WDM Recorder using Software Compression

[normanr]

Hey Dan,

It seems that you Win-TV doesn't support audio capture directly (or at least you haven't selected the audio pin in the capture config). You'll have to use your Sound Blaster 16 for audio. (or choose the Audio pin on the Win-TV card - if it exists)

Norman

[offdahewk]

I have a PVR-150 card and was wondering if using this plugin would allow me to use my spare software-based Aver TVPhone card. It's an older card (1997?), but getting it to work along with my PVR150 would be great so I could record two things at once, watch one show and record another, etc. Or would I be better off just buying another hardware based tuner? I think I will try it and see anyway, but would like feedback before I end up wasting my time. :p

[normanr]

It should work fine, but make no mistake it's nowhere near as good as your PVR-150 card that does hardware compression. For watching TV while the PVR-150 is doing the recording it should work perfectly!

[Symbios]

Well, I got my Win-TV GO to work. It does have a crossbar device, I just needed to reinstall the drivers for some reason.

But, I have a new problem now. When I switch into Time Shift mode, the picture gets scrambled! (see image)

Any ideas as to what this could be?

[normanr]

How bizarre. At a guess I'd say it's a color space mismatch, i.e. the Moonlight encoders don't support the default capture color space. The only other thing I can think of is that the tuning is messed up during recording, but I doubt that's the issue

[rookbartley]

I have a card that you can probably add to the working list, it came with Pixelview Station and uses the driver set BtTuner, WDM TV Tuner with a manufacturer of TelSignal Co., Ltd.

Thanks for the great work, I am soo stoked!!!! I can watch live TV with sound and video, I can watch TV from the EPG with sound and video and I am testing the recording now. I will report back soon.

I have the same problem as some earlier posts where when switching to time shift mode it fails and says cannot connect to device. I have the latest plugin version and the latest Moonlight drivers registered.

Specs:
WinXP Pro SP2
P4 2.66ghz
1gb PC3200 DDR
nVidia GeForce FX 5600 128mb
nVidia Stereoscopic Interface
TelSignal Co., Ltd. BtTuner
CL Audigy NX2 7.1 THX
Q Sound Graphic EQ
DVDRW/CDRW
DVDRom/CDRW
280gb HD;
(2x 60gb WD)
(2x 80gb Maxtor)
ATA133 Rocket Raid

Ron -

[rookbartley]

Will not record in any way shape or form, scheduled or quick record. It creates the event and can be viewed in the Recordings menu but shows as failed everytime. I attached the record log and it shows an error near the bottom that looks rather odd.


Ron -

[rookbartley]

I can record with the record test utility...

Ron -

[normanr]

Can you try setting the audio capture pin to 'Line' instead of 'Analog Mix (Line/CD/Aux/TAD/PC)'....

[rookbartley]

I cannot find the .GRF file, I set the true in the config.xml file but no love. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Ron -