No audio on PVR-150 MCE

[hzwaal]

I was wondering whether GB-PVR could be patched so that it tunes in to a channel number upon startup. This would save all of us a lot of hacks. Should I post this in the suggested features?

Has anyone tried contacting Hauppauge on this? If not, I'll start bothering them.

[gkar]

Does anyone know whether the 150 MCE has the same problem in WinXP?

Yes.

Are you sure it is drivers' related? The reason I ask is that I had sound issues a while back. Not the same concern but it was rectified with a different MPEG decoders.

Here is the relevant thread.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=17662

Now the only issue I have is I have to manually use WinTV after a reboot or I don't have any sound with GBPVR. SHS has just posted a new drivers' CD which I'll try when I get some spare time.

[hzwaal]

Are you sure it is drivers' related? The reason I ask is that I had sound issues a while back. Not the same concern but it was rectified with a different MPEG decoders.

I'm pretty sure it is not an MPEG decoder problem. I have tried various audio decoders (default MPEG, nVidia, intervideo) but all have the same problem. Event playing a recording outside GB-PVR has the problem. There simply is not any audio in the file. My bet is it is either a tuning or an initialisation problem (or both ;-) in the Hauppauge driver.

Now the only issue I have is I have to manually use WinTV after a reboot or I don't have any sound with GBPVR. SHS has just posted a new drivers' CD which I'll try when I get some spare time.

I've already tried the new CD from SHS last week. No success for me. Let me know if it works for you.

[SuMo]

Now the only issue I have is I have to manually use WinTV after a reboot or I don't have any sound with GBPVR. SHS has just posted a new drivers' CD which I'll try when I get some spare time.

That's why I have a task scheduled to fire up WinTV for 1 minute after system reboot so I don't forget it and have the miss yelling at me because her recordings are all "screwed"
I know it's not a real solution but a workaround..... well works for me!

[hzwaal]

That's why I have a task scheduled to fire up WinTV for 1 minute after system reboot so I don't forget it and have the miss yelling at me because her recordings are all "screwed"

What's the command line for your WAF event?

[SuMo]

euhhh...... delete all recordings - are you sure yes/no........

or do you mean like system tools-> scheduled task -> add scheduled task -> WinTV2000 -> and have it start at system boot and finish.
Double click the event and under the settings tab choose 1 minute for max runtime.

[hzwaal]

euhhh...... delete all recordings - are you sure yes/no........

I doubt whether my wife has that much humour :p

or do you mean like system tools-> scheduled task -> add scheduled task -> WinTV2000 -> and have it start at system boot and finish.
Double click the event and under the settings tab choose 1 minute for max runtime.

Thanks... I didn't realize you could kill a scheduled task after a certain period. I thought there were some command line options to wintv2000. I vageuely remember reading something about that on the Hauppauge forum.

I looked it up. It is something like

wintv2k.exe -c<channel> -nss -nc -ntod -qdef -startr:dummy.mpg -limit:60 -mute

Options:

-c<channel> channel number to record
-nss - no splash screen
-nc - no cool GUI mode (don't know what's so cool about it )
-ntod - no tip of the day (who wants one anyhow)
-qdef - default quality
-startr:... - start recording to file
-limit:60 - one minute
-mute - mute the application

See also http://www.hauppauge.com/html/command_line_options.htm

I haven't figured out yet how to initialise both cards. Tonight I'll try whether it is possible to run two instances of wintv2k, recording different channels.

[SuMo]

hmmm interesting.....didn't like the task scheduler anyway.

EDIT: I don't think you can kill the WinTV app with this, and you don't have to record anything, just fire it up for 10 seconds and it's initialized properly.
Although the -notd ans -nss are useable