Hauppauge 2250 with QAM!?

[Hodr]

Ok, so I have had my share of problems getting my new HTPC to work, but in the end I now have decent picture quality and the PVR seems to work very well with the 2 analog tuners my capture card has. The problem comes when I try to tune QAM channels.

At first I could not get any QAM under any program (and I think I tried them all). I tried all of the beta drivers, and until I updated to the second to newest driver set (ends with 64 I think) I never saw any QAM. With the newest drivers (7.5.25.27007) and WinTV 6 I get clear QAM. A TON of QAM. Every basic cable channel in multiple resolutions it seems, but still no love with GB-PVR.

I have tried every setting with the QAM.INI Manager (and aparently when I try to scan/map channels it pulls from ALL.INI, not QAM.INI, but a simple rename does the trick) to no avail.

My setup:

MB: FOXCONN A7GM-s
CPU: AMD 5050e
RAM: 2 GB Corsair DDR2-800
Card: Huappauge 2250
OS: Windows XP Pro SP3

Any ideas?

[sub]

Can you do a scan, then zip and attach your config.exe.log and config.exe-native.log?

[Hodr]

Wow, fast response. Here are the logs as requested. I performed the scan with the "Default with channel frequencies" setting from QAM.INI manager.

[sub]

2009-01-17 11:47:38.703 ERROR Failed to start BDA Graph
2009-01-17 11:47:38.703 VERBOSE ERROR_GEN_FAILURE

Its not managing to start the device. Are you sure nothing else in the machine is already using the device?

[Hodr]

Actually, no. I have beyondTV and SageTV (never went through the install though) and WinTV on the system (all in an attempt to get the Digital to work).

Would it have this non-start issue even when GB-PVR works correctly with the analog tuner?

[sub]

Would it have this non-start issue even when GB-PVR works correctly with the analog tuner?

Maybe - I dont know.

[Hodr]

Wow. Ok, I uinstalled everything, drivers and all, re-installed just the newest beta driver for the 2250, and only gb-pvr (newest) and the scan is now pulling in channels.

Thanks for the support (even if it was just hand holding an idiot through basic troubleshooting .

[sub]

Great - glad you got it sorted.

[cgmt]

I am having a similar issue. I am running win7 beta, with my 2250 QAM card. I have configured the Capture source, but when I click "Map digital channels.." button config.exe crashes and this is the last portion on the log:

2009-02-19 01:50:48.050 VERBOSE [1] getValue cached value: /settings/CaptureSubtitles : false
2009-02-19 01:52:30.456 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/BDAUsePsiParser
2009-02-19 01:52:30.458 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/BDAUsePsiParser : true
2009-02-19 01:52:30.458 VERBOSE [1] BDA Channel Mapping screen loading...
2009-02-19 01:52:30.458 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/BDASubmitTuningRequestTwiceOnScan
2009-02-19 01:52:30.458 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/BDASubmitTuningRequestTwiceOnScan : true
2009-02-19 01:52:30.458 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/BDAPsiScanWaitSeconds
2009-02-19 01:52:30.458 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/BDAPsiScanWaitSeconds : 15
2009-02-19 01:52:30.458 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/BDAPsiScanStartupSeconds
2009-02-19 01:52:30.458 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/BDAPsiScanStartupSeconds : 1
2009-02-19 01:52:30.460 VERBOSE [1] getValue cached value: /settings/BDAUsePsiParser : true
2009-02-19 01:52:30.460 VERBOSE [1] Using PSI Parser
2009-02-19 01:52:31.603 ERROR [1] Error starting preview window: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2009-02-19 01:52:31.607 ERROR [1] at ConnectFilters(IBaseFilter* pFilterUpstream, IBaseFilter* pFilterDownstream)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Int32 diseqc, Boolean powered, Boolean previewMode)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Int32 diseqc, Boolean powered)
at Config.Plugins.x501d1ffea8b79320.x692a1118e1794d77(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
2009-02-19 01:52:31.736 VERBOSE [1] No scan results after startup seconds. Moving on...
2009-02-19 01:52:33.455 VERBOSE [1] No scan results after startup seconds. Moving on...

Any ideas??

[cgmt]

attaching log

Here is the last part of hte config.exe.native.log
-02-19 02:07:33.495 VERBOSE ScanTransponder finished
2009-02-19 02:07:34.735 VERBOSE BDARecorder::ScanTransponder(T:10,0,0)
2009-02-19 02:07:34.735 VERBOSE SubmitTuningRequest(T:10,0,0)
2009-02-19 02:07:34.735 VERBOSE getSetting(BDASubmitTuningRequestAlways)
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE BDASubmitTuningRequestAlways is true. Forcing...
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE Initializing ATSC tuning request.
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 INFO Audio and Video PIDs not known, so relying on major/minor
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE atsc@1
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE atsc@2
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE atsc@3
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE atsc@4
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE atsc@5
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE atsc@6.
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE atsc@7
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE atsc@8
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE atsc@9
2009-02-19 02:07:34.736 VERBOSE ServiceID: -1, PMT PID: -1, VPID: -1, APID: -1
2009-02-19 02:07:34.737 VERBOSE SubmitTuningRequest() complete
2009-02-19 02:07:34.737 VERBOSE ScanTransponder@2
2009-02-19 02:07:34.990 VERBOSE ScanTransponder@2
2009-02-19 02:07:34.990 VERBOSE locked=0 present=0 strength=-1 quality=-1
2009-02-19 02:07:34.990 VERBOSE ScanTransponder@4
2009-02-19 02:07:34.990 VERBOSE ScanTransponder@5
2009-02-19 02:07:34.990 VERBOSE ScanTransponder@6
2009-02-19 02:07:34.990 VERBOSE locked=0 present=0 strength=-1 quality=-1
2009-02-19 02:07:34.990 VERBOSE SIGNAL???
2009-02-19 02:07:34.990 VERBOSE ScanTransponder finished
2009-02-19 02:07:35.001 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StopRecording()
2009-02-19 02:07:35.001 VERBOSE StopRecording()@1
2009-02-19 02:07:35.001 VERBOSE StopRecording()@2
2009-02-19 02:07:35.002 VERBOSE StopRecording()@3
2009-02-19 02:07:35.002 VERBOSE StopRecording()@4
2009-02-19 02:07:35.002 VERBOSE StopRecording()@5
2009-02-19 02:07:35.002 VERBOSE StopRecording()@6
2009-02-19 02:07:35.002 VERBOSE StopRecording()@7
2009-02-19 02:07:35.002 VERBOSE StopRecording()@8
2009-02-19 02:07:35.021 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StopRecording() finished
2009-02-19 02:07:35.040 VERBOSE BDARecorder::ScanTransponder(T:10,0,0)
2009-02-19 02:07:35.040 VERBOSE SubmitTuningRequest(T:10,0,0)
2009-02-19 02:07:35.040 VERBOSE getSetting(BDASubmitTuningRequestAlways)
2009-02-19 02:07:35.040 VERBOSE BDASubmitTuningRequestAlways is true. Forcing...
2009-02-19 02:07:35.040 VERBOSE Initializing ATSC tuning request.
2009-02-19 02:07:35.040 INFO Audio and Video PIDs not known, so relying on major/minor
2009-02-19 02:07:35.040 VERBOSE atsc@1
2009-02-19 02:07:35.040 ERROR Failed to get IATSCTuningSpace interface