Sudden change from tuner to composite

[eurojojo]

I've been a longtime user of GB-PVR. But times are a-changing, we got fibre-to-the-home with unencrypted dvb-c, and Windows 7. :o

Had my setup with the tuners of the Hauppauge PVR-350 and PVR-150 running smoothly under Vista-32. Now I run Win7-32 (because the tuners are not supported under Win7-64).

Also got my Technotrend DVB-c card working as multidec (big pain, until you find the ffdecsa.dll posted by sub on the forum, other versions do not work).

And yesterday I had all three cards working together. But after a reboot it all broke down. :eek:

Most worrying is that suddenly the PVR-150 showed:

Code:

2011-02-21 14:44:04.756    [DEBUG][7]    About to tune graph to:
<tuning>
  <type>Analog</type>
  <locator>
    <channel>4</channel>
    <country>31</country>
    <input>cable</input>
    <source>Composite</source>
    <fixed>2</fixed>
  </locator>
</tuning>

Huh? :confused: There is no source on the composite input, it was, and should be the tuner! After deleting all channels and reimporting from the EPG that is solved (hope it lasts). The PVR-150 works fine now.

Question: would be nice to be able to hard edit the config files to change composite to tuner.

But the PVR-350 seems to be lost in space. I like that card, because it gives a much better picture than the PVR-150. I ordered a second Technotrend card, and want to retire the PVR-150, and keep the PVR-350 for backup. It worked fine yesterday...

I get the same problems now as other users reported:

Code:

2011-02-21 16:58:16.762    [DEBUG][7]    About to start recording (1056): D:\Joost\TVopnames\Discovery Channel\Discovery Channel_20110221_16501700.ts
2011-02-21 16:58:16.764    [INFO][7]    AnalogRecorder.StartStream(D:\Joost\TVopnames\Discovery Channel\Discovery Channel_20110221_16501700.ts)
2011-02-21 16:58:16.764    [INFO][7]    AnalogRecorder stream count now 1
2011-02-21 16:58:16.764    [INFO][7]    Creating graph
2011-02-21 16:58:16.778    [DEBUG][7]    Building graph using: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture (2)
2011-02-21 16:58:16.842    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2011-02-21 16:58:16.842    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2011-02-21 16:58:16.843    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2011-02-21 16:58:16.843    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2011-02-21 16:58:16.843    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2011-02-21 16:58:16.843    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2011-02-21 16:58:16.843    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2011-02-21 16:58:16.855    [DEBUG][7]    AttachHardEncoder@1
2011-02-21 16:58:16.855    [DEBUG][7]    AttachHardEncoder@2 (got medium)
2011-02-21 16:58:16.863    [DEBUG][7]    AttachHardEncoder@3 (got encoder)
2011-02-21 16:58:16.864    [DEBUG][7]    AttachHardEncoder@4 (about to connect encoder)
2011-02-21 16:58:16.869    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2011-02-21 16:58:16.871    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040200
2011-02-21 16:58:16.874    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2011-02-21 16:58:16.876    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2011-02-21 16:58:16.877    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040200
2011-02-21 16:58:16.879    [DEBUG][7]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2011-02-21 16:58:16.881    [DEBUG][7]    Hardware encoder not found. Attempting to fall back to software encoder.
2011-02-21 16:58:16.888    [DEBUG][7]    SetCaptureResolution()
2011-02-21 16:58:16.888    [ERROR][7]    Caught unexpected error in AnalogRecorder::SetCaptureResolution()

Yesterday it all worked, but now I tried every permutation. Only PVR-350, Technotrend with PVR-350, all three cards, etc. But now only Technotrend with PVR-150 works for the moment. Filtercheck finds both cards.

Btw, the "Enable" checkbox in the Devices setup works fine, only it does not show the state. It always shows "Enabled". If you want to disable a card: uncheck. If you want to re-enable a disabled card uncheck, and then check again. Works fine here.

Another note: some users can not get their analogue cards to work. In GB-PVR European users could use megahertz frequencies, like 176000000 . But in NPVR you have to use Microsoft's TVAutoTune registry edit for every channel. Otherwise the recording fails (without any message why). If you use the MC2XML EPG service, you may get a channel numbered 301. Make an entry under number 301 referring to the corresponding frequency. This info was not on the forum yet, so I added it here to show a) this is not a problem causing the PVR-350 to fail, and b) enabling others with Google to find it as solution to a problem I already solved.

[eurojojo]

Since I posted the problem I worked on the solution. Tried everything, like removing the PVR-150 card, moving the PVR-350 to a different slot, installing the WinTV6 drivers. Nothing solved, or just did not work.

The only thing that helped was to use the HCWClear from the WinTV7 package (it unzips to a folder on the C: drive, and there is then the HCWClear), and re-install the drivers and WinTV7.

Now it all works.

As for the comment on an edit function, I found SQLite Database Browser. :p
http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/

With that you can check (and edit, but did not try) the NPVR.db3 file. I saw nothing wrong, and all tuner settings were as they are to be expected.

And today I installed a second dvb-c card, and retired the PVR-150 after years of good service.

My system: Win7-32bit, 2xTechnotrend C-1501, 1xHauppauge PVR-350, connection via Glashart/Lijbrandt (which supplies 30+ channels in unencrypted DVB-c, plus all these channels in analogue form over glassfibre)