HVR-2250 and no analog audio

[rdean79]

I'm running into a problem with getting audio from the analog tuners on my 2250 cards. I actually had it working at one point but I messed up my channel line up so I redid it and now it's messed up. The QAM tuners work fine and video from the analog is fine. I've unistalled and reinstalled sagetv and stopped the service. Nothing worked.

So my questions are:

• Did I miss something during my setup?
• Is there a way to do a clean of the tuners to start fresh, in other words, When I remove all the tuners and try again it already has all the channels mapped including the qam channels.

Since I had it working before I thought the hardware may have been locked so I rebooted and it still didn't help. I also looked at the SageTV Beta for Windows: DShowCapture.dll and TSSplitter.ax but since the sagetv release is newer I didn't try those.

Here are the setup steps I followed from LehighBri:

1. If you're installing new, add the two Analog tuners first as TV tuners
2. Add a QAM tuner (choose Digital TV Tuner)
3. Do a scan in the channel setup to scan for available QAM channels
4. Remap the channels to your desire
5. Add the second QAM tuner (choose Digital TV Tuner) and tell it to use the same channel source as the QAM tuner above
6. In your Sage directory, locate the .frq file that was created in step 3.
7. Make a copy of it and rename such you have two similar file names, one that ends with Capture-0-QAM.frq and another ends with Capture-1-QAM.frq (this step makes it so that both your QAM tuners have the same settings)
8. One last thing. I was having issues changing live TV channels and I found a fix that worked. Open the sage.properties file and set the following: seeker/fast_mux_switch=false

The system:

• Sagetv 6.6.2 (made sure I had the latest by downloading it last night)
• Hauppauge drivers: 27223
• Win7 x64
• Two HVR-2250 cards.
• ATI 4670
• 4 gigs ram
• Q6600 cpu
• Turned off UAC
• Comcast cable

Robert

[paulbeers]

You may want to run HWClear.exe (its a utility that is found on the cd that came with the HVR2250). That will actually remove the HVR2250 from your system and then you can reinstall it. Maybe the drivers are all jacked up?

[rdean79]

I'll give that a shot although I didn't try to uninstall the 2250 drivers. Being a software developer myself I find it hard to believe that it would stay that way after a reboot but it's always worth a shot.

The other question about clearing the tuner data is something I'd like to know. I guess I could always uninstall sagetv and remove the folders but that seems overkill. Any ideas how to manage that?

Robert

[rdean79]

Reinstalled everything and it still has the issue. However I noticed on the extender HD200 that audio works correctly. I was playing the the ac3filter settings is it possible that I disable analog audio?

[craigap]

I had a similar issue once. On my setup I found that I had to uncheck mpeg audio in the system tab of the AC3 filter (I think that's wher it is anyway) to get sound from analog stations. I would get only audio from my qam stations. My setup has HDMI going to an AVR though.

[rdean79]

Yeah that's my setup too, using the ati hdmi to my denon for both audio and video. I'll give that a shot tonight.

Robert