kworld dvbt 323u tuner USB stick

[cos]

GBPVR 10311

My laptop is running Vista Basic

I have a kworld dvbt 323u tuner USB stick.

The GBPVR Tuning Settings window does not list this card type.

How do I go forward from this window.

Replies in simple terms please - Newbie

[johnsonx42]

in the gb-pvr program directory, you will find a program called 'filtercheck.exe'. Run this and post the output here.

[cos]

I must be doing something wrong.
Firstly I went to filtercheck.exe and double clicked.
The window ran for about half a second (black screen) and then the window closed.
Repeated this many times to read the one only line – “filter information dumped to filtercheck.log”.
I do not have a filtercheck.log

I then thought that I must have done something incorrect in the GBPVR installation.
Therefore I un-installed it.

I downloaded another from http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=40164 and ran this file.
Advised of good installation.
Double clicked PVRX2 and got blue “Browse the TV Guide …” screen.
The menu system seems to work ok, but am not getting any tv pictures.
My Kworld USB hybrid tv stick DVBT 323U has a blue light indicator when working, but GBPVR seems not able to activate it.
(I know it works because it is OK when I use Kworld and their own Hypermedia software.)
In the GBPVR folder there are 7 further folders
1 - Config – this seems to be working ok and I am accepting default settings
2 - Mux checker – tells me that my third party programs ore ok
3 - PVRX2 – sends me to the blue opening screen
4 - Re-register Filters – gives me a small window – black – with 2 lines of type.
5 - Re-start Recording Service – another small window – black – only there for half second.
6 - Stop Recording Service – ditto line above
7 - TuningAssistant.exe – which gives me “tuning settings” which is where I began my 1st post
I still do not have a filtercheck.log

My laptop is
Toshiba satellite pro l40
Celeron M440 1.86 GHz
512 MB + 512 MB memory 667 MHz
120 GB hard disk
Vista home basic 32 bit

I assume GBPVR will work on my machine.
I’m in your hands, and many thanks - Cos

[johnsonx42]

try running filtercheck as administrator... vista user account control is probably hiding the file from you, or preventing it from writing. Or try running it from a command prompt (edit: either way, the filtercheck.log should appear in the gb-pvr program directory, the same place where the filtercheck.exe is)

also, you don't need to run the tuning assistant, that's only for analog cards

edit: oh, I just realized that card does analog and digital. the analog side simply will not work for GB-PVR, as it lacks the required hardware mpeg-2 encoder. as long as you're trying to use the digital (dvb-t) side, we should be able to get you going.

[cos]

I've checked using command prompt and not found the filtercheck.log
and I accept that I will only be able to use the digital tuner, and now understand that the tuning assistant is for analogue only.
I list below a copy of files taken from command prompt

