Recording problem

[Siggi]

After a period without GB-PVR (as my harddrive broke), I have just got around to setting it up again. I have got everything working beautifully, apart from the rather crucial issue of getting recordings with content in them. When I record I just get files with a totally black screen.

My setup is as follows:

PVR-350 capture card
Sky (UK) STB feeding into the PVR 350 via S-Video
Capture source set up as Composite 2, which I believe I used last time (have also tried it on composite and S-Video with no luck)

Playback is either through the PVR-350 or the TV-Out on the graphics card, but both just show a black screen apart from the OSD. I have also tried to play the recorded files in Windows Media Player, but with same result. However, when I play a normal MPEG-2 file from another source, it plays both in Windows Media Player and in GB-PVR.

I tried using the antenna as source to run the tuning assistant, and that worked fine.

I suspect what I am doing wrong is related to codec, but since I last set it up there are a number of new choices in the program, and I can not remember what I did to get it working last time. Any help would be appreciated, as I am tearing my hair out :-)

Thanks!

[ricklous]

googling for microsoft DECCHECK will give you a program that can quickly list the decoders on your system.

Do you get sound on your recordings?

Also the *.log files in the GBPVR folder might shed light on whats being used when you iniciate a recording

[stefan]

Read this thread and see if that makes sense to you...
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ack+screen

[ArfurAnt]

Most Sky boxes don't output via S-Video, were you using this connection method before? Even if it does work you should be selecting S-Video rather than Composite as your Input, try and use a Composite lead from Sky instead and see if that helps,
hth,
ArfurAnt

[Siggi]

You are right - I was a bit impresise in my description. I use a Scart to composite cable, and then a composite to S-Video adapter to connect it to the PVR-350. Thanks for all your suggestions so far - I will try them when I get home today.