Anyone got a Hauppauge PVR-250 working correctly?

[W3bbo]

I have recently moved from BTV where I had a Hauppauge PVR-250 (single tuner) and PVR-500 (dual tuner). My initial aim was to replace the PVR-500 with a DVB-T tuner (Hauppauge WinTV Duet USB) and keep the PVR-250 with USBUIRT for recording from my Virgin Media box.

Despite multiple attempts I was unable to get the PVR-250 to function within NextPVR. Configuration was (from clean OS install):

Windows 7
PVR-250 Drivers (lastest version driver only install from Hauppauge website)
WINTV Duet Drivers (lastest version driver only install from Hauppauge website)
Hauppauge WinTV 7 (for SoftPVR)
NextPVR with latest patches

NextPVR sees the PVR-250 and allows me to configure it correctly and add channels from my XMLTV feed (all mapped to the composite input).

However, when trying to view Live TV or make a recording, the nRecord.exe service immediately terminates. The WinTV application works fine with the PVR-250.

After failing to resolve I performed another clean OS build with the same results.

To get things going I eventually replaced the PVR-250 with the PVR-500 using a single tuner and all works perfectly.

Interest is more academic now as I do have a working system (and unfortunately no longer have the log files) but would be interested to know if anyone else managed to get this card working under 3.1.1?

[martint123]

Can't help with the PVR250, but I have a PVR150 pci and PVR150 USB working fine under the current version. (main and test machine from a Sky box, using RF).

[mvallevand]

Win7 64bit? If so you must use less than 4GB or RAM (you can use msconfig to reduce it to 4095)

Martin

[johnsonx42]

doesn't the 4gb ram issue affect the PVR-500 too?

I do seem to recall seeing previous threads where people couldn't get the PVR-250 working.

[johnsonx42]

oh, I think you need to stop the Hauppauge TV Server service

[mvallevand]

Hauppauge TV Server service is running on all my systems, is that only with the PVR family johnsonx42?

Martin

[Jaggy]

I seem to remember a thread a while back that sub mentioned it caused a problem only with the PVR-250 (but it may have also been for the PVR-350 as well) but the PVR-150's & PVR-500's aren't affected...

[W3bbo]

Thanks all, sounds promising. I'll verified that the service was running on my system (Win7, 32bit, 2GB RAM) which I have now stopped. I'll swap the PVR-500 out with the PVR-250 over the weekend when I can get downtime on the system to test it out and report back.

[sub]

Yeah, the PVR250 and PVR350 need the Hauppauge TV Server stopped. These very old devices had drivers which only supported a single instance of the filter. All other devices support multiple instances (but only one can be running at a time). Hauppauge TV Server was tying up that single instance.

[W3bbo]

That was it - thanks everyone for your support. PVR-250 now working perfectly once the service was stopped.