Need a tuner in my dev system

[fla]

I haven't had a tuner in my dev system for over a year but have been able to use it for plugin development anyway.

I recently tried a WinTV-HVR 950 in my dev system to see if the antenna on top of our condo building gets OTA HD channels. I didn't get any digital channels so I uninstalled the HVR 950 and ran HWCLEAR.EXE to get rid of some stuff it left behind in the system tray. I guess the HWCLEAR also removed some drivers that the PVR-150 had left behind during its brief stay in my dev system and now I can't add any capture devices in gbpvr's config as it complains about drivers not being present.

Is there any way I can use the analog side of the WinTV-HVR 950 in gbpvr? Is there a way to setup a "fake" tuner in config.exe so I can associate an EPG to it and use my dev system for plugin development? Does anybody have an old tuner they never plan to use they want to get rid of?

I just got laid off so "go buy a xyz" is not a good suggestion as far as WAF (minister of finance) goes. I'll probably return the HVR 950 if I can't use it in my gbpvr dev system since the analog picture quality is much worse than with my PVR-150's.

[sub]

If you have Hauppauge SoftPVR installed, then it might work. If you have this installed, does any supported cards get listed?

[fla]

I had installed all the hauppauge stuff which includes Soft PVR. In gbpvr's config.exe when I selected to show only devices detected on this system it said no supported devices were found. I still tried to add each of the Hauppauge devices but it complained that drivers were missing and asked if I wanted to save anyways. Even after saying yes, I still had no capture source so I can't setup an EPG.

Did I have to configure something in Soft-PVR first? The only hauppauge app I tried was WinTV and the analog channels were quite noisy compared to the PVR-150.

[sub]

If you do a forum search for filtercheck, then run it and attach the resulting filtercheck.log then I'll take a look.

[fla]

In the Filtercheck.log it shows up as "WinTV HVR-980". That's also what appears in the windows device manager. On the device itself it's physically printed "WinTV HVR-950". I'm also getting an error when clicking on the "Add" button in the capture sources tab (screenshot and filtercheck.log attached).

[sub]

You could try adding the following to direct.ini, then try to create a capture source for this device. It might not work, but post the logs after trying it with live tv and I'll take a look.

[Hauppuage HVR-950]
ARCHITECTURE=88X
INIT_MODE=DEFAULT
INIT_MSP=0
SUPPORTS_FM_RADIO=1
BLACKBIRD=1
CONEXANT=0
FILTER_CROSSBAR=WinTV HVR-980 Crossbar
FILTER_CAPTURE=WinTV HVR-980 Capture
FILTER_TV_TUNER=WinTV HVR-980 TVTuner
FILTER_TV_AUDIO=WinTV HVR-980 TVAudio
FILTER_CAPTURE_AUDIO=WinTV HVR-980 Audio Capture
;FILTER_ENCODER=Hauppauge WinTV MPEG2 Muxer
FILTER_ENCODER=CyberLink MPEG Muxer
FILTER_ENCODER_VIDEO=MainConcept (Hauppauge) MPEG Video Encoder
FILTER_ENCODER_AUDIO=MainConcept (Hauppauge) MPEG Audio Encoder
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_TUNER_IN=Video Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_TUNER_IN=Audio Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_DECODER_OUT=Video Decoder Out
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_DECODER_OUT=Audio Decoder Out
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_VIDEO_OUT=Analog Video
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_AUDIO_OUT=Analog Audio
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_IN=TVAudio In
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_OUT=TVAudio Out
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_VIDEO_IN=Analog Video In
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_AUDIO_IN=Analog Audio In
PIN_CAPTURE_PREVIEW_AUDIO_OUT=Video Virtual Out
PIN_CAPTURE_CAPTURE_OUT=Capture
PIN_CAPTURE_I2S_OUT=I2S
PIN_CAPTURE_656_OUT=656
PIN_ENCODER_I2S_IN=Audio Input
PIN_ENCODER_656_IN=Input
PIN_ENCODER_OUT=Output
PIN_WRITER_INPUT_IN=Input

[Fatman_do]

Is there a way to setup a "fake" tuner in config.exe so I can associate an EPG to it and use my dev system for plugin development?

