Hauppauge HDPVR-1212 Owner's Thread - Page 3

the new card will not play more than 10 sec of any video then it stops...i've never seen a card do this...i hav eto wait til monday to call tech support...i tried TME, Sage, YouTube and Media Center and all video stops after 10 sec but the display works otherwise...and the HDMI port doesn't work.

I got the rev C2 model. Installed the driver and appliation software from the CD (1.01b). Don't see the IR running, so I downloaded the software (ir32.exe and Irblast.exe) from Hauppauge website and install it again. The IR program does not seem to start up at boot up. I have to restart it manually using restart IR program. After the installation, I got the restart/stop IR program on my Start->All programs->Hauppauge WinTV program group. When I run the restart IR, a little remote icon shows up on my XP system tray. I then tried to use the Blastcfg program to configure the remote, it does not seem to do anything. Tried leaning mode, and it always returns an error. The red probe on the IRBlaster does not blink when I press the send channel command from the program. I tried this on two PCs, XP and Vista and got exactly the same result. Please help. Other than that, it is a great unit. It records fine and the media files plays on my IStarHD media player. Thanks in advance for anyone who may have suggestion on things that I can try.

My C2 1212 is getting VERY hot after being on for 2+ days.

My unit was very hot the first night I used it, but since it's just warm, no where near being hot and it stays on 24x7, mainly because it passes through my component output.

I keep my modded C1 unit powered 24x7, but not my C2 unit, and I think it's not a good idea to leave an unmodded C2 on all the time. Even if it "works" I would think the high temp is likely to reduce the working life of the unit.

That said, you might find you are better off better if you turn it on its side, as a number of early C1 users did.

What a bunch of weasels.

I just got my C2, RMA'd my C1. Had some freezing problems during recording.

Did anyone mention that the C2 revision has the blue light around the HD PVR now? It turns on when you start a recording. Didn't notice that on the C1.

I have a C2. It doesn't turn on the LEDs while recording (just the little red recoding light). Fine with me though.

Does anyone know how to turn the sound off when I'm recording?

I like to watch pre-recorded shows on the same PC while recording, but I hear 2 sound tracks - the one I'm recording and the one I want to watch. I cannot find any way to turn the sound off while recording, Am I just missing something?

The second problem... Does TitanTV even work? I tried the setting TitanTV to Arcsoft and various Hauppauge devices with no luck.

I've searched both forums for this PVR and have not seen any answers for these issues.

Anyone figure either of these problems out?

Thanks !!!

Not sure if this is a good enough solution, but if you use graphedit to record, there's no preview and so no audio.

I noticed in graphedit that there are these GOP encoding options not available in the TME app that comes with the HD-PVR:

Advanced GOP 4/32/128
Simple GOP 4/32/128
Advanced No IDR GOP 4/32/0
Simple No IDR GOP 4/32/0

Has anyone tried these different settings and know if there's any actual advantage to these?

I grabbed small samples using each, and they don't seem to look different in TS Packet Editor, although TS Packet Editor does seem to cut the end point more accurately with Advanced GOP when I tried...

If you could post the file here I'll take a look at it

http://www.rapidshare.com/

After you upload the file, they will give you a link to post.

I can't view the file without a link

I saw an obvious glitch a little over 8.4 seconds into the video. It looks like the video steps backwards a frame and there's a double exposure. I saw other less obvious glitches too. Actually, exactly what you see depends on how the video is being decoded. Sometimes I see part of the frame move but not other parts (it's a panning scene). DgAvcIndex seems to have some sort of problem with the frame order. DirectShow (CoreAVC) does much better.

Have you tried using GraphEdit to record and using the Simple GOP 4/32/128 setting? I find that to be the most reliable in terms of decoding (in players and editors) on the computer.

What kind of problems are you seeing? I didn't really see anything that would alarm me. No dropped frames. At 8+ second I did see that little glitch that Wok is talking about but that could be how it was broadcast and has nothing to do with the HD PVR.

One thing that I noticed is that the volume is really low. Is all your recordings from differant channels that low too?

I'm not seeing the problems you're seeing so it's probably a video decoding problem on your end? The horizontal line at the bottom is also not there or barely visable. Also did you max out your volume on your set top box (the one in settings)?

Like KavMan, I see none of those problems. You likely have a playback problem.

One thing I have noticed about the HD PVR's TS files is that some programs report them as 1088 lines tall. Those extra 8 lines are the garbage at the bottom of your frame. I'm not sure why some decoders show those extra 8 lines and some don't. Or even if the reported 1088 lines is right or wrong.

You can get around this by using MPC and CoreAVC Pro. If you use MPCHC be sure to disable its internal h.264 decoder. CoreAVC has an option to crop 1088 to 1080 (it seems to do this by default when playing HD PVR TS files anyway). And this will probably get rid of your other video glitches.

Another thing to try if you have a graphics card that supports hardware h.264 decoding: try using MPCHC and enabling DXVA. It doesn't work right for me (DXVA works in Arcsoft though) but it's worth a try.

When I took the screenshot with the Arcsoft player of his file it came out to be 1934 x 1088. I then took it with MPCHC and it came out to be 1920 x 1080


Edit - Here's the screenshot but even with the 8 extra lines there's no horizontal garbage at the bottom or barely visable like the 1080 one.

For progress on the HD-PVR driver supporting Dolby Digital 5.1, check out this thread..
http://www.shspvr.com/smf/index.php?topic=11596.15

A beta tester for the new HD-PVR driver just posted some of his findings today. Sounds like the new driver is working well for him so far, capturing an entire movie from HD cable in DD5.1 without losing sync. Unfortunately it sounds like burning shows captured with DD5.1 audio to disc might be a bit problematic for awhile. The Arcsoft TotalMedia Extreme software doesn't support 5.1 audio. It downgrades DD5.1 to DD 2.0 when burning to avchd/Blu-Ray, so you'll need to use something else that does support DD5.1. The beta tester tried using TsMuxer to create a Blu-Ray structure from the captured TS file, but the resulting m2ts lost sync halfway into the movie. I'd be interested to see what happens if you try using H264TS_Cutter to edit out commercials from a TS having DD5.1. It's worked well with DD2.0 TS streams. DD5.1 might be a different story.

I hope we'll see a public release of this beta driver in the next week. I've been holding off recording concerts off the MHD network because of the lack of DD5.1. Even if I can't burn to disc, I'd at least be able to archive them to hard drive storage.

Actually, if you look closely at the bottom of that image there is some garbage at the bottom of the frame -- just different garbage. The last 8 lines look like duplicates of the 1079th and 1080th lines -- or something like that.

Yea, I noticed something too and said not there or barely visable garbage, it's also barely visable in the 1080 one. I think Mike should uninstall all his video decoders that he has, also the Arcsoft one, then reinstall just the Arcsoft and see what happens... then maybe do CoreAVC etc... Trial and error... Don't think it would be too difficult to solve.