Sound but no video

[supernoob]

Recently purchased the SageTV/PVR-250 bundle but I cant seem to get Sage to work correctly. These are the images I get from live TV through SageTV, the sound works just fine while the video looks like this. The WinTV2000 that came with the card works perfectly though. any ideas? This is on a totally clean install of XP. Updated the drivers and decoders from the Haupauge site and it didn't seem to help. No combination of any of the video settings in Sage TV seem to make a difference either.

All my drivers,bios,firmware,windows and DX are running the latest versions

[kny3twalker]

what are the video decoder and render setting you have choosen?

have you tried to uninstall and reinstall the drivers for the pvr 250?

[Linkin_Logs]

Let me know how/if you fixed it..I have the same problem and it seems a few others with the 250 and SageTV have the exact same problem.

[supernoob]

For Renderer I have *Default* *overlay* *VMR9*
and for decoder I have *Default* and *Intervideo NONCSS for Hauppauge*

Ive tried all combination of those with no change in results.

Drivers have been reinstall and updated many times. Even a clean windows install didn't do it.

what are the video decoder and render setting you have choosen?

have you tried to uninstall and reinstall the drivers for the pvr 250?

[kny3twalker]

in the device manager is the card showing up with errors?

is the pvr card having IRQ conflicts with other devices?

is the pvr place away from the AGP slot and PCI sound card?

"and for decoder I have *Default* and *Intervideo NONCSS for Hauppauge*"

these are probably the same(intervideo is probably the default)


can you get TV with the winTV software that came with the card?

[supernoob]

no conflicts, PVR is on the 3rd pci slot down...one below the sound card, though I had the same problem with it in the 4th slot.

WinTV2000 works perfectly, but that hardly does me any good. If I start wintv (and the picture is fine) and then run sagetv at the same time, the picture on both goes to static. until I close sage and restart wintv.

Originally posted by kny3twalker
in the device manager is the card showing up with errors?

is the pvr card having IRQ conflicts with other devices?

is the pvr place away from the AGP slot and PCI sound card?

"and for decoder I have *Default* and *Intervideo NONCSS for Hauppauge*"

these are probably the same(intervideo is probably the default)


can you get TV with the winTV software that came with the card?

[Linkin_Logs]

Have you thought about copying the frequencies that WinTV2000 uses in the registry? I read about it here

http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewtopi...525072da92181d

I've tried it but still didn't have any luck. It makes sense but maybe I'm not editing the registry correctly.

[supernoob]

Hrmmm, that was worth a try. Followed the info here but no change in SageTV

http://www.htpc-gear.com/modules.php...rder=0&thold=0

I didn't even have the "Microsoft\TV System Services\" key in there. I tried adding it all but no difference in Sagetv.

the frequency they seem to be talking about looks like it has to do with some sort of external tuner in Singapore. Doesn't seem to do me any good.

[carlgar]

Where are you guys? Providing a location may be very useful. If you are PAL users instead of NTSC you may want to refer to the Getting Static thread. I believe it was the original thread by the writer of the sinapore related article.

[supernoob]

I'm in the US. Maryland on Comcast cable to be exact

[carlgar]

When you setup the card for SageTV did you specify cable input as opposed to Antenna input? Are you using a STB or just cable into your card?

[Linkin_Logs]

I'm in Kansas City, Missouri on Time Warner. And yep Ive tried using both types of input. Im using a splitter so the PVR card is acting as the tuner and not the STB.

[kny3twalker]

Im using a splitter so the PVR card is acting as the tuner and not the STB.

what are you talking about?

furthermore you cannot run winTV and sageTV at the same time and expect things to work properly

you need to close winTV before opening sageTV

I am also beginning to think you have not set up the input source correctly

[Cryogen]

Sorry I can’t help with your problem but I also recently purchased sageTV / PVR-250. I have tried everything people have posted here and have had no luck. I have also tried all the drivers I can get my hands on also with no change. I live in Kentucky and have Adelphia as my cable co. If anyone has any other ideas please post them.

[supernoob]

I'm plugged straight from the wall into my pvr. my little blurb about the running sage and wintv at the same time was just to prove a point that the card seems to work fine untill sagetv is thrown into the mix. My input source is set up just fine.

Originally posted by kny3twalker
what are you talking about?

furthermore you cannot run winTV and sageTV at the same time and expect things to work properly

you need to close winTV before opening sageTV

I am also beginning to think you have not set up the input source correctly

[supernoob]

this problem seems to be quite wide spread. I think its time for some official support here.

[kny3twalker]

ok but if you try to open winTV while SageTV is open(and working) it will cause an error in winTV and it will not open

have you checked to make sure that the ignore encoders line of the property file does not have your pvr 250 listed?

and got what you mean by the splitter now

yeah lineup is not hard to do with just standard cable

[carlgar]

I think you all should submit bug reports to SageTV. I am not convinced that you all have the same problem. RBremen seems to be able to get channels 2-13. Supernoob, I believe is not getting any channels. not sure what Cryogen is getting. But, yes it is sounding like something bad is going on with the cards or SageTV. Is it possible you are using a PVR250MCE instead of the proven PVR250?

[Cryogen]

I cant get any channel at all. They all look like the pics posted in post 1. Right when I switch it to any channel it is clear for ½ a sec then it goes to that. I am 100% sure it is a retail PVR-250 card. WinTV works just fine on every channel. Also I have tried the trial of Snapstream Beyond Tv 3 and I get the same results. So I can only assume it’s the cards or the channels are slightly off so we are only getting the audio and not the picture.

[carlgar]

Cryogen, have tried using WinTV2000, then shutting it down and then trying SageTV? Some people have reported needing to use WinTV2000 first for some problems. Also, have you tried the drivers in my signature area? It just seems very strange for these problems to start now. I have to think that it is has to be a bad batch of cards, the lastest hauppauge drivers or the version 20 of SageTV. Since WinTV2000 seems to run properly it does not appear to be bad cards.