GBPVR was unable to start the BDA Device you have configured....

[jwaxman]

I'm trying to get GBPVR going with a Pinnacle HD Pro for ATSC and a Pinnacle HD Mini Stick for QAM.

The sticks work in the Pinnacle TV Center Pro software
They are recognized by GBPVR as "present in the system"

When I get to the step for mapping the digital channels to the EPG I get a message box beginning with "GBPVR was unable to start the BDA Device you have configured.... ". Config then crashes

I'm a including a zip file with
bda.ini
filtercheck.log
config.exe.log and
config.exe-native.log

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[sub]

The filternames match correctly. It failing to connect the tuner and capture filters. Are you sure the device isnt in use by some other software in the machine?

[jwaxman]

Thanks for the quick reply

The only other software that could talk to it would be the Pinnacle software that came with it. This wasn't running when I tried to config GBPVR. I looked for any Pinnacle related services and processes and couldn't find any. How can I track down what might be locking the card?

[sub]

Sorry, I'm not really sure what to suggest.

[SLR_65]

I'm probably way off base here as Sub probably would've already seen this in the logs, if it's in the logs (I didn't look), but it seems to me I got this when I was playing with an HVR-1600. The issue was that both the analog and digital tuners have the same device number, 1, if I recall correctly. I was thinking there were two tuners so one was 1 one was 2 but it's really two -separate- tuners, one analog and one digital, so they are treated as individual tuners and each is device #1 to it's driver.

Maybe something like this is your problem too?

I'm not near my htpc right now, but I think there's a utility to tell you what's in your system and what device number they are, isn't there?

Anyway, just my thoughts - hopefully they'll make some sense / help!

Steve

[sub]

Good suggestion, but I did check that. The device number is correct, and its managing to find the various components, but unable to connect them for some release.

[jwaxman]

Thanks for looking into it.
It looks like its just not going to work.
Ah well.