PVR150 Problems

[SidKnee]

I was going to give this a try this weekend but didn't get chance - looks like I'll have to wait a little longer before I can use the 150 I bought for Sage

Can't say that I'm overly impressed with the response from the support team though. I had a couple of suggestions from them when I first reported the problem then nothing. It looks like they have been looking into it though (from the other posts I've seen) but it would have been nice to hear back about it. Maybe with the show coming up it wasn't such a high priority for them.

Let's hope that Hauppauge help out and between them they get it sorted.

[Bathman]

Yes I very much hope this problem gets sorted out. I have only ever brought 2 Hauppauge products (PVR350 and PVR150) and both of them have issues.

[irousso]

well - It seems like the problem is more complex, as several of us report the exact same error message yet was not solved for all of us.
I was in touch with techsupport, sent them the log files, and they thought they identified the problem. Indeed with the release of 2.2.3, this problem was solved for me. I hope this will get solved to others as well.
Itay

[marneb17]

Originally Posted by irousso

well they don't sell PAL cards, but since I use a SAT I only use the S-Video or composite connectors and don't really need the tuner.

Indeed with the release of 2.2.3, this problem was solved for me.

Well since you have a NTSC Card it seems your problem was different from ours.

Hope they figure something out.

Marne

[jhh]

Hi,

I see several errors related to the 150MCE (PAL version). One of them is obvious: as the 150MCE does not come with an mpeg2 decoder it will fail on playback as there is no decoder. SageTV 2.2 beta has a decoder and video files recorded with a 250 (in my other system) will play back fine on a XP home system with only 150MCE card(s) in.

Those that report that everything works fine using the Wintv2k application - I'm one of them- most likely have their installation on a XP (not mce) version and have installed the 150 drivers not the 150MCE. In that case it is also possible to install the Hauppauge mpeg decoder. This will not work if you have installed the 150MCE drivers on an XP (not mce).

I have submitted a bug report on this on Friday and haven't heard from Frey since. If I don't have any news tomorrow evening I'll ask them for a status on my bug report.

Why do we want this: there is a great deal on a 3-bundle MCE cards and why run XP MCE if Sage is so much better?

Hope it gets fixed soon!
Jan

[jhh]

Hi,

Got a reply from support that they are working with Hauppauge to get this fixed and they will inform me when it is done.

No hints on timing though.

Jan

[SidKnee]

Fingers crossed that they fix this soon - I've a 150 that I can't really make use of until they do

Cheers,
SidKnee

[garystein]

New PVR 150 Drivers here. Will try later!

http://www.shspvr.com/forum/

[jhh]

hi,

I hope I won't regret this post in a few hours when everything stops working but I read on the www.hauppauge.tv forum -which is the one for the Benelux- that on some occasions the new 150MCE does not like the Elecard decoders.

So off I went - installed WinXP Home from scratch. It had service pack 2 on the cd so that went in as well.

Then I inserted the first card. Loaded the drivers from the forum for the 150 (not the 150MCE), which can be found here: http://www.hauppauge.tv/software/PVR...0.18.22316.zip

then I performed the update, which you'll find here: http://www.hauppauge.tv/software/PVR...0_22_22292.exe

and then I installed the Hauppauge MPEG decoder which is here: http://www.hauppauge.tv/software/MPE..._5.0.22236.EXE

then I repeated the same process -original driver install + update- for card 2 and 3 apart from the installation of the MPEG decoder.

Then I did the registry hack to enter my channels nicely in the order I wanted. More info to be found here: http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...=channel+order

Then I configured SageTV for XMLTV line-up and installed the USB-UIRT and I was done. I had 3 tuners happily recording and thought all was well. Until it stopped working.

Then I rearranged the cards so there was a free slot in between all of them - apart from one where there is a low profile NIC. So they now have a bit more breathing space. Rebooted - then I had to reinstall the cards. Did the first one as I described above and the two others automatically. (I'm not sure if it matters a lot because if you look in the device manager they all have the same driver).

The machine survived a reboot (there are quite a few messages on the Hauppauge form about cards loosing their driver after reboot).

So I'm a bit reluctant to upgrade to the driver in the previous post - also I'm on SageTv 2.1 which does not come with an mpeg decoder so I have survive that upgrade also.

Good luck,
Jan

p.s.: is it normal that you have to teach the USB-UIRT all the commands? I installed SageTV with support for the PVR250 IR and hoped it would work.

[nielm]

Any of you guys have a -250 and a -150MCE working in the same machine? I will be using tuner inputs only...

[kricker]

I am using SageTV vs 2.1 with a brand new PVR150 NTSC. I am running it with WindowsXP MCE 2005 SP2. Although I am not actually using the windows media center (It doesn't like my old ATI 7500). So I am using SageTV and it works fine. I used the Hauppauge MCE drivers 1st, and it worked fine. Then I switched to using the regular drivers 2.0.18.22280. SageTV still works fine. I tried to use the patch for drivers PVR150_22_22292.exe but it just doesn't seem to do anything. But no matter SageTV is still working fine. I don't know if I can shed any light on anyones lack of PVR150 working but I'll be glad to try.

[jhh]

Nielm,

it worked for about 6 hrs then I got the (-4,0x8007048f) error again. I have about 20 recordings that did work fine but when I scheduled a movie it didn't work.

I'd wait a bit getting an 150MCE.

Jan

[jhh]

ok - I figured out why it stopped working. As soon as I activate the webserver plug-in I get the error on first recording or watching live tv.

If I remove the load... line which starts the webserver and restart SageTV the error is still there - after a reboot the error is gone and I have several hours/recordings on it again without problems. There is nothing in the errorlog for the webserver and it goes wrong without even accessing the webserver.

This is not so good as I'm using the webserver on a daily basis. At home I also use realvnc to access the machine and that doesn't seem to hurt it.

I should get v2.2 on it so error logging is enabled by default although I'm not looking foward to it as I spent quite some time on it already :+)

Jan

[nielm]

?!
0x8007048f == DirectX error: 'The device is not connected'...

I think of no reason why the webserver would cause any complications (other than adjusting the startup timings)... Its all in pure java, uses the same interface as the STV, and certainly does not play around in DirectX! In addition while it is not serving any pages, its thread is idle (blocked waiting for incomming connections)

Were you accessing pages when the error was triggered?

If you are running in service mode, you could try enabling the webserver plugin in the client only (sageclient.properties), leaving the service to do all the recording...

[jhh]

I was very surprised that the webserver would have anything to do with it and I'm sure that other users who get the same error probably don't have it running at all. But I can reproduce the error - if I load it and I restart Sage it fails recording. The webserver didn't get any requests and I'm not running in service mode.

I will stop and start Sage a few times and see if it is just a coincidence. I stopped Sage to add the line to activate the server. If it stops working just by stopping then it is my bad luck that I was doing it to activate the webserver which gave me the wrong idea entirely. It is not because 2 things happen at the same time that one is the cause of the other.

Btw.: I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you for making this available.

Jan

[mobby]

Can anyone say for definate that they are using SageTV with the PVR-150 andit actually works?

...or that Freytechnoligies is working with Hauppauge to sort this issue out?

Its just that I have tried a number or drivers and nothing seems to work, at one point it sorta did, i actually got a picture but a few mins later it stopped working

If other people have theirs working then I will continue to look at mine and try and sort it. If you do have it working can you post:

• Card Driver Vesion
• WinTV Version
• Connection type between cable box and PVR-150

...otherwise does anyone know for definate if frey and/or hauppauge are looking into it?

Many Thanks
mobby

[jhh]

Hi,

SageTV and 3 x 150MCE works - check the instructions in a previous mail.

One thing I need to add now. I can confirm that the web plugin has nothing to do with the problems I saw. As soon as I stop Sage and start it again I have the same problem. It was just a coincidence that I stopped it for activating the web plugin.

As long as I use Sage and don't stop it it will keep on going - if I have to exit it for a configuration change I need to reboot the computer and it will work again.

Problem is that most of us europeans have to stop it when installing from scratch: start it and then stop to get a properties file and put the XML plugin config in.

Jan

[nielm]

I can confirm that the web plugin has nothing to do with the problems I saw.

Phew

[mobby]

Ok I tried last night and instead of Sage just throwing up and error -4 I think, sorry cant remember the actually error code (its the one that says about checking you have installed the latest driver ) it still raised the error but then also locked up, to the point where I have to use TaskManager to kill the process.

Basically I had drivers previously installed and the same error was thrown up but Sage didn't crash (again can't remember version off hand - in work at the mo ) and after reading some other posts I tried another version of the drivers people had recommended. These ones worked when I put in rf of 3 (which was wrong ) just static appeared which was a good sign, normally the -4 error would appear at this point witht the previous drivers. I then realised that it should have been 65, after changing it to 65 the error now appears and Sage crashes/hangs (locks up so you have to manually kill the process). Any ideas?

On the weekend I will be buying a Scart->svideo lead to plug the cable box (NTL Pace Di4001NC) into the PVR-150 and see if that helps so it doesnt have to use the tuner part of the driver. Will this help?

I am using Sage 2.1.10 btw

many thanks

[SidKnee]

I wouldn't hold out much hope for using the composite input - that was the way I wanted to use my 150 but it still crashed

Different people have had different results though so you might be lucky!

Cheers,
SidKnee