Hauppauge PVR-250 and Windows 2003 Server

[srothwell]

Anyone been able to get the PVR-250 to work with Windows 2003 Server and SageTV?

If so, how did you do it? I don't think it's officially supported.

Thanks!

Stacy

[S_M_E]

Originally Posted by srothwell

Anyone been able to get the PVR-250 to work with Windows 2003 Server and SageTV?

If so, how did you do it? I don't think it's officially supported.

Thanks!

Stacy

Yes and no. I use WHS, which is based on the win2k3 core so, basically, it's the same thing. There are no win2k3 drivers but the XP drivers worked for me.

[srothwell]

OK So Installed it and the card RECORDS, but all I get from Sage on W2K3 is the PlaybackError 4,0x80040217 and nothing will play no matter what decoder I use.

Any ideas? You run into this?

[S_M_E]

Nope, mine records and plays fine using cyberlink and nvidia decoders. How much RAM do you have in the box?

[srothwell]

Originally Posted by S_M_E

Nope, mine records and plays fine using cyberlink and nvidia decoders. How much RAM do you have in the box?

4GB. I was using a nvidia 8800GT card now I am in the middle of installing a ATI x1300 card. We'll see.

Wonder why yours works and mine doesn't.

I did notice that no one seems to have W2K3 drivers for graphics cards. I've just been using the XP ones.

[srothwell]

Nope. No go.

I downloaded the drivers from hauppauge for the pvr-250, but I noticed that when I installed it, that i said PVR-150. And, in Add/Remove programs it says PVR-150.

Hmmmm????

What's yours say?

[S_M_E]

Originally Posted by srothwell

4GB.

Try dropping that down to 3G or 2G if you have to. Some of the older cards have issues with 4G.

[srothwell]

But the card works..... it records (can see the thumbnail in Sage screen, I can play the MPG file bck in windows media player on W2K3 and the Hauppauge winTV2000 application can show live TV and change channels and all.....

Besides I had 4GB on this machine before but under XP and the card (3 of them actually) worked just fine.

The only reason I want to use W2K3 is becuase of its multi-user remote desktop. I'm on the road a LOT. Using Remote Desktop is the easiest way for me to get into my home network and get files, etc. XP has RD but you can't do it in the background like you can with W2K3

[S_M_E]

If the card is working then the problem shouldn't be the drivers. It has to be the renderer or decoder, I'd imagine. Try switching from overylay to vmr9 or vice-versa and try the different decoder options too...

[srothwell]

Did that. Neither VMR9 or Overlay works.

The only thing that works is if I set renderer to DEFAULT and use the Sage decoders.

But the playback isn't so hot.... whenever the display comes on, the screen goes black until it finishes then the video comes back.

However, if I go into another account, I get capture errors.

I guess this is what I get for using an OS that's not on the list

[S_M_E]

Well, then it's definately the other decoders if the defaults work. Also, you might need wmp11 or the wmp9 codecs to get vmr9 working and I'm not sure there is win2k3 support there but there could be a way to install it anyway, using compatibility mode.

Like I said, WHS isn't on the list and it's win2k3 based but mine works. I don't use my server for playback though, I use clients so that could be another option for you. Clients, placeshifters and extenders don't require playback on the server.

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by srothwell

Did that. Neither VMR9 or Overlay works.

The only thing that works is if I set renderer to DEFAULT and use the Sage decoders.

But the playback isn't so hot.... whenever the display comes on, the screen goes black until it finishes then the video comes back.

However, if I go into another account, I get capture errors.

I guess this is what I get for using an OS that's not on the list

Did you install all the DirectX 9 (by default W2k3 uses DX8) and enabled WMP in W2k3 server?

Gerry

[alphonsus]

I may have misunderstood your comments, so bear with me!

You aren't trying to view the playback via SageTV over reomte desktop are you?

I've never managed to get that to work either - the RDP protocol seems to do strange things to the renderers (something to do with the way RDP repors display modes to applications). The only way I've ever managed to get that to work is disable software decoding, enable PVR-350 hardware decoding and watch on TV.
Running SageTV on console (i.e. monior plugged into the server (Win2k3), it works fine)

Install vlc (videolan client) and try its decoders?