Consistent problem with tuner device #2

[Innocence]

I've put two "Cinergy C" DVB-C PCI tuners in the PC, and configured them in GBPVR as device 1 and 2. The tuner I configure with device numer 1 works perfectly. The second returns "no channels found" when doing a scan.

Both tuners work fine with the native TV software. I've tried switching the PCI cards pyhsically, I've tried removing and re-adding the cards in the config file, but I always end up the same way with device #2 not working (no matter which of the cards I choose as device #1). If I give both devices #1 both work, just not simultaneous of course.

I tried using device numbers above 2 but this results in an error message from GBPVR saying it couldn't find the device and at the same time I get a .NET 2.0 Just-In-Time crash dialogue.

I've searched the forum, Wiki and web but it seems I'm the only one experiencing this problem

I've read through the GBPVR logs but I'm still too novice to use them properly. One of the logs said it couldn't find the filter for the "Cinergy C HD PCI digital tuner" (IIRC) when doing a channel scan, but I'm unsure what to do to fix this?

[johnsonx42]

you should zip and attach your config and config-native logs.

also, run filtercheck and attach that log as well. sometimes when attempting to run two tuners of the same type you need to make a custom entry in your bda.ini, which will be apparent with the filtercheck output in hand.

(sub is the one to answer this probably, I'm just saving him the trouble of telling you to run filtercheck and asking for the logs)

[Innocence]

Thanks - didn't know about filtercheck. I'll look into it and attach the logs if I get stuck again

sometimes when attempting to run two tuners of the same type you need to make a custom entry in your bda.ini, which will be apparent with the filtercheck output in hand

Nice Is there a list with valid entries to the bda.ini and what they do?

EDIT: I just found some more instructions on http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Hardw...ction=view. Seems I need GraphEdit to verify these filternames

[Innocence]

I ran filtercheck but the names seem to check up with the ones used in bda.ini.

I then entered config, did a scan of the frequencies on both cards. Logs attached.

I wish I knew what to look for in the logs

[ACTCMS]

I think you would need to duplicate the entry for your tuner in bda.ini and give each a different name... something like this

Code:

[Cinergy C PCI]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-C
FILTER_TUNER=Cinergy C PCI Digital Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=Cinergy C PCI Digital Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Cinergy C PCI #2]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-C
FILTER_TUNER=Cinergy C PCI Digital Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=Cinergy C PCI Digital Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

Then use the first one for your first tuner and the second one for your other tuner. I think you might need to make them both device#1

[johnsonx42]

I don't think ACTCMS's idea will be it - duplicating the bda.ini entry like that will only work if there is a difference in the FILTER_TUNER and FILTER_CAPTURE names, but your filtercheck log says both instances of the tuner have the same name. In theory doing what you already did (defining the capture device twice and using Device #2 for the second one) is supposed to work.

I think we'll need sub's attention on this one.

[sub]

You only need the one entry in bda.ini, and create two capture sources, one as device #1, the other as device #2.

Zip and attach the logs showing a scan on device #1, then on device #2 and I'll take a look. The log you attached earlier only showed scanning device #1.

[Innocence]

Thanks

I deleted the two log files, opened Config, did a rescan of Device 2 and exited Config. Attached log ScanOfDevice2NotWorking.zip

I then deleted the two config files again and did the same with Device 1. Attached log ScanOfDevice1WorkingFine.zip

Really hope there's a solution to this conflict

[Innocence]

Any progress on this one yet?

[johnsonx42]

I see differences in the two logs, but I don't know enough about it to know what the differences mean. It seems like both scans find and lock a channel, but I'm not sure.

If I were in this situation I might try copying the bda/scan-1.cache file to bda/scan-2.cache. That should give the second tuner the same scan results as the first tuner. If the scan itself is the only problem, that might get you going.

Otherwise sub will have to guide you further.