New GBPVR install.
Using Schedules Direct 7 day free trial, chose a lineup for my zip code.
- I closed PVRX2
- I ran Config, edited my capture device, Emptied EPG, the Updated EPG.
- During the update I could see that GBPVR was going out to Schedules Direct and getting scheduling information.
- I closed config
- Ran PVRX2, still "No show details" for all channels.
My system clock is the correct date and time.
Scrolling ahead and back in schedule shows "no show details" for all channels.
I've run SageTV for years. About 2 years ago something happened to the pc setup such that I couldn't get sound when viewing livetv. Playing back video files were fine so I just lived with it.
Stopped using Sage (not much of a tv viewer anyways) a while ago, before the digital TV transition.
Today decided to set up my Hauppauge 950Q with GBPVR on the same pc as I'm now watching OTA and wanted to record in the Oscars in HD. Same problem as in the SageTV days - no audio during liveTV viewing.
I can play wav files file, windows sounds fine. Playing back recorded files is fine. Why do I get no audio during livetv playback?
I have been changing my setup alot over the last weeks, so far so good but this ones got me puzzled. Yesterday I upgraded my server to windows7, I have 2 NMTs a PCH A100 plugged dierectly into my router and an istar plugged into a switch which is plugged into my router.
When I installed I ran the full gbpvr etc...install from the wiki and added the PCH during setup. I then edited config.xml to start 2 NMT/MVP's and re-ran the MVPCx2 installer again but only ticked the update PCH settings (or similar wordage).
So the problem I have is the PCH is fine but the istar gives me intermittant no video. I can play recordings from the NMT ok, but about 9/10 if I go into gbpvr on the NMT the front end is ok but it wont play live tv or recordings, the mini guide comes up ok and I get audio (hdmi) but the screen stays black unless I back out to the gbpvr front end. Sometimes a cold boot of the NMT fixes it but mostly it doesn't. It must be something simple i've missed, the videos play ok but just not from MVPMCx2.....
Checking for mvpmc share on LOUNGE
mvpmc C:\mvpmc
Checking GB-PVR.html links
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/LOUNGE:mvpmc/gbpvr.cgi">GB-PVR</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/NETWORK_BROWSER/browser.cgi">GB-PVR via Network Browser</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/USB_DRIVE_A-1/mvpmc/usb_a.cgi">GB-PVR via USB</a>
Short description:
Card: Hauppauge Nova-T USB, work successfully with GBPVR for several years
Today no picture in PVRX2, everything is normal with Hauppauge software.
There haven' been any changes whatsoever in system (Win XP) - no new programs or anything. I did restart PC several times.
What could be the problem? Is it something in Windows that GBPVR uses and original software doesn't? But then again, there haven't been any changes in Windows...
An early HD TV. Projection, not one of these fancy plasma things kids today have. Projection! Will never hang from a wall! It will do 480 and 1080, but not 720, for reasons I don't pretend to understand.
The shape of said TV is 4x3 - NOT a widescreen.
PC video card is an ATI HD 2600. The only 1080 option that Catalyst Control Centre offers is 1920x1080. If there is a way for it to go with a 4x3 (1440x1080 I guess), I've been unable to find it.
The two work well enough, except, of course GBPVR shows up widescreen letterboxed, with black bars top and bottom. Not at all unexpected, since the desktop resolution is 16x9.
Which is fine. Not perfect, but fine.
The challenge comes when watching a 4x3 video, since now the various parts want to conspire to put but black bars at the top, AND black bars on both left and right sides to bring the display back to 4x3. So now, on the 4x3 television, I'm watching a 4x3 video in a little box with roughly a third of the screen around all edges.
Which is just silly.
But none of my proddings have been able to find a solution. Thus, my appeal to the rest of the readers here.
First - the TV shape in config. Do I set it to 4x3 (the physical shape), or 16x9 (the desktop resolution forced upon it)?
Second - the Aspect Ratio Modes in config.xml. I don't see how fiddling with these can help, but I'd like to be sure.
Third - Does (can?) GBPVR change the desktop resolution to 480 on playing a video? (Or, alternately, start at 480, then switch to 1080 if necessary). Or is it fixed to the desktop resolution at startup?
Fourth! - Anybody aware of any tricks to get CCC to give me 1440x1080?
Output from the video to the TV is through the "svideo" connector on the card that splits to a component video cable (red, blue, green) and then to the TV.
Sorry, nope, no DVI / HDMI on the TV. Component only. Did I mention it's a bit... advanced in years ?
Any comments / suggestions are very much welcomed and most appreciated. Thanks!
I've attempted to do a short (one minute) manual test recording with the BDA Multiplexer selected to "Microsof DVR-MS" and have failed to get a successful result. After the recording is done, TWO files are created with the DVR-MS extension and are only 6 KB in size. Neither file will play in XP Windows Media Player 11. I have had success in creating TS test files that play back in the Windows 7 Media Player, but they will not play in the XP version. So I need help with 1 or 2:
1) Create recordings in the DVR-MS format or
2) Get the TS files to play in Windows Media Player 11 for XP.
I also have not been able to get the "Auto-Convert TS recordings to MPEG-2" to work, but I'll address that issue in another thread if necessary.
My goal is to have gbpvr installed on an XP server to record TV for playback on a XP Windows Media Player.
Notes:
gbpvr version 1.4.7
Windows XP Pro, service pack 3
HDHomeRun versiion 20100213
Thanks for your valuable time and for supporting a wonderful product!
Hello All,
I think I already know the answer to my question, but want to see if perhaps I'm wrong.
Do I have to scan in all the channels on each of the two tuners treating them as completely separate capture devices? If so, do I really have to scan in all the channels again? And how is it going to work with the programming / tvguide? Am I now going to have doubles of each channel shown? Or Only one copy and the software knows it now has two choices of tuner? Or is all this completely wrong, and I need to do this differently? I couldn't find anything that talked about the subject of the second tuner.
What is the best way to do the install for the second tuner?
Also I ended up using the Hdhomerun scan tool when I scanned in the first tuner. Worked like a charm for the Web based channelguide. But when using the LiveTv feature guide information is missing for some channels. The web based programming guide shows everything. Is there a fix for this? Does it have to do with the naming of channels? If I rename them will it effect the web based program?
