no detection of Pinnacle PCTV Pro (btWinCap) (1 Viewer)

[Mr.CeeJay]

I just installed MediaPortal 0.2 RC 4
I have a Pinnacle PCTV Pro TV-card installed.
I use the btWinCap drivers because Pinnacle's makes me having lost frames and audio/video sync problems when I capture with Studio 9.4, Studio 10 or Premier Pro.
Because of these drivers I get hardware named "Conexant's BtPCI WDM video capture" in the Device Manager and so MediaPortal doesn't detect it at all.
So I used the "Add TVCard to natively supported list" page but got stuck at the last part to gather all information because GraphEdit doesn't really provide it to me.

What should I change ?

<capturecard commercialname="Pinnacle PCTV Pro" capturename="Pinnacle WDM PCTV Video Capture" devid="ven_109e&amp;dev_036e&amp;subsys_001211bd&amp;rev_11"> 
<capabilities tv="true" radio="false" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="false"/>
 <tv>
  <interface cat="mux" video="" audio="" mpeg2="0"/>
   <filters>
    <filter cat="tvtuner" name="Pinnacle WDM PCTV Analog Tuner" checkdevice="true"/>
    <filter cat="tvaudio" name="Pinnacle WDM PCTV TvAudio" checkdevice="true"/>
    <filter cat="crossbar" name="Pinnacle WDM PCTV Crossbar" checkdevice="true"/>
    <filter cat="capture" name="Pinnacle WDM PCTV Video Capture"	checkdevice="true"/>
    <filter cat="audcapture" name="%soundcard%"	 checkdevice="true"/>
    <filter cat="videncoder" name="%videoencoder%" checkdevice="false"/>
    <filter cat="audencoder" name="%audioencoder%" checkdevice="false"/>
    <filter cat="mux" name="%mpegmux%" checkdevice="false"/>
  </filters>
<connections>
<connection sourcefilter="tvtuner" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="crossbar" sinkpin="%tvtuner%"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tvtuner" sourcepin="1" sinkfilter="tvaudio" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tvaudio" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="crossbar" sinkpin="%audiotuner%"/>
<connection sourcefilter="crossbar" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="capture" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="videncoder" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="audcapture" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="audencoder" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="videncoder" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="mux" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="audencoder" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="mux" sinkpin="1"/>
  </connections>
 </tv>
</capturecard>

PS: can anybody tell me if this card is a hardware or a software card ?

 

[c.hilding]

Can't we get a reply here? I am trying to configure Mediaportal at my fathers house and he has a PCTV Rave with software encoding. It is not detected by Mediaportal...

 

[c.hilding]

Sigh, still no reply. Yay.

 

[c.hilding]

I went back to original Pinnacle drivers (frameskipping, f*ck!) in the meantime since they are supported by MediaPortal, because noone here has a solution for btWinCap drivers. I am going to buy a new H/W encoding card for him later, so this has to do in the meantime.

 

[stragulus]

Bah, I'm stuck in the same situation. I have a bt848 based card (FlyVideo II) as well. I've mailed the filter data and the graphedit screenshot to the devs.

PS: These cards are software cards, so a separate mpeg2 software encoder is necessary.

edit: got a reply, and an adjusted config file to add the card to the system. Read the sticky threads in the general support forum to find out how to get a software card supported!

 

[nschoot]

There are two things I did to get it to work.

1. make sure that the vendor code in the Media Portal CaptureCardDefintions.xml is exactly equal to the string that you can find in the properties window of your WDM driver in Windows.

so this part:
devid="ven_109e&dev_036e&subsys_001211bd&rev_11

For me, the subsys part was slightly different for my driver... That fixed the detection problem.

2. To solve the "Unable to create graph" problem... Install InterVideo WinDVR3 (Corel)... It installs a few codecs (InterVideo Audio and Video). Select those and the problem is magically gone....


All I'm left with is a sync problem... The audio is about 5 secs ahead of video... Anyone any idea?

 

[Don_Szturchen]

Yeah, try disconnecting cable between soundboard (or mainboard if integrated) and the video card. or try selecting other system (PAL B/G D/K or country) it solved my problem (for poland i used china instead and everything works ok)