Just recorded 30 min. of static...

[nickjr5]

Because the GBPRV only shows one TV channel - the last one that WinTV was set to, and that's not the channel I asked GBPRV to record.

All the programs appear on the TV Guide, but when I select any one of them and click 'Watch' I always get the same channel - the last one that WinTV was set to.

If I go to Live TV that same channel is there, and if I click the + or - sign to change the channel there is nothing but static on either side of that channel.

When GBPRV is open I can bring up the Comcast Guide with my cable remote and change the channel that way, but no other way. Seems like GBPRV is reading cable channel 3 as I most recently configured it, but has no ability to change the program.

As long as I use my Comcast remote to tune to the channel I want to record , GBPRV will record the program, but I'm certain thats' not the way it's supposed to work.

Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

Nick

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Its kind of hard to guess what type of setup you have.

It sounds like you might be trying to use GB-PVR with a Comcast set top box? If so, you probably have the coax cable going from your set top box to the tuner of your PC capture card. Setup this way, that coax will only carry the currently tuned set top box channel, usually on channel three. In this type of setup, you'd usually create a capture source that is configured to use the 'fixed channel, external tuner' input, with the channel number set to '3'. In this type of setup people would typically add an IR Blaster to their machine so that GB-PVR could tell the set top box to change channels whenever it needed to. (it sounds like you've incorrectly setup a capture source to use the 'tuner' input, but because only channel three has a signal, everything else will be snow)

There are other types of setups that are common also. For example, splitting the comcast cable that comes from the wall, so that one feed goes directly to the capture device. It can then directly tune all the analog channels contained on the cable, without needing to use the set top box. In this configuration you can also have an additional feed from the set top box to get the extra digital only channels.