Black and White Vertical Bars

[netwrkg0d]

I just installed a PVR-250...and WinTV2000 works just fine...but GB-PVR gives me a vertical distortion. No sound comes out either.

I get this error code in the logs:
9/3/2004 1:53:41 PM.671 ERROR [2] Error: msg=0x202 (WM_LBUTTONUP) hwnd=0x4033e wparam=0x0 lparam=0xd400c3 result=0x0 : Failure playing back file : at NativeUtilities.MediaHelper.playVideoFile(String filename, Form form)
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[markl951]

I'm new to GB-PVR also and I have the same problem.

Not sure where you're at but I believe the "USA cable" configuration is wrong for my location (Seattle, WA). The tuner is being tuned to the wrong frequency by GB-PVR.

I changed to USA Antenna and now I can get channel 2 thru 13. Not much I really want to watch or record on those channels though.

All my cable channels tune correctly with the WinTV tuner.

[sub]

Quote[/b] ]Not sure where you're at but I believe the "USA cable" configuration is wrong for my location (Seattle, WA). The tuner is being tuned to the wrong frequency by GB-PVR.

I changed to USA Antenna and now I can get channel 2 thru 13. Not much I really want to watch or record on those channels though.

For a clear understanding of how the channel tunings work, you may want read/try this:
http://gbpvr.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=2;t=826

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Markl951, do you have the new tuner type that is causing problems for much of the third party software? See http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5729

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netwrkg0d,

Have you tried explicilty setting the "Preferred decoder" option?

[markl951]

Quote[/b] (sub @ Sep. 03 2004,14:48)]Markl951, do you have the new tuner type that is causing problems for much of the third party software? See http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5729

Looks like I do (see details below).
The box says SL-980-V1.5-US

Here's the details.

Model 32062 Rev. B185
Serial #7363202
Tuner Formats: NTSC (M/N)
Tuner Audio: Stereo (MSP3445)
Video Formats: NTSC ( M ) PAL ( B G H I D K M N NCOMBO ) SECAM ( L L' )
Audio Outputs: None
External Inputs: 3
S-Video Inputs: 2
Teletext: Yes (Software)
Radio: None
Decoder: SAA7115
Tuner Model: TCL 2002N_6A

[sub]

I personally dont have any experience with this tuner, but had read these other comments at that url.

I suspect there will be updated Hauppauge drivers soon to correct the issue.

Does the Tuning Assistant (from the other URL I referred to) tune any/most channels?

[markl951]

Quote[/b] (sub @ Sep. 03 2004,15:18)]Does the Tuning Assistant (from the other URL I referred to) tune any/most channels?

Sub,

I ran your tuner program.  On PVR-250-USA-Antenna, it finds stations 2 thru 13.  They are the correct station for my location. I checked using another TV.

I'm not sure how you calculate the frequency, but it reports 55.5 MHz for both CH2 and CH3 then increments by 6 MHz each time.  By thie time it gets to CH13 it says 205.5.  It should say 211.5  (Here in the states, the actual visual carrier frequency is 211.25 MHz for CH13.  205.25 for CH12 and so on.)

With PVR-250-USA-Cable, I don't receive any channels and when it does stop on the black & white bars, the frequency for CH2 says 72 MHz, ...  CH13 says 204 MHz.

Guess I'll have to wait for an update to get channels above 13.

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Quote[/b] ]I'm not sure how you calculate the frequency, but...

I dont anything with frequencies at all. I use a standard api for setting the current channel. I call a microsoft API (TvTuner->SetChannel()) which takes the country code, tuning type (antenna/cable), and the channel number.

Some information on these predefined tables of frequencies can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library....ing.asp

[netwrkg0d]

Thanks for the info....my card is indeed a v1.5b Changing it from Cable to Antenna..get's me the 13 channels but no more. I will check around to see if I can get an older rev of this card.....as I don't see that Hauppauge fixed it yet.

netwrkg0d