Will GB-PVR work with this USB tuner?

[Just Visiting]

Hi all,

I don't watch much TV, but I watch enough that now my TV has decided to have no audio, I thought a cheap TV tuner for the PC would be worth getting. Seeing a £10 device at Amazon with good reviews, I grabbed it. It works, and comes with software that's okay but it's far from great, so I went looking for a replacement. GB-PVR looks awesome, but I can't set it up.

The hardware is as generic as they come! The actual product is this :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-DVB-T-Do...817&sr=8-1

There's no brand name. That packaging just has 'Taiwan Technology' on the bottom. The USB driver is supplied by 'Silicon Vendor'.

I tried a good number of the available devices in the GB-PVR Tuning-Assistant list but none worked. Are there any generic solutions that'll work for me?

Thanks.

[sub]

Assuming it BDA drivers, then it should be usable with GB-PVR to receive DVB-T channels.

Did you try setting up a BDA capture source, and selecting ticking the 'only show cards detected in this machine' checkbox?

[Just Visiting]

It says it finds no hardware and defaults to 'MCE DVBSbridge'. Upon scanning for channels it says it finds no hardware.

[whurlston]

Run filtercheck.exe located in the program files\devnz\gbpvr folder and post the resulting filtercheck.log

[Just Visiting]

Thanks for your help. I'm not able to find this file. I have no 'files' folder in the GBPVR folder, and a Windows file search doesn't find 'filtercheck.exe' on my computer. I couldn't find a 'files' repository at the GB-PVR website either. I'm probably missing something obvious!

[sub]

Its installed with the release and should be "c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\filtercheck.exe". If you're sure you dont have it, then try reinstalling.

[Just Visiting]

Reinstalled. Here's the output

20:02:40.328 INFO Log started
20:02:40.328 INFO Filter Check v1.0
20:02:40.328 INFO
20:02:40.328 INFO
20:02:40.328 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CAPTURE filters
20:02:40.406 INFO found: E-DSP MIDI Port [C000]
20:02:40.546 INFO - (input) MIDI
20:02:40.546 INFO - (output) Output1
20:02:40.546 INFO - (output) MIDI
20:02:40.546 INFO - (input) Input3
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO found: E-DSP Wave [C000]
20:02:40.546 INFO - (output) Recording Control
20:02:40.546 INFO - (input) ADC
20:02:40.546 INFO - (input) Volume
20:02:40.546 INFO - (output) DAC
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_ENCODER filters
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CROSSBAR filters
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVTUNER filters
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVAUDIO filters
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO
20:02:40.546 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_VBICODEC filters
20:02:40.562 INFO found: NABTS/FEC VBI Codec
20:02:40.906 INFO - (input) VBI
20:02:40.906 INFO - (output) NABTS
20:02:40.906 INFO - (input) HWNABTS
20:02:40.906 INFO
20:02:40.921 INFO found: CC Decoder
20:02:40.968 INFO - (input) VBI
20:02:40.968 INFO - (output) CC
20:02:40.968 INFO - (input) HWCC
20:02:40.968 INFO
20:02:40.984 INFO found: WST Codec
20:02:41.046 INFO - (input) VBI
20:02:41.046 INFO - (output) Teletext
20:02:41.046 INFO
20:02:41.046 INFO
20:02:41.046 INFO
20:02:41.046 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_NETWORK_TUNER filters
20:02:41.046 INFO found: USB DVB-T TV Tuner
20:02:41.156 INFO - (input) Input0
20:02:41.156 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
20:02:41.156 INFO
20:02:41.156 INFO
20:02:41.156 INFO
20:02:41.156 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_RECEIVER_COMPONENT filters
20:02:41.156 INFO found: BDA Slip De-Framer
20:02:41.171 INFO - (input) NABTS
20:02:41.171 INFO - (output) IPv4
20:02:41.171 INFO
20:02:41.187 INFO found: BDA MPE Filter
20:02:41.234 INFO - (input) MPE
20:02:41.234 INFO - (output) IPv4
20:02:41.234 INFO
20:02:41.250 INFO found: USB DVB-T TV Capture
20:02:41.250 INFO - (input) MPEG2 Transport
20:02:41.250 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
20:02:41.250 INFO

[whurlston]

Open the file "c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\bda.ini" in notepad and add the following entry:

Code:

[Easy TV DVB-T]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=USB DVB-T TV Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=USB DVB-T TV Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

Your tuner should then be detected in Config.

[Just Visiting]

Thanks! that's got it found. No joy with a picture though but I don't think that's a problem with GB-PVR; the device is being funny. It was getting a signal fine on the included software, and then the strength dropped to 28% when the connection is through the home ariel and its driving the downstairs box just fine. Something's probably up with the tuner.