Multiple glitches with installation!

[genuckols]

After reading through many of the posts I see I am not the only one that has these problems, but I have not found an answer that shows that someone has found out how to fix them yet.  Perhaps I just can't find the right post with the answers. Can someone point me in the right direction.

About 10 months ago I bought a HP Media Center PC with MS MCE installed.  I have been happily recording TV, editing out commercials, and saving to DVD with no problems.  The only thing I didn't like about it was that I could only record one thing at a time and couldn't watch something else if a recording was in progress.

I decided to try GB-PVR to see if it would do what I wanted.  I made a few guesses when configuring GB-PVR and must have guessed right.  It installed and works flawlessly on the HP with the tuner card that came it.

I have been lurking on this forum for a couple of weeks and felt comfortable in being able to dedicate a pc to build a pvr.  I wanted to replace the 3 vcrs I have been using in my living room with a single machine.  I ordered 3 WinTV-PVR-150MCEs and a MediaMVP.  

I tried to install all 3 capture cards in the pc and ran into problems.  The system recognized all three but would only install drivers for 2 of them.  When it tried to install the third, it would always hang the OS and I had to reboot.

I removed 1 of the PVR-150MCEs and the other two installed without problem.  I was able to install GB-PVR and connect to Zap2it to load the TV Guide.  Everything looks just as my HP installation with a few major exception.  
    1.  When I tried to go to Live TV, I got the "Debug Assertion Failed!" message.  The dialog box says the the error is in dbgdel.cpp at line 52 and to see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts.  
    2.  At first, when a recording was scheduled, a directory was made but it was empty.  After some changing out cards and rebooting a few times, I now get a recording but of the wrong channel.  When I play back the recording through Media Player I see the correct show for a few seconds, then the sound disappears and the channel changes to something else.  It reminds me of an old tv and vcr setup I had once --when you turn off the vcr but the tv was still getting a signal through the cable what you saw on the tv screen was the channel 3 or 4 the vcr was set to.

I removed one of the remaining cards so that there was only one PVR-150MCE in the machine in case there was a conflict between the 2 cards.  The result was the same.

When I installed the MediaMVP I ran into another problem. I can see the folders in each menu (Video, Pictures, Music) but when I try to show a video or picture I get a message that the folder is empty. I had assumed that the videos that had been recorded using GB-PVR would be the right format to play through the MediaMVP since I see that many people say that they use this device.

I have a Pentium 4 1.82Gh with 512 MB RAM.  I believe this comfiguration should be able to handle what I want to do.  I have see mention of problems similar to these in the forums I have read. Has anyone figured them out?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

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Which MPEG2 decoder is installed?

[sub]

Quote[/b] ]When I installed the MediaMVP I ran into another problem.  I can see the folders in each menu (Video, Pictures, Music) but when I try to show a video or picture I get a message that the folder is empty.  I had assumed that the videos that had been recorded using GB-PVR would be the right format to play through the MediaMVP since I see that many people say that they use this device.

Reproduce this error and send your logs to me at support@devnz.com

[genuckols]

Quote[/b] (sub @ Jan. 15 2005,20:10)]Which MPEG2 decoder is installed?

Since I don't really know much about the MPEG2 decoder I had to do some guessing on this setting.  In GB-PVR Configuration on the HP my choices were: System Default, InterVideo Video Decoder, and MainConcept (Hauppauge) MPEG Video.  I chose InterVideo Video Decoder and it seems to work okay.

On the other machine, the choices were similar.  The difference was the second choice - InterVideo NonCSS Video Decoder fo.. (I can't figure out how to see the rest of the description).  I have tried all 3 settings and finally have Live TV working - I think.  I can't figure out the replay and fast forward buttons.  When I try to use one of them the sound disappears.  

The settings I am using are:
  Video Decoder : InterVideo NonCSS Video Decoder
  Audio Decoder : InterVideo NonCSS Audio Decoder
  Audio Renderer: Intel® Integrated Audio

VMR9 (default) doesn't work.  I have tried both VMR7 and Overlay Manager and don't see any difference.

Is the info you needed to help figure this out?

Thanks for the fast response.

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Quote[/b] ]On the other machine, the choices were similar. The difference was the second choice - InterVideo NonCSS Video Decoder fo.. (I can't figure out how to see the rest of the description). I have tried all 3 settings and finally have Live TV working - I think. I can't figure out the replay and fast forward buttons. When I try to use one of them the sound disappears.

OK, so you now have working video - thats good. There has been a few reports of ff/rw causing the sound to disappear, for now just use the skip controls instead.

As I said earlier on the 'folder is empty' message - you'll need to send your log files.

[genuckols]

Logs have been sent. Thanks again for such a fast response.