Directory of C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR

14/07/2009 10:48 <DIR> .
14/07/2009 10:48 <DIR> ..
07/05/2008 14:01 349 AnalogHD.ini
06/12/2006 13:08 94,208 asyncflt.ax
16/02/2002 22:51 90,112 as_ir200l.dll
18/12/2006 05:24 61,440 AxInterop.WMPLib.dll
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> BDA
11/01/2009 17:51 88,452 bda.ini
15/02/2008 05:51 24,576 BDARemoteDevice.exe
12/01/2009 07:25 49,152 ChangeDatabase.exe
12/01/2009 11:45 32,657 config-master.dont-edit-me.xml
12/01/2009 07:25 782,336 Config.exe
01/12/2006 05:18 863 Config.exe.manifest
13/07/2009 21:23 32,078 config.xml
27/07/2007 07:54 16,384 DelayedStart.exe
12/01/2009 04:18 65,468 direct.ini
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> Dongle
16/05/2008 10:50 96,768 DriverWrapper.dll
09/11/2006 18:05 143,360 DVBSubtitles.ax
30/05/2008 07:10 232,448 empty.db3
02/08/2007 08:44 4,283 EULA.txt
30/03/2006 06:56 163,840 FilterCheck.exe
30/05/2008 07:10 232,448 gbpvr.db3
12/01/2009 07:25 368,640 GBPVRBackendCommon.dll
17/02/2007 17:28 143,360 GBPVRConvert.exe
17/06/2006 14:33 57,344 GBPVRFlowStatus.ax
14/12/2006 14:08 262,144 GBPVRParser.ax
12/01/2009 07:20 143,360 GBPVRPublic.dll
27/11/2004 08:27 49,152 GBPVRPush.ax
12/01/2009 07:25 176,128 GBPVRRecordingService.exe
13/07/2009 21:02 5,012 GBPVRRecordingService.InstallState
12/01/2009 07:25 110,592 GBPVRTray.exe
03/01/2009 14:05 81,920 GBPVRTSMon.ax
02/03/2007 10:06 61,440 GBPVRTSMux.ax
05/01/2009 10:30 163,840 GBPVRTSReader.ax
29/11/2007 12:17 114,688 GBPVRWriter.ax
28/04/2005 19:56 2,467 go.ini
24/05/2005 18:12 40,960 HaupBlast.exe
04/12/2006 09:00 172,032 ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll
16/03/2008 05:36 331,776 Interop.WMPLib.dll
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> IR Definitions
05/09/2006 10:34 8,192 IR200L.exe
11/08/1999 08:13 65,536 JETCOMP.exe
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> KeyMappings
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> Language
14/07/2009 11:25 <DIR> logs
28/10/2005 12:45 180,224 MceIr.dll
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> MDPlugins
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> media
21/02/2003 05:42 348,160 msvcr71.dll
22/09/2006 14:46 253,952 MuxChecker.exe
12/01/2009 07:21 1,286,144 NativeUtilities.dll
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> Net Radio
22/12/2006 16:00 98,304 netasyncflt.ax
16/11/2005 17:03 1,150 notrecording.ico
11/09/2003 12:23 65,536 OvTool.dll
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> Plugins
31/12/2008 07:34 147,456 PsiParser.ax
12/01/2009 07:20 94,208 PVRUiPublic.dll
12/01/2009 07:25 1,048,576 PVRX2.exe
18/05/2008 10:51 724 Re-RegisterFilters.bat
13/07/2009 21:25 69 recording-dump.xml
16/11/2005 17:05 1,150 recording.ico
16/05/2008 10:50 258,048 RedRat.dll
07/01/2004 07:14 73 restart.bat
03/03/2008 16:29 102,400 scflt.ax
03/03/2008 16:29 102,400 scflt.dat
12/01/2009 07:25 24,576 Schedule.exe
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> Skin2
07/01/2004 07:12 35 stop.bat
24/09/2005 05:38 998 SubtitleLanguage.XML
02/07/2006 09:32 489,472 System.Data.SQLite.dll
10/01/2008 18:05 285,696 taglib-sharp.dll
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> Third Party
04/07/2009 17:23 <DIR> thumbnails
28/06/2006 06:46 94,208 Trans2MVP.exe
28/06/2006 06:46 339,968 TuningAssistant.exe
12/05/2008 06:15 1,505 upgrade.ddl
12/05/2008 06:15 3,995 upgrade.sql
13/07/2009 21:01 <DIR> web
25/10/2006 13:44 155,648 WSTSRTAnalog.ax
18/05/2008 10:42 77,824 WSTSRTDigital.ax
66 File(s) 10,032,304 bytes
16 Dir(s) 34,538,311,680 bytes free



Directory of C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\logs

14/07/2009 11:25 <DIR> .
14/07/2009 11:25 <DIR> ..
13/07/2009 21:23 39,793 config.exe-1.log
12/07/2009 23:16 39,579 config.exe-2.log
12/07/2009 23:12 39,793 config.exe-3.log
13/07/2009 21:21 848 config.exe-native-1.log
12/07/2009 23:16 848 config.exe-native-2.log
12/07/2009 23:12 848 config.exe-native-3.log
13/07/2009 21:25 848 config.exe-native.log
13/07/2009 21:25 38,858 config.exe.log
13/07/2009 23:55 9,131 GBPVRRecordingService.exe-1.log
13/07/2009 19:03 9,132 GBPVRRecordingService.exe-2.log
13/07/2009 00:22 8,842 GBPVRRecordingService.exe-3.log
13/07/2009 21:23 387 GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native-1.log
13/07/2009 17:37 387 GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native-2.log
12/07/2009 23:16 387 GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native-3.log
14/07/2009 10:48 387 GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native.log
14/07/2009 10:48 9,054 GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log
13/07/2009 23:55 3,789 GBPVRTray.exe-1.log
13/07/2009 19:00 3,385 GBPVRTray.exe-2.log
13/07/2009 00:22 3,468 GBPVRTray.exe-3.log
14/07/2009 10:50 3,524 GBPVRTray.exe.log
14/07/2009 10:48 2,254 pending.log
14/07/2009 11:25 4,519 PVRX2.exe-1.log
14/07/2009 11:25 110,167 pvrx2.exe-2.log
13/07/2009 22:12 103,509 pvrx2.exe-3.log
14/07/2009 11:25 11,065 PVRX2.exe-native-1.log
13/07/2009 22:12 7,865 pvrx2.exe-native-2.log
14/07/2009 11:26 6,953 pvrx2.exe-native.log
14/07/2009 11:26 44,006 pvrx2.exe.log
28 File(s) 503,626 bytes
2 Dir(s) 34,128,285,696 bytes free

C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\logs>

[johnsonx42]

do you have user account control enabled? if so either disable it and try again or look for the filtercheck.log in c:\program DATA\devnz\gbpvr

C:\Program Data is a hidden directory, but you can see it with dir /a.

