"The system does not appear to support VMR9. Please try a different renderer."

[CigDangle]

I have worked for a few weeks on building my PVR, trying different software before settling on GbPVR. I really like the product but have had some problems.

First, the preliminaries:
P4-2.0GHz
512MB RAM
40GB ATA-133 HD
DVD-ROM Drive
Intel 82845 Integrated Video
Hauppaggue PVR-350

I'm using version v0.99.5
I've tried a number of MPEG encoders including:
bitControl
DScaler Mpeg2 Video Decoder
InterVideo NonCSS Video Decoder for Hauppauge
Cyberlink (by installing Cyberlink PowerDVD 5)

When I set the hardware decoder to the PVR350, everything worked via the TV-Out on the 350. The biggest problem I experienced is changing channels would take 4-5 seconds on average.

After reading through the forums, I changed to the software decoder, and channel changing greatly improved. The problem I now have is each time I start up, I cannot use VMR. I get the following message: "The system does not appear to support VMR9. Please try a different renderer."

If I choose Overlay Manager, GbPVR starts up, but I obviously have no on-screen items, which is part of the reason I chose GbPVR.

How can I fix this? One thought was video card, but I didn't want to spend the money before knowing. Thanks!

[martint123]

This rings bells from when I installed on a tablet PC, some time ago so I may be wrong. . Direct X installed OK ??

Martin

[stefan]

I think you need all of the below
a) directx 9 installed
b) a video card that supports directx 9
c) a video decoder that supports directx 9

That said, you should get OSD with overlay. Try searching these forums for OSD overlay and see if you can find a solution.

[CigDangle]

I am running Windows 2000 SP4, fully patched including all .NET options
DirectX 9.0c.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will search for OSD overlay.

Also, is there a more robust minimum requirements list than shown on the homepage at http://www.gbpvr.com? I'm probably just haven't found it yet.

[nitrogen_widget]

Windows 2000 only supports overlay & VMR7.

Also for windows 2000 you need the MDAC upgrade off the GBPVR download page & you also need to download the latest version of Windows Media player for 2000. I think the is V. 9

[CigDangle]

I have the latest version of MDAC (2.8 I believe).

I tried VMR 7, which also did not work.

I am fully patched, as I said earlier, including the latest WMP (version 9).

[nitrogen_widget]

Maybe the Intel 82845 Integrated Video doesn't support VMR?

[CigDangle]

That was my thought exactly, so today, I purchased a few new items:

1 - 250GB ATA-100 HD with a 16MB Buffer
1 - Radeon 9250 w/ 256MB DDR w/ S-Video Out
2 - PVR-150s

I also returned my PVR-350.

Wish me luck!

[pastro]

Windows 2000 only supports overlay & VMR7.

Also for windows 2000 you need the MDAC upgrade off the GBPVR download page & you also need to download the latest version of Windows Media player for 2000. I think the is V. 9

I have win2k and I can bring up vmr9 but the performance on my machine is lousy. I ended up using vmr7 which works fine. I have a dx9 compatible video card.