AF9015 LiveTV problem - no image or sound, but 100% signal strength and quality

[alarmour]

hi, I have GB-PVR v1.1.5 installed on WinXp Pro (on a laptop) with a Geniatech T328B USB stick (which uses the AF9015 chipset). The config application sees the USB stick correctly and allows me to match the scanned channels to the EPG channels. When I look at the EPG, it all looks fine (including the extended information from XMLTV Extender) so I am confident that the feed is working correctly.

I have the weather, webcam, logotool and XMLTV extender installed.

The USB Stick correctly recieves and decodes the TV channels when I use the included ArcSoft Totalmedia software - but that's nowhere near as flexible as GB-PVR

When I connect the card up to a good quality antenna, I see a bar graph indicator saying 100% signal strength and 100% signal quality, but no TV images or sound. See below:


I have attached my logs (with the std NativeUtilities.dll (1) and with the version of NativeUtilities.dll (2) that has been suggested in another thread as providing additional logging)

http://members.optusnet.com.au/alarmour/...r08(1).zip
http://members.optusnet.com.au/alarmour/logs/GBPVRlogs03mar08(2).zip

Any help greatfully appreciated

[sub]

Sorry, I'm not really sure. I cant see anything obvious in the logs.

[alarmour]

Sorry, I'm not really sure. I cant see anything obvious in the logs.

Sorry Sub - I pasted in the wrong URL for the second log set. Can you have a look at the new one? (http://members.optusnet.com.au/alarmour/...r08(2).zip - now fixed in the original post as well...

Thanks

[sub]

Unfortunately still nothing obvious in there.

It looks like its locking onto a signal but the device is not delivering any data.

[gigi61]

I have got exactly the same geniatech hardware, and I had the same problem (first run on yesterday).

I've solved today upgrading the usb card drivers with the AFAdriver9015-7.7.4.1.WHQL, available from Afatech.

I've also uninstalled the Arcsoft application but I'm not sure this is realy needed.

Now the geniatech module works, tested on two different XP SP2 PC.

I hope this can help you.

Bye

[alarmour]

I have got exactly the same geniatech hardware, and I had the same problem (first run on yesterday).

I've solved today upgrading the usb card drivers with the AFAdriver9015-7.7.4.1.WHQL, available from Afatech.

I've also uninstalled the Arcsoft application but I'm not sure this is realy needed.

Now the geniatech module works, tested on two different XP SP2 PC.

I hope this can help you.

Bye

hmmm, I have updated the BDA drivers - no affect. Removed TotalMedia - no affect. What worked for you gigi61 has made no difference on my machine :confused:

I will keep plugging away and will post an update if I get it solved...

[sblueeye]

Hi,

I'm facing the same problem with a WandTV USB adapter.

Device manager indicates that the driver is an AfaTech AF9035 BDA device, dated from Oct 10 2008. I cannot seem to find a more recent version of this driver.

When I use VLC media player, the adapter works ok. I can see digital broadcasts, switch channels etc.

When I tried using GBPVR, the configuration detects the adapter as AF9015 BDA (DVB-T) which I guess is ok. It also found active frequencies which then I mapped into channels. When I click at one of the channels on the right hand side list box ("Channels found during scan"), I can see the adapter's blue light indicator turns on but the preview pane remains black.

When going to LiveTV I get the same thing - OSD on top of a black screen, w/o any sound.


FilterCheck output:

[SIZE="1"]21:00:23.734 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_VBICODEC filters
21:00:23.765 INFO found: NABTS/FEC VBI Codec
21:00:23.765 INFO - (input) VBI
21:00:23.765 INFO - (output) NABTS
21:00:23.765 INFO - (input) HWNABTS
21:00:23.765 INFO
21:00:23.765 INFO found: CC Decoder
21:00:23.765 INFO - (input) VBI
21:00:23.765 INFO - (output) CC
21:00:23.765 INFO - (input) HWCC
21:00:23.765 INFO
21:00:23.765 INFO found: WST Codec
21:00:23.765 INFO - (input) VBI
21:00:23.765 INFO - (output) Teletext
21:00:23.765 INFO
21:00:23.781 INFO
21:00:23.781 INFO
21:00:23.781 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_NETWORK_TUNER filters
21:00:23.796 INFO found: AF9015 BDA Filter
21:00:23.812 INFO - (input) Antenna In Pin
21:00:23.812 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
21:00:23.812 INFO
21:00:23.812 INFO
21:00:23.812 INFO
21:00:23.812 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_RECEIVER_COMPONENT filters
21:00:23.828 INFO found: BDA Slip De-Framer
21:00:23.828 INFO - (input) NABTS
21:00:23.828 INFO - (output) IPv4
21:00:23.828 INFO
21:00:23.828 INFO found: BDA MPE Filter
21:00:23.843 INFO - (input) MPE
21:00:23.843 INFO - (output) IPv4
21:00:23.843 INFO
21:00:23.843 INFO found: AF9015 BDA Filter
21:00:23.937 INFO - (input) Antenna In Pin
21:00:23.937 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
21:00:23.937 INFO [/SIZE]

Does anyone have any past experience with that kind or similar adapter?

Thanks!

[sub]

I think Israel uses H.264 video on its DVB-T system. Do you have the Cyberlink or ArcSoft H.264 decoder installed?

[sblueeye]

I have Cyberlink Power DVD 9 installed, but cannot seem to find its decoder under advanced codec / H264 combobox. There's only System default and ffdshow

[sub]

I'm fairly sure the newest versions of the Cyberlink H264 decoder are not usable on third party apps like GB-PVR. ffdshow cant be used as an H264 decoder with GB-PVR.