PVR-350: "Video is playing back using TV out"

[sh00tr]

I have a Compaq P-4 1.8Ghz, with two tuners in it and a 300GB HDD. GB-PVR 1.0.8, WinXP SP2 all patched up. I am using a Ge-Force4 MX video card (hard to find anything better that is low profile and TV out without spending a fortune).

I was disappointed with the CPU utilization when comskip was processing a file, GB-PVR was recording on the other tuner and I was playing back another.

I sieze the opportunity to get a Hauppage PVR-350 cheap because I thought the on-board MPEG decoder would offload the decoding from the CPU and GPU.

Anyhow, I reconfigured playback to use the hardware in GBPVR. Now when I go to play a video it says "Video is playing back using TV out". Damn. I don't want that - I don' want to switch between tv inputs to play from the menus in GBPVR. Seems I shouldn't have to do that though.

I thought that the card would provide a software interface to a hardware chip that would offload the MPEG decoding and allow better performance.

Any tips or pointers folks? What've I configured wrong? Do I need to adjust the software options for the device driver, or GB-PVR?

Thanks,

GP

[sub]

The PVR350's hardware decoder is hardwired to its tv out connectors. There is no way to use it to decode the picture but display via your Ge-Force4 MX video card.

Unfortunately you probably made a bad choice buying a PVR350. It hasnt been supported in GB-PVR for nearly two years. I originally dropped support for this device because a large percentage of PVR350 user would find their machine would lockup in the drivers within minutes of using the PVR350 tv out. Some people have been lucky enough for it to keep working for them in GBPVR.exe. Unfortunately that is about to come to an end as GBPVR.exe has been retired in favour of PVRX2.exe.

[sh00tr]

Oh carp!... Oh well. I'm learning a lot - it will be useful as a video editor, and I'll re-swap to dual PVR-150s. Thanks for answering my post sub, that's great to know either way. After I made the post I trolled more generically and found the unsupported indication.

Thanks for answering sub, and super work on GBPVR!

[HtV]

Oh carp!... Oh well. I'm learning a lot - it will be useful as a video editor, and I'll re-swap to dual PVR-150s.

I have a 350 and a 150, I don't use the 350-tv-out, but in my system the recording quality of the 350 is better than the 150. So you might want to check that first before you get rid of it.

Hans

[hasso]

I have a 350 and a 150, I don't use the 350-tv-out, but in my system the recording quality of the 350 is better than the 150. So you might want to check that first before you get rid of it.

Hans

Same here. I found the signal quality better with the 350 than the 500