Let me start by saying I have a very limited knowledge of what goes on under the hood of GBPVR, but I installed it (1.4.7) a few days ago and got it working with the terrestrial freeview here in NZ very quickly.

However since installing Airfoil (which I've subsequently deleted) to enable audio streaming via airport express there is now no sound output from GBPVR to my computer speakers. Other programs eg itunes outputs sound fine. The video output is fine too. Seems like the airfoil has somehow disabled gbpvr audio??

What other info would be helpful? Windows Vista, Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1200 (Model 71xxx, Hybrid DVB-T)

Thanks for any help - Mike

Any help would be very welcome:

My system has always worked flawlessly with two cards in it:
Twinhan Visionplus and
Videomate 878
1 terrabyte nnvidia nforce RAID
OS Windows XP

Recently, I decided to expand the system:
Twinhan Visonplus (same old card) and
Vdeomate 878 (same old card) and
Videomate E750 dual card
3 terrabyte RAID
Windows 7 (no choice as XP can’t handle the large RAID)

Now before we jump to any conclusions about OS or my hardware spec not being able to cope with the extra card, here comes the strange stuff:
Have installed all BDA drivers only
Microsoft Media Centre can record on all cards simultaneously, stopping and starting with absolutely no failed attempts
Uninstalled Microsoft Media Centre.
Installed GBPVR
THE FOLLOWING OCCURS ON ALL CARDS
*Most of the time they record fine
*Some of the time they produce a 6k file, and then another 6k file, or another file of a random kilobyte size like – say – 135k. From reading the GBPVR forums, I am told that this is because the software was not able to get a ‘tuning lock’ on the signal. But read on as this does not make sense.
*When I get this 6k failure, it is repeatable, and yet, I can choose [watch] on exactly the same card, on exactly the same channel as the one that – supposedly – can’t get the tuning lock, and the picture quality is absolutely perfect!
*Additionally, I can record the exact same channel on the exact same card – or any card for that matter – under Windows Media Centre, and the recordings are perfect. The BDA drivers have not changed
*Additionally, if I choose to record the whole ‘ts stream’ instead of ‘dvr-ms,’ the ‘tuning lock problem’ never ever occurs.


Help!! I really don’t want to give up on GBPVR.

Hi Guys

I have searched but can't find a answer

Im looking at getting another LNB so I can pickup Optus D2 (already getting D1)

I have a Win TV Nova-S Plus tuner and need to know if i can use the 22khz switch or have to go with a Diseqc.

Also has anyone had any dealing with a company called JaCe Solutions?

Cheers

Hi sub!

While using GB-PVR i've made a few registryentrys in the path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TV System Services\TVAutoTune which worked excellent. All channels were exactly there, where they should be.

With the latest nPVR release i am finally able to watch tv with my hvr 2200 and pvr 500 (but with a higher CPU usage then GB-PVR -> ~9-20% CPU Usage on a Intel Q6600 is a bit too much; GB-PVR took with the same decoders ~5-15% CPU Usage). But nevermind, that is not the problem.

The problem is: nPVR doesn't honour above registry entries like:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TV System Services]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TV System Services\TVAutoTune]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TV System Services\TVAutoTune\TS49-0]
"1"=dword:0adcea10
"2"=dword:0bb28990
"3"=dword:0a721a50
"4"=dword:07f13bd0
"5"=dword:07866c10

In other words: the channels in the xml are not the same, nPVR plays back. I have a lot of blue screens (not the legendary BSODs... ^^ which indicates, that the frequencies are wrong.

Thank you for adding/fixing in advise.

PS: EVR Zoom is really nice. Btw., i am missing the channelinfo in the miniguide while watching live tv. I see only the program itself, is this correct?

Hi folks
Probably not the best place to post this but I just brought a new I5 PC.
I brought a hauppage 2200 but then found out I don't have any pci-X slots. Damn!!!!
Anyway got my money back for the hauppage.
Now the problem. Can any one suggest the next best dual digital capture card for NPVR?
I have a pci slot and another pciEX (another graphics card slot).
Any help appreciated.
Running windows7 64bit
Dave

Now you have bought up "annoyances" I will agree with you there are still some MAJOR annoyances with NPVR on the NMT.............anyways the major annoyance I am getting with WR3 is when I am in Shoutcast & I scroll waaaay down the list to the 50's 60's 70's etc. & then select one sometimes it doesn't show any data & when I come back out again I am waaaay back at the top of the list so I have to scroll waaaaaaaaaay down again.....I guess that is actually two annoyances actually......or three if you add NPVR & the NMT

Is it possible to turn off the automatic epg-update? I want to do this in a scheduled .bat file that runs "NextPVR.exe -updateepgonly" at the end of the file.

Hi,

Here are a few visual anomalies I have noted with the 1.5.21:
- Using ALT-ENTER to switch between windowed mode and full screen, when returning to windowed mode (from full screen) the window does not always appear in the same position as it started. This is not a solid failure and I am yet to find the trigger to cause the problem. If the problem occurs the window usually jumps up and too the right.
- Using the MAXIMISE control on the windowed N-PVR window enlarges the window to fill the screen but it removes the title bar and the mechanism to restore the window. The taskbar stays visible but the N-PVR icon loses its control menu.
- Should ALT-ENTER and MAXIMISE do the same thing? (They currently don't.)
- When using the default skin the time display at the top right of the main menu has the AM/PM indicator cut off at the right hand edge of the screen.
- Since upgrading to 1.5.21 the very left item of the main scrolling menu is missing. The right side is correctly shown as a darker, more transparent, item. The left most menu item is now totally missing.

I don't know if anyone else is seeing any of these things but I thought it worth reporting in case it supports other people's observations. I am using Wiindows XP, with ffdshow and the N-PVR default skin.

I would also like to ask if anyone has seen a N-PVR crash if the UI is active watching a live TV program when the EPG update starts? I update the EPG from the DVB-T signal.

May I also ask a couple of wishes? Can the tray menu include an item for the background recording service. The item can show a tick or other prompt to show the service is running and then selecting that item will toggle the run status of the service. The tick could be coloured green if the service is running and red if it is running and active (a recording is in progress). Also, can the SETTINGS item be added to the tray menu.

Regards,
Ian.

is there any way to alter analog recording settings? either for hardware or software encoders? [for bitrate]
and frame size,etc..?
can't seem to find these settings anywhere..

also, are there remote post codes like last time so we can setup remote for no focus operation?
[equivalent to 32775 codes]

Is there any reason NPVR would fear worse than GBPVR in regard to glitchy audio?

Since moving to Win7, I have always had some audio glitchyness on some of the FreeView NZ channels (particularly those on the Optus D1 12456 H transponder). But with NPVR, low bit-rate channels, such as C42 are particularly bad, with audio breaking up so badly that it makes watching the channel unbearable.

I have tried various Mpeg audio decoders but can't seem to improve this at all. It's also not related to any one particular make/model of DVB-S tuner. I'm getting well over 90% signal quality and a set-top satellite receiver has no such problem.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe because we no longer have the choice to choose the BDA Multiplexer, the TS-Mux isn't handling this as well as the Mux I used to use.

Any suggestions on how to sort this would be much appreciated.