No live TV signal - At all

[Blenheim]

Hi everybody. First post.

Just installed GB PVR, after using the completely idiot-proof Meedio Yahoo TV Go! for awhile, until Yahoo decided to stop having TV listings.

Anyway, the DVR was working fine under that software; the capture card worked and recorded. I installed GBPVR, configured everything, and well... it is not working there. First, the specs:

Pentium 4 2.53 Ghz
256 MB RDRAM (I know, too little. I don´t care much about image quality and RDRAM is hard to find)
Haupagge PVR150
Two HD, one internal (120 GB) the other one external (500 GB)
On board sound.

Things I have done to make this thing work:

- On setup, the PVR150 is configured as the Wiki says. No complaints there.
- Codecs are all on system default. I have tinkered with them to no avail.
- I have changed and played with the Live Preview. On, off, set the directory, nothing.

When I get into GBPVR and go to live TV, I get a black screen, and nothing else happens. I can not record shows (GBPVR says it is recording, but I can´t see the video), and I can not watch on GBPVR stuff recorded on Yahoo Go! TV (black screen, sound only). I can watch all the rest of movies and videos I have on the HD, including DivX, MPEG4, MPEG1 and AVIs.

I am pretty sure it is something deeply stupid, but I can´t seem to find it. Any help? I will post the error log this afternoon when I have access to the computer.

[sub]

Reproduce the problem, then post the logs and I'll take a look.

[Blenheim]

Bizarrely enough, the thing is working all of a sudden. It is still not playing videos recorded using Yahoo Go! TV DVR, but that's not much of a big deal right now as we can stream them to other computers.

No clue what was going on; I didn't change anything. Would you like to have a look at the logs still, just to double check?

The recording quality, by the way, is great, even with 256 MB of RAM. Great software.

[branedge]

sub, or anyone, can you tell me what logs to look at? im having same issue, no live tv, just black screen (no audio either) everything else is great.

i'm running latest version of GBPVR.

thx

[fuzzweed]

the logs are in program files/devnz/gbpvr/logs
usually best to clear them out (you will need to stop the recording service and gbpvrtray in order to delete their logs - don;t forget to restart them after!) reproduce the problem, zip the logs up and then post them.

[branedge]

ok. shutdown services. cleared logs, rebooted.

Thanks for looking....now this is a new cable drop that "should" work. so if you don't see anything i may have a cable issue.

thanks