I consider User Account Control to be generally a good thing, but it does have some odd side effects at times.

edit: oops, I was thinking of the wrong thing... look in C:\Users\<Your Account>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Devnz

[johnsonx42]

i just had another thought that may make it simpler for you: copy the filtercheck.exe program to your desktop, and run it from there. filtercheck.log should show up on the desktop

[cos]

Copied filtercheck.exe to desktop, ran it, and obtained filtercheck.log - great - thanks.

18:53:01.821 INFO Log started
18:53:01.826 INFO Filter Check v1.0
18:53:01.829 INFO
18:53:01.829 INFO
18:53:01.829 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CAPTURE filters
18:53:01.899 INFO found: SoundMAX HD Audio I
18:53:01.915 INFO - (output) Recording Control
18:53:01.915 INFO - (input) ADC
18:53:01.915 INFO
18:53:01.918 INFO found: USB 2883 Device
18:53:01.946 INFO - (output) Capture
18:53:01.947 INFO - (input) Analog Video In
18:53:01.947 INFO - (output) VBI
18:53:01.947 INFO - (output) Audio
18:53:01.947 INFO - (input) Analog Audio In
18:53:01.947 INFO
18:53:01.948 INFO
18:53:01.948 INFO
18:53:01.948 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_ENCODER filters
18:53:01.949 INFO
18:53:01.949 INFO
18:53:01.949 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CROSSBAR filters
18:53:01.954 INFO found: WDM 2883 Crossbar
18:53:02.276 INFO - (input) 0: Video Tuner In
18:53:02.276 INFO - (input) 1: Video Composite In
18:53:02.276 INFO - (input) 2: Video SVideo In
18:53:02.276 INFO - (input) 3: Audio Tuner In
18:53:02.276 INFO - (input) 4: Audio Line In
18:53:02.276 INFO - (output) 0: Video Decoder Out
18:53:02.276 INFO - (output) 1: Audio Decoder Out
18:53:02.276 INFO
18:53:02.276 INFO
18:53:02.277 INFO
18:53:02.277 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVTUNER filters
18:53:02.281 INFO found: WDM 2883 TVTuner
18:53:02.565 INFO - (output) Analog Video
18:53:02.565 INFO - (output) Analog Audio
18:53:02.565 INFO
18:53:02.566 INFO
18:53:02.566 INFO
18:53:02.566 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVAUDIO filters
18:53:02.569 INFO found: WDM 2883 TVAudio
18:53:02.571 INFO - (input) TVAudio In
18:53:02.571 INFO - (output) TVAudio Out
18:53:02.571 INFO
18:53:02.571 INFO
18:53:02.571 INFO
18:53:02.571 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_VBICODEC filters
18:53:02.572 INFO
18:53:02.572 INFO
18:53:02.572 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_NETWORK_TUNER filters
18:53:02.581 INFO found: BDA 2883 TVTuner
18:53:02.646 INFO - (input) Input0
18:53:02.646 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
18:53:02.646 INFO
18:53:02.646 INFO
18:53:02.646 INFO
18:53:02.646 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_RECEIVER_COMPONENT filters
18:53:02.650 INFO found: BDA 2883 Capture
18:53:02.652 INFO - (input) MPEG2 Transport
18:53:02.652 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
18:53:02.652 INFO

[sub]

Try adding this to your bda.ini file, then you should be able to setup a digital capture source:

[KWorld DVB-T 232U]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=BDA 2883 TVTuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=BDA 2883 Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[cos]

I copied and pasted this into bda.ini file.

I’ve also noticed that the instructions and images given in “Quick Start” do not quite match with those appearing in my version of GB-PVR v 1.3.11, and also the instructions are not explaining to a non technical person like me exactly how to configure the config windows.

I am assuming that the reason I am not receiving any tv is that I have not properly configured the “Capture Sources” tab.

In the “Edit Recording Source” tab, I have given the following

Source Name : Kworld Dongle
Recording Source : Digital Recording Plugin
EPG Source : DVB EPG Broadcast
Channel Changer : No Channel Changer Required

And have also clicked “Map digital channels to EPG channels” tab.

I am getting tv in the small window in the “Digital Channel Mapping” window. I have selected 3 channels to watch (at present)

I assume that I need to do something more, since I am not yet receiving TV when I click on “Live TV” on the blue menu.

Further help required please.