Issues with Hauppauge HD-PVR2 and Next PVR

[moxieskipper]

Finished putting together my homebrew PVR (HD-PVR2/NextPVR/ShawDirect Satellite set top box) and am now dealing with the following issues:

Video image recorded from NextPVR app is 480p (plays back non-HD with vertical bars) even though the captured content is 1080p 16:9 (using Component cables between set top box and HD-PVR / HDMI to TV). Image is in 16:9 aspect when played live in NextPVR however the quality is not as good as when live feed is played in Hauppauge's WinTV app. In fact, full screen WinTV playback is almost equal as direct feed from set top box. Am using all default settings at this point. Should I be using third party decoders??

Am running into a problem where the channel numbers provided by the online service do not match ShawDirect listings. Do I need to edit all the downloaded listing numbers to match ShawDirect's?? Am testing Schedules Direct service at the moment.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

M

[sub]

Usually if you pass a 1080i 16:9 video source, the HDPVR2 will output 1080i 16:9.

If you play the recording back in another player, like VLC, does it show correctly?

If not, can you do a short recording, then zip and attach your nrecord.log?

[mvallevand]

NextPVR syncs in with the bitrate that it first sees when it tunes and the default might be low quality especially if there is an OSD. Consider telling your STB to output a fixed HD resolution and if you can't modify the bitrate for HDPVR 480 to match the bitrate that you'd recording in config.xml.

Martin

[moxieskipper]

My bad... The content was fine. It was an SD TV program shown on an HD channel (StarTrek Voyager on Space HD). I tested on other channels and the aspect is ok. However I see some artifacts (pixelation) when viewing live TV or recorded programs but only when there is a lot of movement or when there is a transition effect like a soft fade. Most of the time the image is very clear though but the pixelation is annoying. I am using the defaults in NextTV so I wonder if I should be switching to a different codec.

Also confirmed the downloaded TV listings are completely wrong even though I picked ShawDirect Satellite, Eastern Canada. None of the channel numbers match and when I tried to edit them it screwed up the interactive guide. There must be a way to find the right guide for StarChoice East.

Any suggestions?

M

[moxieskipper]

Update on my tests with my Hauppauge HD-PVR2 and NextPVR. I switched codecs and this cleaned up the recordings. No more pixelation issue. I also heard back from the folks at Schedules Direct and was told they can fix the listings. Am waiting for the new listings file to see if this resolves my issue.

M