Hi
Looking at a replacement for my Dell GX280 as it has been just stopping recently. After a bit of work on it, I suspect faulty mobo/capacitors (some are swollen which weren't previously).

I'm looking at this PC on trademe, as it's available locally (I could get it tonight) and want to put my "no TV" and declining WAF problems to rest! Wondering if anyone had any comments on the config (below).

The only thing I use it for is NZ Freeview over DVB-S, including the multi-record feature and it'd be a npvr server eventually as well. I might want to use it as a DVD player also in the future, but no plans to do this currently.

I would probably use my own graphics card and on sell the graphics card it comes with...

It could be mine for $305, I just don't want to get lumped with a dog because I don't have alot of experience with picking hardware. Appreciate any thoughts.

Thanks
julian.


Here tis:

Asus P5LD2 rev 2.01
Core 2 duo E4500 dual core CPU (skt 775 2x 2.2Ghz =4.4ghz)
2GB DDR2 Ram
320GB SATA Hard drive
DVD/CD Writer
Floppy Drive
6x USB 2.0 (2 x front & 4 x rear ports)
Nvidia 8600GT 256MB PCI-e x16 Video card
Onboard 7.1 Sound card (digital out)
Onboard Network card
Black 3R Air gaming case with digital temperature gauge on front and adjustable fan control

I like the TV Magazine feature of the old ATI cards. Are there any other software alternatives out there so I do not need to use ATI Media Center?

2) Would the old ATI Media Center program work with newer cards I could buy in the store today?

Thank you

I've been using YAMMM to download dvd covers for my movies and have found that in some instances if the wrong movie is selected and the cover downloaded, if I update it manually by replacing the folder.jpg inside the directory then NPVR doesn't reflect this change. The old cover is still shown. If I drill inside the directory then the AVI file has the correct image shown.

Windows shows the right thumbnails and if I open the folder.jpg file manually I can see it is the right image. I've tried deleted the thumbs.db file but this doesn't help.
I've tried restarting the services but this hasn't fixed it either.

Is there anything specific I need to do to force NPVR to update?

I was on the Hauppauge's UK forum and I happened to read about their command line utility ts2ps. In some limited testing over the last week, I have found it is probably the best mpeg-ps remuxer I have tried, it converted several difficult ts streams I have that wouldn't sync or crashed ffmpeg.

Best of all it is free to try for Hauppauge WinTV 7 users. The .exe is installed in the WinTV folder and worth adding to your bag of tricks.

Martin

The recent PlayOn update added support for NCAA March Madness free even here in Canada. I thought some of you might be interested in seeing how the quality of online streaming (the middle one with the http title) vs analog (9Mbs) and HDPVR captures look.

Martin

While recording a show I began to watch. About three minutes in the timer to show where I was went to 0:00 and the total time went to 0:00 too. I stopped watching. Started again and began to fast forward to where I left off. Same thing. It was about 3:00 min in.

Any ideas? Thanks!

I've been away from the GBPVR community for a long time. Can someone update me with regard to the current status of nPVR and MVP functionality? More specifically, can we schedule and playback analog recordings using the mediaMVP? I did some quick searches and thought I read analog mpeg? video playback would not likely be supported, but I also thought I seen some discussion about this actually working?:confused:

Hello,

As I am new, experimenting and learning. I have had significant problems getting screens to show up, render cleanly in Chrome. Even with IE Tab plugin installed in Chrome -- things still don't work correctly. For instance, I can click on a EPG entry in the TV Guide, but the Record option is not there. IE8, I have no such issues.

In short...it would be fantastic if I didn't need IE just for EWA -- and if it worked in Chrome (even with IE Tab would be fine), as I use that browser 98% of the time Just an RFE....thanks and appreciate any guidance or comments.

Jim

I have a couple of small issues with the default guide, one has been there since the previous version of NPVR (before that I was on gbpvr), the other has aed since V2:

The one I've always had missing trailing text on the channel names in the guide: see untitled.jpg

The other is when I select a tv show the "watch" button appears in the program art.: see watch.jpg

Default skin, on a 16:9 running 720p if it helps.

First of all I want to thank all GBPVR and NextPVR collaborators and developers, last two years I have been using GBPVR daily.
The second I want to apologize my bad english.
I read same posts about the same problem, but there is not a solution, or I am not able to find it.
I have a Hauppauge Wintv-novat-500 with a Hauppauge 45 buttons remote. It has been working fine in GBPVR.
I am installing, with the same hardware, nPVR and the remote responses very slowly. The first key pressed is executed inmediatly, but the second, third... are executed with 3 o 4 seconds delay.
I modified increasing and decreasing the repeatdelay parameter in iremote.ini, but it has any effect.

One more thing, for every key pressed there are two movements executed, that is, I press only one time the down button in the menu and the cursor moves only once inmediatly down, and after 3 seconds moves another time without pressing any key.

Thaks.