HDHomeRun BDA Driver

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Can you reproduce the Overlay error and zip and attach the logs?

I suspect your S3 chipset isnt up to VMR - but make sure you have the most up to date manufacturer video drivers you can find, rather than just compatible drivers that came with Windows.

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Can you reproduce the Overlay error and zip and attach the logs?

I suspect your S3 chipset isnt up to VMR - but make sure you have the most up to date manufacturer video drivers you can find, rather than just compatible drivers that came with Windows.

UPDATE

[] INSTALLED NEW DECODER = nVidia PureVideo
- - - result : image displays on both machines, no stutter with overlay manager. Some stutter with VMR9.

New bugs / hassles
__ Config selection: start on second monitor

Situation 1: [1] LCD, [2] Projector
Will not start on [2], and can't drag window to it.

Situation 2: [1] Projector [2] LCD
Will start on [2], or [1]

( ! )

__ OSD [+] [-] [||] [EXIT]
Intermittent hang, or no increment.


__ Intermittent "No Signal Detected"
Bar graph shows good quality and strength
Increment / Decrement past channel and channel is displayed

[jetgraphics]

UPDATE

New bugs / hassles
__ Config selection: start on second monitor

Situation 1: [1] LCD, [2] Projector
Will not start on [2], and can't drag window to it.

Situation 2: [1] Projector [2] LCD
Will start on [2], or [1]

Correction:
Situation 2: [1] Projector [2] LCD
A) When Config: no start on second monitor, projector image is correctly display on [1] Projector
B) When Config: start on second monitor, the splash and selection screen is on [2] LCD, but when a channel is selected, an error message appears instead of programming.

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Good to hear you got the decoding sorted.

New bugs / hassles
__ Config selection: start on second monitor

Situation 1: [1] LCD, [2] Projector
Will not start on [2], and can't drag window to it.

Situation 2: [1] Projector [2] LCD
Will start on [2], or [1]

GB-PVR's second monitor logic expects the second monitor to be on the right of the primary monitor. If not, then this logic wont work and you'll need to do some manual command line stuff to get it to appear in the right place.

Also, dont use 'VMR9 Custom' renderer on a second monitor. Most video card drivers dont provide the direct3d accelleration on the second monitor.

__ Intermittent "No Signal Detected"
Bar graph shows good quality and strength
Increment / Decrement past channel and channel is displayed

The no signal detected is determined by whether video data is flow, not the signal quality/strength. The first thing we'd need to do when this happens is make sure the tuning request has the correct audio and video pids - I suspect not, but I suspect this relates to the problem I discussed with whurlston earlier in this thread. Nick (the HDHomeRun guy) is going to fix this in their drivers.

[jetgraphics]

UPDATE

[] INSTALLED NEW DECODER = nVidia PureVideo
- - - result : image displays on both machines, no stutter with overlay manager. Some stutter with VMR9.

When nVidia audio decoder selected, audio lagged.
When ffdshow audio decoder selected, audio in sync.

[jetgraphics]

Good to hear you got the decoding sorted.

GB-PVR's second monitor logic expects the second monitor to be on the right of the primary monitor. If not, then this logic wont work and you'll need to do some manual command line stuff to get it to appear in the right place.

Also, dont use 'VMR9 Custom' renderer on a second monitor. Most video card drivers dont provide the direct3d accelleration on the second monitor.

The no signal detected is determined by whether video data is flow, not the signal quality/strength. The first thing we'd need to do when this happens is make sure the tuning request has the correct audio and video pids - I suspect not, but I suspect this relates to the problem I discussed with whurlston earlier in this thread. Nick (the HDHomeRun guy) is going to fix this in their drivers.

[1] Second monitor (projector) WAS to the left of Primary monitor.
[2] Was using overlay manager, not VMR9.
[3] I have found several occasions where the correct data was entered into the digital channel mapping, and subsequently it was changed. Not sure how it was changed. However, there were many cases when correct data was there and "no signal" was displayed. After a quick channel change, the signal was "found".

Recapping: AFTER nVidia PureVideo and upgraded UniChrome driver.

Machine w/ UniChrome ran VLC at 1024 x 768 satisfactorily. Sound in sync. However, GB-PVR intermittently failed while displaying. It would send message that it had an error and had to shut down.

