I was messing around trying to delete a reoccurring recording (while it was in progress), then I switched to task manager and windows crashed. Unfortunately something in gb-pvr got corrupted. I had a backup from several days ago but did not have gbpvr.db3 file backed up recently. Luckily I was able to recover my database after fiddling with it for several hours.
This prompted me to download Puresync a freeware backup program. Nice thing about this program is that it will do multiple copies say 1-5 just in case something gets corrupted and you don't know it. The program also has a sophisticated scheduler. I also backup my email with this. I used a old 2gb usb stick for the backup. Syncback is also a nice freeware program.
I do file conversions from ts to avi to save space and had it set in config to asap. Now I set it to go after midnight. During the conversion files get moved around a lot and cause fragmentation. So I downloaded puran defrag. You can schedule this to run at certain times (very flexible scheduler).
I'm not sure if some of my problems where related to to canceling recording while recording or just with windows 7 x64. When I've tried to cancel recordings before I had to cancel twice in PVRX2 before it would take.
In windows 7 when accessing task manager it seems to interfere with the video stream. From now on I will exit PVRX2 before looking at task manager.
Been trying to get my new HVR-4000 (did I make the right choice?) up and running. Scanning shows good signal strength and quality but I get the ugly no channels found :confused:.
In looking at the mvpmcx2 code I realised I had some code stopping the Record key from being send while video was playing probably because of problems in PCH mode. I commented this odd, and GBPVR gives me an option to record the show in progress. It works nicely and it does show up perfectly in Recording.
Code:
2010-02-10 23:48:38.267 VERBOSE [6] RecordingFactory.save()
2010-02-10 23:48:38.354 VERBOSE [6] Save(): Inserted new scheduled recording
2010-02-10 23:48:38.356 VERBOSE [6] Trying to switch from timeshift to recording. Please wait.
2010-02-10 23:48:38.356 VERBOSE [6] RecordingFactory.save()
2010-02-10 23:48:38.553 VERBOSE [6] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
2010-02-10 23:48:38.555 INFO [6] KeepLiveTVFile(C:\temp\The Hour_3_20100210_23050000.mpg)
This is in the wishlist option I would like an option to move this from the Live TV buffer folder to the Recordings folder added to the Recording menu options or if possible have it moved (renamed on the same drive) when the recording stop.
Just checking to see if this is expected behavior. In Live TV, if I mute GBPVR and then enter the guide, I can't unmute it unless I exit all the way back to Live TV. Similarly, if I want to mute when the guide is up, I can't. Thanks for clarification.
Thanks to dhbg256 that helped with the excel macro and mvallevand, that made string converstion utility.
We now has a working easy to use translation function.
I have ported all old translations into the "system" and strings that where not translated, I had Google translate.
I have also made it possible to translate languages that didn't have any translations earlier, but they are all Google translations.
But they might be good anyway, and it should definatly be easier, than doing the translation from scratch.
I have installed GBPVR using NMTInstall.exe, trying to use this for my PC and my NMT. GBPVR start fine with no errors in both the PC and on the PCH. I can view the TV Guide and view live TV in the PC. But I cannot record or play any recorded programs or skip back durning a live recording on my PC.
I have an mpeg 2 ts file that was made from 720i hdtv that I'd like to convert to an xvid file (or mkv, but would prefer xvid).
It looks good and all, but it's only 20 minutes of video and is 2.5gig so I'd like to crunch it down to something a bit more reasonable.
I looked on the net but didn't find a easy to follow guide. I did find some software that says it'll do it, but most were kind of expensive and I couldn't find any reviews or anything to help me sort out which ones are worth it and which ones aren't.
Anyone have any suggestions for tutorials or software?
I've been using GBPVR for ages now (from 2003 or 2004 till now) and I feel like I've been contributed into GBPVR development a lot also from user "hack" side (multiple net client usage scenarios; automated transcoding etc.), but today I'm stuck in mud and need your help as Vancouver Olympics is arriving and after my OSs' upgrade GBPVR won't work at all and I really can't find out why...
My successful setup already for about 4 years: now windows 2008 x64 r2 (previous w2k3 x86; 8GB RAM on ASUS M2NPV-VM; AMD X2 5200+) utilizing Hauppauge HVR-1300 (for national Estonian h.264 DVB-T) and X3M-TV TU1100L USB-stick (for Finnish MPEG2 DVB-T) (sorry, my old analogue PVR-150 retired about 6 months ago fighting against some lightening storm) + ASUS Pundit-R (P4 3.2GHz 1GB RAM; XPSP2 x86; from year 2003) + IBM T42 + relevantly new Lenovo x200 (x64 w7 enterprise).
Previously I was running w2k3std x86 on server side for years and everything was just fabulous. Just some weeks ago I upgraded server to w2k8r2 x64 (legal one, of course) and the problems started. First of all, Hauppauge drivers installed from web ok, but WinTV 2000 didn't start. After Googling for hours, found BDA for R2 x64 .msi package, which still didn't provide sufficent success, even VLC didn't tune to DVB-T. After reading tens of forums, found that some tens of .dll's are needed from w7 to be hacked into w2k8r2 - fine, did it and VLC tunes all right! ...and also shows TV... Installed Visual C++ x64 sp to server and enabled .NET feature, Desktop Experience and DirectX at server 2008 R2 x64 and GBPVR installed ok and Config runs ok... Channel mapping works, EPG update works... but GBPVR web service doesn't even show up on "netstat -an"... connecting to tcp port using http times out. Windows firewall is disabled. Am I still missing some features on w2k8r2? Do I need to install also .NET 2.0 (as I remember, GBPVR used it?) along with .NET 3.5? Despite GBPVR http service doesn't run, I was successful recording shows using my antique GBPVR setup on ASUS Pundit-machine (XP SP2). I was quite happy. But after DVBLink installation onto server (for second USB tuner, which is not included in GBPVR setup) and couple w2k8r2 mandatory updates, my client machine does not record any more shows. TV guide is ok, pressing "quick record" marks show as red, but immediately it goes into "recordings" as green and ready and when looking onto server share, no .TS file nor directory is created. My T42 and X200 behaves the same way. All shares and permissions are "777", so nothing could prevent this, but still I can't figure out why my clients are not any more able nor to record or show any shows.
If you have w2k8r2 x64 setup, please write here what features / add-ons are installed on top of OS and with what permissions and firewall rules are you sucessfully running GBPVR networked setup???
Just installed ICL on the main server and it works great (except I don't get any verbage under synopsis). Good job! Now I want to install it on a GB-PVR client PC and am wondering if ICL can act as a true client... i.e. it uses the server's settings and files so that I do not have to do a separate refresh (and get two copies of all the trailers and movie info, one on the server and one on the client).
