Hi,
I’m trying to set up a new PVR system. During the Map digital channels to EPG channels process, many channels are located, however I only get sound, no picture. Thus live TV doesn’t work.

Australian television uses the European DVB-T standard (MPEG2). Logs included. Hope someone can come up with the fix.

The vicar

GBPVR v1.4.7
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2200
Win XP SP3
ASUS P5QPL-AM motherboard
Dual Core E5300 2.6GHz CPU
2GB RAM
1TB HD

Hey everyone, I'm new to GB PVR so bear with me please if I've overseen something ...

I just installed GB PVR (windows 7 ultimate 64 + Videomate Vista E900F) .. I went through the configuration options, and I think the program looks great, robust,..

I can't click on live TV and I think it's because I haven't configured my card yet. When I go to the TuningAssistant, I can choose my card, but my country (Taiwan) is not on the list...

I've tried to select other countries as a work-around, but this ended up with either a blue-screen-of-death or just death-without-blue-screen (and a 10 hour rebuild of my 7TB raid10 collection..)

Before ripping any hairs out... am I just SOL here? Is there a reason why we're not on the list? There is full support for Taiwan on Windows7 MCE so at least I can keep using that, it's just I would love to try out GB PVR and maybe integrate it with xbmc too~

Thanks in advance to anyone and everyone for either answering shrugging or wasting ur time haha

JxD

New install and about 2 days of messing around with stuff to get this working. I am almost there. One of the last problems I am having is the taskbar will not go away. This is a Windows 7 box.

There are several articles on the internet about the "Always keep taskbar on top" not being in Win7 anymore. Autohide is a really ugly option. All the fixes I found on the internet suggest a code change that is beyond my skill level or comprehension.

Anyone else had this problem and been able to fix it. I would appreciate any suggestions.

Edit: Appearantly this is a Windows 7 bug, and a major one at that. It affects almost all programs including full screen games, full screen videos (even inside Windows media player) and most other apps that run in full screen. Googling "Windows 7 taskbar reserve space", "Windows 7 taskbar always on top", "Windows 7 applications under taskbar" and "Windows 7 taskbar on top of video" will show more results. I guess we will have to wait for Microsoft to fix this one by adding code back in for the taskbar to properly reserve the correct amount of space and for MS to add back in the feature to "Always keep on top" . This one is almost enough to make me want to go back to XP or Vista. Microsoft devs claim this feature is by design? I will just have to use the autohide for now.

Edit 2: After playing around with this some more, I have found that GBPVR seems to be triggering this bug. Once I close out of GBPVR, I can check and uncheck the Autohide button with an apply in between and the applications no longer appear behind the taskbar. As soon as I open gbpvr, the bug is back. I was also able to reproduce this on another computer that I have setup as a client. I will keep playing around with this some, maybe something with the renderer.

Edit 3: This is definitely related to the PVRX2 Renderer. If I have it set to EVR, the bug is present. If I change it to VMR9 Fullscreen, the bug is gone and I no longer see the taskbar. I will leave it on VMR9 Fullscreen for now. Anyone else seeing this behavior?

Hi All.

I've used XRecord for quite some time now and my "Watched" list is getting very long. Would it be possible to group it some how?

Maybe First letter of shows first? or a serch text to start with?

Yes, I know it's already groped by show. But there are lots in there. Takes for ever to scrool down.

Or maybe pressing the letter to start with so it will jump there?

I followed the installation guide, I am using latest GBPVR and latest MVPMCX2, I also have the latest PCH firmware. The only difference I made is I used f:\ for the share instead of C:.

I am able to open the html page, however, choosing gb-pvr through network browser produces "request cannot be processed", choosing GB-PVR, gives me blank screen, then return to home page. My TV Output is set to 1080p in audio/video settings.

PCH works fine with other shares on the same system without a problem.

Your help is appreciated, I have attached the only log I found.

Is there a plugin that will transcode a file, but also use the comskip so that the resulting avi, etc would have the comercials edited out?

So whats this mean? Particuraly the line stating, "Error starting recording: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero."?

