Hauppauge 2250 Opinions wanted
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2009-01-13, 06:49 PM
Thanks. I seem to remember that capturing with Roxio will do much the same thing as Graphedit. I'll give this a try tonite.
Have you been pleased with your 2250 so far? Paul Custom ASUS Maximus X Hero, 16 GB Memory-ASUS GeForce 1050 Ti, H115i Pro AIO, 850W PS, CM H500P case, Corsair Vengeance RGB Ram, Samsung 970 EVO, HDHomerun Prime & Extend Tuners- running Windows 10 (and other goodies)
2009-01-13, 10:02 PM
Wow, the 7.5.25.27007 pre-release isn't even on the Hauppauge ftp site yet:
ftp://ftp.hauppauge.com/Support/HVR2250/ The newest driver there, as of this post is the 7.5.12.26364 (12/29/08). I'm doing a clean install of Windows 7 x64 tonight. I had previously upgraded over Vista Home Premium x64 and had all kinds of problems getting QAM detection to work, before and after the upgrade, even with the 26364 drivers. I'm hopeful these will do the trick. Thanks!
2009-01-14, 03:37 AM
I've had no luck with these drivers in W7 so far with the exception of in Media Center which picks the 2250 up as well as HDHR.
Paul Custom ASUS Maximus X Hero, 16 GB Memory-ASUS GeForce 1050 Ti, H115i Pro AIO, 850W PS, CM H500P case, Corsair Vengeance RGB Ram, Samsung 970 EVO, HDHomerun Prime & Extend Tuners- running Windows 10 (and other goodies)
2009-01-14, 04:59 AM
pcostanza Wrote:Have you been pleased with your 2250 so far?Overall, yeah. As far as responsiveness and quality, I'm happy with it. Tuning issues aside (since a driver update can fix those easily enough), the only other issue I have is that I would have liked to have dual TV inputs instead of the FM input (I may change my mind on this though). But I knew about the inputs before I bought it so that's a non issue. I'm reallocating my two HDHomeRuns to ATSC to compensate for this. They are still my favorite tuners but I needed analog.
2009-01-14, 02:45 PM
Slider451 Wrote:Wow, the 7.5.25.27007 pre-release isn't even on the Hauppauge ftp site yet: Followup: After a clean install of W7 x64 and the 27007 drivers, Media Center saw two analog and two digital tuners without the need to set them up manually. Analog channel search was successful and the channels look good. However, Clear QAM detection only found one channel, a 480i shopping station. I got a 'no signal' error when I tried to manually add the HD channels and tune to them. This is the same problem I had under Vista x64 w/ TV Pack. I haven't tried WinTV or GB-PVR yet with this setup. It's also possible there's an issue with Clear QAM in my area (Minneapolis, Minnesota), though my Sharp TV detects them fine. ------------------ Windows 7 x64 beta build 7000, Antec 900 case w/ 500W ps, Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P w/ onboard Realtek HD audio and Gb LAN, Intel Q9550, 4GB DDR2, Radeon HD 4850 & HD 4350, LG Blu-Ray GGC-H20L, WD 640GB & 1TB HDDs, HVR-2250, Samsung T260
2009-01-14, 03:29 PM
I was really hoping I'd be able to choose which tuner recorded which show, but so far, I don't see any way to choose. Is there one?
My convertx can record straight to divx with a hardware encoder, and I like using it under certain circumstances. To wit, I'm not even sure how to make sure whether a digital tuner records a show that has a qam signal instead of it's analog cousin recording the analog signal. How do you other 2250 owners know what's going to record what?
2009-01-14, 08:01 PM
Slider451 Wrote:Followup: After a clean install of W7 x64 and the 27007 drivers, Media Center saw two analog and two digital tuners without the need to set them up manually. Analog channel search was successful and the channels look good. However, Clear QAM detection only found one channel, a 480i shopping station. I got a 'no signal' error when I tried to manually add the HD channels and tune to them. This is the same problem I had under Vista x64 w/ TV Pack.It could be because of the wrong frequencies being used for the tuning as I mentioned earlier. The GBPVR qam.ini file can be used to override the tuning frequencies. The qam.ini settings only affect GBPVR though and will not help Media Center. mian Wrote:I was really hoping I'd be able to choose which tuner recorded which show, but so far, I don't see any way to choose. Is there one? Assuming there's way to choose in the gui, my toying has uncovered one method to decide whether to use my convertx or my qam 2250 (assuming I have no analog 2250 setup). It seems to choose device 1 first on a channel both devices share, though I'm only partially sure of this. If you want to be sure you're getting a digital recording, record something on a cable channel with no QAM alternative, then setup the digital channel. I gather that it chooses which tuner to use at the time of scheduling, rather than at the time of recording, based on my tinkering so far, so you can cancel the analog recording and the digital one will still record on the 2250 even if the . I suppose if I had digital and analog tuners set up, I'd just remove channels from the analog tuner's EPG (and my convertx's epg), and then any recording on that channel would be sure to be digital. It's not ideal for me, since there are going to be shows on digital channels that I'd rather record straight to divx (via my convertx), and shows on the same channel that I'd rather have digital. Am I making this too hard? Are there easier ways to choose your tuner on a per-recording basis? Edit: how I select per-recording now (using schedules direct): I set up a second lineup (Schedules Direct)with the local broadcast channels, edited out the non-DT stuff, and then mapped the QAM channels to the blah-DT channels. I only set those up on the digital tuner, and removed them from the analog tuner. Now there's no work involved. If I want it to record digital, I choose the -DT channel to record it on. If I want it analog, I choose the same non-DT channel.
2009-01-15, 12:46 AM
If you look at the list of tuners in your Config screen, recordings will start using tuners from the top of the list and work it's way down. Live TV uses tuners from the bottom of the list and work it's way up. In both cases, the first available tuner found with that channel enabled will be used.
2009-01-15, 05:58 PM
Thinking only of the 2250, gbpvr will record digital if the channel has a digital alternative, and analog otherwise? It will never record analog on an epg entry that has both an analog and QAM channel associated with it?
I don't have my analog tuners setup ATM for my 2250, but I seem to recall they were underneath their shared digital tuners in the list, even though they shared a device number. Just wanted to make sure I understood that right, and thanks for explaining. 
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