Truble with PVR-250. Wont work.

[Pico]

I've tried shoshifter:
Although I can see the prgrams playing on the channels as showshifter scans for them, it tells me none are found

Beyond TV:
All I get is vertical black and white lines

GB-PVR:
just a bunch of static.

Hauppauge's site tells me it wont work with ANY third party PVR software becasue something about the PVR-250 records to MPEG before its outputted and that conflicts with what the third party software is trying to do.

"The WinTV-PVR-250/350 records directly to MPEG using onboard Hardware encoders. Most third party capture applications are looking to attach to a card or driver that supports uncompressed video recordings. Like AVI files. These programs cannot capture video directly using the PVR-250/350."

I dont understand at all. I bought the PVR-250 because everyone said they suported it. Including GB-PVR

[sub]

You've probably got one of the models with the new tuner. The drivers shipped with it were flakey, and not compatible with third party software.

The answer to your problems can be found here: http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5729

[jdc]

I had the same problem. I bought that card from Fry's a week ago. Upgrading firmware did make it work. BUT I noticed that the TV picture become worse. Please read above link posted by Sub, some users using NTSC had the same complaint. So be careful.