2007-01-12, 04:25 AM
Hi I have an HP media center pc it comes with the conexant blackbird 2388x tvtuner card which works perfectly in media center.
I recently purchased a pvr-500 and just threw it in this machine.
Due to microsofts DRM(Digital Rights Management) blocking me from watching sopranos last night on A&E i've decided to try out GBPVR instead of suing microsoft for violating my right to watch anything I want on my tv..... Ok enough with that, its a whole different topic......
I tried your software about a year ago and back then I believe it had no support for my conexant blackbird card or I could never get it to work I can not remember.
Here is my issue, when I go to the sources and choose DETECT it detects my conexant and the 2 pvr500's just fine.
Upon using your PVR detector (DeviceTypeCheck.exe) it says that device #1 is pvr500 with fm and device #2 is PVR500, and does not show my conexant blackbird as a device at all.
If I go into the sources and tell it i only have the conexant blackbird it will only let me set this as device #1 I tried 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and it says no device is there.
After updating the EPG I go to the guide and choose a channel all i get is a black screen. Upon watching the video stream coming from the conexant card I see it did change the channel so GBPVR is controlling the card it is just not getting its video or audio source.
The same thing happens if I setup each of the pvr 500's by themselves. I setup PVR500 as device #2 by itself and still get a black screen no video or audio. Upon checking the video source from this device I see the GBPVR again did communicate with the card and changed its channel.
I tried swapping the pvr500fm to the oppsosite devices but it does not work and according to your device checker should not work as its wrong.
I have set all three sources also conexant blackbird device #1 pvr 500 fm device #1 and pvr 500 as device #2, as the setup insists there is no device #3 and wont let me set any to device #3. Still i get no audio or video, and GBPVR only will control the last source I add from watching your Recording Status utility I can see im changing the channels on the last device source i added. I see no way to change devices in GBPVR.
Can you tell me what is wrong why i can not see or hear any video or sound? Is the issue that GBPVR sees my conexant blackbird and pvr500 fm as both being on device #1? But then why would pvr500 on device #2 act the same way?
I also tried to play the FM source on the pvr500 and upon doing a scan around 88fm it picked up a tv station audio not a radio.
I suppose I could yank the conexant out and see what happens, but I thought I would inquire here first. I searched your site and was not able to find another person witht he same issues.
Oh also, when I use the tuning assistant when isntalling devices 1 at a time it finds all the channels and they are all crytsal clear no sound but i dont think its looking for sound?
Thanks
I recently purchased a pvr-500 and just threw it in this machine.
Due to microsofts DRM(Digital Rights Management) blocking me from watching sopranos last night on A&E i've decided to try out GBPVR instead of suing microsoft for violating my right to watch anything I want on my tv..... Ok enough with that, its a whole different topic......
I tried your software about a year ago and back then I believe it had no support for my conexant blackbird card or I could never get it to work I can not remember.
Here is my issue, when I go to the sources and choose DETECT it detects my conexant and the 2 pvr500's just fine.
Upon using your PVR detector (DeviceTypeCheck.exe) it says that device #1 is pvr500 with fm and device #2 is PVR500, and does not show my conexant blackbird as a device at all.
If I go into the sources and tell it i only have the conexant blackbird it will only let me set this as device #1 I tried 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and it says no device is there.
After updating the EPG I go to the guide and choose a channel all i get is a black screen. Upon watching the video stream coming from the conexant card I see it did change the channel so GBPVR is controlling the card it is just not getting its video or audio source.
The same thing happens if I setup each of the pvr 500's by themselves. I setup PVR500 as device #2 by itself and still get a black screen no video or audio. Upon checking the video source from this device I see the GBPVR again did communicate with the card and changed its channel.
I tried swapping the pvr500fm to the oppsosite devices but it does not work and according to your device checker should not work as its wrong.
I have set all three sources also conexant blackbird device #1 pvr 500 fm device #1 and pvr 500 as device #2, as the setup insists there is no device #3 and wont let me set any to device #3. Still i get no audio or video, and GBPVR only will control the last source I add from watching your Recording Status utility I can see im changing the channels on the last device source i added. I see no way to change devices in GBPVR.
Can you tell me what is wrong why i can not see or hear any video or sound? Is the issue that GBPVR sees my conexant blackbird and pvr500 fm as both being on device #1? But then why would pvr500 on device #2 act the same way?
I also tried to play the FM source on the pvr500 and upon doing a scan around 88fm it picked up a tv station audio not a radio.
I suppose I could yank the conexant out and see what happens, but I thought I would inquire here first. I searched your site and was not able to find another person witht he same issues.
Oh also, when I use the tuning assistant when isntalling devices 1 at a time it finds all the channels and they are all crytsal clear no sound but i dont think its looking for sound?
Thanks
