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as I got enough of MediaPortal and it's thousands of problems I tried GB-PVR yesterday.
It looks very clean, fast and nice.
Now I got two questions, maybe someone can help me
Question 1:
To find all the channels of my provider (Kabel BW, Germany) I made a new ini-file based on the frequencies which MediaPortal scans.
Unfortunately GB-PVR doesn't find the two channels "Das Erste HD" and "ZDF HD".
I tried to manually add those channels, but I don't exactly know how.
Can someone help me adding the two channels or solving the problem that GB-PVR doesn't find them?
Question 2:
When switching between channels sometimes the screen turns black and I can only hear audio.
Sometimes the image of the old channel freezes and I hear the audio of the new channel.
How can this be solved?
My specs:
ASUS M4N785
Radeon HD4350
AMD X2 240
Terratec Cinergy C PCI HD
I've got GB-PVR recording a couple of channels continously, and has been happy to do so for several weeks.
Oddly, it stopped yesterday at 08:15, even though according to the Recording Status it was still going.
I've add a look at the RecordingService log (attached), which is shows it ticking along quite happily until 08:15 and then repeated lines of Conversion thread configured for ASAP:
Code:
08:05:07.407 VERBOSE [5] Adding E:\Manual Recordings\Grampian_Manual_0805_20100217080500.ts to parallel processing queue
2010-02-17 08:05:07.407 VERBOSE [5] RecordingFactory.getExtrasForGroup(22)
2010-02-17 08:05:36.749 VERBOSE [13] RecordingFactory.loadScheduleRecordingByOID()
2010-02-17 08:05:36.749 VERBOSE [13] About to start transcode of: E:\Manual Recordings\Reporting_Scotland_Manual_0750_20100217075000.ts
2010-02-17 08:05:36.749 VERBOSE [13] getValue cached value: /settings/AutoConvertTSToFormat : No Conversion
2010-02-17 08:13:36.750 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
2010-02-17 08:15:00.088 VERBOSE [5] Recording has passed endtime+padding. Stopping.
2010-02-17 08:15:00.088 VERBOSE [5] Stopping multi record: 8266
2010-02-17 08:15:00.088 VERBOSE [5] All multi records stopped. Stopping device.
2010-02-17 08:43:37.079 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
2010-02-17 09:14:36.973 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
2010-02-17 09:45:36.866 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
2010-02-17 10:16:36.759 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
2010-02-17 10:47:36.652 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
2010-02-17 11:18:36.560 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
2010-02-17 11:49:36.453 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
2010-02-17 12:20:36.346 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
2010-02-17 12:51:36.298 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
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A restart of the machine seems to have resolved it, but I was wondering if anyones come across it before? If it's just a one off? Or if i should be looking out for something...
could you make the snapshot exe= configurable like the profiles for thumbnail snapshots?
this would allow using a batch file to enable things like making cut points for comskip or editing, different snapshot makers, maybe resetting last_viewed? basically anything that needs to be done on certain frames or just needs activation while playing..
oh and an OSD toggle in config...so we can toggle on or off with remote and it sticks, or a settable delay time..[would help for pch too]
and make the timeline always appear when info does..sometimes can't get timeline up without pausing..tho info appears always with blue button..
now, even if paused, the osd button brings them both up, only to have timeline go away while info stays forever..
All of a sudden out of nowhere, it seems GBPVR is squashing my picture down to make it widescreen no matter what dimensions the actual picture is. Full screen is being squashed to widescreen, and widescreen is being quashed down to really widescreen. This has nothing to do with the picture from the STB, and it looks like this on old recordings that I know are perfectly fine too. This also is only happening to the actual video being played not the entire screen. What could have happened?
I am looking to setup a client/ server system. I will be using two win 7 pc and I want the server to do all the heavly lifting, transcoding, econding etc., and for the client to just playback the media files. The client will be severly underpowered.
PCH A-100 has been working through GB-PVR for about 3 weeks. I used the Dummies guide with some help from Martin. Well suddenly when I go to start GB-PVR through GBPVR.html , I get a gray screen and with the message "mount mounting //192.xx.xx.xx"
Then if I try again I get "mkdir: cannot create director" on the same gray screen.
I searched for the error message, found some posts, but didn't find a likely solution. I've turned off the windows 7 firewall without effect. I can ping the PCH from the server computer. The PCH can play recordings.
Can you help? Should I post logs? I don't see the logs updating from the attempt, i.e. the modified time does not change, so I don't see how this would help.
How do I uninstall WizImageGrabber? When installing it, some start menu entries appear in the gbpvr group. How do I uninstall to make the start menu entries and the WizImageGrabber files cleanly go away?
I have noticed with my installation that when I have EVR renderer enabled it disables my menu button from toggling between listings and live tv/menu and live tv/live tv. Is this normal behavior or just something with my setup? I am running Windows 7. The VMR9 Custom renderer works fine for my purposes, I was just curious. Thank you!
