Pinnacle dual diversity on Vista, anyone had success?

[kebabman]

Pinnacle have finally posted Vista drivers for the Dual Diversity stick on their website. On my dual boot pc of xp and vista I have tried to get GB-pvr running using vista but with no success. The pinnacle tuners show up in the device type list in config but dont show when I select "only show devices detected in this machine". I have also tried using the bda.ini file used in xp which i know works. I tried a while ago with Pinnacles beta vista drivers but they didnt work, so I have uninstalled gbpvr this morning, deleted the directory and reinstalled GBPVR but I still have no success. I am assuming pinnacles drivers are ok for vista as I have managed to get vista media center to show TV programmes. Any help gratefully received, thanks

[sub]

They've probably changed the names used by their vista drivers. Can you run FilterCheck then attach the resulting FilterCheck.log: http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...ostcount=6

[kebabman]

As requested, thanks

[sub]

Strangely, your filter names look like they should match the following device in bda.ini:

[Pinnacle 2000e Dual DVB-T Tuner3]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="PCTV DiB BDA Digital Tuner (Dev2 Path0) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="PCTV DiB BDA Digital Tuner (Dev2 Path0) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Pinnacle 2000e Dual DVB-T Tuner4]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="PCTV DiB BDA Digital Tuner (Dev2 Path1) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="PCTV DiB BDA Digital Tuner (Dev2 Path1) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

If it's not matching, it might be worth removing the space before the quote on the FILTER_TUNER & FILTER_CAPTURE lines.

[kebabman]

Many thanks for your rapid reply, unfortunately i am still getting the "no detected cards" error, i tried removing the space

[sub]

Sorry, I'd meant to post the following:

[Pinnacle 2000e Dual DVB-T Tuner1]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="PCTV DiB BDA Digital Tuner (Dev1 Path0) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="PCTV DiB BDA Digital Tuner (Dev1 Path0) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Pinnacle 2000e Dual DVB-T Tuner2]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="PCTV DiB BDA Digital Tuner (Dev1 Path1) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="PCTV DiB BDA Digital Tuner (Dev1 Path1) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

Did you try those also?

[kebabman]

I thought I had tried all the permutations and combinations of bda.ini entries for tuner 1 and 2 with and without the space but obviously not but anyway good news now, after copy and pasting from your post above it now works. One thing I did notice when scanning for the channels was that there was never any value against the signal strength and quality figures, 0 only ever showed even though the channels were received, whereas under XP i obviously got values each time I scanned. Many thanks for your help.

[sub]

Glad you got it working.

One thing I did notice when scanning for the channels was that there was never any value against the signal strength and quality figures, 0 only ever showed even though the channels were received, whereas under XP i obviously got values each time I scanned.

Different drivers report the signal strength differently, or sometimes not at all. This probably comes under the latter category. Thats not to say they dont have a way to report the signal strength/quality, but more likely they use some proprietary mechanism in their own app rather than the BDA mechanism.