No sound recorded on PVR150MCE?

[DrDDT]

Hi!

Some channels seem to be recorded without sound.
Any ideas why this might happen?

Live TV always has sound.

[sub]

This is fairly common with PVR150s. The only solutions seems to be try different drivers until your find one that works reliably for you.

[DrDDT]

That's not what I wanted to hear
Oh well, I'll try some different drivers.

[DrDDT]

So, I reinstalled all drivers (latest version with the supposed 'no sound' fix), but still no luck.

Strange thing is, if I have no sound, I run wintv2000 for a few seconds and I have sound again.

Could there be a difference in initialising the card between GBPVR and WinTV?

[Squid]

What is your broadcast source? I have this problem with over the air stuff sometimes, and sometimes I don't. I always attributed it to it switching to mono mode even though there is only stereo sound ( or reverse of that ).

[DrDDT]

What is your broadcast source? I have this problem with over the air stuff sometimes, and sometimes I don't. I always attributed it to it switching to mono mode even though there is only stereo sound ( or reverse of that ).

Cable, and the image quality is good/excellent.

[DrDDT]

So, I reinstalled all drivers (latest version with the supposed 'no sound' fix), but still no luck.

Strange thing is, if I have no sound, I run wintv2000 for a few seconds and I have sound again.

Could there be a difference in initialising the card between GBPVR and WinTV?

I now added this to my XP starup, to make wintv record something for a second and then quit:

C:\PROGRA~1\WinTV\WinTV2K.EXE -c41 -nss -nc -ntod -startr -limit:1 -exitr -mute

This fixes the 'no sound' problem for now (fingers crossed).

(Note: Found this 'fix' on another forum, not my idea.)

[DrDDT]

Hi,

I now use GBRecord to 'fix' my PVR150 sound problem.
Problem for me is, that adding a batchfile running this at system startup sometimes doesn't fix it somehow. Running it manually always works, but I have to remember running it.

Why doesn't starting the gbpvr service solve this? Or starting a recording?

[Lindsay]

My two 150s have this problem but running a batch file for each to 'gbrecord' for a second always fixes it. These batch files are run from the startup folder.

Do you specify the two devices as different instances?

My batch file command:-
GBRecord.exe -device:"Hauppauge PVR-150" -instance:2 -channel:1 -startr:test.mpg -seconds:1

The other uses 'instance:1'

[DrDDT]

My two 150s have this problem but running a batch file for each to 'gbrecord' for a second always fixes it. These batch files are run from the startup folder.

Do you specify the two devices as different instances?

My batch file command:-
GBRecord.exe -device:"Hauppauge PVR-150" -instance:2 -channel:1 -startr:test.mpg -seconds:1

The other uses 'instance:1'

The batch file is fine, it just doesn't work at system startup.
I know the batchfile runs because I let it log to syslog.

Running it manually always fixes the problem.