In 2008 the original version of mvpmcx2 (PCH mode) came out that provided the GBPVR UI on the NMT with playback using the native NMT media players. The next evolution (PCH2 mode) came when Syabas provided the necessary information allowing me (with sub's help of course) to support most of the GBPVR functionality on the NMT, first with component and then with HDMI support. In retrospect I feel most users weren't willing to compromise functionality or HDMI support, but I'd like to hear what you have to say.

Although I don't have a MediaMVP-HD, it appears based on a developer's page on their web site, that Hauppauge will openly provide what I need to provide some form of the original PCH mode on their device, but they appear reluctant to provide the detailed information need to go beyond this. I have some concerns because of the unknown player quality. The original NMT player has an annoying 10 second delay but it a robust.

PCH mode has lot of sacrifices (no resume, comskip, OSD) but I preferred the GBPVR interface to NMT's, and based on what I've seen, any interface is better than Hauppauge's.

Veterans and newbies what are your thoughts?

Martin

Sub,

Thanks again for your help with my configuration. Now I am trying to set up multiple recording functionality (e.g, Watch DVB-T and Record DVB-S at the same time) but cannot get it to work. As I understand it the HVR-4400 supports this as the HVR-4000 did not.

Is there any specific I have to do? I have experimenting with the "Device Number" setting but I understand that this is only if you have two cards sharing the same drivers.

Also, watching a DVB-S channel pops up the WinTV-CI information box each time a new program is selected. Is there any way to avoid this?

Thanks,

\\Anders

hi guys first post on GB-PVER.

I have a TV tuner called AVerMedia A310 (MiniCard DVB-T) on my acer aspire 8930G :
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T6600 @2.20 GHz 2.20 GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 4.00 GB
System type: 64-bit Operating System (windows 7 pro) clean install
nvidia 9700g

location : nederland , Holland , digital cable TV (UPC)

my question is : is it possible at all to watch t.v with my type of card ? what do i need accept of the right drivers ? what is the steps to catch a signal and how do i configure windows media center to work with my card ? or other program that can allow me too watch online TV in my region ...
well sorry about the n00bish questions but it will be greatly appreciated if someone can help me trough this process ...i am dealing with this for few weeks and it seems there is no clear info about it ...

thx in advance

This problem has occurred twice in the last week, each time at the weekend
The recording service locks up. It seems to try to start a recording and never finishes. Result is that 24 hours later the status page says it is still recording the programme in question - when it finshed long ago - and all subsequent recording requests are ignored. The only way to get out of this is to either hard reset or stop the last GBPVR process through task manager, then do a software restart - if I don't stop all the GBPVR processes a software restart doesn't happen. The first time I thought it must be some hardware glitch, but now it looks like a GBPVR problem to me. One odd thing, I tried stopping GBPVR through the 'stop recording service' command which worked for everything but the iplayer process, which i had to stop through task manager. I don't use iplayer. it doesn't work (see my posts of six months ago), but I don't know how to get it out of the system. Maybe its this that is casuing the problem, though why it should have started now i don't know
Attached is a set of the logs. They were taken after the restart so the recordingserice -1 are the ones to look at

Not sure what i'm missing.
Windows 7 either gives me no audio on .mkv files or just a hissing sound.
Same PC with XP installed has no problems

Using FFDSHOW as decoder.

Any ideas?

I've been a showanalyzer user for years but decided to try comskip just to see if it works well. My sleep functions have been working very well with GBPVR but since I started using comskip, programs start to record but only for about a minute and then stop. I have not done enough testing to prove comskip is the problem but for those who use it, do you have any comments about your success or failure with it?

I've actually never even had the box checked to use comskip or SA and will turn it off after a few more attempts to see if that's the problem. Then I'll try SA.

I have a number of decoders but when I select different ones and try to run LiveTV, I always see the lastgraph or bda.grf have the same decoders being used, Nvidia and AC3Filter.

Is there a trick to get them to "stick"?

k.

Well, the title says it all but I have a Hauppauge PVR-500 through which I get my TV capture but want to know if I can used the EPG from a separate DVB-S card? If possible, just how would I configure this as the EPG configure section has the DVB option but there is no settings to set the type of DVB card.

Thanks,
Steve

Hello,

I decided to rebuild my GBPVR on a more modern machine and all works fine so far, except I can't see any video for BBC ONE (all other channels are OK).

I noticed that the Channel Type field when scanning shows H.264 (all other channels are MPEG-2), so I assume the tuner has found the Freeview HD channel, but as I don't have an HD tuner I guess it wouldn't work. I get the audio though.

I've tried removing the tuners and retuning numerous times. I've loaded the patched version of config.exe, changed <BDAPsiScanWaitSeconds> to 60 (this has removed all the unknown channels, so was worth doing). However, I can't seem to tune into the non-HD BBC ONE channel. I'm using a Nova-500-T dual tuner.

Any help much appreciated, as this is probably the channel I watch the most.

I have an HVR1600 that may be used as my primary card. I was using the HVR with an HDHR, but comcast has scrambled QAM.
So I have an extra STB, and am feeding it into the analog portion of the HVR. So I have basic cable via clear QAM and extended with my extra STB.

I want to tune some channels via the STB plus HIP, and tune the other channels via the internal HVR QAM tuner. I set up multiple capture sources, and that works. The Digital stuff works smoothly. When I tune to analog, it reads the signal from the STB (which is also good).

BUt I cant seem to change channels on the STB. I installed HIP, and was able to learn the STB commands. By the way, the trick to learning the codes is to wait one or two seconds after pressing hte key to learn, then hold down the key, pressing it for one second, then letting go. Worked like a charm. Also keep the remote close the beanbag (one centimeter, no kidding).

Anyway - My quesiton is - does GBPVR just 'know' that to tune to channel 10 means - go to channel 10 on QAM tunre one, and pressing the up key in GBPVR to the next channel, 34 on analog, will switch to the other tuner AND send a 0,3,4 signal via HIP to the STB? How do I teach it to do that?

As I switch channels, GBPVR knows which tuner to fire. Does it also know how to fire the signals, and how does HIP know to take over.

Also - I forgot how EASY analog is! LOL. Thanks in advance. I am happy to share the XMP codes for the Thomson DCI1011COM - that is for the search engines). I think I can zip each IR file. But they are useless until I can prove to myself that they work!)

Thanks in advance.
Tony