Samsung or Phillips chips, how do you tell?

[jackk]

I have a few days old PVR-500. How do I tell if it has Samsung or Phillips chips? Everything that I can see is either Conexant or ESMT. Or am I not looking in the right place? Or isn't this a problem for the pvr-500?

thanks

[sub]

The chipset for these cards is manufactured by Conexant, but there are many types of tuners used. When you do live tv in GB-PVR it dumps an information string in gbpvr.exe-native.log which usually includes info about the on board tuner.

[jackk]

I played Live TV and changed channels a half dozen times. Never saw anything that I could recognize as indicating the Turner maker...unless there is some code tdhat I do not know. Is there anymore likelihood that it is one or the other if I am having timiline problmes?

thanks

[sub]

View live tv then zip and attach the gbpvr.exe-native.log and I'll take a look for you.

Is there anymore likelihood that it is one or the other if I am having timiline problmes?

I dont get what you mean.

[jackk]

The question that you didn't understand is that there is a thread below that I started titled something like "problems with skip and MVP". I have recorded 11 movies, 7 have problems with the timeline. I have recently posted a question to you about which drivers I should install in order to correct the problem. Could you review that sometime.? the post I was directed was almost a year old, and I don't know if I shuld install the year old drivers or the most recent.

attached are logs to see which tuners I have

Thanks

[sub]

I have recorded 11 movies, 7 have problems with the timeline. I have recently posted a question to you about which drivers I should install in order to correct the problem. Could you review that sometime.? the post I was directed was almost a year old, and I don't know if I shuld install the year old drivers or the most recent.

Oh, right - I remember.

It really does just sound like the PVR150 timestamp error, which usually leads to incorrectly reported durations and problems skipping on the MVP. You need to install the drivers and registry settings from the PVR150 timestamp thread to fix it. You can probably use later drivers with the same registry settings.

[sub]

The tuner info wasnt in those logs because you seem to be using timeshift mode. Because of this, you tuner info will be in GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native.log.

[jackk]

Tuner1 is a samsung
Tuner 2 with radio is a Philips

I have 11 recorings, 7 with a bad timeline. I am reluctant to change the Register since I have not done it before. Might I resolve the problem by getting rid of the Samsung tuner? Tune 1 would have recorded the majority of the videos ,wouldn't t?

[sub]

Just create the registry setting, it absolutely painless and will stop the problem from occurring again. Its not worth getting rid of the device to try to solve this - chances are any replacement PVR500 would have exactly the same problem.