WinTV Nova T-500/HVR-900 not working in Windows 7 (win7) x64

[vfrvulcan]

Sorry! Long post!

Longshot but some here are saying that they've got GBPVR working in win7 (I'm using the term win7 as a search for 'windows 7' will ignore the 7 as being too short). Not working here and am hoping one of you Guys can point me in the right direction..

On my system here with a WinTV Nova T-500, nothing but Media Center will work. I originally considered that having run Media Center once, it decided to install all manner of cr@p and lock control of the tuners. So I decided to do a clean re-install of the OS (build 7000 x64 - TechNet).

Once the clean install is completed device manager says the IR portion didn't install as there was no driver. A quick blast through Windows Update and the driver is installed. The WinTV shows driver version 4_3_25080 dated 2007 - the same driver as Vista64 which is working on this box on a different hard drive.

Installed GBPVR1.3.11 and before running anything installed the thmpgmux filter, then ran config. Changed the mux to thmpgmux and then went to add the tuners. Asked it to show only installed tuners and there they are. Selected one and also selected OTA DVB EPG so I didn't have to spend time setting up DigiGuide and XMLTV.

Hit Update EPG and it shows the updating panel for around 10 seconds. Go to Map Channels and get presented with the error:-

GB-PVR was unable to start the BDA device you have configured. Check the device is configured properly, and not already in use.

Behind that dialog box config is going through the search of the six channels for my area but fails to find anything. When that finishes there's a .NET Framework crash:-

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Config.Plugins.x501d1ffea8b79320.x692a1118e1794d77(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.OnTick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.TimerNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

Copying config.xml, gbpvr.db3 from the working Vista install produces the same problem.

Installed TSReaderLite which upon selection of the generic DVB-T BDA Device produces a dialog of failed to load TIF and then Graph, so no go there.

So, I had a look at BDAScanChannels_UK. This found the tuners but on asking it to search also fails with 'Cannot load TIF. This may indicate that teh Microsoft BDA components are not correctly installed' and suggests running regsvr32 against mpg2splt.ax, psisrndr.ax and mpeg2data.ax. Did this with no luck.

Downloaded installedcodec which showed that the BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter was not installed correctly, path was %WINDIR%\sysWoW64 with 0 bytes. Copied it from system32 to syswow64 and registered fine.

Went back to GBPVR, TSReader etc but still no joy. :mad:

So it looks like a driver issue. Updated the T-500 drivers to 4_3_26168 but that didn't make any difference, nor did connecting an HVR-900 USB tuner.

So I fired up Media Center again (and tainted this install) to which it failed to find a signal and offered manual setup and quite happily finds 2 tuners and 80 odd channels and can watch TV no problem. This tells me that it not a driver issue.

Now in hair pulling mode! Once/if I find the solution I'll torch the install and start again cleanly.

Here's hoping someone can help!

Aaron

[sub]

Can you zip and attach the logs?

[vfrvulcan]

Can you zip and attach the logs?

Here ya go. :o

[sub]

In this case, its complaining its unable to find a normally present directshow filter called "BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter". I havnt heard about this filter not being present in Windows7.

You could try setting <BDAAlwaysAddTIFAndSections> to false in config.xml, but I'm not sure it'll fix the problem.

[vfrvulcan]

Thanks Sub,

You were right, it made no difference

But thanks for pointing (fiurther) me in the BDA filter direction, will do some more digging.

Regards

Aaron

[vfrvulcan]

Have just re-installed Win7 from scratch again and the BDA TIF is showing as missing in installedcodec.

Anyone running Win7 care to fire up installedcodec and let me know the contents of their BDA TIF line...

Thanks

Aaron

[4zm4r3d02]

BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter DirectShow Filter No 12/12/2008 11:56:59 PM 0 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\psisrndr.ax {FC772AB0-0C7F-11D3-8FF2-00A0C9224CF4} 0x00200000 psisrndr.ax

[vfrvulcan]

BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter DirectShow Filter No 12/12/2008 11:56:59 PM 0 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\psisrndr.ax {FC772AB0-0C7F-11D3-8FF2-00A0C9224CF4} 0x00200000 psisrndr.ax

Thanks for the post, that confirms a zero byte file same as my install, does GBPVR work for you? I assume the line was highlighted in red?

Anyone else?

Would be nice to hear from someone who has it working in win7..

[observing]

See the thread gbpvr and 64-bit Windows 7. It has some similar symptoms to your problem.

[vfrvulcan]

See the thread gbpvr and 64-bit Windows 7. It has some similar symptoms to your problem.

I read that before posting. How so?

Not using ATSC, not using HomeRun.

What does your BDA info say under installedcodec?

I see you say in the first post that you have GBPVR workin in win7 but then the thread seems to imply that it doesn't.