Quote:2009-11-22 20:58:00.117 INFO [5] Found new programme requiring recording: Storm Chasers * (122)
2009-11-22 20:58:00.155 VERBOSE [5] Changing to channel (GBPVR.Backend.Common.NullTunerController): 930
2009-11-22 20:58:00.166 VERBOSE [5] Requesting IRecordingSource to start recording: H:\Media\Video\TV RECORDINGS\Storm Chasers\Storm Chasers_20091122_21002200.mpg
2009-11-22 20:58:00.166 VERBOSE [5] start recording @1
2009-11-22 20:58:00.168 VERBOSE [5] start recording @2
2009-11-22 20:58:00.263 VERBOSE [5] BDARecordingSource about to start recording oid:5 channel: file:H:\Media\Video\TV RECORDINGS\Storm Chasers\Storm Chasers_20091122_21002200.mpg
2009-11-22 20:58:00.662 ERROR [5] Error starting recording: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length
at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Int32 diseqc, Boolean powered, Boolean previewMode, Int32 commonInterface)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Int32 diseqc, Boolean powered, Int32 commonInterface)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.BDARecordingSource.startRecording(IRecordingSourceConfiguration config, Int32 qualitySetting, String filename, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 minutes, Boolean useStreamingEngineIfAvailable)
at GBPVR.RecordingService.x93f60a55016d55c4.xcba1f05fb5a46d5f()
2009-11-22 20:58:00.663 VERBOSE [5] RecordingFactory.getExtrasForGroup(12)
2009-11-22 20:58:00.865 VERBOSE [5] RecordingStatus is now RecordingStatus.RECORDING_IN_PROGRESS
2009-11-22 20:58:00.889 VERBOSE [5] RecordingFactory.save()
2009-11-22 20:58:00.977 VERBOSE [5] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
2009-11-22 21:25:37.739 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
2009-11-22 21:56:37.657 VERBOSE [13] Conversion thread configured for ASAP
2009-11-22 22:02:00.013 VERBOSE [5] Recording has passed endtime+padding. Stopping.
2009-11-22 22:02:00.024 VERBOSE [5] Stopping recording oid:5
2009-11-22 22:02:00.130 VERBOSE [5] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/ProcessCommercialsDuringRecording
2009-11-22 22:02:00.159 VERBOSE [5] getValue: /settings/ProcessCommercialsDuringRecording : false
2009-11-22 22:02:00.160 VERBOSE [5] Adding H:\Media\Video\TV RECORDINGS\Storm Chasers\Storm Chasers_20091122_21002200.mpg to commercial detection queue
2009-11-22 22:02:00.160 VERBOSE [5] Adding H:\Media\Video\TV RECORDINGS\Storm Chasers\Storm Chasers_20091122_21002200.mpg to conversion detection queue
2009-11-22 22:02:00.165 VERBOSE [3] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/CommercialDetectionScheme
2009-11-22 22:02:00.165 VERBOSE [3] getValue: /settings/CommercialDetectionScheme : 1
2009-11-22 22:02:00.165 INFO [3] Post Processing thread starting...
2009-11-22 22:02:00.229 VERBOSE [5] RecordingStatus is now RecordingStatus.RECORDING_COMPETED
2009-11-22 22:02:00.229 VERBOSE [5] RecordingFactory.save()
2009-11-22 22:02:00.321 VERBOSE [5] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
2009-11-22 22:02:00.322 VERBOSE [5] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2009-11-22 22:02:00.323 VERBOSE [5] getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : false
2009-11-22 22:02:00.323 VERBOSE [5] getValue cached value: /settings/CheckForRenamedRecordings : true
2009-11-22 22:02:00.323 VERBOSE [5] Purging any stale logically deleted recordings
2009-11-22 22:02:00.373 VERBOSE [5] checking recordings

I record many kids shows. Some of them are only five minutes long so I'd like to have the next recording play without having to do it myself (it's still a bit advanced for the two year old to do himself).

Is it possible to configure GBPVR to automatically play the next recording in a directory after playback of a file completes? I couldn't find anything in the config GUI. Perhaps it's buried in the xml file?

Is there a way to get the show information at the bottom of the screen to look better in Overlay Manager? I need to run overlay to get smooth HD playback and everything looks great except the show information at the bottom of the screen. Would love to be able to tweak that to make it look better.

Hello,

1. I have one minor annoyance with 1.4.7. If I delete recordings file somewhere else but not in Recordings section (i.e., directly on file system or even through Video Library) I can still see that entry in Recordings. Of course, I cannot play it (only delete).
With previous versions it was not the case. If I have deleted file, that file would have dissapeared from Recordings listing as well.

2. automated transcoding doesn't work for some recordings. Maybe it is due to Croatian special characters in file/folder names for those recordings. But, then for some other it works... It is possible that different special characters are used - so it works with some, and not with the others.
Are those assumptions correct?

3. Why is possibility to choose whether I want transcoding or not (and what kind) dissapeared from PVRX2? No, you can only set it in Config for all recordings.

4. Recordings still create empty subtitle file if teletext option is on. This wasn't the case before 1.3.x.

In the end, neither of those is really big problem or something too annoying. Just minor glitches, in my view.
Thanks for any comments!