My HDPVR generates h.264 ts recordings. Generally, these play back great through mvpmcx2. One thing I have noticed though is the resume never works for these recordings. Is this a known limitation?
I had a Toshiba external hybrid tv tuner that I tried to use with an old P4 computer running XP Pro. The tuner worked, but the computer was too slow.
Move forward...I've now got a Dell Studio XPS that is more than capable of handling the tv tuner, but I can't get it to work. The drivers from Toshiba are set up to only work with a 32 bit OS and mine is a 64 bit system. I've tried to install the 64 bit driver from Avermedia. It installs and then changes the hardware name to from Toshiba ATSC TV Tuner to Avermedia M039U USB Hybrid DVB-t. Device Manager shows the hardware and says that it is working.
When I try to configure GB everything seems to look like my previous setup, but when I try to scan for channels, it doesn't find any.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Here is the contents of the filter log. I don't know if it helps
Quote:10:19:24.038 INFO Log started
10:19:24.038 INFO Filter Check v1.0
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10:19:24.038 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CAPTURE filters
10:19:24.038 INFO found: AVerMedia USB Analog Capture
10:19:24.048 INFO - (input) Analog Video In
10:19:24.048 INFO - (input) Input1
10:19:24.048 INFO - (output) Output2
10:19:24.048 INFO - (output) Output3
10:19:24.048 INFO - (output) VBI
10:19:24.048 INFO
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10:19:24.048 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_ENCODER filters
10:19:24.048 INFO found: AVerMedia USB Analog Encoder
10:19:24.048 INFO - (input) Input0
10:19:24.048 INFO - (input) Input1
10:19:24.048 INFO - (output) Output2
10:19:24.048 INFO
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10:19:24.048 INFO
10:19:24.048 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CROSSBAR filters
10:19:24.048 INFO found: AVerMedia USB Analog Crossbar
10:19:24.048 INFO - (input) 0: Video Tuner In
10:19:24.048 INFO - (input) 1: Video Composite In
10:19:24.048 INFO - (input) 2: Video SVideo In
10:19:24.048 INFO - (input) 3: Audio Tuner In
10:19:24.048 INFO - (input) 4: Audio Line In
10:19:24.048 INFO - (output) 0: Video Decoder Out
10:19:24.048 INFO - (output) 1: Audio Decoder Out
10:19:24.048 INFO
10:19:24.048 INFO
10:19:24.048 INFO
10:19:24.048 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVTUNER filters
10:19:24.048 INFO found: AVerMedia USB Analog TVTuner
10:19:24.048 INFO - (output) Analog Video
10:19:24.048 INFO - (output) Analog Audio
10:19:24.048 INFO
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10:19:24.048 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVAUDIO filters
10:19:24.048 INFO found: AVerMedia USB Analog TVAudio
10:19:24.048 INFO - (input) TVAudio In
10:19:24.048 INFO - (output) TVAudio Out
10:19:24.048 INFO
10:19:24.048 INFO
10:19:24.048 INFO
10:19:24.048 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_VBICODEC filters
10:19:24.048 INFO
10:19:24.048 INFO
10:19:24.048 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_NETWORK_TUNER filters
10:19:24.048 INFO found: AVerMedia USB Digital Tuner
10:19:24.058 INFO - (input) Input0
10:19:24.058 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
10:19:24.058 INFO
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10:19:24.058 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_RECEIVER_COMPONENT filters
10:19:24.058 INFO found: AVerMedia USB Digital Capture
10:19:24.058 INFO - (input) MPEG2 Transport
10:19:24.058 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
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Tonight I am reformatting my recordings drive to take advantage of a larger cluster size. I carefully backed up the recordings drive, repartitioned, reformatted and restored the backed up files. Unfortunately (and I should have thought of this) the GBPVR database updated itself while there was nothing on the drive. No, I didn't back up the database before I started. I do have a full system backup from early this morning, and GBPVR is on the system drive, but that seems like a draconian measure if I can avoid it. Is there anything else I can try?
