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Let me know. I run http://www.geektonic.com and am looking for people just like you. I love HTPC's and write about this topic myself, but am always looking for contributors whether that be guest bloggers or even regular contributors. SageTV/Windows MediaCenter, MediaPortal, XBMC, Meedios & other HTPC writings are especially appreciated as that is why most readers come to GeekTonic. The pay is low (nearly non-existent although I do try to give a gift card at the end of each year to contributors) but you'll be reaching over 100,000 eyeballs each month and you'll be helping out the community too.
Examples of articles that would work:
* How to ...... with your HTPC/computer/mobile device etc
* Summary of your media setup
* Room makeover for your home media setup
* Why you went to the trouble of HTPC
* Why you switched to/from your HTPC software of choice
* Your favorite videocard, TV, processor, computer case etc etc
Hopefully you get the idea. Why ask for more contributors? Well the honest truth is I want to continue to "grow" GeekTonic.com. It's gone from a very ho-hum blog where I occasionally shared my own experiences to a semi-HTPC news & info blog to something that actually is successful in terms of readership at least.
It pays for itself but definitely doesn't pay the bills - I do that with my day job. Which is the other reason I'd love to get more contributors - I have times like the last month where I just don't have time to blog as much as I want.
Would you like to do one simple post or have ideas for several? Either way send me a message and I'll hook you up. I'll help with the formatting, spell checking and all that non-fun stuff too.
Ok I am new here, Already did a bunch of searching and am having little to no luck
I have an Avermedia M150 Plus Capture card, GBPVR recongnizes it, but when i try to open the application, A window pops up that is supposed to be it but all i see is a window outline and the the desktop behind it.
the status is that it is always sleeping
I can use the tuner assistance and see all of my 20 cable channels
Using a Upgraded Compaq Evo510..w/ 22" philips tv
Is there anything i am missing
Windows XP SP2?
Pentium 4
Media Center 10
Direct X9.0
200 GB HD
256 RAM....getting upgraded soon
the runtime 2.0 is in
and Windows update 3.1 is done
One problem I have, when running procedures to stream live, overseas TV from the Internet, is that the player window seems to "take over" the system when it is waiting. This is usually not a problem, but occasionally causes hangs when my procedures need to briefly control the UI (for example, to "click a button" on a TV network's website).
As long as the player is inactive, I can give control to a browser window by briefly "hiding" the PVRx2 window. If the player is active, however, this has no effect. Does the player have a different process name from PVRx2.exe?
This is particularly a problem when the player is waiting to play the file that I am streaming. It won't give up control of the UI, which means the "button" never gets "clicked," which means the file never appears, which means the player has nothing to play, but it won't give up control, which means... (insert neurotic fixation here).
I seem to have commands being issued when I don't want them to. This shows in 1) video playback, when the timeline and PVR controls appear briefly on the screen, and 2) playing live or timeshifted TV, when the channel changes up or down without warning.
1) is never a big deal, and 2) is a minor annoyance with local television. However, because I am using my own procedures to stream live TV from overseas, some of these channels take a long time to load, so 2) becomes rather serious.
I have considered whether this might be the remote or the driver, but I don't think so. I was using the Microsoft driver and, due to conflicts with other devices, switched to the MCE replacement driver. I also replaced my original remote and receiver with a new set. The symptom didn't change in either case. I also took the batteries out of the remote one night, with no luck.
I installed a Hauppauge Nova-T (90002) DVB-T PCI card with the latest driver from Hauppauge. I am running Windows 7 64bit. Windows Media Center picked it up fine and installed all the channels and EPG. GBPVR will not recognise it. I have ran FilterCheck and checked the bda.ini file and listed them below. I cannot understand why it does not pick it up, any ideas?
