I am reinstalling GBPVR on fresh XP install.
Setting up HVR3000 using DVB-S for NZ Freeview
When the automatic scan start it runs through the Optus D1 FTA (4 transponders) and finds no channels
If I then try a manual search and enter 12456 22500 H 3/4 I get no channels found.
I wait around 3 seconds after last step completing and I then get the video preview window showing TV!!!
Can anyone advise just how important the PC's video card is to running GBPVR? I can play a DVD regular on the HTPC I built and it looks fantastic on my 46" 1080P television, but the GBPVR is iffy at times. I only have an analog TV card, so I understand that issue, but the image doesn't seem to flow as smoothly as the DVD does. I messed with the decoders etc. and got it to smooth out, but it still doesn't seem to be as good as it could be.
The PC is a Dell P4 HyperThreader running 2.8 GHz, 3 GB of RAM with a Hauppauge HT1600 TV card and an NVidia 6200 128MB video card with DVI out put to the TV via DVI to HDMI cable.
I have some MP4 video files that I just uncovered on an old drive and was hoping I could just drop them into GBPVR and view them, but alas, no luck. Is it possible to play MP4 files from within GBPVR? Is it just a codec issue? Do I need to re-encode them to AVI or somesuch?
Well i finally saw some ATI USB TVWonder 650's at Fry's and picked one up for 39$...!
and guess what, it's a full blown dual tuner!!!
of course you have to use a specific driver to enable the dual functionality, but hey, usb dual tuner with hardware encoder for 40$? can't beat it with a stick...
it's the diamond "ati tv wonder usb hd 650 dual tuner"
driver cd that came with it says "180-V01126-100" which only works in "either-or" tuner mode..[single]
but i loaded my cd from pcie-650, "180-V01128-100" which enables dual tuner on pcie card[cat 8.11], and it works with this one too!
the drivers on that cd work well in either xp, vista or win7..
6.14.10.250 is good driver version in win7 for "ati unified av stream driver"..
so grab one if you can...they won't last..pcieX1 also still available..same price..
the video quality is top notch and adjustable filters too..
reception is excellent, i've got a 4-inch antenna on it and it's picking up everything!
pair one with a fit2pc[245$] or Revo[199$] and you have a silent tiny multi-tuner setup for less than 350$!
or an excellent addition to any laptop..
out of slots? add 2, for 4 independent tuners using only 2 usb ports! [2 analog + 2 digital,all usable same time]
[i'll be grabbing another tomorrow and test dual use, 2 units, same time]
only bad thing is no remote and they are the white ones...not black....wooo...lol
I just upgraded the drivers for my ATI graphics card from 10.2 to 10.3, and now whenever I try to start GBPVR it says "Sorry, this system does not support the required VMR9 video renderer". I tried the other renderers, but EVR runs at about 1fps, and overlay displays nothing at all (not even a blank screen). I tried reinstalling GBPVR, including completely deleting the install directory, but that changed nothing.
Everything was working fine until I changed the drivers, and that was the only change I made.
System specs (more here):
AMD Athlon II x2 250
Asus M4A785TD-M EVO
4GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD4770
Win XP SP3
Are there any gbpvr plugins or settings to use that would display the
Signal Quality in the OSD for an ATSC USB BDA tuner device while ur in Live TV?
Actually was thinking it'd be cool if we could capture a logfile of it over time, where
ya could then import the log to excel or sumthin and chart it. Just for curiosity sake
of keeping an eye on various stations over long periods of time, say over the course
of a day or so....Is anything like that possible?
I have seen a signal Strength / quality bar graph pops up if ya accidentally unlug the USB
tuner device while in Live TV. But I've never seen it when ur actually plugged in and using it.
Figured it must be there for certain Cards or something.
I have a TV card Hauppauge wintv-pvr150 on my computer.
I am interested in capturing video from my VCR (from a video cassette) to the computer, at highest quality possible. I have windows XP. local system is PAL.
I configured the software GBPVR to the best of my understanding, created a new channel, plugged the VCR to the pvr, and began recording.
A 1.5 hours VHS movie became a ~4 gigabyte MPEG2 file.
I have 2 question please:
1. on the computer, the movie looks great. However, when I burned it to a DVD and tried to view it on my DVD/TV, it was "jumpy" (sorry about the English, not sure which adjective to use... ), The image slightly flickers.
Checked the disc again on my computer, on the DVD drive, and it looks fine. What could be causing this?
2. Is there a way to capture in avi format or some lossless format? instead of mpeg2? perhaps I am missing something in GBPVR configuration?
Up until yesterday, my GB-PVR program was working fine. All of a sudden, everytime I try to open the program I get the following message: "PVRX2 has encountered a problem and needs to close." This happens whether trying to access the main program or the Config program.
I tried uninstalling the program, downloaded the new program and installed it. The same error message keeps coming up.
I have one glitch on my Windows 7 64-bit install. I don't think it is related to GBPVR, but I am posting here in case anyone can help.
On some channels I get audio popping in Live TV - it's hard to describe but the sound seems to be changing volume very fast; you would imagine it as a sawtooth pattern. So most noticeable on long duration sound like background music.
It is very noticeable on channels such as CBS Action, ITV2, Film 4 - and even ITV HD. It cannot be down to a particular Hauppauge tuner, because it effects both DVB-S and DVB-T
If the channel is recorded, the sound is fine when played back. Don't think it's the decoder - I normally use FFDshow but I have tried others and same thing. I dual-boot this PC and in XP I don't get the problem. Tried updating the Realtek HD sound drivers to the latest on the Gigabyte website (Sep 09), updating the Hauppage drivers to 1.3c, and have tried different builds of FFDshow - but problem persists.
