ATI Theater 550 Pro with NPVR

[bnz]

I've had no problems installing a Hauppauge HVR-2250 with NPVR in a new system. I wanted to try my old ATI Theater 550 Pro as well because it gave me better analog picture quality on GBPVR on a WinXP machine than my hauppage card is with NPVR on my Win7. So I installed all the prerequisite software, installed WinTV7, and inserted the ATI card in the machine. The card was recognized by my machine and NPVR (ATI AVStream Analog Capture). This is where I run into problems.

I am able to scan for channels with my HVR-2250 (62 channels found for my analog cable) but with the 550 on scan it only scans 11 channels with none found. I can manually enter channels and get my epg to list the programs in the channel guide but when I go to watch them all I get is snow and static audio. I've set the channels up as both "tuner" and "fixed channel" and get the same results.

Can anyone offer any advice as to what I should do to get picture and sound with this card?

[johnsonx42]

i'm confused. you don't (and can't) scan for analog channels. you get them from your epg source or enter them manually. so anything you scanned for on your HVR-2250 and found must have been digital. are you sure you actually have analog channels on your cable?

[bnz]

Yes, everything on the 2250 is from the analog. ATSC and QAM has 0 channels.

I can get my epg to work for the channels I manually enter but when I go to watch them on live tv all I get is snow and static.

[sub]

I can get my epg to work for the channels I manually enter but when I go to watch them on live tv all I get is snow and static.

Reproduce this, then zip and attach the npvr.log/nrecord.log and I'll take a look.

[bnz]

Okay, here it is...

[sub]

That's trying to watch channel 2 from a cable system. Is channel 2 a valid channel there?

[bnz]

Yes, the latest should be trying to watch channel 4.

[sub]

Can you delete those channels, and recreate them using the 'tuner' option instead of 'fixed-channel', then post those logs again showing attempts to got go up through the first 10 or channels?

[bnz]

Okay, here is the new one.

[sub]

And were all these just snow?

In the logs it looks fine. Its successfully tuning the different channels you've asked for. If you're getting just snow, then it sounds like you dont have the cable connected to the correct input on your card, or you've got it coming from a set top box rather than directly from the cable feed, or something similar to this.