GBPVR won't save channels in EPG After upgrading Capture Card

[hollow5555]

EDIT 2: OK! Some success... I set it to "analog recording source", picked the 1600 from the list, chose "SVIDEO - External Tuner" as the source and now it works (i just can't record high def I guess), but the channel changer isn't working. I don't see the Hauppauge IR Blaster as one of the listed choices. What IR Blaster do I use?!?

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I have a GBPVR box (it was running 1.4.2 or some version around there) and had a Hauppauge PVR-150 capture card. It's been running for a number of years with various versions of GBPVR. Today I finally got into the modern age and bought a high def TV. This of course meant I had to get a cable box that supports high def. I figured since I now had HD capabilities I should upgrade my capture card so that I could record in HD (plus my PVR-150 had problems changing channels so I was using the serial port, but the new cable box doesn't have a serial port I can use). So I uninstalled the PVR-150 and installed a Hauppauge PVR-1600.

I installed the drivers for the card and verified Windows sees it. I then hooked everything up. The cable box I have (Motorola DCX3200) has HDMI, Composite, RCA, and SVideo out. The HDMI is hooked up to the TV, so I opted to use the SVideo for the link to the GBPVR PC since the PVR-1600 has an SVideo input. I tested this setup with WinTV 7 (it came with the PVR-1600) and it worked fine (aside from having to manually set the input to NTSC-443 so it wasn't in black and white). So then I went to GBPVR configuration and deleted my old capture source and then added a new one for the PVR-1600. I chose "Digital Recording Plugin" for the recording source and it found 3 adapters it could use (1500MCE, 1600 ATSC, and 1600 QAM). I picked the 1600 ATSC and then configured the EPG source (xmltv plugin) and then updated the EPG. It found all of the channels it should have. I then selected "Enable All" and every channel was checked. I clicked OK to save and tried to check it all worked by going into PVRX2 and choosing "Watch Live TV", but nothing happened. When I checked the log it said there were no channels configured. I went back to the configuration page and none of the channels were checked! Nothing I do will get it to enable the channels.

I then tried upgrading to the latest version of GBPVR and I have the same result. I can't tell it to use any channels and so I can't use any of the recording features of GBPVR! Does anyone have ANY idea what's going on? I have attached the recent logs from the log directory.

Help!

EDIT: I also tried adding a high def analog recording source and picking SVideo as the input source. The only option for a card was WinTV HD-PVR and when I tried to test PVRX2 with that recording source it gave me an error in the logs about null reference or some similar error. I guess the big question here then is "How do I make GBPVR work with my HVR-1600 using SVideo Input?"

[Snooze]

antenna or cable? use qam only straight connect to cable, otherwise fixed channel blasting your stb using haupblast.exe, and allow irblast config to use 3rd part apps

[hollow5555]

antenna or cable?

Comcast Digital Cable.

I managed to get it all sort of working by setting the recording source to be an analog input with an SVideo source. But now I can only record in standard def. It's ok for now, I guess, but does anyone know how to get this thing recording in high def?

[mvallevand]

You can't record HD output from your cable box with the HVR 1600. You might find some clear QAM directly off cable, or OTA ATSC. The only option for digital catpure from the STB itself is the Hauppauge HD PVR off the component output (Green Blue Red jacks)

Martin

[martint123]

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[hollow5555]

You can't record HD output from your cable box with the HVR 1600. You might find some clear QAM directly off cable, or OTA ATSC. The only option for digital catpure from the STB itself is the Hauppauge HD PVR off the component output (Green Blue Red jacks)

Martin

Ah crud... that thing is $200.

Well, maybe I'll uy it for myself for the holidays. Thanks for the feedback, no matter how disappointing the content is

[hollow5555]

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Ok. Sorry about that.

[hollow5555]

You can't record HD output from your cable box with the HVR 1600. You might find some clear QAM directly off cable, or OTA ATSC. The only option for digital catpure from the STB itself is the Hauppauge HD PVR off the component output (Green Blue Red jacks)

Martin

Sorry, dumb question probably, but if the hvr-1600 is a "high def tuner" then why can't it get a high def signal from the comcast stb?

[ga_mueller]

"directly off the cable", ie those transmitted in clear QAM that do not require a STB for decryption. This is generally your local channels only, but maybe a few more.

[hollow5555]

"directly off the cable", ie those transmitted in clear QAM that do not require a STB for decryption. This is generally your local channels only, but maybe a few more.

Right, but doesn't it come out of the STB decrypted? Shouldn't the outputs of the STB be the same as clear QAM? Maybe I don't understand the basics of the cable signal, so feel free to correct me. I'm just asking because I honestly don't know.