KWorld ATSC 111 casues GB-PVR to crash

[TorontoGooner]

WindowsXP Home Ed SP2
GBPVR 09813b
AMD Athlon64 3200
KWorld ATSC 110
1GB DDR SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 128MB
100GB HDD
300GB HDD
Canadian/US OTA Signal

I'm a long time user of GB-PVR and I feel a bit silly for having to ask a question on here, I thought I knew what I was doing!. For the longest time I've had the Hauppague PVR150/GB-PVR setup and it worked great, I decided to experiment on another computer with the ATSC KWorld 110 card and I cannot get a picture with GB-PVR, I've mapped the channels to the EPG as per the instructions and also used the new “channel mapper”
, I’ve tried every combination in both the BDA Multiplexer and video decoder settings and the best I seem to get is what I can only describe as a picture you'd see on an old monitor when it can't handle the resolution, not pixelating as such but very, very fine lines, nothing you'd recognize as a picture and the lines are frozen (no live picture) – most of the time though, I’ll get 2 secs of audio before GB-PVR crashes.

I know the Kworld ATSC card works because it plays flawlessly using “watchHDTV” software, which as good as it is for setting up HDTV, is not really what I want to use when I’ve used GB-PVR so much in the past. The OTA signal is strong and the channel mapper finds the digital channels.

As a separate note, (possibly related?) why is the tuning information displayed, different when you use the channel mapper as oppose manual tuning?

When I manually tune a channel I type in the "tuning request" section:

T:40,9,1

but when using the channel mapper it displays:

T:40,9,1~P:4~V:65~A:68~PMT:64~N:>9.1

(BTW, no picture is displayed in the preview window when it finds the channels and when I click on a channel after the scan, it will result in 2 secs of audio before config crashes)

Sorry for all the questions! I tried everything I could think of and had to finally give in and ask on here, I’m sure it’s something stupidly obvious - any help greatly appreciated!

[David]

I have two working fine. I only use them for recording, not live TV, and I record in DVR-MS.

[TorontoGooner]

Are there any specific settings I need to look at in GB-PVR? Did you manually type the channels into GB-PVR or use the channel mapper? Thanks for the speedy reply

[sub]

You should use the channel scanner.... but if you do manually enter the settings, enter the long form rather than the older style (T:40,9,1), which may not work anymore.

[David]

Are there any specific settings I need to look at in GB-PVR? Did you manually type the channels into GB-PVR or use the channel mapper? Thanks for the speedy reply

In the newest version, you must tune using the channel mapper. Or, if you want real work, you can find a secondary utility to find all the parameters to add the entries manually. The previous tuning parameters are no longer sufficient.

Also, using any of the mpg producing mux's have a tendancy to cause a lot of problems.

[TorontoGooner]

Thanks everyone, I got it working by changing the Video Decoder in Playback to Cyberlink and changing to Overlay for a smoother picture. I think my problem was with the tuning, I didn't realize that using the channel mapper was essential for it to work. I know I tried the Cyberlink decoder before but it must have been with the old style manual tuning. Thanks again!

I guess I should ask, but what exactly are the explanations for the numbers/letters in the new longer form tuning? The Wiki article still refers to the manual tuning numbers.

[sub]

I guess I should ask, but what exactly are the explanations for the numbers/letters in the new longer form tuning?

It described in a couple of posts on the forums. You'll have to search for the details - I dont remember the exact posts off hand.

The Wiki article still refers to the manual tuning numbers.

Hopefully someone will get the desire to update it one day.