Help with newbie setup, using ati 650 dual tuner card

[phillyk]

HI sub, thanks again for the help.
Ran that batch file.. it didn't error out & showed success for alot of things.
I re-tried scanning the digital to epg & it said it couldn't find any channels again.
Here's my logs rescanned for today.

[sub]

The device failed to hook up for some reason.

Are you running Vista TV Pack?

[phillyk]

Hrm...
I missed this reply, wasn't subscribed : -( sheepish look..

Any ways, I am not sure what you mean by the vista TV pack? I do not know if I have that installed.
Also, as regards "Drivers" alot of people say that the ATI card works best if I install the "XP" drivers. Do I have to do that Manually in the windows Vista device manager? That is another thing that I have yet to figure out. I just discovered tonight that my Channel lineup is showing my Digital channels for local broadcast's in the 700 range. .. Not sure what it means. With the ATI & both inputs hooked up to my cable, I do need 2 capture sources on my box right?
(Basically i've established that on my system the configuration program starts erroring if I try a 2nd capture source on anything other than Digital QAM...

[phillyk]

Hey Hey HAYYY!
I did something with my drivers (i think forced it to use the XP) & I just did a digital to EPG scan & I found channels! CHANNELS! on DIGITAL! like 13.752, 13.753 & 28.765 etc...
More info to come as details pour in!

[phillyk]

Current status : Recently upgraded to 1.3.11, seems to still work. I have been able to get dual recordings on Digital channels.
Regarding digital, when I ran the digital to epg scan, I got tons of results & mapped all channels it recognized/ identified. - But I want to say i only had labels for maybe 10 out of 200 or so results. SO i think I am only can dual record when a show I want is on a local channel (only local channels identified themselves it seems) that I get in DT & another show I want is not on digital.

Not sure if I should re-run it now that i am 1.3.11.

One of the main reasons I upgraded, is because I cannot seem to get the web-scheduling to work. My PC does not show anything listening on the default port when I netstat from a command line. I am running vista home premium. Do I need to run proffessional for the OS to allow a webserver? or is .net & GBPVR all i should need for GBPVR webservice's to work?

[sub]

Current status : Recently upgraded to 1.3.11, seems to still work. I have been able to get dual recordings on Digital channels.
Regarding digital, when I ran the digital to epg scan, I got tons of results & mapped all channels it recognized/ identified. - But I want to say i only had labels for maybe 10 out of 200 or so results.

This is fairly normal. In the US is optional for broadcasters to transmit the channel names on digital cable, so most cable operators dont.

One of the main reasons I upgraded, is because I cannot seem to get the web-scheduling to work. My PC does not show anything listening on the default port when I netstat from a command line. I am running vista home premium. Do I need to run proffessional for the OS to allow a webserver? or is .net & GBPVR all i should need for GBPVR webservice's to work?

It should work on any version of Windows. Zip and attach your GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log and I'll take a look.

[phillyk]

Heres the whole file, but I take it this line might be the key huh?

2009-01-18 00:19:47.615 ERROR [4] Error starting webserver: Could not load file or assembly 'GBPVRRecordingService, Version=1.0.3299.13249, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

[sub]

Try going into Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services, and view the properties of the GBPVR Recording Service, and enable the 'allow service to interact with desktop' setting, then try restart the recording service and trying again.

[phillyk]

Try going into Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services, and view the properties of the GBPVR Recording Service, and enable the 'allow service to interact with desktop' setting, then try restart the recording service and trying again.

--For anyone else reading this, that setting is found in the "Log On" tab of the service setting screen.

Which, by the by, means that I found it *wink*
And its now WORKING !
Heh.. i uh.. i shoulda seen that coming. I'd checked everywhere in the GBPVR config for that "allow service to interact" setting. But not in the Windows service config.... well now I've just got to get my setup streamlined & really learn how to use some other plugins, like com-skip, etc.

--To double summarize for anyone reading this.
To get an ATI 650 Pci-e Based card to work :
I installed Gbpvr & .Net 2.0

1)Installed the latest ATI catalyst Windows XP (yes windows XP driver)
As in ran the executable that at least made a folder with the files.

2)Then in Windows device manager, I went to the "Sound video multi media" section.
There should be a device, "Ati unified AV stream driver"

3)I opened the settings screen for that.
4)I went to the driver tab & selected update device driver.
5)I chose " BROWSE MY Computer for device drivers"
6)Then I chose "let me pick from a list of device drivers"
7)Then you have to choose "have disk" (unless in step 5 you had it look in the path for the files & it's not easy to guess the right one. my path was "C:\ATI\SUPPORT\8-12_xp32-64_t550-600-650_wdm_72274\WDM_ALL\RIO\XP")
8) If you have to click have disk, you'll want to click "browse" and go to the folder where ATI extracted the driver, you may find a slight variation of this will work "C:\ATI\SUPPORT\8-12_xp32-64_t550-600-650_wdm_72274\WDM_ALL\RIO\XP"
9) Windows will display a screen to choose a driver,
I chose ATI...., (if you uncheck the show drivers compatible, you may see an MSI driver.)
10) A "update driver warning" will display; rambling about not recomended blah blah.. Click YES unless your able to get corrected Vista drivers from ATI or don't want this to work like I got it to work.
11) if you click yes, windows should prompt you to reboot. Hopefully you didn't have any recordings running & the digital tuner half setup.. it will resume your recordings & might choose the digital tuner.. and make slightly screwed up recordings.

THAT should do it, for anyone who hasn't figured it out on there own & I think there are some that havn't I hope this helps. If the wiki is editably & I get the OK I could make this into a guide & hopefully it will get linked into the main guide & card compatibility table.

-Thanks to all the others who went before me & Sub for his patience w/me. I am sorry I cannot list all the other threads that I saw some ATI tid-bits in & give people's names, but I hope you can figure out who you are.

[Foil]

Wow, THANK YOU!

I was wondering why GB-PVR wasn't finding any of my QAM channels, and finally came across this thread.

Thank you both, especially sub, for this amazing piece of software. As a developer, myself, I can't imagine how much time you put into this.