Need a tuner in my dev system

[fla]

I haven't had a tuner in my dev system for over a year but have been able to use it for plugin development anyway.

I recently tried a WinTV-HVR 950 in my dev system to see if the antenna on top of our condo building gets OTA HD channels. I didn't get any digital channels so I uninstalled the HVR 950 and ran HWCLEAR.EXE to get rid of some stuff it left behind in the system tray. I guess the HWCLEAR also removed some drivers that the PVR-150 had left behind during its brief stay in my dev system and now I can't add any capture devices in gbpvr's config as it complains about drivers not being present.

Is there any way I can use the analog side of the WinTV-HVR 950 in gbpvr? Is there a way to setup a "fake" tuner in config.exe so I can associate an EPG to it and use my dev system for plugin development? Does anybody have an old tuner they never plan to use they want to get rid of?

I just got laid off so "go buy a xyz" is not a good suggestion as far as WAF (minister of finance) goes. I'll probably return the HVR 950 if I can't use it in my gbpvr dev system since the analog picture quality is much worse than with my PVR-150's.

[sub]

If you have Hauppauge SoftPVR installed, then it might work. If you have this installed, does any supported cards get listed?

[fla]

I had installed all the hauppauge stuff which includes Soft PVR. In gbpvr's config.exe when I selected to show only devices detected on this system it said no supported devices were found. I still tried to add each of the Hauppauge devices but it complained that drivers were missing and asked if I wanted to save anyways. Even after saying yes, I still had no capture source so I can't setup an EPG.

Did I have to configure something in Soft-PVR first? The only hauppauge app I tried was WinTV and the analog channels were quite noisy compared to the PVR-150.

[sub]

If you do a forum search for filtercheck, then run it and attach the resulting filtercheck.log then I'll take a look.

[fla]

In the Filtercheck.log it shows up as "WinTV HVR-980". That's also what appears in the windows device manager. On the device itself it's physically printed "WinTV HVR-950". I'm also getting an error when clicking on the "Add" button in the capture sources tab (screenshot and filtercheck.log attached).

[sub]

You could try adding the following to direct.ini, then try to create a capture source for this device. It might not work, but post the logs after trying it with live tv and I'll take a look.

[Hauppuage HVR-950]
ARCHITECTURE=88X
INIT_MODE=DEFAULT
INIT_MSP=0
SUPPORTS_FM_RADIO=1
BLACKBIRD=1
CONEXANT=0
FILTER_CROSSBAR=WinTV HVR-980 Crossbar
FILTER_CAPTURE=WinTV HVR-980 Capture
FILTER_TV_TUNER=WinTV HVR-980 TVTuner
FILTER_TV_AUDIO=WinTV HVR-980 TVAudio
FILTER_CAPTURE_AUDIO=WinTV HVR-980 Audio Capture
;FILTER_ENCODER=Hauppauge WinTV MPEG2 Muxer
FILTER_ENCODER=CyberLink MPEG Muxer
FILTER_ENCODER_VIDEO=MainConcept (Hauppauge) MPEG Video Encoder
FILTER_ENCODER_AUDIO=MainConcept (Hauppauge) MPEG Audio Encoder
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_TUNER_IN=Video Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_TUNER_IN=Audio Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_DECODER_OUT=Video Decoder Out
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_DECODER_OUT=Audio Decoder Out
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_VIDEO_OUT=Analog Video
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_AUDIO_OUT=Analog Audio
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_IN=TVAudio In
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_OUT=TVAudio Out
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_VIDEO_IN=Analog Video In
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_AUDIO_IN=Analog Audio In
PIN_CAPTURE_PREVIEW_AUDIO_OUT=Video Virtual Out
PIN_CAPTURE_CAPTURE_OUT=Capture
PIN_CAPTURE_I2S_OUT=I2S
PIN_CAPTURE_656_OUT=656
PIN_ENCODER_I2S_IN=Audio Input
PIN_ENCODER_656_IN=Input
PIN_ENCODER_OUT=Output
PIN_WRITER_INPUT_IN=Input

[Fatman_do]

Is there a way to setup a "fake" tuner in config.exe so I can associate an EPG to it and use my dev system for plugin development?

I have no tuner or Hauppauge software on my laptop, but have an EPG set up. It thinks I have a PVR-150 but I don't. Just told it to ignore errors or something to that effect when setting it up. I have 5mb "Dummy" mpg files named and imported into the database to simulate having a dozen recordings.

I can do everything but liveTV on it.

[fla]

Almost there, video works but audio does not. There are some messages in the log regarding failing to locate the audio filter by name.

