Sound but no video

[seezar]

Originally posted by dkardatzke
We should be getting a new version from Hauppauge today. I'll make a post on the forum here once it becomes available.

That is excellent news, I have begun to notice quality issues with the other driver on analogue cable as well. Hopefully the new driver will address those issues.

[dkardatzke]

Here is another updated driver, same installation instructions as before: http://www.sage.tv/3_dlSoft/040910Re....021.22254.zip

Please let us know your feedback so we can respond to Hauppauge.

Thanks,
Dan

[SHS]

Being dan all ready post it it also on ftp.shspvr.com Oh there MPEG decoder on line to
ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/mpeg_d..._5.0.22236.exe

[Ryokurin]

Even better. Quality is even better than the older tuner it replaced due to the other fixes.

[zoundz]

Looks like that one did it. PQ looks pretty much like it should. Test recording in an hour or so.

Thanks Dan.

[seezar]

That last driver worked great, the quality is the best I've seen so far since getting the card.

[kny3twalker]

That last driver worked great, the quality is the best I've seen so far since getting the card.

Yeah but I am seeing problems with DXVA enabled in my decoder of choose

I ended up turning it off

and using VMR9 instead of overlay

the older drivers looked much better with DXVA enabled

but I can handle a work around(or roll back again)

the 1.8A I think are still far more stable and the fact that DXVA works so much better with them is a definte plus

I may switch back but I think I will try out the new release of ffdshow

[thatdude90210]

This new driver seems to have fixed my lost of audio problem. I have 2 retail pvr250's that I just moved, along with Sagetv, to a newly built system. It's a fresh install of XP and I was using the driver (1.8. 22170) that's on Hauppauge's website.

I've been chasing down this one issue -- where after a few restarts of recording or liveTV, the audio would stop working but the video still worked -- for a few days. Looks like this latest driver fixed it.

[kny3twalker]

yeah read the release notes
there are a lot of fixes but they are beta

and the sound issue was one of them

[pvr_newbie]

Looks like the last driver is very close to make SageTV channel setup working. except that my card has known channel 4 reception issue.

After more testing I found that the channel 4 reception can be improved by doing manual tuning. However SageTV does not offer manual tuning control like WINTV2k.

After further testing in WINTV2k, I found that my card does have tuning defect on the low number channels (2,3,4,5) which look fuzzy and PQ are not great. The manual tuning can only improve some but not much.

I will go back to the local store to exchange it for a new card.

Thanks Dan.

[pvr_newbie]

Yesterday I was able to exchange the old card for a new card.
The new card is Model 32032 Rev. B326, and the tuner on board is Temic 4036FY5.

The Temic tuner has much better TV reception and PQ.

I think Hauppauge should recall all the WINTV PVR250 which has TCL 2002N_6A tuner. The root cause is that the sensitivity of TCL tuner cable TV input is lower than normal. The TCL tuner requires higher cable TV input signal level than normal, otherwise AFT will fail.

[themule]

I am experiencing intermittent video problems with static and/or white and black bars as described at the beginning of this thread. I'm running SageTV 2.2.8 and the SageMC 16x9 STV on a PVR-250 (coax input). It has happened while changing channels during live tv, when the live tv channel switches to a new program on the hour or half hour, and also on several recordings while live tv was not active. Additionally, channel 22 is always stricken with this problem (it has never tuned successfully in SageTV, though it works fine under WinTV).

I've tried the drivers Dan posted above as well as the latest drivers from the Hauppauge website. The problem occurs with both.

Any thoughts?

[waynedunham]

Originally Posted by themule

I am experiencing intermittent video problems with static and/or white and black bars as described at the beginning of this thread.

Are the bars stationary or scrolling? Vertical or horzontal? If they're moving what are you inputing? (i.e. cable-analog, cable-digital, Satellite,etc)

I've got Comcast Analog and have been having problems here especially on the low channels (3 is horrible sometimes). I notice the same thing at work on the TV with analog, while all the ones with the digital box are fine.

[themule]

They're normally vertical scrolling/wavy bars. The input is analog cable to the coax input of the PVR-250.

[waynedunham]

Originally Posted by themule

They're normally vertical scrolling/wavy bars. The input is analog cable to the coax input of the PVR-250.

Horizontal bars from one side to the other slowly scrolling up the screen? If so that's what I have on my analog cable also. As I said I've seen them on an analog setup from the same drop that has Digital boxes also. No bars on the Digital boxes, but they're there on the analog setup.

Do they vary in intensity at different times? How about different channels? Mine vary and sometimes are horrible and sometimes barely noticeable. Also they are typically bad on the lower channels and not as bad, or nonexistant on higher channels.

If your description matchs mine then it's probably something on the cable coming in. Everyone was trying to tell me it was noise induced by having multiple splits and different equipment, tv's, receivers, etc on different circuits caused by a ground loop. Well pulling everything off the cable and running a single instance of cable directly from the outside connection from the pole directly to my TV made no difference.