Need help with analogue capture devices

[ajnatural]

Hi, I know most people use GB-PVR for digital television (ATSC, DVB-T, etc) but I use foxtel (paytv) and wish to record from that, from my point of view I have 2 options- either find a way to decrypt the foxtel signal, or use an analogue capture device to record the outgoing SVIDEO or composite. I currently have 2 capture cards, one of them (Adaptec Videoh) is supported by GB-PVR. My problem is that, even though the card is detected by GB-PVR I recive no video on Live tv, when i click on 'live tv' the screen simply flashes. I have tried changing around the settings that appear relavent however it makes no difference. Also, VLC player can detect both capture cards fine and recieve Audio and Video from both, therfore the problem must be within GB-PVR.

[Snooze]

Does your capture cards have S-Video and an audio input that you can run to from your set top box?

[Reddwarf]

What brand is the other card, and what OS and CPU are you running on?

[markbb1]

Hi, I know most people use GB-PVR for digital television (ATSC, DVB-T, etc) but I use foxtel (paytv) and wish to record from that, from my point of view I have 2 options- either find a way to decrypt the foxtel signal, or use an analogue capture device to record the outgoing SVIDEO or composite. I currently have 2 capture cards, one of them (Adaptec Videoh) is supported by GB-PVR. My problem is that, even though the card is detected by GB-PVR I recive no video on Live tv, when i click on 'live tv' the screen simply flashes. I have tried changing around the settings that appear relavent however it makes no difference. Also, VLC player can detect both capture cards fine and recieve Audio and Video from both, therfore the problem must be within GB-PVR.

Have you set up your capture source per http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Config/CaptureSource ?

[ajnatural]

@Snooze
Both cards have s-video and composite inputs
@reddwarf
the other card is a Kworld BD maker, both cards are USB devices and i'm running on windows XP with a 2.8Ghz Pentium D
@markbb1
I set it up correctly, and the device is detected, however when i click on live tv nothing appears, the screen just flashes once.

[whurlston]

The KWorld I know does not have the necessary hardware MPEG encoder to work with GBPVR. There is a "Software recorder" plugin that you might try but it's no longer supported. There is also a "Graph recorder" plugin that you might try. Search the forums for either of those.

[Snooze]

I can use an unsupported card with svideo from my STB. Can you go that route? Unsupported card meaning I believe it has onboard encoder but it is proprietary Sony I believe... must be software driven... not quite sure.

[Reddwarf]

Sevral users has managed to get the SoftwareRecorder working, and with a powerful cpu like that it should be no problem encoding on-the-fly. Search the Support forum for further instructions.