Against my wishes, my home is filling up with feminine iFruit technology. My wife has requested that I put iTunes on my brand new, perfectly working GBPVR machine so she can listen to her Abba and Lady Gaga tunes through the living room system (when I am not home).

Does iTunes behave itself on an HTPC? Seems like every time I go near my wife's machine iTunes is throwing up boxes begging to be updated or something else.

Long story short, I'm an idiot and had to reformat my PC because apparently I can't tell the difference between a bad HDD and 8 blown capacitors on the motherboard, so I figured I'd play the masochist this week and install 1.5.whatever.was.released.Christmas.Eve.
After a couple failed installs involving .Net framework, then Windows Firewall (where I briefly installed GBPVR 1.47 only to have the same issue getting the MVP to find the server before the light bulb lit up in my head), including installing XP twice, I finally have 1.5.w.w.r.C.E installed, my 2 analog capture sources are listed, I have an EPG and I can play a couple old recordings left over from 1.4.7... on the MVP... using dongle.bin if that makes a difference.
When I navigate through videos to the location they're stored in, I get nothing, no video or audio when playing through NPVR on the server. I have basically no decoding options in setup. I think there's one for audio, and all that does is cause the recording I play to stop after a couple seconds. If I leave it on default it's 'acting' like it's playing, I just can't see or hear anything.
Is this a case where I need to install decoders, kinda like Windows MCE where you either have to install a DVD player or pay for MMpeg decoders in order to play a DVD? I have PowerDVD somewhere I can install if that will help.

Hauppauge Launches Colossus High Definition
H.264 Video Recorder for PCs

[B]Full Height Internal PCI Express Card Records High
Definition Video up to 1080i from Component and HDMI Sources [/B]

2011 International CESLAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--2011 International
CES, Booth C9542: Hauppauge Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAUP), the world's
leading developer and manufacturer of TV tuner products for personal computers, today launched its
new Colossus internal PCI Express board capable of recording component video and
unencrypted HDMI video at up to 1080i from sources such as the Xbox360 and
digital SLR cameras.
The latest addition to Hauppauge’s line of high definition video recorders,
Colossus is similar to the company’s HD PVR external USB-based H.264 recorder,
but offers expanded capability to include HD video recording from the HDMI port
on the Xbox360 game console. When connected to an Xbox360, an HDMI cable can be
used to record game play at video resolutions up to 1080i. When connected to a
Playstation3, game play is recorded using component video at 1080i resolution.

Colossus allows users to make high definition video recordings of their
highest-score games and even game tutorials, directly from the game console.
Users can record game play in HD and then upload the recording to YouTube or
other popular game recording websites. Colossus features pass-through support
for component video and digital audio, enabling users to monitor game play on an
HD TV set while recording.
When connected to a cable TV or satellite set top box, Colossus users can
record TV programs in HD. Colossus includes an IR blaster and the latest WinTV
v7 application so that users can schedule a recording and have the Colossus
“blast” channel commands to the set top box at the appropriate time.
With Colossus connected to a set top box, a user can record a TV show or a
complete TV series in high definition to their PCs hard disk, make HD libraries
of favourite TV programs and then playback to the PC screen or burn the
recording onto a disk in a high definition Blu-ray™ format.
Colossus is supplied with two applications: the Hauppauge WinTV v7
application for scheduled recording of TV programs from cable TV and satellite
set top boxes, and Arcsoft’s ShowBiz, which allows users to record from a game
console, trim the beginning and end of video recordings and immediately upload
the recordings to YouTube. ShowBiz makes recording video game play and uploading
to YouTube with Colossus easy.
SageTV, a software company based in Inglewood, California, has announced
support for Colossus in their Windows-based digital video application, SageTV
7.x. SageTV is a popular application providing complete DVR capability on a PC.

Pricing, availability and press pictures
Colossus will have a MSRP of $159 and will be available late January 2011.

Pictures of Colossus can be found here:
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/press/presspictures/colossus_board-cables.png

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/press/pres...s_colossus

Hi, I'm a pretty new user of GBPVR and have been tweaking and playing with plugins for the past couple of weeks. Anyway, from what I've read here on the forums, IMDB has changed their site completely so the 'scraping' that SearchWiz does for the program details is not working. I'm actually quite happy with SearchWiz otherwise and would like to figure out how I could have SearchWiz query MovieDB instead.

Is this possible?

Thanks for your time.

Martin,

Any chance you can sort something to give me volume control on the MVPs too?
It's not a major issue like it was with the PCH for me but it would be a 'nice to have'.

Cheers

Tonight, with npvr (dec 24th release) I tried to record a 2 hour show, and it ended up being about 6GB instead of 12GB (normal shows on this channel are about 6GB per hour), and the recording is unwatchable.
Yesterday, it worked fine, but this is a different channel.

No idea what is up.

Ideas ?

Sorry if this is the wrong forum, the Plugin and Skins has separate Skin sub-forums but I'm not sure if they apply.

2Q's

Q1. Way back in GBPVR history there used to be a nice drop in replacement for the default blue skin2 for GBPVR which showed just channel logos in the TV Guide, i.e. No Channel Number or Channel Name, JUST the logo, which I like as it is very simple and takes less real estate.

Now that NPVR skins are appearing, what needs to be changed (or could Skin developers add a similar drop-in file or some instructions to change the code?)

Q2. Some Skins require Font downloads. Do I right-click-install these into Windows or drop them in the Skin/Fonts directory for the skin?

Thanks!

k.

I just rescanned QAM with one of my 2250 tuners and added 4 more channels. Can I copy these new channels to tuner #2, or do I need to do a full rescan with #2?

Trying to get NPVR setup to migrate away from GBPVR. Have all 3 tuners setup (or at least, it should be), tried recording 3 things, and it was only recording with 1 tuner in the status. Tried to play the 1 that was recording, wouldn't play, just went back to the pending recordings screen. Tried to start cancelling the 3 recordings, got an error...and here it is:

Hi,

Has the facility to browse the media libraries with Shortcut files been implemented?

I have a folder which contains Windows shortcuts to external drives and specific points on the hard drive, worked fine in GBPVR but the functionality doesn't seem to be in NPVR yet.

All the best