WDM Recorder using Software Compression

[venger]

hi again

i've upgraded to the latest GBPVR and the latest build 17 of Software Recorder.. still no luck.. same problem
not quite sure why since everything looks OK when i use RecorderTEst.exe...

[venger]

hmmm.. what a mystery..

i fiddled .. not sure wat.. and now the SW card is working ?!
oh well....

anyway, thanx for your help normanr..

[ggee]

This is great. I don't suppose you have a plugin for generic hardware WDM encoder tuners? It would be great, if you are able to make a graph that outputs mpeg, then it would work.

Thanks,
Greg

[normanr]

I don't suppose you have a plugin for generic hardware WDM encoder tuners? It would be great, if you are able to make a graph that outputs mpeg, then it would work.

Hey Greg,

I read the whole thread you posted on your card, and by the looks of it, you should just be able to edit the config-recorders.xml file to enable you card's video and audio encoder. Your graph looks exactly the same as a graph created by this plugin (with different filter names, etc), so it should 'just-work'™.

[ggee]

I tried doing that, but I don't think I did it right. The screen is black and I get popping sounds. I'll try again tonight and take a look. I post a screen shot of the config gui.

Thanks,
Greg

[ggee]

Still the same. All I get is a black screen with this putering static. I attached a screen capture of the config. Since you saw my thread on the Maui-I, does this look right? Canada wasn't a choice in the country selection. I'm not sure if that was the problem.

Thanks,
Greg

[normanr]

That looks good. Can you use GraphEdit to attach to the running graph (or load up lastgraph.grf), and take a screenshot. It should be the same as the last one you posted.

[BigRedFed]

I just installed GBPVR and the SoftwareRecorder Plugin and the Moonlight-Elecard Encoder plugin. However when I go to configure through gbpvr-config, there is no option to select the encoder. What do I need to edit to get the options there so I can record?

[ggee]

Well, the graph doesn't look the same in lastgraph. Wrong capture device and no video encoder or mux.

[normanr]

ggee: It's the right capture device (you can see via the number, type and names of pins -also it should have the same properties dialog), I just happen to call it something different.

You should try turning LiveTV's Preview mode off, because I think preview mode expects non-mpeg2 encoded video. The Timeshifting mode expects mpeg2 so it should work much better.

BigRedFed: this is a known issue with v4 of the encoders, you should be able to fix it by editing the config-recorders.xml and changing regex for the video/audio/mux settings to something like this:
[INDENT]<VideoEncoderRegex>Video Encoder</VideoEncoderRegex>
<AudioEncoderRegex>Audio Encoder</AudioEncoderRegex>
<MuxerRegex>Mux|Multiplexer</MuxerRegex>[/INDENT]