I am having a problem setting up a client. My GBPVR server works great. It is installed on Win XP as is the client. I disabled the firewall on the server and shared the gbpvr folder. I can access this folder on the client. The client is configured to be a client in the config.exe. I have tried both streaming and file sharing modes. I am able to show status on the client properly. I am also able to see the menu on the client if it is not configured to be a client. The logs indicate this:
Code:
2010-01-13 00:20:39.734 VERBOSE [1] Unexpected error locating DBProviderFactory: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'C:\\Program Files\\Devnz\\GBPVR\\System.Data.SQLite.dll' or one of its dependencies. The given assembly name or codebase was invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131047)
File name: 'C:\\Program Files\\Devnz\\GBPVR\\System.Data.SQLite.dll'
at System.Reflection.AssemblyName.nInit(Assembly& assembly, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean raiseResolveEvent)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.AppDomain.Load(String assemblyString)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.xcbcfc48b9705b7a2.x36be875b9fe7ea45()
When I start the PVRX2 program on the client, it starts but will not show the menu and hangs. It maxes out one core of the CPU and I have to force it to end. I have verified the file mentioned in the error exists. I do have a couple of plugins installed (comskip.exe), would this cause any problems? Thanks in advance!
Hi!
I'm going to build a new HTPC for my self and wondering witch video card to buy? Are most people still using nVidia cards or have the problems with ATI been solved?
The card will be used for playing:
* dvb-t
* mpeg4 dvb-t (when they will start sending it.)
* .mkv files
* .avi..... and all other common video files.
Ok, I am going nuts. I setup gbpvr and have it working on the server. live tv works and all is good. Now the problem is when i try to install it as a client live tv will not work. I can access and watch recorded shows. I can see the guide, but no tv. If i click live tv the screen blinks quickly and goes back to the live tv menu. If i select a channel in the guide it just goes back to the guide. I am pulling my hair out trying to figure this out and am about to scrap it. I posted the log file. I have it setup at file sharing because I have no idea how to get the streaming working.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I am pulling my hair out and have spent 2 straight days on this.
I've been trying to set up my new server for GBPVR on a 64 bit version of Windows 7. For some strange reason most of the encrypted DVB-C recordings (I'd say 95%) give me very small files (a few MB), but encrypted live TV and the recording of unencrypted channels work fine. I've set the TSMuxBlockEncrypted parameter in the register, so it looks like the recording service isn't able to decrypt the channel. I can't find any errors in the logs, but they are attached, and so is the psi.log.
First I thought it was a problem with my floppydtv's (CI) and Windows waking up but I'm also seeing the same behaviour with my KNC One using mdapi after a reboot.
I have no idea what to try next. Any suggestions? Btw, all tuners work fine on the same GBPVR version on 32 bit Vista.
I previously reported a problem with recording the incorrect channel in this thread: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=45312 I made the config changes suggested there and am using the TS mux (not Full TS). The problem reoccurred over the weekend so upon further investigation I find the tuning strings appear to be messed up for the problem channels.
Channels of interest as found by my TV tuner:
106.1 KCTSDT (PBS)
106.4 KINGDT (NBC)
I have a test box running XP and GBPVR 1.4.7 that works fine on these channels. Here is the scan cache and Wiz BDA tool report for that box:
In the second case for the HTPC, the program IDs (P:x) are linked to the incorrect video and audio streams. To fix this, can I edit the scan cache to correct the problem, and then remap these two channels? Do I have to do something to reload the cache? I ask this because there are many more choices in the channel mapping list than in the scan cache file. Also, I have a Avermedia Duet dual tuner and there are 2 scan cache files scan3 and scan4. There are two other capture sources, a PVR150 and Graphrecorder, so I'm assuming the two Avermedia tuners are capture sources 3 and 4 and there is a cache file for each tuner.
As a side note, after getting these 2 channels to display the correct program in the channel mapping preview (albeit with the messed up tuning strings), they displayed the correct channel when selecting Watch from the Guide. But, KING was recorded when KCTS was chosen for Quick Record from the Guide. I might be wrong on this, but is there something that works differently between Watch and Record for the tuning process?
An additional note, the HTPC is on Win7, so am I perhaps getting faked out by the Virtual Store system such that I'm not seeing what is actually being used by GBPVR? I have the GBPVR folder set up for full control for everyone.
I don't think the cable provider has changed anything since the TV has continued to work with these channels IDs.
Hopefully this is clear enough to get a solution. I'd just as soon not rescan, if possible.
I've finally got my PSP to stream my recordings from my HTPC.
I used IRSHELL and psplayer 2.0 with something called nethostfs.
nethostfs runs on the host machine and allows IRSHELL to access all the files in that directory. Psplayer 2.0 homebrew allows for playing of almost all types of video as long as its less than 480x272.
The streaming is 802.11 b only so it can be finicky. For talking heads the sound is perfect but the video can be choppy at times but it's acceptable. I think music streaming would be perfect.
The limitation of 480x272 is crummy but at least now I only have to convert once for my old CRT, portable DVD player and PSP.
