Hauppauge HVR-1250 Issues

[forumsviewer]

The HVR-1250 is a pci-express software encoding "cheapie" Hauppauge device. I am evaluating SageTV and cannot get it to work.

I have installed the latest drivers and also Hauppauge WinTV software. Within Hauppauge WinTV software I can view several channels just fine, so I know that my exterior antenna that is plugged into the pci-express card works.

I then go into SageTV and go through all of the setup. When I go to add a source it only lists "850" but from looking around here in the forums it seems like that is what it sees it as instead of a 1250.

I choose the 850 video capture, selected antenna as source and it gave an error. I searched the forum and i had to go into the registry and edit a value to even get SageTV to register it as a source. (let me know if you need this reference).

So now it is installed in SageTV but all of the channels are different colors of fuzzy. Everything is fuzzy. No picture at all on any channels. I did a scan in the channel setup and it said it found 0 channels. I need some assistance as I want to spend a lot of time evaluating this software and what it has to offer over the weekend.

System:
Windows XP Professional
Latest verison of SageTV as of Jan 2011
Latest version driver for Happauge HVR 1250
Using an antenna for local over the air broadcast
Do not have Cable/Satelite

[kanaske]

Originally Posted by forumsviewer

The HVR-1250 is a pci-express software encoding "cheapie" Hauppauge device. I am evaluating SageTV and cannot get it to work.

I have installed the latest drivers and also Hauppauge WinTV software. Within Hauppauge WinTV software I can view several channels just fine, so I know that my exterior antenna that is plugged into the pci-express card works.

I then go into SageTV and go through all of the setup. When I go to add a source it only lists "850" but from looking around here in the forums it seems like that is what it sees it as instead of a 1250.

I choose the 850 video capture, selected antenna as source and it gave an error. I searched the forum and i had to go into the registry and edit a value to even get SageTV to register it as a source. (let me know if you need this reference).

So now it is installed in SageTV but all of the channels are different colors of fuzzy. Everything is fuzzy. No picture at all on any channels. I did a scan in the channel setup and it said it found 0 channels. I need some assistance as I want to spend a lot of time evaluating this software and what it has to offer over the weekend.

System:
Windows XP Professional
Latest verison of SageTV as of Jan 2011
Latest version driver for Happauge HVR 1250
Using an antenna for local over the air broadcast
Do not have Cable/Satelite

what is the reg key. i have installed and reinstalled it several times and get either a hardware not working error or a freeze on please wait for video preview screen. BTW the device is a hauppage 12xx but the chip-set is an 885 that is why it shows 885 as the selection.