Hello
I am a longtime GBPVR and Media MVP User. I have three Media MVPs in my home hooking up to one central GBPVR server.
I have been looking at devices which can leverage the Playon TV service for Hulu and Netflix support. In doing so I came across the Popcorn players as pretty much teh only option which might support both GBPVR and playon . ( I don;t wnat toahve to have double sets of these network devices at each TV location...)
I am curious how seamless it is to be able to flip back and forth bewteen the GBPVR front-end application and the regular inteferface that supports the upnp playon service? ( something my wife could do via the remote?)
I am also curious if a house network with mixed Media MVPs and Popcorn unnits could coexist easily
I have a gbpvr server that is set up to record a lot more shows than I actually watch, I do it just to have a wide selection to choose from whenever I watch tv. I record so many shows every day that it is getting annoying having to delete all of them in the gbpvr interface. Typically, I just go to the server console once a month and delete the stuff I don't want, which leaves the database with a lot of deleted recordings. Would it be possible to have GBPVR scan the drive for deleted files and then delete the corresponding entries in the database? A "Delete recordings older than N days" feature would also do the trick ....
Does anyone have an overview of the stability of HDHomerun as a dvb-c device(QAM 256)?
Going digital has been a bit of a driver nightmare for me, so I would like some reassurance before I order one ... I started out with 3 Hauppauge hvr-930c's which are having serious BDA driver issues ... Zero length recordings about 25% of the time (http://forums.gbpvr.com//showthread.php?...highlight=)...
I managed to get a refund for two of them and then ordered 2 Terratec Cinergy PCI CI HD cards, however, it turns out there is a driver issue when running more than one of these cards. After a lot of research I found that there is a Skystar dvb-c device with the same chipset, but their driver is newer .. After hacking the Terratec driver is has been running completely stable for a few months now, however, these experiences leave me a bit reluctant to purchase an expensive ethernet based device ... If I could get a few comments on the stability of this device it would be greatly apprieciated ...
I'm new to GBPVR, I found it from the Hauppauge web site as a 3rd party application for the MediaMVP.
I used my MediaMVP before with the mvpmc project on my linux home server. I've since switched to Windows 7 and, as I thought, the stock Hauppauge software to drive the MediaMVP cannot play any of my videos.
I got the Hauppauge software working, I even upgraded to the 3.4 beta for Vista, since this is the latest version. On their site they say it's for 32-bit, but I'm running 64-bit Windows 7. In fact, if I try to play a .mpg the MediaMVP just reboots so maybe it's working to play videos at all, but at least the MediaMVP is booting up.
I followed the installation instructions of having the Hauppauge software installed, but set the services to Manual startup; installing GBPVR and setting the number of MVP/NMT clients to 1 and getting a fresh dongle.bin. However, even though I've done this my MediaMVP can't find any server to boot from.
When I was using the mvpmc project I remember having to set up a tftp server and changing an option on my network's dhcp server and all that drama, but I did not find similar instructions for neither the Hauppauge software nor GBPVR. Are there steps that I am missing to get the MediaMVP to boot and work with a GBPVR backend?
Does anyone know if you can use the older MCE remotes with the 2250? I have been using the one I got with a PVR150MCE with my PVR 1600 without problems. I'm getting too many dropped recordings due to the 1600's weak QAM tuner and am going to swap them out with a 2250. I can get the 2250 without the remote, but didn't know if my current remote will work or not.
I'm also using IR Server Suite at the moment and am hoping that's compatible with the 2250 as well.
While trying to puzzle out why the keyboard volume controls showed icons in PVRX2 and remote buttons didn't, I soon found that the remote is controlling system sound and the keyboard (when app is in focus) only the app sound - obvious with the Windows mixer panel alongside. Why can't I send the app codes instead when the program is running?
I have used Translator to map various combinations of Left/Right, +/-, ^Z/^X, with or without curly brackets, but the behaviour doesn't change. Any ideas?
Win7/IRSS/Translator with MCE mappings/Aim RC118 remote.
I am just installing GBpvr to see if i like it better than WMC .
I have WMC running fine and it has no problems finding all channels available but I'm following the instructions to configure GBpvr and it will only find a few radio channels , bbc parliament and cbbeebies!
I have tried it a few times but with no joy.
what else can i do?
I like the look of GBpvr so far and think i would swap over if i can get all channels recognised.
BTW I'm on win 7 x64 and my tuner is a peak AF 9015 BDA
I have a PC (Windows 7) on my home network running GB-PVR (1.4.7) configured to record to its local hard drive.
I also have a NAS attached to my home network (Synology DS409+), with its disk configured to spindown/hibernate after 20 minutes of inactivity.
I have listed one of the NAS directories in the GB-PVR 'Video Library Directories', and suspect that this is causing the disks in my NAS to wakeup before and after every recording.
I reference the directory 'C:\Users\NAS_Library\NAS', which is a link to my NAS at \\192.168.x.x\NAS.
From the NAS log I can see that the disks get woken up a couple of minutes before a recording starts, as well as being woken up around 10 minutes after a recording completes - which relate directly to my GB-PVR 'Recording Padding' of 2 pre-show and 10 post-show minutes.
I really dont want to remove the reference to my NAS disk from the 'Video Library Directories' as my wife finds it very useful to quickly navigate to my archived recordings.
Question: Is there an entry I can make to the GB-PVR configuration file to stop it waking up the NAS disks before and after every recording.
SUB,
Recently, (and only on a few channels) when I go into the TV Guide and select a channel to watch no picture or sound comes up until I hit the PAUSE button to start the recording session. Then after a second or two the picture appears and when I release the PAUSE button picture and sound are good as any other channel. Again this only happens on a few channel. Logs attached. Any Idea what's causing this and how to correct it?
