After working for about a year the program guide on my GBPVR setup has stopped updating.

I am using mc2xml. Every thing I have checked seems to be in order. When I manually update the program guide on the system page, GPPVR reports it is updating but the program guide is not updated.

Any suggestions on what to try? I usually have at least a week of schedule but now the schedule ends day after tomorrow and my wife is going away and needs to record stuff.

I am using 1.3.11 and everything else is working fine.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I am using DVBServer/DVBSource to wrap 3 physical dvb-c tuners into 3 virtual dvb-s tuners. Since a couple of days it refuses to record on one of these tuners. On this tuner I make recordings of figure skating (Kunstschaatsen) from the Olympics. Today (23/2) on 16:25 the recording started but resulted in a file with zero length. The recording is supposed to be in H.264. Has anybody a clue what goes wrong here because due to this we missed all figure skating from the last couple of days :mad:
A log file is enclosed.

Going to be starting my GB-PVR setup tonight.

Is it possible to use an external TV tuner attached to one computer, recording to a storage device on another computer (attached with 100Mbit Etherhet)?

So, you'd have:

Upstairs computer with TV tuner
Downstairs computer with 3TB disk

...will this work reasonably well, or is it a bad idea? The thought is that the upstairs computer (our bedroom) will be more quiet with less disk (and the satellite box is there that we'll want to control via IR blaster), and the downstairs computer is in a utility room with a long HDMI cable to a television in a separate room downstairs.

Any guidance? Should I be throttling the quality of the live TV recording or something?

I AM A FIRST TIME USER iI SET UP AND FOLLOWED WHAT I THOUGHT WAS GOING WELL I RAN TUNER ASSISTANT AND COULD SEE MY CHANNELS COMING IN NO SOUND ...THAT WAS TO BE EXPECTED ..WHEN I GO TO PVRX2 I GO TO VIDEOS OR TV AND THERE IS NO SCREEN BUT I CAN HEAR THE SOUND CAN ANYONE HELP ME? THANK YOU:confused:

I've got a spare copy of 7 and I'm trying to resist the urge to tall it on my server, the main reason I'm considering it is to get h/w accel + HD working.
I've already got x64 and x32 dual booting on a client so I know some of the pitfalls the x32 version seemed easier do get the right decoders merrited.
Any advantages for a server and lounge PC to having x64 on there?

I'm trying to include the shows image when burning a DVD using BurnDVDx2.

I have been able to include the image by copying the image file to the source folder and renaming it the same as the mpg file. This works but requires me to constantly rename the file before burning a DVD.

Is there a way to make use of 1 image file for a show without having to rename the image file each time? e.g. much in the way GBPVr makes use of a shows image file in the media/art folder.

Thanks for any help.

On a 4 core machine ffmpeg only uses about utilizes 25-30% of the cpu's. I've looked at recompiling with pthreads, but that does not help. If we could run 2 conversions at the same time we could better utilize the power of a 4 core machine.

Picked up a cheap istar to add as a second client but I'm having a bit of bother getting it to work, I think it's down to the way I'm trying to hook it up to my display, but some basics first...

I have the server and main PCH A100 client hooked directley to my router, due to running out of ports on the router I have then had to use an unmanaged switch to hook up to the istar, the only other thing on the switch is my office computer which I sometimes use as a client (main point being it's not the server) the switch is then plugged into the router.

I can see the share on the PCH and server can also see the istar so I dont think the network is the issue.

The istar has a vga port which I'm trying to use to hook into my office monitor (LCD 1440x900), which is where I think my troubles begin. I can only get a picture on the monitor if I choose 16x10 1440x900 @ 60Hz, some other 1080 @60Hz resolutions work but they are pretty much monochrome. If I use 1440 when I run gbpvr the screen goes black then it kicks back to the NMT front end, if I use a one of the monochrome resolutions the screen goes black and stays black, however I suspect MVPMCX is running because I can back out of the black screen with the power button...just like on my popcorn from the GBPVR front end. I selected 720 when I installed using the NMT installer I knew it wasn't the same as the NMT resolution but didn't have a lot of options.

Any thoughts...am I on the right track, can I just go into config.xml and change the resolution in the MVP section to a custom one or will that break something else?


Syntax check here:

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>

NMT IP Address: 192.168.1.151 MAC 0006DC41BE05

GB-PVR Installed C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\
config.xml entry found Client Type PCH2
MVPSendIncrementalUpdates true
MVPClientType PCH2
MVPWidth 1280
MVPHeight 720
MVPOffsetX 0
MVPOffsetY 0

WebServerEnabled true
WebServerNMTStreamingEnabled true
WebServerPort 7647

The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

Checking NMT Version
50-17-090204-15-QPG-402-000

Checking NMT Display
1440x900 60Hz

Calling NMT Source
tv
smb://MYTV/tv Username: Password Length: 0

movies
smb://MYMOVIES/movies Username: Password Length: 0

torrents
smb://torrents/torrents Username: pod Password Length: 3

I have a question about getting my tuner card working in GB-PVR, but first some background:

I'm pretty new to this HTPC thing, and I just decided that pausing and rewinding live TV, as well as TV guides, TV-to-DVD, etc. was just too cool. I took a spare Pentium III/600 at 800MHz with 300 or so MB of RAM and built up an HTPC. At first I was going to use my ATi All-in-wonder Radeon (7200 GPU), but then I found out that it is unsupported by... everything. I then dug out this old AVerTV, plugged it in, installed their little TV-app-thingie, and voila, TV. Not the 10-foot-UI that I want though, so I installed GB-PVR (waaay faster than mediaportal).

ANYWAY

What steps do I need to take to get this AVerTV M-XXXX (I forget what it is, exactly) working under GB-PVR? Is it even supported? And is there some little byte of information on the Wiki somewhere that I'm missing? Perhaps a tutorial on getting cards not listed in the dropdown menu to work?

I dunno, I'm just confused. The autodetect says I don't have any capture cards installed, so...

Thanks,
Tandyman

EDIT: FWIW I'm 14 and have been building computers for a couple years now. Also a collector of vintage computers.

Hi guys,
Looks like I've got GBPVR working without crashing although there are some channels missing. They are the main free-to-air channels in Australia and are the channels I would use most of the time.

I have used the same Antenna in the same position with my TV and have picked up the channels, although sometimes the antenna position needs a little tweaking to get the signal to come through strong.

Is it possible to add the channels manually by frequency?

I have a list of the frequencies for the channels:
Channel Name, Logical Channel Number (LCN), Frequency (in MHz)
7 Digital (Seven Network) LCN: 7 Freq: 177.500
7 Digital 1 (Seven Network) LCN: 71 Freq: 177.500
7 Two (Seven Network) LCN: 72 Freq: 177.500
7 Digital 3 (Seven Network) LCN: 73 Freq: 177.500
7 HD Digital (Seven Network) LCN: 70 Freq: 177.500
Nine Digital (Nine Network Australia) LCN: 9 Freq: 191.625
GO! (Nine Network Australia) LCN: 99 Freq: 191.625
Nine HD (Nine Network Australia) LCN: 90 Freq: 191.625
ONE HD (Ten) LCN: 1 Freq: 219.500
TEN Digital (Ten) LCN: 10 Freq: 219.500
ONE HD (Ten) LCN: 11 Freq: 219.500
ONE Digital LCN: 12 Freq: 219.500

Thanks in advance
Kev