how to setup HVR1600 for broadcast ASTC and DirecTV?

[Wakalaka]

If I don't connect with coax, then how will the capture card get audio to record? Svideo only gets video.

[sub]

As we've described above - connect with coax. Set your input source to 'fixed channel, external tuner' option. Set the constant channel number to 2/3/4 or whatever RF channel the DirecTV box outputs on.

[Wakalaka]

for output from sat box, use svideo if you possibly can, it has a far better picture than rf coax[usualy ch 3 or 4 in US,but could be different on directtv box] [rf coax channel is same channel you tune tv to when connecting it directly to sat box]

This is why I asked how svideo will also transmit audio from the DirecTV tuner box -- it can't.

[sub]

If you use svideo, then you'd have to plug in the left/right (white/red) audio cable too.

svideo will give a better picture than your original coax plan, but either option will work.

[Wakalaka]

Guide data now loads correctly. There are some bugs in the ytvapi_xml that need to be worked out. After I removed the double 648 channel entry, and changed all &amp to and (they all used to be &, then I changed them to &amp), the guide data loaded. Why is it said that & must be changed to &amp for the XMLTV loader to work?

I tried changing channel via guide to a DirecTV channel. Double-clicked guide entry, clicked Watch, got this error:

2007-07-08 16:40:34.234 VERBOSE [1] Running: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\HipSend.exe 106
2007-07-08 16:40:34.390 VERBOSE [1] DirectRecordingSource::getPreviewGraph(106)
2007-07-08 16:40:34.593 ERROR [1] Error: msg=0x202 (WM_LBUTTONUP) hwnd=0x3403be wparam=0x0 lparam=0x2180112 result=0x0 : System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at ConnectFilters(IBaseFilter* pFilterUpstream, IBaseFilter* pFilterDownstream)
at NativeUtilities.ConexantRecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, ConexantRecordSource recordingSource, Int32 qualitySetting, Int32 board, String filename, Int32 channel, Int32 countryCode, Int32 tuningType, Boolean useStreamingEngineIfAvailable, Boolean previewMode, Boolean fmRadioMode, Boolean fmRadioPreviewMode)
at NativeUtilities.ConexantRecorder.getPreviewGraph(String cardType, ConexantRecordSource recordingSource, Int32 board, Int32 channel, Int32 countryCode, Int32 tuningType)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.DirectRecordingSource.getPreviewGraph(ChannelTuning channelTuning)
at GBPVR.xb3e61f7448c39547.x4276385f71addb51(Channel xee500015fb4a65b6)
at GBPVR.x4a212861656a24dd.x3852f96f8dab4cab(Channel xee500015fb4a65b6)
at GBPVR.x05e13382b8294c7a.xb4057d727283fc14(x8b4f0834394c048a x12ea9462ae6eb890)
at GBPVR.xa556fe3f7d8d6ce3.OnClick(Point location)
at GBPVR.x05e13382b8294c7a.OnClick(Point location)
at GBPVR.x86396f56243de9fb.OnClick(Point location)
at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xf1b04f0b61b2ba29(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.WndProc(Message& m)

Capture source is setup as follows:
Recording Source: Direct Recording Plugin
Capture Card Type: Hauppauge HVR-1600 (Analog)
Source: Fixed-Channel, External Tuner
Tuning: Cable
Constant Channel: 3
EPG Source: XMLTV Plugin (points to my ytvxml.xml file)
Channel Changer: .exe Changer Plugin
Executable: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\HipSend.exe
Parameters: {channel}
Checked: Zero pad channel number
Checked: Use three digit channel numbers

[sub]

Guide data now loads correctly. There are some bugs in the ytvapi_xml that need to be worked out. After I removed the double 648 channel entry, and changed all &amp to and (they all used to be &, then I changed them to &amp), the guide data loaded. Why is it said that & must be changed to &amp for the XMLTV loader to work?

This is just the way the xml file standard works. Its not a GB-PVR thing. Same story with html files. If you really want to know more, google will give you a million articles on it.

I tried changing channel via guide to a DirecTV channel. Double-clicked guide entry, clicked Watch, got this error:

2007-07-08 16:40:34.234 VERBOSE [1] Running: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\HipSend.exe 106
2007-07-08 16:40:34.390 VERBOSE [1] DirectRecordingSource::getPreviewGraph(106)
2007-07-08 16:40:34.593 ERROR [1] Error: msg=0x202 (WM_LBUTTONUP) hwnd=0x3403be wparam=0x0 lparam=0x2180112 result=0x0 : System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at ConnectFilters(IBaseFilter* pFilterUpstream, IBaseFilter* pFilterDownstream)
at NativeUtilities.ConexantRecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, ConexantRecordSource recordingSource, Int32 qualitySetting, Int32 board, String filename, Int32 channel, Int32 countryCode, Int32 tuningType, Boolean useStreamingEngineIfAvailable, Boolean previewMode, Boolean fmRadioMode, Boolean fmRadioPreviewMode)

zip and attach the logs and I'll take a look.

[Wakalaka]

Logs attached.

[Wakalaka]

This is just the way the xml file standard works. Its not a GB-PVR thing. Same story with html files. If you really want to know more, google will give you a million articles on it.

Why is it that when I had &amp in there, Update EPG didn't succeed? I took out the double channel 648 but had &amp and it failed with an error in EntityName and it specified a line and position. That line had &amp in it. I changed all &amp to and, then Update EPG worked.

[sub]

Can you run filtercheck, then zip and attach the filtercheck.log it produces: http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...ostcount=6

[sub]

Why is it that when I had &amp in there, Update EPG didn't succeed? I took out the double channel 648 but had &amp and it failed with an error in EntityName and it specified a line and position. That line had &amp in it. I changed all &amp to and, then Update EPG worked.

Did you have "&amp" not "&". That semi-colon is pretty important.