Hi,

Tonight I installed GBPVR on my XP SP3 box with a Hauppage WinTV TD-500 Dual DVB-T tuner. Install and config went great (and smooth), but when going to watch TV GBPVR crashes on C4 (NZ Freeview). Sometimes it immediately reports "No signal" and then locks up and sometimes it will play a few seconds and then report the same error.

This box was actually just running Media Portal, I disabled the MP services etc and after playing with GBPVR, re-enabled and it plays C4 fine (but gives me different kind of grief).

Anyway, I'm now suspecting there is something up with my rig that is contributing to my problems, specifically the Hauppage tuner - but I'm not really sure.

Attached are the logs from GBPVR from tonight - if anyone is able to shed some light on where I should start looking (based on the logs) I'd really appreciate it.

Cheers,

Hi. My cable provider recently switched our channels around and GBPVR isn't picking up a single channel in scans anymore, I don't know why. WinTV found the new channels. I found some threads on here about mapping them manually, downloaded TSReader, but I can't figure this out nor get TSReader working.

The new channels are:
117.1701
82.1601

I don't know how to derive the remaining info.

Thanks for your help!

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hi sub & co admin,

I didnt use gpbvr one years ago, what is new features or improve CC Subtitles record to SRT?

I need this SRT that is important for translate.
do you all have example SRT from NTSC and PAL format?

kkm

After a computer hardware glitch, I now start PVRX2 only to find my list recordings does not appear, even though all the recording files are still on my hard drive.

I assume PVRX2 maintains a database of recordings. Is there any way to reconstruct this database from the files on disk?

Or, if I'm totally off-base, is there any way just to get my recordings to show up in PVRX2 again?

Hi!

I had an 8600gt Video card in my pvr for the longest time and it was ok but the final straw on this card was when the fan started making noises which drove me bonkers one day and I opened the case and removed the heatsink and fan to clean the fan and broke the cheap plastic pin that holds the heatsink to the board.

Without the heatsink firmly in place the gpu will no doubt burn up so that was a huge mistake.

So as I threw the flipping video card on the ground in pure anger thinking I have no pvr until I get a new card I entered my motherboard model into google and realized my motherboard has on board video. (p5lmx)

No HDMI but it is directx 9.0. I loaded the drivers and started pvrx2 and was amazed at the picture quality of High Def Survivor. The picture was at 1450x1080 I believe and was for sure interlaced because I remember seeing the lins sometimes on pannings but the picture was soo sharp like I was in overlay mode or something...

anyway the audio would drift at times so I grabbed another computer that had an ati4200 pro card (correction... it was a 2400 pro) and put that in the pvr and man the picture sucked. You could see bad pixellation on the walls and faces and everything stationary had blotches of moving pixels... Annoying as hell.

After trying many different modes I ditched the card and went back to the GMA950 on board video since the quality was amazing even beating the 8600gt.

Well too my surprise now the gma950 was de-interlacing the pictures and the sharpness of the video is lost again and after days of trying every option and codec I could never recreate the non interlaced overlay picture quality.

I have been reading reviews on the HD5450 Video card I am seriously thinking of getting on for $54.99 cdn.

Reviews:
ATI Radeon HD 5450 & HD 5570 Graphics Cards

Radeon HD 5450 (Cedar) review: The ideal HTPC DirectX 11 graphics card?

Some reviews stated the card could not do some important de-interlacing however the problem was a driver issue that has since been corrected.

Does anyone here have the card or are thinking of getting one and have some opinions or what to get?

Does the card work nice with the HDPVR h.264 files?

Thanks for any input

Hi Sub,

I've got a really strange problem thats cropped up recently. Any .ts files I record with GBPVR, I can't play them back -- the video is fine but there's no sound.

I can playback the files fine in both WMP and VideoLan with sound, but GBPVR won't!

I tried re-registering the filters and other panic tweaks (turn off internal .ts reader, etc) but with no avail.

Any suggestions on where to look?

Thanks,
Dane

I just reinstalled Windows 7 and now when I start up PVRX2, nothing happens when I click on TV guide or Live TV. That means I can't program what I want to record at the moment. I did go through setup and entered the path to my XMLTV file (xml) and clicked on Update EPG, which gives me channels in the Channels tab. Any ideas?

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to relate a short conversation I had with their support team today which disappointed me greatly.

I've got a Cinergy Hybrid USB stick that works fine with GBVPR, MCE and others on my 2.8GHz box, but only functions with TerraTec's own software on the 2.3GHz PC I use in the living room.

According to their support team, TerraTec does *not* provide for nor guarantee that their producs will support any BDA-compliant applications other than their own. This means that if their cards don't want to work with GBPVR, Microsoft MCE, etc. then they're not interested to hear from you.

Looking under the covers, I can see device-specific configuration files with "special" timings on the BDA scan and lock side, giving me the impression that their products, while supporting BDA, are not fully compatible.

I looked at Hauppauge, and they do claim compatibility with Microsoft MCE and hence a very good chance it will work well with GBPVR.

Just my two cents, but it's time to dump my TerraTec stuff on eBay and start over.

Regards,
Dane

Hi,

I'm thinking about making the switch to the latest GBPVR release, I currently use Media Portal. I was just wondering if you guys could comment on what my expectations might be for getting a working and stable system up and running based on the type of configuration I want to deploy.

Basically the story is that I have been running MediaPortal 1.0 Final for some time now and have been quite happy with it. Recently however I implemented another node (so have gone multiseat) and as a result have had some issues (first with 1.0, which required an upgrade to 1.1 RC1, which fixed some problems but introduced some more). My environment is working, but I am now having problems every second day or so which is a bit annoying.

My configuration is as follows:

My server is a AMD X2 4800+ (2.5 GHZ Dual core) based system with 2GB of RAM. This box is also connected to an LCD telly via HDMI. It runs XP SP3 with all latest hotfixes and has a Hauppage WinTV TD-500 Dual DVB-T Tuner card. It has all my photos, home movies etc stored on it. I use CoreAVC as my H.264 codec (for NZ Freeview HD TV), and all video processing is done by the CPU. It works well as a HTPC with all freeview channels playing smoothly.

My new client PC is an ASUS eeeBOX 1012, which is a dual core Atom CPU with the Nvidia ION chipset. I use the CoreAVC codec with GPU support which works well giving me smooth freeview telly. This box is a client to my server and is connected via a 100Mb full duplex wired Ethernet network. All live and recorded TV is fed from my server (along with photos, home movies etc). This box also runs XP SP3 with all latest hot fixes etc. It has 2 or 3GB of RAM ( cant remember off the top of my head ;-).

I'd like to continue to use XP (just to avoid too much change) and install GBPVR on these two boxes - in the same type of configuration, server that is also a client, and a remote network client. With MediaPortal there is a lot of fiddling around, and unfortunately even with the latest release still some issues that are not so conducive for stable use.

In my proposed multiseat configuration, do you think I should have a realistic expectation that with GBPVR I should just be able to install, configure and have it work solidly with what I have? Or am I likey to be up for weeks worth of fiddling to get it stable?

I dont mean any of this in a bad way BTW, I'm just trying to be realistic about my time investment if I switch My options might be to stay with Media Portal but wait for the next release, or try something new - as I remember, when I first started out with all this, the only reason I didnt go with GBPVR originally was at the time Media Portal supported NZ Freeview telly and GBPVR didnt (which is obviously not the case now)

Thanks in advance.