Machine w/ NVIDIA GeForce MX 440 / AGP 8x card did not display well at 1280 x 720
1) VLC stuttered, but sound was in sync
2) GB-PVR did not stutter, but sound was out of sync, and it crashed intermittently (on average, 12 - 15 minutes). (And this during the Super Bowl, no less!)

Both machines running AMD A64 2.4 GHz (754), Gigabyte K8VM800M, 1 GB DDR 400. Both machines can display video files with various resolutions and sources (DVD, AVI, XVID, DIVX, VOB).

*(Are there any minimum hardware considerations that need be addressed?)

Having advanced to the stage where I must demur on live TV, I set up a short recording and discovered an "interesting" situation.

To scroll down the menu, one needs a scroll wheel mouse. Unfortunately, I have a trackball with no scroll. This made scrolling to the "exit program" very difficult.
:-(

In addition, on playback (which was flawless, no stutter or sync problems), my trackball (and buttons) could not fast forward or rewind. Plus, the green status bar doesn't do anything but show a little pointer. Or can one grab that pointer (with a scroll mouse) to ff/rwd ?
[ perhaps alternatives to the scroll mouse as primary input device could be an option ]

On the sections of the channel guide that I can access, I could select, and set for immediate recording of the program. However, I could not advance the channel menu to set up a recording in a different day / time or channel.

I may have missed the section in the instruction manual, but isn't there a way to program a channel and time independent of the menu?

Final note - how does one select which HDHR feed (0 or 1) is used for channel changing?

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[3] I have found several occasions where the correct data was entered into the digital channel mapping, and subsequently it was changed. Not sure how it was changed.

I cant think of any reason for, and havnt seen any other reports of it. What did it change from/to?

However, there were many cases when correct data was there and "no signal" was displayed. After a quick channel change, the signal was "found".

Next time it occurs, zip and attach your logs, and a brief commentary of what channel you were on, and which channel you changed to, and I'll take a look.

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You can probably stop these crashes you encountered by setting <BDAUsePsiParser>false</BDAUsePsiParser> in config.xml, but its important to remember to switch this back to 'true' before attempt a channel scan again or it'll fail to find any channels.

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On the misbehaving machine, the Video Adapter Model is a VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP chipset on mainboard

Both machines running AMD A64 2.4 GHz (754), Gigabyte K8VM800M, 1 GB DDR 400. Both machines can display video files with various resolutions and sources (DVD, AVI, XVID, DIVX, VOB).

*(Are there any minimum hardware considerations that need be addressed?)

The CPU should be ok, but that S3 is likely to be a problem with any HDTV video. Most people require a pretty decent video device to HDTV playback working (nvidia 6600 or higher).

In addition, on playback (which was flawless, no stutter or sync problems), my trackball (and buttons) could not fast forward or rewind. Plus, the green status bar doesn't do anything but show a little pointer. Or can one grab that pointer (with a scroll mouse) to ff/rwd ?

No you can click the green status bar. GB-PVR's control is pretty much designed for remotes. There is some minimal mouse control - but it doesnt extend to stuff like this.

On the sections of the channel guide that I can access, I could select, and set for immediate recording of the program. However, I could not advance the channel menu to set up a recording in a different day / time or channel.

I may have missed the section in the instruction manual, but isn't there a way to program a channel and time independent of the menu?

You can click the 'manual rec' button in the recordings screen to create a recording on any channel/time/recurance.

Final note - how does one select which HDHR feed (0 or 1) is used for channel changing?

I think the HDHomeRun driver only enables the first tuner, so you'll need to wait for this to be resolved. After this is in place, you can setup two capture sources for the HDHomeRun, one as device #1 the other as device #2, and GB-PVR will automatically allocate recordings to these capture sources.

[jetgraphics]

I cant think of any reason for, and havnt seen any other reports of it. What did it change from/to?

Next time it occurs, zip and attach your logs, and a brief commentary of what channel you were on, and which channel you changed to, and I'll take a look.

Ex: Checking in the EDIT RECORDING SOURCE
Current Tuning Request:
T:17,16,1~P:3~V:144~A:145~PMT:169~N:>16.1 (000)
Original entry:
T:16,16,1~P:3~V:144~A:145~PMT:169~N:>16.1 (000)

Which logs?
Send them where?