Hardware Support

[freakwent]

Hello all,

My card is a "lifeview Fly TV Prime 34" sold as a LifeView 3000.

I'm hoping someone can explain the hardware interface to me -- I haven't done any windows programming.

If I use openMC (too beta), beyondtv (too crap) or sesamtv (renders using flash on IE, and is broken anyway) they all come up and detect the card, telling me that I've got the card as described by windows. Given the quality of these programs I don't think they've got direct hardware support for the card, I reckon they're using some windows API to interrogate the system and ask for information about TV cards.

GB-PVR is perfect. It beautiful, it's polished. However, it wants me to choose my card from a (short) list which doesn't include it! However, if I choose the G07007SB recording plugin, I get:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at VariantClear(tagVARIANT* )
at ATL.CComVariant.__dtor(CComVariant* )
at FindFilterByName(_GUID* refCLSID, UInt16* decoderName, Int32 instanceRequired)
at NativeUtilities.SetupHelper.CheckForGO7007SB(String& videoStandard)
at Config.Plugins.GO7007RecordingConfigurationForm.d(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

I can continue, then setup a Lifeview tv walker mini or ultra (close enough?) but they also don't work, launching the program gives an exception thrown by an external component.

Is there some magic I can do to work around this, or can anyone recommend better software?

I don't need remote support, or any servers, or cartoon graphics or tv guides. I just want to set different times and channels to record on different days, and the software shipped with the card is ok for tv but crap for scheduling....

Thanks all......

[colin]

Does this card have a hardware mpeg encoder? It looks like it does software encoding, and if that is the case then GBPVR will not support it.

If it does hardware encoding then you maybe able to get this working,

Cheers,
Colin.

[herbs]

No the lifeview 3000 is not hardware based tv encoder, so freakwent your out of luck if you want to use gbpvr but you could try gotallmedia at http://www.gottvpvr.com

[sub]

colin and herbs are right. This card isn't supported. GB-PVR is designed for hardware MPEG2 encoder cards like the Hauppauge PVR250 etc.