Windows 7 HD-PVR help

[SageGk]

Need help, just upgraded to Windows 7 and been installing my software and updates all day. Can't seem to get the HDPVR running, and I found a thread with the Native recording patch, but my eyes seem to be playing tricks on me and I cant figure out how to install it, I'm stuck at step 3. Can someone help simplify it for me.....the WAF is hitting an all time low...

[sdsean]

You don't "Need" to install the native recording patch, i'm running Win7 64bit, and it works just fine. . . there are some small issues that need to be resolved, but overall its great.

What HD-PVR drivers are you using?
Are you using 32bit or 64bit Win7?
What h.264 decoder are you using (Cyberlink? Arcsoft (recommend against this one), CoreAVC?, ffdshow?)

[SageGk]

I'm using 64 bit Win 7...cant get the HDPVR working OR my HVR 1850....Im miserable right now. Going to reinstall Sage.......again. I'm using the latest HD-PVR drivers from Hauppauges site. 1.5.6.1? I believe. When trying to set up tuners, I keep getting playback errors.

[sdsean]

When you install the drivers for the Hauppauge, make sure you use their installer b/c it will flash the HD-PVR with any needed firmware updates as well. . . don't let windows install the driver for you. . .

how many hd-pvr's do you have? just one? also make sure that the hd-pvr's video cables are plugged in snug, b/c if they are not, then you will have a lot of frustating issues ( it took me a whole day to figure out what was going on for such a simple solution :lol

[SageGk]

Originally Posted by sdsean

When you install the drivers for the Hauppauge, make sure you use their installer b/c it will flash the HD-PVR with any needed firmware updates as well. . . don't let windows install the driver for you. . .

how many hd-pvr's do you have? just one? also make sure that the hd-pvr's video cables are plugged in snug, b/c if they are not, then you will have a lot of frustating issues ( it took me a whole day to figure out what was going on for such a simple solution :lol

Did you install TME from the Disc that came with the HD-PVR? or just the drivers? Thanks.

[HelenWeathers]

I have ATCS tuners and HD-PVR running under windows 7. I chose to use the native recording patch to use the built-in MS decoders.

I installed SageTV into the root of my C drive to avoid the whole UAC issue (C:\SageTV). If you installed into the program files (default) folder then you'll need to know how to get around UAC.

The native recording patch is easy IMO.

Copy the DshowCapture.dll and DShowPlayer.dll files into your SageTV/SageTV folder.
Copy TSSplitter3.0_install.bat, TSSplitter3.0_uninstall.bat, TSSplitter3.0.ax and MpegDeMux.ax into your SageTV\Common folder.

Go to Start, Run type CMD and press enter to open a command prompt window.
change to your SageTV\Common folder (cd \sagetv\common <enter> or cd\program files\sagetv\common)
type tssplitter3.0_install and press enter
response should be that registration was successful.

Edit your sage.properties file to include the following lines:
videoframe/additional_video_filters=Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder
videoframe/h264_video_decoder_filter=Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder
(I added those lines after the other videoframe/ lines in the prop file.)

save and close everything, then start SageTV.

In your setup for video decoders you should now have the ability to choose the Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder as your H.264 video decoder.

EDIT: I have my MPEG4 Playback decoder set to DirectShow. I don't record/play back any SD material however.

[SageGk]

ok, got my tuners up and running, thanks guys. The problem turned out to be an incompatible soundcard in windows 7.

[mangriotis]

I am a little confused still on how to get the native recording patch installed correctly on my setup.

I have WHS running as a server. My client HTPC is running Win7. Currently, I get a playback exception when trying to play anything recorded by my HD-PVR (i.e. .ts streams).

I was trying to install the native recording patch per Helen's instructions above, but can't seem to get the MS decoders to show up as an option in the client.

On which machine, and exactly which files need to be updated with the patch??

I have put the files (and registered the TSsplitter3.0) on the client HTPC (not the server). There exists no sage.properties (or sageclient.properties) on the HTPC, so I added the lines to both sage.properties and sageclient.properties on the server machine.

When I then restart the server add-in, and start up the client, I don't see them as a choice. Do I need to create .properties files on the client HTPC??

What am I missing? Thanks for help...