Hello all,
First a little intro - If you've not guessed from the post count I'm a newb with GB-PVR. I'm also a newb with DVRs in general.... Not a technophobe or anything like that since I'm a computer geek by trade, I've just never gotten that much into 'time shifting' or music, many inches of dust on the ol' betamax and my "stereo system" is straight out of the 80s - really. However, I recently decided that it was time for me to build a HTPC. I devoted an AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2G machine with a Nvidia PCIe video card. 320G SATA drive and Vista Business to the task and waded in. My 'research' has led me here.
I guess what I'm mostly looking for here is confirmation that I'm on the right troubleshooting track or not and to get an answer to a question... (After some reading on the board I don't think this belongs in the support section so here goes.)
Exactly what effect does a low input signal level have on ATSC OTA playback using GB-PVR. I'm on my second tuner card - Haupaugge WinTV 1250 after a cheap ASUS one that wouldn't work well even with it's own software. I've also ordered a WinTV HVR-1800 that'll be my final answer. Using the 1250 with help from the Support forum everything seems to be working fine except the Live TV video is 'irregular'. Some fine, sometimes freezing/pausing, sometimes only half a screen drawn. Doesn't seem to matter if it's the HD main channel or one of the secondary SD ones. I live in a fringe area and am currently feeding it with amplified rabbit ears so I realize that I'm not optimal in my setup but a commercial Zenith converter box works fine on the test station. If this behavior is normal with not much signal then I'm less afraid that I'll also have problems when I connect my 30 foot high, preamped beam antenna setup since that shows nice 85-90% signal levels on the converter box's meter. I do have trouble with station power levels wanting to 'bounce' on that meter though, not sure what that's about - weather?. I also haven't tested sound from the PC yet so if that could be related I'd have missed it....
Help, opinions and suggestions appreciated. I can't afford to buy anymore new hardware though unless absolutely necessary and I know for sure it'll mean I can hook it up and forget it. I do have a Windows Server 2003 machine that could act as the host if that would be better but the MB has no PCIe slots for the existing tuner cards.
First a little intro - If you've not guessed from the post count I'm a newb with GB-PVR. I'm also a newb with DVRs in general.... Not a technophobe or anything like that since I'm a computer geek by trade, I've just never gotten that much into 'time shifting' or music, many inches of dust on the ol' betamax and my "stereo system" is straight out of the 80s - really. However, I recently decided that it was time for me to build a HTPC. I devoted an AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2G machine with a Nvidia PCIe video card. 320G SATA drive and Vista Business to the task and waded in. My 'research' has led me here.
I guess what I'm mostly looking for here is confirmation that I'm on the right troubleshooting track or not and to get an answer to a question... (After some reading on the board I don't think this belongs in the support section so here goes.)
Exactly what effect does a low input signal level have on ATSC OTA playback using GB-PVR. I'm on my second tuner card - Haupaugge WinTV 1250 after a cheap ASUS one that wouldn't work well even with it's own software. I've also ordered a WinTV HVR-1800 that'll be my final answer. Using the 1250 with help from the Support forum everything seems to be working fine except the Live TV video is 'irregular'. Some fine, sometimes freezing/pausing, sometimes only half a screen drawn. Doesn't seem to matter if it's the HD main channel or one of the secondary SD ones. I live in a fringe area and am currently feeding it with amplified rabbit ears so I realize that I'm not optimal in my setup but a commercial Zenith converter box works fine on the test station. If this behavior is normal with not much signal then I'm less afraid that I'll also have problems when I connect my 30 foot high, preamped beam antenna setup since that shows nice 85-90% signal levels on the converter box's meter. I do have trouble with station power levels wanting to 'bounce' on that meter though, not sure what that's about - weather?. I also haven't tested sound from the PC yet so if that could be related I'd have missed it....
Help, opinions and suggestions appreciated. I can't afford to buy anymore new hardware though unless absolutely necessary and I know for sure it'll mean I can hook it up and forget it. I do have a Windows Server 2003 machine that could act as the host if that would be better but the MB has no PCIe slots for the existing tuner cards.
