Can't get video to display

[stu123]

GB-PVR Newbie here, hoping someone can point me in the right direction on this...

Watching live TV in PVRX2 the audio is fine but there is no picture - same thing if I record some live tv and try to play back. There is a quality and signal strength indicator on live tv for the first few seconds and that suggests both are ok or good (two thirds to full bar) but there is a message on the screen saying no signal detected. This contrasts with PVRConfig - both audio and picture working fine in the preview mode when mapping channels.

Running GB-PVR 1.0.16 and also downloaded new PVRX2 executable (no change). Other info: P4 2Ghz, 1GB RAM, Nova-T-500 dual tuner card, XP w SP2, Installed Direct X9.0b, .net 2.0, recent Windows Media before installing GB-PVR, also have registered the ati & Cyberlink muxes - tried both, no difference.

Logs attached in a zip and also included a screen shot gif of the live tv view.

Last point - I noticed this error in the pvrx2.exe log:
2007-09-12 22:48:20.468 VERBOSE m_pD3DDev->Present() failed
Error code : 80004005
E_FAIL
An undetermined error occurred

Thanks in advance for any pointers.
Stuart

[sub]

What video card are you using?

[stu123]

Video Card = NVIDIA GEForce2 MX PCI card
Having read another thread I just tried switching the video renderer from VRML9 to Overlay Manager and the live video displays correctly when using GBPVR rather than PVRX2.

Does this mean the video card / driver is unsuitable???

Thanks
Stuart

PS Installed graphics adapter drivers look like they may be old so I'm downloading the latest driver pack from NVIDIA and will retry VRML9 with that. Thx

[stu123]

ok - new graphics drivers applied and video renderer set to VRM9 - PVRX2 now displays video

But I'm still getting a message box overlayed on the picture saying there is no signal :confused: (see attached)

Ideas?

[Deusxmachina]

But I'm still getting a message box overlayed on the picture saying there is no signal :confused: (see attached)

Ideas?

I was messing with that one yesterday. Do a search for "signal meter" to find the specific threads, but from what I read the only real choice you have is to disable the meter, which is in config.xml and then edit it in notepad or something and in the BDA section make it <BDADisableStatusChecks>true</BDADisableStatusChecks> you just change the false to true, and hopefully that will get rid of it.

[sub]

ok - new graphics drivers applied and video renderer set to VRM9 - PVRX2 now displays video

Cool - thats what I was going to suggest if you said you had a GeForce MX card.

But I'm still getting a message box overlayed on the picture saying there is no signal :confused: (see attached)

See the patch for this in the sticky 'v1.0.16 survival guide' thread.

[stu123]

Thanks both Sub and Deusxmachina

Applied the patch - no change

but <BDADisableStatusChecks>true</BDADisableStatusChecks> got rid of the message box - obviously the signal checking is now diabled but I'm fine with that - I can always re-enable if I'm in troubleshooting mode.

The community feel and prompt attention makes going the GB-PVR route a good move.

Regards
Stuart