Code:

23:13:03.437    VERBOSE    Capture Device is based on BlackBird architecture
23:13:03.437    VERBOSE    Loading filter names
23:13:03.437    VERBOSE    Found names:
23:13:03.437    VERBOSE    WinTV HVR-980 Crossbar
23:13:03.437    VERBOSE    WinTV HVR-980 Capture
23:13:03.437    VERBOSE    WinTV HVR-980 TVTuner
23:13:03.437    VERBOSE    WinTV HVR-980 TVAudio
23:13:03.578    VERBOSE    ConnectPins: 'Analog Audio' to 'TVAudio In'
23:13:04.984    VERBOSE    ConnectPins: 'Audio Decoder Out' to 'Analog Audio In'
23:13:04.984    VERBOSE    Software 88x Architecture
23:13:04.984    VERBOSE    FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: WinTV HVR-980 Audio Capture
23:13:05.000    VERBOSE    put_Mode(AMTUNER_MODE_TV)
23:13:05.125    VERBOSE    put_CountryCode(1)
23:13:05.375    VERBOSE    put_TuningSpace(1)
23:13:05.375    VERBOSE    put_InputType(0, 0)
23:13:05.375    VERBOSE    put_ConnectInput(0)
23:13:05.375    VERBOSE    put_Channel(33, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT)
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE    get_VideoFrequency() returns 277250000
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE    get_CountryCode() returns 1
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE    About to query available formats
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::SetConfigurationDefault()
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE    getSetting(EnableTeleText)
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE    getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE    Graph contains the following filters:
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE     - Capture
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE     - WinTV HVR-980 Crossbar
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE     - TV Audio
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE     - TV Tuner
23:13:06.046    VERBOSE    getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
23:13:06.125    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done
23:13:06.125    INFO    DirectShowPlayerBase::playLiveStream(pGB, 'Capture', 'Capture', 'Capture', 'Audio Out', hwnd)
23:13:06.156    VERBOSE    getSetting(TvShape)
23:13:06.156    VERBOSE    getSetting(VMRPreferYUVMixing)
23:13:06.156    VERBOSE    getSetting(VMRWindowedMode)
23:13:06.156    VERBOSE    getSetting(VMRDeinterlaceMode)
23:13:06.156    VERBOSE    VMRDeinterlaceMode: other (deferred)
23:13:06.156    VERBOSE    getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer)
23:13:06.171    VERBOSE    getSetting(DeinterlaceMethod)
23:13:06.187    VERBOSE    FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: Encoder pass-through
23:13:06.281    VERBOSE    Unable to locate audio pin
23:13:06.281    VERBOSE    getSetting(VMRDeinterlaceMode)
23:13:06.281    VERBOSE    getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
23:13:06.281    VERBOSE    Graph contains the following filters:
23:13:06.281    VERBOSE     - Video Renderer
23:13:06.281    VERBOSE     - Capture
23:13:06.281    VERBOSE     - WinTV HVR-980 Crossbar
23:13:06.281    VERBOSE     - TV Audio
23:13:06.281    VERBOSE     - TV Tuner
23:13:06.281    VERBOSE    getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
23:13:06.343    VERBOSE    setSourceAspectRatio() using autoAspectRatio
23:13:06.343    VERBOSE    video resolution is 640 x 480
23:13:06.343    VERBOSE    unknown source aspect ratio...showing full frame
23:13:06.875    INFO    DirectShowPlayerBase::playLiveStream() done
23:13:06.890    VERBOSE    put_Channel(33, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT)
23:13:18.968    VERBOSE    NativeUtilities::MediaHelper::stop()
23:13:18.984    VERBOSE    DirectShowPlayerBase::stop
23:13:18.984    VERBOSE    DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@2 (skipping window positioning)
23:13:18.984    VERBOSE    DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@3
23:13:19.437    VERBOSE    DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@4
23:13:19.437    VERBOSE    DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@5
23:13:19.437    VERBOSE    DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@6
23:13:19.437    VERBOSE    DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@7
23:13:19.437    VERBOSE    DirectShowPlayerBase::stop@8
23:13:19.437    VERBOSE    DirectShowPlayerBase::stop finished
23:13:19.437    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::StopRecording()
23:13:19.671    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::Done()
23:13:24.531    VERBOSE    DirectShowPlayerBase::stop
23:13:24.531    VERBOSE    DirectShowPlayerBase::stop finished

[sub]

Yeah, I realised that name was wrong, but I'd hoped it would work anyway.

If you download GraphEdit and do an 'insert filters' from the menu, and expand the 'directshow' section, is there any filter that sounds like it might be the audio capture or audio encoder filter?

[fla]

I tried a bunch of them without success. Is there an external way we can see what WinTV is using while it is running or does WinTV not use directshow at all?

Thanks for all the help!