I have been using GBPVR with a hauppauge 1600 both qam and analog tuners for a number of years. Recently, Comcast cable in my area has eliminated all analog and most clear qam signals. I decided to switch to using the Hauppauge HD PVR with my HD cable box. I have a winxp mce 2005 system with remote that works well at changing the channels on my cable box. I'm using component cables and the 5.1 digital optical feed to go to my HD PVR.
The problem I'm having with my new HD PVR is when I record a show, the resulting .ts file does not correctly report the audio as 6 channel, (it appears to default to stereo). Therefore, when I play the .ts file, the audio is not in sync.
If I demux the .ts file and play the ac3 file seperately, it is a 6 channel ac3 file.
If I use TME and record a show, the resulting .ts file is correctly reported to have 6 channel ac3.
I did a clean install, put the cards in, downloaded drivers from Hauppauge for the PVR-150 and HVR-1600, got the .net and runtime update, and installed GB-PVR 1.4.7. Setup the EPG using the MS MCE tool, got my schedules, and then just got audio, no video. I didn't get it to to work until I install WinTV 7 from Hauppauge and had it tune both cards. Did I miss something? Should it have worked with just setting up the drivers themselves? Or is there additional stuff WinTV 7 does (did it change my drivers)? I did get everything working and have both cards happily humming away, I'm just curious where I went wrong...if I can even figure out where I went wrong.
I did try searching for this, but may have missed it (the search won't let me look for just "F7"). When I'm viewing live TV, especially a program that is 16x9 and thus is letterboxed and pillarboxed on the TV, I've used F7 with great success to fill the screen - it works perfectly on the third setting. However, when I'm watching content recorded by GBPVR, the F7 button seemingly has no effect at all, and I'm stuck watching the double boxed content. Should this work in playback of recorded shows, or is there some limitation that prevents this?
I have two STBs. One that only has 480i output even though it is in the form of r-g-b input. And one that has 1080i ouput. If I record with the 480i box I get a very grainy recording. If I use the 1080i box I get a very nice recording. Now this is even if they are both watching the same channel, which is an SD channel. It seems that the HD-PVR doesn't do well at recording lower resolutions? My STB that up converts to 1080i from the same 480i produces a much better end result. Is this just how it is or is there something I can do?
I wanted to share my horror story with the group here as I have some interesting information that will be of use to anyone who finds themselves in a situation like I just had over the past few days.
Let me start from my purchase of the ATI HD 5450 HTPC video card that is priced very low and is a Directx11 card with hard acceleration for video files...
This is a great article since it enlightened me to the fact that I should have waited for the 5550 instead as it will have dual HD stream support like the higher 5000 series cards which means the card will be future ready for 3d stereo bluray video. The ATI 5450 only has one and if I read the article before I bought my card I would have paid more for a higher version so I can have that. (Will prob never need it anyway haha) I bought a 1.5tb hard drive as well.
Ok so I installed the demo of Windows 7 on the new hard drive so I can see what all the eye candy goodness is all about with High Def media and EVR with gbpvr and was able to get everything pretty much installed minus the ir for the cable box switching. After trying various codec's and packs I found the Windows MP codec to be pretty good but only in EVR mode and although the picture seemed about 5 FPS smoother than in XP the video quality looks the same as FSE 9 in XP. Media player was great but took a while scanning my movie files...
Anyway without the IR to change my HDTV box working I had no choice but to reboot back into XP so I decided I was going to go into the bios and boot into one of the other drives with Windows XP and GBPVR. When I booted into XP I discovered my normal 1.5tb drive filled with movies was missing from the directories so I checked the plugs etc it was there just not in Windows. So I went into disk management in admin tools and found the hard drive to be a foreign disk (WTF?) I don't recall converting one ever but like they say you can't get pregnant on a toilet seat so I grinned and accepted I did it sometime before...Well I could not import the disk into XP and I was screwed big time. I thought the hard drive was dead as there was an error when trying to mount it. I booted back into Windows 7 and the drive showed up and was readable. Great so I thought I will just move all the movies off it onto the new drive and format it and hope the drive is ok. I had a deadline since my gf wanted to make sure I recorded "breaking bad" for her. No problem I thought just copy the files over to new drive and get back to xp and be done with it. Copying that large amount of files required all night and day. Reading from Microsoft's site stated you have to remove all the files before you can convert a dynamic disk to basic as it will destroy the files or something. I started to run out of space and needed about 300 gigs and I grabbed my old western digital green drive and thought I am home free o plugged it into Windows 7 and thee bugger had the same problem only in windows 7 hahaha.
2 hard drives are dynamic and married to a computer somehow so I searched Google to see if software existed to convert a dynamic disk to basic without destroying the data... Yep and nothing free.
Feeling brave to discover new things I loaded the hard drive into the hex editor and proceeded to change one byte of code rebooted and voila! my disk became basic and viewable on all computers with no loss in data!! Feeling braver I did it to the other 1.5tb drive no problems and all data saved. Bookmark the link if you lose your drive in another computer it may not be dead but be a dynamic drive meaning it is married more or less to the one computer.
So after recording the show I went back to windows 7 and played around with EVR in GBPVR and searched the net for answers to questions I had and found Media Player Home Cinema. http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
the players uses it's own internal filters to render files and I thought would give the best example of what the codec and acceleration should look like. EVR seemed to stutter so I picked the Overlay and played an HDPVR file and WOW clear crisp shard picture with no stuttering in full screen.
That is what I wanted so I searched for codec's and such more than before and everything I ever tried in XP was always sad for my rig. The only codec that was smooth and crisp was TME and I am sure they block the DXVA hardware assist to their software and I want the full deal in GBPVR and I think I have finally found it!
The codec they use is the cyberlink codec which had never worked for me out of every codec pack install I ever found it would always stutter and I was forced to use Total Media Extreme as it was smooth and worked well but I knew there had to be something better if I could find it and I think I have.
In the guide he specified Cyberlink for MKV and that BSOD in GBPVR but the good news is that selecting Cyberling DXVA instead worked in GBPVR and I have real smooth HDPVR video no audio problems and the video to me looks as good as it will ever be in a Windows XP system using FSE 9.
I didn't search the forum to see if someone posted the purcodec link before so I am sting this as a heads with the hope it will b of use to someone here
Let me know if you have problems or it works and good luck
I have a remote that came with my HVR-2250 that I would like to get working with GBPVR. This remote (RRS9002-86XXF) plugs directly into the PCI card itself, and doesn't seem to have any characteristics that match anything I can find online in any tutorials or instructions. Can anyone point me to something that would explain how to get this thing working?
Last night several recordings were corrupt.
I have reinstalled 1.03.11 and now cannot achieve Epg or channel scans with Nova setup which was working.
Attached is logs.
Any advice and help appreciated.
Waynesm
Has anyone tuned in the new ITV1 HD test channel on 10832H? I cant get it to work in liveTV (preview mode) by entering the numbers from kingofsat but it works fine in timeshift or recording. It's annoying that I cant get channels to work any more in preview mode as it used to be easy to enter tuning info from such sites. But it never works for me in the current GBPVR release, only in timeshift/record. Why does preview mode need to be any more strict with tuning requests than time shift / recording?? The Irish DVB-T channels don't even work from values from a scan (but do in timeshift...)
I see the forum has changed. I know it was down for a bit yesterday but the message I got was that there was a problem and I thought it said something about using backups. Anyone know if this is temporary or our new home?
o plugged it into Windows 7 and thee bugger had the same problem only in windows 7 hahaha.
