I have been having problems getting the thing to sleep since I bought a new NIC, even when I tried to manually put it to sleep it would wake again around 3~4 secs later. I finally discovered that turning off "Wake on Directed Packet" in the Intel NIC Power Management settings works, but will this affect GBPVR recordings?

i.e. will the PC wake to record?

It still has a setting for Magic Packets.

k.

This issue relates to a NMT playing New Zealand Freeview|HD DVB-T programmes recorded as .TS files using GB-PVR. The NMT is currently operating in a standalone configuration with no network connection, playing files from a USB-attached disk and/or USB memory stick.

I was initially going to post this in the networkedmediatank.com forums, but realised that there are likely to be more users here familiar with the combination of NMT, NZ broadcasts and GB-PVR .TS files.

For some time I have wanted a media player / extender that I can use for viewing recordings of New Zealand Freeview|HD DVB-T programmes. The main issue being support for HE-AAC audio. Over the past week I took the plunge and bought a Popcorn Hour A-210 – which is essentially the A-200 in a passively-cooled metal case. The A-210 uses the same firmware as the A-200.

Taking things one step at a time, I wanted to try the A-210 in a standalone configuration first with no network connection and using the native Popcorn Hour interface, and later introduce one additional complexity at a time. I copied around a dozen recordings from my HTPC onto a USB-powered portable disk, and connected that to the A-210. I have experienced the same issue viewing each of those recordings.

Selecting and playing a recording works as expected. The problem occurs if I fast forward or skip ahead during playback (to skip through ads). As soon as I press the play button again, playback is abruptly ended, and I’m dropped back into the on-screen list of media files on the disk.

All of the recordings I have tried play / skip forwards / skip backwards etc as expected using GB-PVR on my PC. I’ve tried playing recordings from a USB memory stick rather than the portable disk, and get the same result. Finally I have transcoded a couple of the recordings using Handbrake – the A-210 played the resulting MKV files without any issues skipping forwards and backwards flawlessly.

Is anyone familiar with this issue? Even better does anyone know of a solution?

I have set up Win 7 on the server, and reinstalled gb-pvr on the server. I thought i went through all the network setting, ie firewall exception, checking the box to have recorginding service interact with desktop, gave all the folders i needed permission (i think i have this incorrect and need help) and am at a loss for what i am doing wrong. I can run the client and it shows recordings and tv guide. I can play the recordings folder from the video library, but cannot playback a recording from the recordings menu. From previous experience this has been a network permissions issue, and dont quite know what i have done wrong. Any help would be great. Logs attached

thanks

The power supply fan went out on my trusty old IBM GBPVR rig on the same day that I paid my credit card down to $0.00

Going to be a busy weekend. Wish me luck!

Hi all.

I got an Avermedia Duet white box version. This card, when it works, has exceptionally clean HD sound and gorgeous picture. That is, in WinXP. Now that I am running 7 Pro, some strange things are happening whether I use gb or nPVR.

As an antenna, I use the roof-installed HD of the apartment complex which is the tallest building in the immediate area. With it, gb as well as n work great as far as picture is concerned. NO SOUND though. I installed every codec available on the Internet, to no avail.

Now, when running Win Media Center, I get NOTHING with the roof antenna, so I'm using a $10 indoor antenna. With it, I am getting 17 channels, with sound at quality that we had with analog vintage 1950-late 70s. As codecs I am using the ones built into Win7, audio and video.

As a side, when using gb or n, I am getting 30 stations. When I am using Win Media Center I am getting 17 stations, but 14 are not among the ones that I am getting with gb or n.

So, anyone can shed any light on this?

Thanks, S.

I was putting together a vertical menu skin and I was wondering if there was an option to hold the selecter (cursor) in the center of the screen instead of allowing it scrolling up and down. (hope that was clear?)

I have noticed that I have a reoccurring recording fail with "device failed to start". It occurs on one of the analog tuners in my 2250. This error only seems to occur if I have show scheduled to record on one of the QAM tuners just prior to it starting.

For example, I have the scheduled recording of "The Daily Show" at 11 PM every week night. This recordings appears to work most nights, but it always fails on Thursdays when I have the "The Mentalist" scheduled to record at 10-11 PM on a QAM channel.

I wonder NPVR is correctly handling the dual tuners of the 2250. It shows up as 4 devices, but only 2 tuners can be in use at any single point in time. It seems like is may chose the wrong tuner device for the second show not realizing is was already busy with a QAM recording.

Any idea when SD support will be coming? I've fiddled with bat files and I can't get it to work so I deleted Npvr until there is SD support. I reformat every year around new years and would probably install Npvr instead of GBpvr if it had SD support.

So this is kind of an odd problem and i couldnt find anything truely similar in either gbpvr or npvr sections.

So important pc info i suppose
AMD 4400+
nvidia 8600gt
ASUS A8N Premium mobo
2gb of ram

TV is a panasonic TC-P42C2 if it matters (with an onkyo 607 receiver)

Basically i have npvr just for media playback. Dont use it at all for tv. In fact the only plugins that are "active" is Movies, DVD, and exit. What happens is i use the computer for normal day to day things and leave it on 24/7. I have found that if i restart my pc npvr plays back the files just fine. Perfectly infact. I usually watch tv at night with sleep mode to turn off the tv. When i wake up in the morning and get on the computer it is slow and the mouse doesnt track smoothly but rather "skips" a bit as it goes across the screen. Its like itll move half an inch just fine then it sort of lags and ends up skipping to catch up. Once i close npvr it works just fine with no skipping. Now if i load up npvr again and try to play a video file it is stuttery (is that a word?). For instance if there is snow falling rather than a straight smooth fall, the snow falls for a second or two then jumps down a bit rather than being a smooth straight fall. Its kind of like the mouse problem just with video instead.

I have tried using both the Overlay and EVR. VR7 and VR9 didnt show anything but black on my tv. This problem occurs on both 1080p and 720p HD files (encoded with x264) as well as plain SD (xvid) files. I use CoreAVC for HD and ffdshow for xivd. I also tried ffdshow for hd but saw the same results. I also installed all the patches (especially the evr memory leak on and ntray cpu one) and didnt see any difference.

Also of note, even when npvr is doing this i can close npvr, fire up pvrx2 and it works flawlessly. To get npvr working again i have to reboot the pc which is kind of annoying to do just for watching videos.

Any ideas as to why it would be doing this?

I seem to not be able to get this to work. I have a Hauppage USB MCE receiver (Which came with my WinTV-HVR-1600 Media Kit), that has two ports on it.

If I use IR Server's Translator or blast.exe to send a command to both ports, it works. If I send to port_1, it doesn't, port_2, it does.

For one brief moment, unless I hallucinated, it worked to both ports separately. I then rebooted, to make sure it worked, and it stopped working.

I read somewhere that you needed something plugged into both Blaster ports when you install WinTV, and I did that. And it did help, a bit.

However, there must be a way to make both ports work. Does anyone know if there is a registry setting I can edit, or what I need to do?

Thanks

My setup is a small computer with an Hppge 1600 and an Hppge 250 card in it, connected to two Telus Optik CIS330 STB's. At least, that's the plan whenever it starts working. Currently running GB-PVR 1.47.