PVR-350 TV-out looks kinda wrong

[nijn]

Hi,

I bought a PVR-350 a week ago, and have been messing since.

I can`t get the TV-out to work with SageTV, wich seems like the best programm for me.

I have tried GB-pvr, wich displays a perfect osd.

SageTV, well, it doesn`t really come up to GB-pvr`s standards
Look for yourselfe in the images.

My specs:
P4 2.66, 512MB, Geforce MX440, Wintv PVR-350

using pvr-350`s tv-out on:
Pal_B tv via composite > scart.

Anyone have an idea what might be wrong?

[nijn]

Any ideas at all?

[Crashless]

That's some pretty cool post-post-modern video art.

Maybe try an uninstall of GBPVR, and then uninstall/reinstall sage and the hauppauge drivers. Backup your GBPVR install of course.

[nijn]

Would be a nice painting, if you`re into that sort of thing.
Unfortunately, I`m trying to create some sort of HTPC.

I`ve already deinstalled it, reinstalled it, reinstalled Win. XP.
Installed SageTV on a clean XP installation, nothing helps.

I`m pretty sure I`m doing something wrong with the settings.
I`ve read something about setting up Pal mode for the TV-out.
I`ve tried to enter an other OSD_SIZE or something. The key didn`t exist in the config file, so I created it. Didn`t help either.

[Crashless]

So you're in PAL land? what you're seeing doesn't necessarily look like an NTSC signal on a PAL screen. How'd you get that screenshot? Is it through printscreen, or some other means?

I see in your shot that you can see a little of the GUI. If you can get to the setup menu, try toggling the 350 output settings GUI, and output enable/disable. Enable hardware decoding only.

Search the boards for 350 related PAL settings, unfortunately I'm in NTSC, so I know very little/nothing about setting Sage up for a PAL world.

[nijn]

I got the screenshot by just photographing my tv screen with an digital camera.

I can see a little of the gui indeed. Luckely, the osd is displayed on my monitor too. Looks perfect there.

I`ve tried all the combinations with the hardware decoder setting, the switch on tv-out, and the osd on tv-out settings. Didn`t help.

[bhageman]

I got this when I had Sage and GBPVR running at the same time. I was using GBPVR to rip a DVD and Sage was recording a show. Both software apps properly finished what they were doing, but I couldn't watch TV via Sage while they did it. Once they were done, I restarted the machine without GBPVR and everything was fine.

[nijn]

Problem Solved.

My motherboard came bundeled with an overclocking for noobs programm CoreCentre.

I overclocked my 133fsb to 140, just to test what it would do.

As it turns out, my PVR-350 didn`t like this. When I turned this back, everything went back to normal.