Hdhr: New User

[jnaranjo]

Hi, I've been using BTV for quite some time and since the announcement that BTV was supporting the HDHR (QAM) I went ahead and ordered a unit. It arrived within a very reasonable amount of time since I was away on a bunisness trip when I ordered it.
I followed the instructions linked in at the Silicon Dust forum for setting it up with BTV. I was somewhat jet lagged and could not understand the channel remapping so that took me 2 days - working on it for 20 mins each day, when the bulb finally went off it took me 20 minutes or so...
And now I have to say the HDHR works fantasatically!!! I am so happy with it, I think this is the best thing since... well since a long time. Recordings are working reliably, closed captions are working! the commercial skip is working as expected and I could not be happier.
After a week of using it I am ready to pull my analog capture cards since I have stopped using them altogether and this will help reduce the heat build up within my case.

Anyone fancy buying a used PVR-250?
Cheers!

[mach1_8]

Congrats! It's awesome to see Snapstream finally on the QAM bandwagon. I've had HDHR up for about 6 weeks with VMC and I love it. If I get bored over the summer I might upgrade my BTV machine to be HD capable. The nice thing about HDHR is since it is a networked tuner, I don't have to move any hardware around. Keep those success stories coming...Maybe I'll get motivated sooner than later

[Zogg]

Hi jnaranjo,

Congrats on your system. I too am having fantastic results with my HDHR. In fact I'm considering getting a second unit and dumping my OTA tuners due to spotty reception.

Just wondering how you are getting the closed captions with HDHR recordings?

Thanks, Z

[queonda]

Yup, I was using BTVe with the HDHR, that work great (thanks fonceur (i know i sp it)).

Now I LOVE the LIVETV in HD. I have got rid of my cable box and now just use BTV only. My wife love it. Sure I'm not getting discovery, inhd or hbo or showtime, but WHO CARES (not me) lol

[jnaranjo]

Originally Posted by Zogg

Hi jnaranjo,

Congrats on your system. I too am having fantastic results with my HDHR. In fact I'm considering getting a second unit and dumping my OTA tuners due to spotty reception.

Just wondering how you are getting the closed captions with HDHR recordings?

Thanks, Z

Hey Zogg thanks and I guess I am double responding to this inquiry, but really there was not much I had to do to get the captions to work. I had already been using the captions with my PVR-250's and Dvico Gold Card. I have BTV and am testing Link. I will go through my link config because it is on the machine I use to surf and read email.

I have attached a screenshot of my playback settings, also in the settings.xml find the following:
<Property><Name>TryCC</Name><Value>1</Value></Property>
By default it should be set to 0. You have to turn off BTV altogether make the change so the value is 1, save the file and restart BTV for the change to take effect.

I had originally taken these settings from Merrypig's enable CC's document which applied to the Hauppauge PVR-250 capture card but I've realized that it's worked for all my media that contains CC infromation.
I have even downloaded .TS clips from the internet and the CC's imbedded in the file show correctly.

It's an older doc and referenced an older version of BTV. Some of the steps in the document are no longer needed, if it's ok with him would be happy to update and post, but I will leave it to him.

I have had inconsistent results with using any decoder other than the Intervideo one, though with the HDHR recorded material have not tried any other, I know alot of people here seem to prefer the cyberlink but for my money the Intervideo does a better job in the CC display.

Let me know how you make out.

[merrypig]

By all means update and post I keep "not getting around" to doing it myself ...

[Zogg]

Originally Posted by jnaranjo

I have had inconsistent results with using any decoder other than the Intervideo one, though with the HDHR recorded material have not tried any other, I know alot of people here seem to prefer the cyberlink but for my money the Intervideo does a better job in the CC display.

Let me know how you make out.

Hi jnaranjo,

Thanks for the detailed information. I had given up on captions a while back and hadn't paid much attention to the posts lately, so I didn't realize how easy it was to turn them on now.

I tried it on my server using the Snapstream decoder and it didn't work very well, so I will try the Intervideo decoder when I get a chance. The last time I tried that decoder with HD though the picture was terrible. Does the current version on the Hauppauge site work well with HD?

Thanks, Z