Encoding is only one half of the process. Decoding is also an essential step.

[sub]

I thought it would just pass the digitized video straight over to my video card, hence lightening the cpu load.

Since you have a hardware MPEG encoder, the recording/encoding part of the process will use virtually no CPU....but to display/decode that video on your machine can still be very taxing on your system.