HVR 1600 QAM won't record

[eds]

Same card, same problems. Sometimes I get a beautiful picture (NBC HD) and across my picture it says no signal. Quality is almost full bar, strength is no bar. Weird.

[zaphod7501]

FWIW, several people over at AVS have reported that after RMA-ing the card with Hauppauge, their tuning and recording problems disappeared. If problems persit, exchanging the card could be an option.

[Detroit Dan]

I get the same problem as the original poster.

I have a single HVR1600, and XP media center for analog recordings. Using GBPVR for QAM, and once it works both digital and analog.

GBPVR will display and play video and audio digital channels with no problem, but it will not record them.
When I go to the folder that the recording should be in, I have 2 files, each of which are 6kb and non-supported formats of DVR-MS (according to media player). XP media center makes recordings dvr-ms without problem I can play with GBPVR, so I think the DVR-MS mux is working properly on the analog side. Is it different for recording digital QAM vs analog?

I also tried and downloaded the cyberlink & intervideo muxs after reading other posts when I record with either BDA driver, I get a 0KB mpg file like another poster here that can not be played by GBPVR or media player

I also have the same problem as other users, in that if I pause live tv the screen goes blank for about 10 seconds, then returns to the main menu.
My guess is recording is the problem, not playback.
I've changed the config.xml file, but no fix.
tuning tool shows strong signal and reception on all channels I am trying to record.

Any suggestions?

[dawnview]

I also have the same problem as other users, in that if I pause live tv the screen goes blank for about 10 seconds, then returns to the main menu.
My guess is recording is the problem, not playback.
I've changed the config.xml file, but no fix.
tuning tool shows strong signal and reception on all channels I am trying to record.

Any suggestions?

I am also having this problem, I have an HD HomeRun and the HVR 1600 and I can't seem to record or pause live TV from either exactly as is being described here. It is true for QAM or regular cable channels. Everything else is working great but when I record--0k files or the 6k files with the MS-dvr mux. It is most vexing:confused:

[Detroit Dan]

Fixed the recording problem, but it wasnt easy:
after sorting through 4-5 codec tools, I found the Hauppage mpeg1 and mpeg4 video codecs installed with the HVR1600 would not work properly with WMP11. (version 3.4d1)
I reinstalled default windows codecs, the HVR1600 and all apps but still couldnt get anything to work with digital recordings (except winTV - but that is JUNK)

How I fixed:
1) unregistered & removed Hauppage (HCW) mpeg driver. could see it was trying to be used from either graphedit or gspot programs. This was the main problem! MPEG 4 also didnt appear to work for me in windows
1) installed Nvidia purevideo (handles Mpeg-2 and other files)
2) installed FFDshow (for mpeg1 &mpeg4).
3) installed cyberlink mux (although didnt need it)

It appears to me GBPVR makes an MPEG1 or 4 file, not sure which (at least that is what my computer thinks it is doing hen I try to playback or record digital QAM tv.

What was fixed:
1) digital live TV pause now works if I pause it. (before was pause for 10 seconds with black screen, then back to main menu)
2) files DVR-MS made by GBPVR now are bigger than 6kb and work (before was 2 files, each 6kb)
3) files made by cyberlink mux (mpeg) are no longer 0K!
3) recordings made by GBPVR play pack inside WMP11 and GBPVR!

Hope this helps others...spent hours screwing with it!

[dawnview]

How I fixed:
1) unregistered & removed Hauppage (HCW) mpeg driver. could see it was trying to be used from either graphedit or gspot programs. This was the main problem! MPEG 4 also didnt appear to work for me in windows
1) installed Nvidia purevideo (handles Mpeg-2 and other files)
2) installed FFDshow (for mpeg1 &mpeg4).
3) installed cyberlink mux (although didnt need it)

Any suggestions as to how to repeat this on other systems? What drivers specifically? Did you use the command line, etc. I archived the Hauppage subdirectory in system32 and ran hcwclear.exe and I can now pause cable TV but still not QAM. Graphedit indicates that .ts playback is using NVIDIA pureVideo decoders (video and audio), is there a way to check exactly what GBpvr is using?

[Detroit Dan]

- The main problem for me was the mpeg1 & 4 decoders. Purevideo only appears to do Mpeg-2. Of course I deleted the broken hauppage codecs called HCW Mpeg1 or Mpeg4 (two different ones).

- digital files dvr-ms are identified on my system as mpeg4
- analog files dvr-ms are identified (on my system) as mpeg2
- purevideo only appears to do mpeg2, and it also seems you can only select mpeg2 video decoders in GBPVR. everything else is the mysterious "system default" I suspect your problem is the same as mine, your system default hauppage codec can not render mpeg4, so live preview or recordings will not work.

Once I figured out the defective files were mpeg4, itwas an easy function to google a mpeg4 decoder and I decided on ffdshow. You might be able to install ffdshow on top of the Hauppage codecs, but I am not sure if it would be the default player in "media player" which seems to be what GBPVR uses to render the video until you kill the old codecs.
To get rid of the old ones, i recommend freeware called codec sniper

[dawnview]

- The main problem for me was the mpeg1 & 4 decoders. Purevideo only appears to do Mpeg-2. Of course I deleted the broken hauppage codecs called HCW Mpeg1 or Mpeg4 (two different ones).

- digital files dvr-ms are identified on my system as mpeg4
- analog files dvr-ms are identified (on my system) as mpeg2
- purevideo only appears to do mpeg2, and it also seems you can only select mpeg2 video decoders in GBPVR. everything else is the mysterious "system default" I suspect your problem is the same as mine, your system default hauppage codec can not render mpeg4, so live preview or recordings will not work.

Once I figured out the defective files were mpeg4, itwas an easy function to google a mpeg4 decoder and I decided on ffdshow. You might be able to install ffdshow on top of the Hauppage codecs, but I am not sure if it would be the default player in "media player" which seems to be what GBPVR uses to render the video until you kill the old codecs.
To get rid of the old ones, i recommend freeware called codec sniper

Thank you most kindly, I have downloaded ffdshow and installed it, but I will try codec sniper to be certain all the HCW codecs are gone!

[BamBam]

Similiar problem. I have an HVR-1600 and HVR-1800 in the compute.

I can watch QAM on the 1600 with no problems. Looks great. When I try to play back a QAM recording in PVRX2 the program ends with the "Due to a problem, this ..." Looking in the recordings directory, the file is there and plays well with media player. I tried the DVR-MS mux and had the same results. It causes PVRx2 to end.

Also, the file converstion to dvr-ms. to divx fails from within GBPVR when I try to convert the files.

[dawnview]

I have eliminated the HCW codecs and I am still having the QAM issue, when I exit PVRX2 after the drop back to the main menu I see the Nvidia or FFDshow decoder icon in the dock for a second so it must be contacting them--but it still will not pause or record. I am so ready to give up on GB-PVR!