I receive some channels via DVB-T and DVB-S. However in the TV guide they get given different channel numbers. Is it possible to merge the channels together and use the DVB-T epg data?

Hi,

Thanks everyone for your initial suggestions on my other thread asking for what card to get.

I picked up a Hauppage HVR 1600 and installed it in a Dell 4600 system which has a 2.4 GHZ P4 CPU and a Radeon 9600 graphics card. It works ok alot of the time but sometimes it stutters, particularly if the video content has a lot of panning in it.

I'm wondering what is the best strategy to get some more performance out of this system -- or if I'm just kidding myself, and this PC needs to go to the junk heap. Here are my options, I'd appreciate you thoughts on what approach would work best.

1.) Upgrade the ram which is currently 750MB to 1.5 or 2.5 GB. (How much does gbpvr really want to see?)
2.) Upgrade the hard drive (presently the original IDE drive, to a SATA model -- bigger and faster)
3.) Install an inexpensive SATA 2 card - about $20 on ebay, to get to 3 mbps transfer rate.
4.) Replace the Radeon 9600 with something newer/faster (what card has good price/performance & fits an AGP slot?)

Is it possible with a two-drive system to have gbpvr put the video on the "D" drive and just leave the OS and app on the "C" drive? Would that provide better performance?

Basically, I don't know if the system is CPU-bound or Disk-bound or RAM-bound. However, when look at the CPU usage chart, it's pretty much staying in the range of 25 - 40% so that suggests that the CPU is not the problem.

Any suggestions are most welcome. Thanks in advance.

I've decided to get on the Roku/Netflix bandwagon and found a simple way of using it as a GBPVR frontend too. The script should work for both GBPVR & NPVR. I'm hoping it will help someone enjoy their Roku even more!

*** NOTE: the attached file contains a bundle of my latest setup with brief instructions ***

first follow the instructions here, setup apache and prepare to load the application onto the Roku: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ROKU_HD_Frontend

next set up perl and copy roku.pl & RokuSettings.pm into the cgi-bin folder of the apache (see attached zip file). Update RokuSettings.pm with your DB path & version.

enable apache to execute scripts in the httpd.conf:

Quote:Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI

Quote:Alias /dvr "O:/temp/dvr"


<Directory "O:/temp/dvr">
Options All
AllowOverride Options
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Quote:LoadModule h264_streaming_module modules/mod_h264_streaming.so

Quote: AddHandler h264-streaming.extensions .mp4

Quote: item.StreamFormat = "mp4"

item.SubtitleUrl = records[0]@srt_url
item.HDBifUrl = records[0]@bif_hd_url
item.SDBifUrl = records[0]@bif_sd_url

item.IsHD = true

Quote:Function GetScriptURL() As String
return "http://192.168.x.x/cgi-bin/roku.pl"
End Function

Been using GBPVR for years, just started dipping my toes in the NPVR pool. When I scan on my QAM tuners, it only finds a few unencrypted channels and none of the ones I care about. On GBPVR or TSReader Lite, it finds everything expected. The tuners are a 1600 & 2250. Same results on both cards. The expected channels are listed here: http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/lin...up_3785843 (Select "Verizon FiOS" for the provider). I attached my log from NPVR's scan & a cache fie from a previous GBPVR scan. One interesting thing is that the sub-channels that Verizon users are mostly 5 digits. It seems like NPVR can find the ones with 3 digit sub-channels. (When I did the scan on GBPVR, I probably had a custom qam.ini to restrict it to the channels I watch to save time.)

I am preparing on building a HTPC into a nMediaPC Case with a 3 year old machine I built. The new case has a place for their optional LCD display http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6811996003

I was wondering what the working options for LCD's (2x20) on 1.4.7 are these days. I see iMon plugin with LCD Smartie is one option reading from a text file. Are there other working options for a non-MCE PC I can try?

I would like it to display what's playing now in PVRX2, and during standby what/when the next recording(s) are going to be, if that is possible.

Thanks
Snooze

I have just installed NPVR for the first time, having been a GBPVR user for years.
I have followed the instructions to get everything up and running, and am now happily recording from freesat and freeview.
However... for some reason, PostProcessing.bat just doesnt want to run. I have tried putting just a very simple line in there:
echo %date%,%time% - PostProcessing.bat invoked on %1 recorded from channel %2 >>processing.log
but am getting nothing at all. Nothing do to with PostProcessing.bat appears in any of the logs (see attached).
Any thoughts ?

I've seen a couple of posts about Blackgold cards recently, and I am impressed with their new offerings; the BGT3620 dual DVBT/T2 and BGT3595 dual DVB S/S2 and dual DVB-T.
The current Hauppauge range looks a bit dated in comparison - the Nova HDS2 seems to be the only DVBS2 card and is only single tuner, their quad tuner card supports neither DVBS2 nor DVBT2.
Sure the BG cards are more expensive, but still cheaper than 2x Nova HDS2 or 2x DVBT2 sticks (which are not branded Hauppauge anyway).
However my only experience of a non-Hauppauge card is the Compro S350, which is less than impressive. Highest priority is robust support in GBPVR / NPVR, which is where the Compro lets me down and the Hauppauge have always been excellent. So I wondered if any owners of BG cards can report on their use in GBPVR - do they scan OK for example?

Hi,

first of all nice peace of SW. Now to my problem I can not get the right channels then I scan my DVB-S card. I can recieve to satelites thats why I have disque. But I only want to see the channels on ASTRA. In the past with gbpvr I used the attached INI that worked fine for me.

Any clue what I have to but into lof1, lof switch and lof2? I made a "X" at diseqc with my configuration?
Can I make a homebrew list, like the list I have attached under npvr?
tnx

I just donated some money towards my Cousin's B-Day present. In fact donated is not quite right.... I helped search for a front end for his MythTV Set Up. Of course I was not happy about this, I don't do Linux anyway. But if I did even understand Linux how does this look?

http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-Intel-Mini-P...B003N198UG

Hmmm running Windows? Nice for a NPVR front end? Expensive of course....

Steeb

I had some free time this weekend so I thought I'd see if I could get PlayOn working to the NMT from the NPVR and it is working out pretty well.

Basically the Universe plugin uses UPnP (via Microsoft COM) to find content and then it uses UPnP URL's to stream. From the NMT it is easy I just tell it a new URL and voila. I do expect to have it working on the MVP too. From the PC it is a little more challenging because I can't play http in NPVR but I can launch ActiveMovie or wmplayer etc.

Is there any interest in this from anyone? I am looking for people with PlayOn installed (that is the UPnP service I showed) to try it out, but other UPnP services should work. I have also used Twonky

Any suggestions are welcome too.

Martin