I have no tuner or Hauppauge software on my laptop, but have an EPG set up. It thinks I have a PVR-150 but I don't. Just told it to ignore errors or something to that effect when setting it up. I have 5mb "Dummy" mpg files named and imported into the database to simulate having a dozen recordings.

I can do everything but liveTV on it.

[fla]

Almost there, video works but audio does not. There are some messages in the log regarding failing to locate the audio filter by name.

Code:

23:13:03.437 VERBOSE Capture Device is based on BlackBird architecture 23:13:03.437 VERBOSE Loading filter names 23:13:03.437 VERBOSE Found names: 23:13:03.437 VERBOSE WinTV HVR-980 Crossbar 23:13:03.437 VERBOSE WinTV HVR-980 Capture 23:13:03.437 VERBOSE WinTV HVR-980 TVTuner 23:13:03.437 VERBOSE WinTV HVR-980 TVAudio 23:13:03.578 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Analog Audio' to 'TVAudio In' 23:13:04.984 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Audio Decoder Out' to 'Analog Audio In' 23:13:04.984 VERBOSE Software 88x Architecture 23:13:04.984 VERBOSE FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: WinTV HVR-980 Audio Capture 23:13:05.000 VERBOSE put_Mode(AMTUNER_MODE_TV) 23:13:05.125 VERBOSE put_CountryCode(1) 23:13:05.375 VERBOSE put_TuningSpace(1) 23:13:05.375 VERBOSE put_InputType(0, 0) 23:13:05.375 VERBOSE put_ConnectInput(0) 23:13:05.375 VERBOSE put_Channel(33, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT) 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE get_VideoFrequency() returns 277250000 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE get_CountryCode() returns 1 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE About to query available formats 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::SetConfigurationDefault() 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE getSetting(EnableTeleText) 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters) 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters: 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE - Capture 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE - WinTV HVR-980 Crossbar 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE - TV Audio 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE - TV Tuner 23:13:06.046 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles) 23:13:06.125 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done 23:13:06.125 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playLiveStream(pGB, 'Capture', 'Capture', 'Capture', 'Audio Out', hwnd) 23:13:06.156 VERBOSE getSetting(TvShape) 23:13:06.156 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRPreferYUVMixing) 23:13:06.156 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRWindowedMode) 23:13:06.156 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRDeinterlaceMode) 23:13:06.156 VERBOSE VMRDeinterlaceMode: other (deferred) 23:13:06.156 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer) 23:13:06.171 VERBOSE getSetting(DeinterlaceMethod) 23:13:06.187 VERBOSE FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: Encoder pass-through 23:13:06.281 VERBOSE Unable to locate audio pin 23:13:06.281 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRDeinterlaceMode) 23:13:06.281 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters) 23:13:06.281 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters: 23:13:06.281 VERBOSE - Video Renderer 23:13:06.281 VERBOSE - Capture 23:13:06.281 VERBOSE - WinTV HVR-980 Crossbar 23:13:06.281 VERBOSE - TV Audio 23:13:06.281 VERBOSE - TV Tuner 23:13:06.281 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles) 23:13:06.343 VERBOSE setSourceAspectRatio() using autoAspectRatio 23:13:06.343 VERBOSE video resolution is 640 x 480 23:13:06.343 VERBOSE unknown source aspect ratio...showing full frame 23:13:06.875 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playLiveStream() done 23:13:06.890 VERBOSE put_Channel(33, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT) 23:13:18.968 VERBOSE NativeUtilities::MediaHelper::stop() 23:13:18.984 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::stop 23:13:18.984 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@2 (skipping window positioning) 23:13:18.984 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@3 23:13:19.437 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@4 23:13:19.437 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@5 23:13:19.437 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@6 23:13:19.437 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@7 23:13:19.437 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@8 23:13:19.437 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::stop finished 23:13:19.437 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StopRecording() 23:13:19.671 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::Done() 23:13:24.531 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::stop 23:13:24.531 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::stop finished

[sub]

Yeah, I realised that name was wrong, but I'd hoped it would work anyway.

If you download GraphEdit and do an 'insert filters' from the menu, and expand the 'directshow' section, is there any filter that sounds like it might be the audio capture or audio encoder filter?

[fla]

I tried a bunch of them without success. Is there an external way we can see what WinTV is using while it is running or does WinTV not use directshow at all?

Thanks for all the help!