2 x Pinnacle Dual DVB-T Diversity (2000e) - second card won't work

[AlexHeylin]

I have a weird issue. At home I have GBPVR running on WinXP using two of these USB cards quite happily (apart from odd crash which I suspect is because the PC's been thrashed and not rebuilt for four years). At work I've got a PVR server running Win2003 Svr and it can detect the 1st card (with both tuners) quite happily, however when I try to add the second card (another two tuners) by repeating the steps I took for card one but changing the device number to two instead of one, all seems OK until I try to do Map Channels at which point it complains it can't find any configured BDA hardware.

I have already hacked the BDA.ini as required to get these cards to be recognised, however this doesn't seem to affect this issue.

Originally it couldn't find a Mux, so I installed PowerDVD Creator and selected the Intervideo mux in config. This has had no effect on the issue though. Previously both tuners on card one worked (no channels detected, but no working aerial connected yet as server is on computer room in centre of building) however both tuners on card two reported as not detected. Exactly the same happens since I installed the Mux and changed config and restarted the PC.

The relevant lines in the config.exe.log would appear to be these...

2007-04-30 07:02:33.759 VERBOSE [3] About to connect to remote recording service
2007-04-30 07:02:33.759 VERBOSE [3] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/RecordingServiceLocation
2007-04-30 07:02:33.759 VERBOSE [3] getValue: /settings/RecordingServiceLocation : tcp://localhost:7968/RecordingRemote
2007-04-30 07:02:34.446 VERBOSE [1] labelAction.Text = Saving new listings and channel information
2007-04-30 07:02:36.787 VERBOSE [1] BDA Channel Mapping screen loading...
2007-04-30 07:02:36.787 VERBOSE [1] getValue cached value: /settings/BDAUsePsiParser : true
2007-04-30 07:02:36.787 VERBOSE [1] Using PSI Parser
2007-04-30 07:02:36.787 VERBOSE [1] getValue cached value: /settings/BDAAutoScan166KHzOffset : true
2007-04-30 07:02:36.787 VERBOSE [1] Auto scanning 166KHz offset for DVB-T
2007-04-30 07:02:37.974 ERROR [1] Error starting preview window: Failed to locate configured BDA capture device
2007-04-30 07:02:37.974 ERROR [1] at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Int32 diseqc, Boolean powered, Boolean previewMode)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Int32 diseqc, Boolean powered)
at Config.Plugins.x501d1ffea8b79320.x692a1118e1794d77(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)

Both devices have the latest drivers from Pinnacle installed and appear OK in device manager.

Log file attached if someone would be good enough to take a look and give me some clues...?

[sub]

Can you run FilterCheck then attach the resulting FilterCheck.log: http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...ostcount=6

[AlexHeylin]

This gets more strange...

I uninstalled and reinstalled my home GBPVR (to try and fix the odd crashes) and now this is doing the same as the work PVR i.e. the two tuners in card one work, but adding another tuner on card two results in the same error message.

Please confirm that the correct way to set up two of these cards is to install each detected tuner once for card one (device 1 in config), and then to install a second pair exactly the same except using device ID 2 in config?

Here is the log from my reinstalled home GBPVR.

Thanks

[sub]

Because this manufacturer uses a different filter name for each device plugged in, you need to set up the capture sources as:

Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner1, device #1
Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner2, device #1
Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner3, device #1
Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner4, device #1

You've already got the definitions for "Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner1" and "Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner2" in your BDA.ini, but you'll need to add the additional two as:



[Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner3]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="BDA Digital Tuner (Dev2 Path0) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="BDA Digital Capture (Dev2 Path0) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner4]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="BDA Digital Tuner (Dev2 Path1) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="BDA Digital Capture (Dev2 Path1) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[AlexHeylin]

Just to confirm, my BDA.ini now looks like this

[Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner1]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="BDA Digital Tuner (Dev1 Path0) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="BDA Digital Capture (Dev1 Path0) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner2]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="BDA Digital Tuner (Dev1 Path1) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="BDA Digital Capture (Dev1 Path1) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner3]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="BDA Digital Tuner (Dev2 Path0) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="BDA Digital Capture (Dev2 Path0) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner4]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="BDA Digital Tuner (Dev2 Path1) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="BDA Digital Capture (Dev2 Path1) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner5]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="BDA Digital Tuner (Dev3 Path0) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="BDA Digital Capture (Dev3 Path0) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Tuner6]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="BDA Digital Tuner (Dev3 Path1) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="BDA Digital Capture (Dev3 Path1) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

And the three cards I have available at the moment are all detected and work fine, so this should probably be slated for the next release.

Thanks Sub!

[sub]

Great. I'll include the definitions in the master bda.ini.