WHS2011 and HD PVR

[loomdog32]

Im betting there are some people out there running Sage on WHS2011 and using HD PVR as a capture device. I need your feedback.

I have Sage up and running with no issues using HDHomeRun, but have been unable to successfully get the HD PVR to run......

Sometimes I can install the drivers with no errors, sometimes I get errors.
When there are no errors, I get nada from the device..

I can load Win7 on the same machine and it works (only did this to verify the hardware).

I have tried drivers 1.5.7 and 1.6.2 (these were the current drivers from Hauppauge). Same results from both.

[Kirby]

I'm interested to know if the HDPVR can be made to work on the WHS2011 as well.

Quick question, are you trying to view on WHS2011 as well, or just use it as a tuner where another client/extender is viewing (and fails)? Could it be a H264 codec issue on WHS2011?

[loomdog32]

I have since dropped WHS2011 and am using XP.

You *could* use WHS2011 to view. I was able to watch Recorded TV files from the HDPVR in Sage, but was never able to get video or audio from the device in WHS2011. Tho, I could never get the Phoenix UI to open; had to use PlaceShifter if the UI was activated locally, when disabled, the regular Sage app opened and played back video w/ audio.

I did not install any audio/video codecs, but did have to enable audio (I got a popup when installing the audio driver).

I know there are people that have gotten it to work, but I never could.


As a side note, since installing XP over WHS2011, my network performance increased approx 20% (not only on that box, but across the entire network)... There is defiantly something fishy about the network stack in 2008r2/7...

[Beefcake550]

I've been using WHS2011 and HD-PVRs without issue for a few months now. I didn't experience your problem, but when you ran the exe for the setup, did you right click and go to "run as administrator". I did this for everything even though I was logged in via RDP as administrator.

[roly]

Originally Posted by Beefcake550

I've been using WHS2011 and HD-PVRs without issue for a few months now. I didn't experience your problem, but when you ran the exe for the setup, did you right click and go to "run as administrator". I did this for everything even though I was logged in via RDP as administrator.

Hi Beefcake550,

I would really love to hear a step-by-step of how you've made it work?
I installed the drivers of Hauppauge Colossus 1429 on my WHS2011 server with the Win7 drivers and everything is ok... But when I go through the configuration of SageTV, I'm getting an playback error???
Did you get the same ? I only want to record TV show on my server and do the viewing through other win7 workstations...

Thansk

[Beefcake550]

Hrmmm....I don't think I'll be much help, but I'll try. I had the HDPVR plugged into its own USB header (no other USB device on the same set of 2 plugs). The, I downloaded the driver and unzipped the ZIP file into whatever default dir. Then, to run the installer, I right clicked on the exe file and did "Run as Administrator". Then add it to sage and you should be good to go. Make sure if usign the SPDIF, you select that as the input scheme in Sage and that you are using the SPDIF IN, not OUT (i made this mistake).

Good luck. I've since moved onto Colossus cards, so I can't recreate the scenario any better than that.

[roly]

Thanks Beefcake550....
Quick question, why did you move to the Colossus card? Were you not better of with the extenal component?

Regards,

[Beefcake550]

I moved to Colossus because of 2 reasons.
1) One of the HD-PVRs died and I replaced it with the cheaper Colossus
2) I had troubled getting the HDPVR and Colossus to play nicely together.

So, it was cheaper to replace the second HDPVR with a Colossus. Finally, I notice the video quality is slightly better on the Colossus using the HDMI input.