My server is running the latest GBPVR (1.4.7) and is a 4 year old PC running XP. It works fine so I'm not going to do too much to it!
I have a SKY box and I'm using a PVR-150 tuned to capture on the RF2 of the box. I was using a scart to RGB convertor but I was having serious colour issues on the PVR-150 so that was why I switched.
It was all working ok but my two slave PC's have both packed in recently. they were low end ones that I got from various sources, so my question.
I'm considering buying a NMT (the EGreat M34A) to replace the slaves (I find that using second hand refurbs is costing me too much in time to keep them going!)
But I also want to retire the 150's, So I was looking at using a Dreambox 500S (Satellite version) it appears there is some bits to be done to use my sky card on this but appears that it can be done!
My question is can the Dreambox 500s be used with GBPVR or should I be looking at a different option! I'm a real noob when it comes to dreambox's or cams etc.
Once I have GBPVR installed, and I am setting up my capture sources, when I go to map my digital channels to the EPG, groups of channels will sometimes get skipped, and I have to rescan. It takes three or four rescans before all the channels are detected properly.
The quality rating on the channels shows up as 100, and the signal strength is -20.
I've clean installed Windows 7 and GBPVR - twice. I have no audio on live TV, and none of playback within GBPVR. If I play a recorded file in an external application, I do have sound.
I've tried different audio decoders, ac3 decoders, and different audio renderers - nothing.
I accidentally left my motherboard's onboard sound on during the Windows install, and I have a X-Fi sound card. I turned the onboard audio off, and tried another reinstall of GBPVR - still nothing.
I'm about to have to install Windows for a third time, if someone can't come up with something else to try...
I am using a new HVR-1800, and test the wintv7 can see all the analog and digital channels ok, when I start to config gbpvr, it did scan any digital channel in the mapping step. i do subscribe to scheduler direct trial, what might be wrong.
on the other hand, other than win 7 home media center, if i want to use xp pro, is this software most similar to roger's pvr (easy and simple to use and setup. I try mediaportal, the media play and TV live user interface is so so.
is wintv7 is a good solution, what is the limit on this build in software.
thanks.
Is there anything special that a plugin has to do to prevent a PC from going into a powersaving mode? http://forums.gbpvr.com//showthread.php?...post374502 I could understand on the PC because I am not using DirectShow, but to the NMT I use VLC to create a temp file that GBPVR plays like any audio file.
Just a minor annoyance, but could get bigger if wife has to start GBPVR.
I had to reinstall XP so I took the opportunity to update to GBPVR 1.4.7 and everything installed great. I especially liked the ability to do a manual scan for an ATSC channel just by entering the channel number. The only issue I have is that when I first start the app, the menu pops up instead of going into Live TV. I can use the remote to go to Live TV in the menu and start it from there but for some reason it won't start by itself. I have the "Use Live TV" button checked in config and a working epg, does anybody have any ideas? I'm not at home right now so I can't post logs; will be home later tonight.
I also tried Hoborg's SAF codec but I guess the PC doesn't have enough horsepower to run it. OTA channels are really bad in Live TV.
I've just picked up a new universal LNB for my dish. It has 9.75 and 10.60 GHz local oscillators. Everything I read about universal LNBs has me believing that to switch from low band to high band, the LNB is switched with a 22 KHz tone.
What I don't understand is that when setting up the LNB in capture source in GBPVR's config, the LNB switch settings is up in the MHz range. What should I put in the LNB switch settings?
This is the first time I've come across this problem, as my previous LNBs only had a single LO frequency.
