Tuning problem for a new user.

[dan0124]

I had installed a commercial PVR trial package. I then tried GB-PVR which works very nicely. So I uninstalled the commercial software trial and GB-PVR no longer functions correctly. When I go to the channel scan only the last channel i was watching shows up with no audio. A scan results in nothing found.

If I reinstall the commercial trial everything in GB-PVR funcitons again. What do you suppose the commercial package is installing that my installation of GB-PVR requires ? I would like to remove the trial software.

I am using it for OTA HDTV. I run vista with an ATI 650 Theater pro. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[stustunz]

what is the commercial software its ok you can say
did you try re installing gbpvr without the other software?

[whurlston]

My guess is that it was SageTv. There was an issue found on the HDHomeRun forums where uninstalling Sage could break the Windows BDA drivers.

Try right-clicking c:\windows\inf\bda.inf and choose "Install". You will then need to restart the GB-PVR Recording Service and also GBPVR/PVRx2 if they were running.

[dan0124]

S*geTV is the product.
I reinstalled GB-PVR from scratch, rebooted, re-registered filters. The only thing that makes GB-PVR to work flawlessly for me is to reinstall S*ageTV (and I don't even have to start it up and I don't require a reboot).

I am using the latest version of GB-PVR 1.1.5 and had the same thing problem with 1.0.16.

[sub]

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

[dan0124]

Here are the logs.

I ran the channel scan after uninstalling SageTv. Everything was fine before that. The scan returned the same channel each time and there was no sound with the channel. I rebooted and tried the scan again and got the same result. Reinstalling SageTv corrects the problem without a reboot.

I tried the suggestion for installing bda.inf but that did not seem to help either.

Thanks for looking.

[Turas]

S*geTV is the product.
I reinstalled GB-PVR from scratch, rebooted, re-registered filters. The only thing that makes GB-PVR to work flawlessly for me is to reinstall S*ageTV (and I don't even have to start it up and I don't require a reboot).

I am using the latest version of GB-PVR 1.1.5 and had the same thing problem with 1.0.16.

had the same problems some time ago. http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=28781

br turas
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[sub]

Sorry, I dont know. There is nothing obvious in the logs.

[dan0124]

I wonder how many others have experienced this. I had originally thought that GB-PVR did not work since I had first uninstalled SageTV before I initially tried GB-PVR. I went back and gave GB-PVR another shot after I reinstalled Sage TV and that is when I discovered this problem.

When I was uninstalling SageTV, the uninstall requested that both Windows Media Center and GB-PVR be shut down to continue or a reboot was required so I assumed it was uninstalling something they were using .

Unfortunately for me it was a new PC and I had been installing a lot of software so my system restore did not go back to pre sage install time.

If I ever get I solution I will update this thread.

Thanks for the responses.

[stustunz]

i know its not i deal but just leave sage installed if its not open it wont really be using any resources
does media portal work?


from memory there was someone else with your problem a while back but i think he gave up i tried all sorts to get him sorted but he never com up with the answer or the fact that it worked if you left sage installed so i guess at least you are further ahead than him
i think he installed ona blank hard drive but said it wasnt acceptable and gave up i think
i wonder what the files are that sage removes when it un-installs