20:23:23.353 INFO Log started
20:23:23.353 INFO Filter Check v1.0
20:23:23.353 INFO
20:23:23.353 INFO
20:23:23.353 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CAPTURE filters
20:23:23.368 INFO found: HD Audio Mixed capture
20:23:23.368 INFO - (output) Recording Control
20:23:23.368 INFO - (input) Input1
20:23:23.368 INFO
20:23:23.368 INFO found: HD Audio Digital in
20:23:23.368 INFO - (output) Capture
20:23:23.368 INFO - (input) SPDIF Interface
20:23:23.368 INFO
20:23:23.368 INFO found: Hauppauge WinTV 88x Video Capture
20:23:23.384 INFO - (output) Capture
20:23:23.384 INFO - (output) Preview
20:23:23.384 INFO - (output) VBI
20:23:23.384 INFO - (input) Analog Video In
20:23:23.384 INFO - (output) 656
20:23:23.384 INFO - (output) I2S
20:23:23.384 INFO - (input) Analog Audio In
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_ENCODER filters
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CROSSBAR filters
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVTUNER filters
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVAUDIO filters
20:23:23.384 INFO found: Hauppauge WinTV 88x (DVB-T+IR)
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_VBICODEC filters
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_NETWORK_TUNER filters
20:23:23.384 INFO found: Hauppauge WinTV 88x DVB-T Tuner/Demod
20:23:23.384 INFO - (input) Input0
20:23:23.384 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO
20:23:23.384 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_RECEIVER_COMPONENT filters
20:23:23.384 INFO found: Hauppauge WinTV 88x TS Capture
20:23:23.384 INFO - (input) MPEG2 Transport
20:23:23.384 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
20:23:23.384 INFO
bda.ini
[Hauppauge Nova-T (90002)]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=Hauppauge WinTV 88x DVB-T Tuner/Demod
FILTER_CAPTURE=Hauppauge WinTV 88x TS Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
I have a HD-PVR and am using the included remote and blaster, with the haupblast.exe. Other than {channel}, is there any other parameters that I need to include as when I click on live tv or use the guide to select a channel, it displays whatever channel the STB is tuned into then about 5 seconds later it goes and changes the channel to what I want to watch so gb-pvr thinks that the hd-pvr has stopped and just goes back to the main menu or guide. So apparently I need it to change the channel before anything is displayed in gb-pvr, how to I correct this?
I am new to GBPVR. First off the WIKI was great. I've gotten my PVR working well. Picture is good....remote is working well BUT (there is always a but right?) When I first change to a channel and hit pause, there is about a 3-5 second period when the screen goes black. After this short time the paused picture shows back up and you can then hit play and then pause without there being any black screen time. I looked through some of the troubleshooting FAQs but did not find anything. Is this normal functionality or a setting I may have missed? Any help would be reatly appreciated!
I'm sorry..I am using a Hauppague PVR150 tuner card with an external Time Warner Cable Motorola set top box connected via S-Video to the TV.
Something has changed with E4, E4+1 and More4 in the last week as my live TV in preview mode no longer works with these (all other channels fine - except the Irish DTT channels which also dont work in live preview mode). However they do all record and play fine in timeshift mode (including the irish DTT channels). So I'm guessing nothing major has changed in the tuning values but anyone any ideas what might cause this? It's annoying to have to pause/play to get the channel to work. Not very wife/guest friendly!
After many, many happy months with a stable HTPC, something has broken it.
Windows XP froze on the login screen and wouldn't get any further
Windows blue screened when trying to boot into safe mode so that wasn't an option (and weird that I could get to the login screen when I booted normally, it just froze after I logged in)
CHKDSK was run but problem was still there
Tried to run a repair install of windows but that crashed half way through
Subsequent attempts result in crashes
So now after all that I'm left in an endless cycle of bluescreen crashes (and now way to turn off autoreboot)
Only way I can think of to fix this is to format the drive and start again.
So what I thought I'd do was to transfer the Hard disk from my HTPC to another machine have a look at it and extract anything useful.
So my question is, is there anything I can take from the GBPVR install that will enable me to keep my recordings in the recording database? The recordings themselves are all on a separate drive.
I'm a newby here. I've been trying for a few days to receive freeview on my PC.
My problem now is that I can't hear audio when playing live TV. I get the image and audio in the config window where we tune in the channels but once I lauch live TV on PVRX2 the image is good but I got no audio.
