No Channels Found

[M-Ray]

Hi,

I'm totally new to GB-PVR having been recommended it by a colleague who suggested it would be an end to my DVR-MS transcoding woes.

My Setup
2x Twinhan DVB-T 3054 PCI cards
Win XP MCE 2005
UK Freeview, Southern England, Crystal Palace
GB-PVR 1.08

MCE uses both cards fine, and finds all of the Freeview channels.

I installed the GB-PVR app as defined on the site, with no plugins and when running the config app set the option to only display DVB cards that the software finds - it correctly identified the Twinhan 3054s. When I try to scan it goes through, displaying 1 of 7 etc messages, and showing values of strength around 65% and quality >95% - although the little preview screen stays black throughout. At the end, it reports no channels found. I've re-run this quite a few times now to no avail. Had a good look in the forum,and the only things I have been able to find dates back a year or so along the lines of adding <BDAScanType>2</BDAScanType> to config.xml but this made no difference. I noticed that this node was not actually in my XML in the first place - so has this been deprecated?

Does anyone have any ideas? I am sure I have probably just done something daft but can't for the life of me figure it out!

[whurlston]

If you are running this on an MCE OS, you may have to disable the Media Center Receiver Service.

[M-Ray]

Thanks for the tip - alas, I've disabled all the MCE services and double checked no MCE processes are running when the config app does the scan but still no luck. Could be my imagination, but I think the scan is taking a little longer now and reporting more signals (as far as quality and strength are concerned) but it still ends up with no channels found.

[stustunz]

it should show
them below the little screen and they should also show up in the box(well with mine it shows the first one it finds )
then you go to the left box and map them your guide

have you put in the correct area

[M-Ray]

No - I don't see any of what you mention. Definitely the correct area - also my MCE setup works fine on the Crystal Palace transmitter - besides I also tried it set to "All areas" and that didn't work either!

[stustunz]

the signal sounds a bit weak to me

maybe mce is still interfearing

i know it worked with mce for you
but have you tried just using one card to begin with
just to see if you can get a better signal

[bgowland]

sub - I know you're busy at the moment so I had a look at the logs (M-Ray is in my DVB-T area so thought I could help).

This from the config.exe-native.log...

2007-08-04 10:43:52.453 VERBOSE Adding MPEG-2 Sections and Tables filter
2007-08-04 10:43:52.546 VERBOSE ConnectPins failed: hr = 80040217

I know that's a generic connection failure error code but you'll probably have an idea as to what could cause it in this instance.

Cheers,
Brian

[sub]

I do know why that happens, and it can safely be ignored. Most people get this specific error in their logs.

[sub]

M-Ray, there is no obvious cause in your logs, but you could try adding the following registry setting, create c:\temp directory, then scan again.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Devnz\LogPsiProcessing=2 (DWORD)

After the scan completes, zip and attach c:\temp\psi.log, then delete that registry setting.

This log file will let me see what data is coming from the capture device.

[M-Ray]

Done, and attached.