2009-09-27, 10:11 PM
This is unfortunately a long post. I hope somebody will take the time to read it.
Well, when a hard drive died in my old HTPC setup, I bit the bullet and did a full upgrade. Got all new components, considerably upgraded. I was running the Win7 x64 RC on my normal PC, and it was so great that I decided the new HTPC would run it too, since I had 4 GB memory.
The first thing I noticed is that my PVR 250 will just not work. This is no big loss, I suppose, since I have the Hauppauge HD PVR, and mostly I record HD stuff anyway. The x64 vista drivers from Hauppauge work just fine for the HD PVR, and I can use GBPVR to record. I assume nobody here has any hope for getting the PVR 250 to work under Win7 x64 (but correct me if I'm wrong!).
However, I cannot get the HD PVR remote control to work at all. Installing IR32.exe doesn't generate an error, but it never appears in the system tray or in the task manager, as if it's executing but then closing without doing anything. Running in XP compatibility mode doesn't seem to help either. Has anybody got this working? Maybe I'm being dense.
The other thing is the H264 TS playback. It works beautifully in WMP and the Windows Media Center program, without having to install any codec manually. In fact, it works so well that I'm afraid to install the Haali decoder or ffdshow, which were mediocre at best last time I tried them. But playback in GBPVR doesn't work at all (program just goes back to the menu upon trying playback or Live TV). Also, as I've been using TS Packet Editor to edit the TS files, it seems to need Haali, since the video preview mode in that program doesn't work (Error: Auto creating filter graph). I'm a bit baffled by this, since if Media Player can do it, I would think GBPVR and TS Packet Editor could do it using the same graph---evidently I'm wrong. Any advice here would be really helpful.
Thanks to anybody who read all this.
Well, when a hard drive died in my old HTPC setup, I bit the bullet and did a full upgrade. Got all new components, considerably upgraded. I was running the Win7 x64 RC on my normal PC, and it was so great that I decided the new HTPC would run it too, since I had 4 GB memory.
The first thing I noticed is that my PVR 250 will just not work. This is no big loss, I suppose, since I have the Hauppauge HD PVR, and mostly I record HD stuff anyway. The x64 vista drivers from Hauppauge work just fine for the HD PVR, and I can use GBPVR to record. I assume nobody here has any hope for getting the PVR 250 to work under Win7 x64 (but correct me if I'm wrong!).
However, I cannot get the HD PVR remote control to work at all. Installing IR32.exe doesn't generate an error, but it never appears in the system tray or in the task manager, as if it's executing but then closing without doing anything. Running in XP compatibility mode doesn't seem to help either. Has anybody got this working? Maybe I'm being dense.
The other thing is the H264 TS playback. It works beautifully in WMP and the Windows Media Center program, without having to install any codec manually. In fact, it works so well that I'm afraid to install the Haali decoder or ffdshow, which were mediocre at best last time I tried them. But playback in GBPVR doesn't work at all (program just goes back to the menu upon trying playback or Live TV). Also, as I've been using TS Packet Editor to edit the TS files, it seems to need Haali, since the video preview mode in that program doesn't work (Error: Auto creating filter graph). I'm a bit baffled by this, since if Media Player can do it, I would think GBPVR and TS Packet Editor could do it using the same graph---evidently I'm wrong. Any advice here would be really helpful.
Thanks to anybody who read all this.
