I've been using GB-PVR for a couple years and it's been great. A few days ago I decided to install a BR dvr player.

Here's what I'm trying to do... rip a m2ts file with DVD-Fab. That works. I can play the files in CyberLink 8 just fine. MS Media Player is blank for several minutes then plays a very distorted view of the movie. Media Player Classic won't play it, but does give me this info on the file
Video: WVC1 1920x1080 23.98fps [Video]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 640Kbps [Audio]
Subtitle [Subtitle]

Should I be trying "MPEG-2 Playback" decoder settings or "Advanced Codec" settings? I've tried FFDshow, Cyberlink. No luck. I installed matroska splitter, because of another post, no luck.

When I render the file in GraphEdit, it shows...

Nero Splitter ---> ffdshow video decoder -----> vmr input 0 vid renderer
\
\---> AC3Filter -----------> audio input pin Def Direct Snd Dev.


any ideas????



Many thanks

Richard

So how does one set up a poll on the Forum?!

Oh and meant to say can it be anonymous? And can guests vote or only subscribed users?

Cheers

Steeb

I have been looking into Sky White Card readers, and have found that a DreamBox 500 can act as a card server along with using DVBViewer.

Does anybody know if GBPVR will be able to get the card details from DVBViewer.

TIA.

I get a black screen when trying to play live tv or a previous recording. The sound continues for about 10 seconds then also stops.
If I playback a recorded radio program it works ok.
The recording function also works ok.
I have attached logs.
Any ideas please for a cure.
Thank you in advance

Can some of you MusicLibrary listeners provide a summary of the most serious problems they are having with ML3 especially if you are using ML2 still. I want to convert as many ML2 users to ML3 and I want to know what is holding you back.

Thanks,

Martin

Hi,

Problem:
Sometimes when watching recordings I'm thrown out to the Windows desktop and the gbpvr program gets minimised and . Looking in the logs this seems to be the relevant error:-

ERROR m_pD3DDev->Present(0, 0, 0, 0) failed
Error code : 88760868
D3DERR_DEVICELOST
Device lost

I'm not sure what device is being refered to. I have deleted gbpvr and reinstalled it but its still happening. Any help appreciated.

Config:
GBPVR v1.4.7
No plugins.
Windows Vista 32bit.

Thanks

Martin

I didn't add this to the very active thread requesting User Interface wishlist items because I believe it has to do more with the internals of GBPVR.

I have three analog capture cards, each set to be able to deal with all of the available channels. I have two programs that occur back-to back, each set to be a recurring schedule, and each with a 2 minute post padding. What ends up happening is that they both get scheduled to be recorded by the same capture source and the 2 minute post padding of the first program is lost. There are no other programs scheduled to be recorded at this time so all three capture cards are available but only one is used.

This means that I lose part of the first program each day because of the time for GBPVR to stop one recording and start the next. With most shows this isn't an issue but the two programs I am talking about are The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. The Daily Show puts some of its content at the very end of each show and I end up missing some or all of it.

I know that one of zehd's utilities could take care of some of this problem but there is still some finite time when nothing is recorded because of GBPVR switching between recordings so this isn't a solution.

Why doesn't GBPVR make use of another capture card and maintain the post recording padding for each show when this is possible?

Over the last week or two the number of bad recordings I have been having has gone from 1 in heaps to about 1 in 2.
In all cases the symptoms are the same - the recording tries to playback but has massive pixellation and stuttery playback. In most cases it gives up and stops recoding after a few 100KB.
I have tried using 2 other multiplexers and using VLC for playback, but they all result in a similar scenario.
The strange thing is channel seven news at 4:30pm always records perfectly but seven news at 6:00pm always has problems. Other than this I have not been able to see a pattern in terms of channels or time of recording etc.
I'm at a loss as to where to even start looking - and ideas?

Short version of my question: can I tune in (eg) BBC1 from both Freeview and Freesat tuners and have it seen as the same channel by gbpvr?


Long version...

I have 3x DVB-T (UK Freeview) tuners and 2x DVB-S (Freesat) tuners.

I've been running happily for months with all the Freeview channels tuned in, but only those channels that are exclusive to Freesat (BBC HD, France 24, etc) tuned in. In other words, all the channels that are available on both Freeview and Freesat are only tuned into my DVB-T tuners.

This is fine (and provides more than enough coverage for anything we need to record), but changing channels when gbpvr needs to jump between tuners slows things down. If I go Freeview->Freeview->Freeview (or Freesat->Freesat->Freesat) I get two speedy changes in each case, but as soon as it needs to do Freeview->Freesat (or vice versa) there's a noticeable delay.

One solution would be to order all the channels so that all the Freeview ones are first, then have all the Freesat ones. But that won't keep the wife happy

So my question is this... I assume I can tune in the missing duplicate channels and still have gbpvr realise they are the same channel, even though they're attached to different tuners with different EPG sources? So, for example, "BBC1" can exist across all five tuners? Then I can set whichever tuner has the majority of channels (probably a Freesat one) to be the Live TV tuner, and minimize the number of timers a cross-tuner jump needs to be made.

Is it simply enough for the channel names to be the same? If Freeview used "ITV2+1" and Freesat used "ITV2 +1" for example, they would be seen as different channels surely?

My Freeview channels get their EPG data over the air, but the Freesat ones come from an xmltv file (although it comes from another program that grabs it from the sat transmissions before saving to xml). I can post-process this to rename channels to match if need be.

Finally, assuming this is possible, and it does all work, which set of EPG data would get displayed? I think most of the time the guides are identical anyway, but if they did differ, which one would be shown? I'd guess at whichever one was imported second?

I do foresee a couple of issues with such a setup: a) it's going to be more hassle setting up tuners. b) if a channel is still ok on a live DVB-S tuner, but has changed frequency on a DVB-T tuner used for recordings (which does happen from time to time), then I'm probably only going to notice when attempting to play back a recording that hasn't worked. (Edit) oh and c) I'll get a crapper picture on ITV (if I use Freesat for Live TV rather than Freeview) but I never watch it anyway. Or are there other Freeview and Freesat channels that are worse on one than the other?

Hi

I have a pvr-150 with the beanbag. The blaster is plugged into the beanbag (port 1 but same with port 2) which in turn is plugged into a USB port. The remote and bean bag work fine.

When I try to run the ir blaster configuration wizard I get hardware not found.
In desperation I installed the entire Hauppuage CD which also made no difference.

Under device manager (USB) I can see
eHome infrared receiver

Is there anything else that shoul be listed here?

Thanks
Dean