wow what a week. been racking my brain on this one, 2 installs of xp and same thing... nothing has changed since before but I get high cpu usuage from the system idle in task manager making video and audio messed up. once the usage drops doing whatever it is it's doing then hdtv is fine again. the recordings seem fine as once the cpu levels drop the video plays fine even from when it was messed up.

posts around the net suggest uninstall the index service... it was never installed lol so that can't be it.

does the 8600gt support hardware h.264?

i've defragged today and have installed xp the same way everytime for as long as I can remember and never had this problem until now.

it all started after I tried the new ffdshow from the posts claimed it was killer for h264 hdtv decoding so I wanted to try it and it didn't like my card as it stuttered so I went back to the tme decoder which worked fine in in 1080i.

after going back I noticed I was having studders and audio dropouts so after a day of uninstalling installing every codec pack etc.. I installed xp fresh and tried again and after a movie or so the stuttering came back so I uninstalled gbpvr thinking it was now my config or database complicating it and it seemed fixed for a movie or two and was back.

I don't know if tme updated their codec on me but I am stumped

anyone experience this idle cpu max load? people on the net say it's cause the computer is doing nothing and people say that's bs cause the computer is maxed and they can't use it lmao...

thanks for any input.

sry for the weird info... trying to type this while at work lol it's hard to think clearly multitasking

specs
dual core duo
1gig ram
sata
8600gt 1gig mem
xp sp3

EDIT
Questions
Do I want dxva checked in a codec and if so do I want v1 or v2 or both? Is DXVA supported in XP?

Thanks guys

I have GBPVR set to record certain shows (Family Guy, Futurama and King of the Hill) at certain time periods. There are no conflicts according to the program and the recording service is always running. I have the program set to record the season and all episodes on the certain channels.

It seems to be entirely random as well. Sometimes it will record one of the episodes, but not the other.

Any idea how to fix this?

I'm using an ATI 650 PCI tuner (the Analog/NTSC part only) and am using GBPVR 1.4.7.

Dear all,

I've done this before but can't for the life of me remember which file I edited. Am referring to the pop up that appears when you press the green button while watching Live TV and brings up lower list of 5 channles and upper pop up of currently watched show guide. Could someone let me know which this is!!!

Cheers

Steeb

Hi, everything seems to go OK BUT (isnt there always) I get no signal on a set of channels which I believe are on 633Mhz. These include QVC, Five USA, GOLD, ITV3, Virgin1. Live TV says no signal detected.

All channels can be received on exactly the same antenna (external) AND same wire and same plug (TV sat on computer workstation. I am line of sight from transmitter and its only 5 miles away.

Can anyone suggest what may be the problem. Is it the TV tuner card?? This is exactly the same under Windows Media Center.

Any thoughts on what to try etc. Be aware I am not a techie nowadays just an end user!!

Cheers

Is anyone using an Atom 330 processor based system as a GbPvr server?

Let me back up for a moment. In the past I had been using an HP Proliant ML150 as my main server, which included GbPvr recording and hosting two PCH's as clients. It definitely was up to the task, but used around 250 to 300watts at idle. So I started searching for a greener solution. First, for storage, I got a NAS from Qnap (Ts-410) which uses only about 20 watts with three 1.5 TB disks in it. Then for the heck of it, I temporarily tried to use my Dell Vostro A90 (Atom 1.6, identical to the Dell Mini 9) to act as a GbPvr server. To my surprise, it works perfectly for recording shows. However, it is not up to the task of streaming video to the NMT. So now I am thinking about building a system based on the Zotac IONITX motherboard (which has a dual core Atom processoor) so I can get my Vostro back. I'd be very interested to know if anyone else has tried this and if they had any success.

I was wondering if there's a way to directly control a MediaMVP using the GBPVR PC interface so that I could serve music to the MediaMVP without need for a TV or display. Hauppage has a batch file for doing this kind of thing using their software but I'd like to be able to use GBPVR. Is this possible?

Dear all,

is it possible to have 2 instances of CS installed on the same server? SD & WS? Or will this cause a conflict, particularly with the skin plugin?

cheers

Steeb

Hi All

I've just resurrected my old XP pc with SP3 and the latest directX and have a problem running the new program.

It configures Ok and I can scan channels using my Freecom USB DVB-T stick, but when I start the main program, the window border is drawn, but the contents of the window are transparent and I can see the desktop through it.

I waited half an hour with no progress. The program closes OK so it has not locked up.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Steve

After testing, I assume there is no way to display fanart in the Video Library unless using a "slick" type Menu? I also assume fanart won't work for the Music Library?

[Mods: feel free to move this post to the appropriate place. I think this is where it best fits.]

I found a .exe channel changing program on http://computersmithery.com/Channel.aspx (Please read the directions there for getting channel.exe to communicate with WinLIRC.)

It solved my problem of needing something to talk to WinLIRC via GBPVR, but I soon discovered my setup had a few issues where occasional digits would be lost. As a result, I've added logging and timeouts to the source code and have eliminated (worked around) the problem.

channel_2.1.3.zip contains the updated source code (written in VB).
channel_2.1.3.exe.zip contains just channel.exe, which is what most people probably want.