I'm currently using WinXP but am toying with the option of upgrading to Vista or Win7 so that my tuner will work. Some other benefits might help me make the decision and ease the $ pain.

Anybody knows if the PCTV Picostick 74e DVB-T USB is working in GB-PVR ?
How to configure it ?
Thanks

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I'm interested in improving my Live TV time-shifting performance, I suppose cost vs. benefit is a big factor. Just a quick question about the internal temp cache for the Live TV Buffer...

GB-PVR had almost an "instant on" for Live TV, NPVR has a 4-5 second delay for starting live TV and changing channels.

I'd like to know how the buffer "behaves" if it runs out of drive space. I'm thinking that time-shifting will be a whole lot faster if I used a RAM disk. We don't pause an entire show, we'll pause and maybe get a commercial or two behind. 1 GB or 2 in a RAM disk would probably be plenty, and RAM is cheap. I can just set it up and point the Live TV buffer at the driver letter.

The question, of course, is what happens if it DOES fill up. With NPVR handle that in a graceful manner?

Am I overlooking something else, without all the above, that would increase that performance easily?

Hello, I want to record a program that will air at 6:00 AM Eastern Standard time but I will be sleeping by then. If I leave my computer on, it will go to sleep after a period of inactivity. If I set a recording at 6 AM, will the computer wake up out of sleep mode to record the show for me in GBPVR or will I need to do something extra for this to happen? Thanks.

Everytime I playback a TV3 recording, it wants to use HE-AAC. How can I get it to default to AC3?

I have two recordings in the same time slot one analog (pvr-150) and the other is digital (Dvico ATSC) they often get swapped. The analog recording will point to the digital one and vice versa. It does not happen all the time but enough to be annoying. I tried deleting both recordings and creating them again but nothing changed. Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi JavaWiz - not sure if you're still around.

But any chance that Wiz Metadata grabber could be externalised from gbpvr, as I like the xml file structure (the individual xml files per movie) but I'd like to run it on a different machine that doesn't have gbpvr.

I've been looking for a tool to create then xml files, and they all see to want to use a db. The closest I've got so far is media scout.

Since this really isn't specifically hardware related or NPVR related - anyone know of a relatively simple way to transcode a H.264 ts file to something simpler that a PS3 is capable of playing back? MPEG2 or similar?

I've had hit and miss luck with playback of H.264 files on my PS3. DVD rips through Handbrake work OK if I have the PS3 connected with a hardline, but the ts files that my HD-PVR create (via NPVR) don't play at all (error message).

I have my PS3 set up in my basement and use it as a frontend to remotely play stuff off my HTPC via TVersity media server (and then just browsing to the directory structures). I'm a competitive cyclist, and in Minnesota that means I spend a lot of hours in the basement on my rollers/trainer, so only being able to view some of my recordings (and not all of them) is quite frustrating.

Some googling indicated TMPGenc might do the trick, but I was hoping maybe someone around here had some specific experience. Eventually, I'd like to move whatever solution I come to into the postprocessing.bat so that these programs are automatically available to me.

I'm running GBPVR 1.4.7 and I'm a little confused by something. There are channels in the EPG that don't show up in GBPVR.

I open config and in the capture source screen is a channel listing that has all of the channels and they're all checked. However in the Channels tab some channels aren't listed. Any idea why they aren't listed and how I get them to be listed?

Thanks
Marc

I have installed GPVR 1.4.7 with a Media MVP box since several years now and it working fine. I have upgraded my PC to Win 7 (64 bit).
Now I am facing the problem that I am not able to play some of the videos I recorded. When trying to play them MVP reboots.

I see the following message in the MVP-PVRX2 log:

2011-01-08 16:55:56.315 VERBOSE [6] About to call MVPShowOSDWithTransparency()
2011-01-08 16:55:56.315 ERROR [7] Media stream thread caught exception: System.ArgumentException: Ein leerer Pfad ist unzulässig.
bei System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
bei System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share)
bei GBPVRX2.MVP.x3ca133dee7547455.xf9d81bb81f7c2ff0()

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom