My sound card can render to two different outputs. IDT Audio 1 and IDT Audio 2. In the Playback section I have Audio Renderer set to IDT Audio 2. This works correctly for playing Live TV and for the Video Library. But, if I am playing recorded video, the sound comes out of both sets of Speakers. IDT Audio 1 and IDT Audio 2. Also, if I pause video, and then play in time shift mode, audio comes out with both sets of speakers. So why does playing time shifted video play audio on different speakers than playing from the video library?
I have Exit unselected in Plugins, and yet I still see the Exit option.
Hello everyone, fist post. I've done a bit of searching but I can't seem to find anything that works for me. My problem is, as the title says, when watching OTA HD at 1080i the picture is blurry and just looks like garbage. I've begun to dread shows broadcast in 1080 rather than love the higher resolution. 720p is, as to be expected, very fluid and nice to watch.
I've tried everything I've read. ffdshow deinterlacing, DScaler deinterlacing, Alparysoft deinterlacing, I've messed with the deinterlacing options under Misc, I even went so far as to acquire nVidia's PureVideo decoder and the deinterlacing does next to nothing. I've tried setting ffdshow to only use NV12 and set the Bob deinterlace flag. Nothing works. I'm really getting disheartened with the entire process.
This is what does work:
Pausing live tv so that it starts a pause buffer, then opening the buffer in VLC and selecting the Linear deinterlace option. Doing that makes 1080i fluid and beautiful. Obviously this is a less than optimal solution. I suppose my issue is that if VLC can do it on-the-fly while playing a pause buffer why can't any of the many things I've tried above do it seamlessly from within GB-PVR?
I'm sure there must be something I'm missing. Some setting some where. Any help with this issue would be wonderful. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
EDIT:
Figures as soon as I make a post I get it working. Some how my codecs were totally screwed up. Honestly I'm not entirely sure how I got things working properly, but PureVideo is now showing DirectX VA mode C (idct) and Video mixing (DirectX 9). It didn't do this before. I think ffdshow was getting in the way.
So, hardware deinterlacing is working and the image looks good. Now the problem is that it jerks in full screen. Not horribly but just enough to be noticable and annoying. I guess now I troubleshoot why DXVA is so jerky.
I have a Hauppauge WinTV HVR 2250. Right now I am only using it with an analog signal because that is all that is available in my area. That being said, analog video runs at 640x480, however when recording with GB-PVR it captures at 720x480, and when looking in the gb-pvr settings for my device, the only options that are allowed for the card are 720x480, 480x480, 352x480, and 320x240. I am curious if anyone knows if the reasoning I cannot use 640x480 is a limitation in my card, or a limitation of gb-pvr?
Specifically, can I hook it to a PVR-150 or 500's a/v inputs and view/record it through GBPVR, or does it put some analog copy protection on that prevents that?
Am I correct in assuming that I will never be able to take advantage of the digital input on my Hauppauge 1600 card if I have a (Comcast) set top box? My understanding is that the set top box decodes the cable company's signal and converts it from digital to analog, and I am therefore limited to using the analog input on my card.
Also, given the circumstances above, can I also assume that I will always need an IR Blaster to change channels (with the card tuned to Channel 3)?
I am a newbie, and just downloaded GB-PVR. I have DishNetwork HD. Am looking at ways to record from the satellite receiver and turn my computer into a DVR.
Is the Hauppage 1212 PVR the best way to do this? And will GB-PVR work with this device to record, or will it just playback from my downloaded files?
Also, will GB-PVR replay Blue-Ray files, or disks?
I have a good feeling this is only the beginning of my questions
I did a search on this issue in the forums and google and couldn't find my same problem. I'm running 1.4.7.
I am new to GB-PVR and I am extremely impressed at how polished the application is. It seems to perform everything I was hoping for but I am having the following problems. Only the first one is serious to me and the other two aren't as important I am just more curious than anything.
1. When playing back VOB files using the Video Library (all of my VOBs except for one exhibit this behavior) I have the following problems:
a. The video jumps forward every few seconds. For example, on one movie, the opening 20th Century Fox theme plays, then it jumps to about 5 minutes into the movie. 5 seconds later it freezes, then jumps ahead another 30 or so minutes and then it keeps jumping forward so that the whole movie wraps up in about 30 seconds. It isn't fast forwarding, it just skips ahead.
b. The times above are just estimates as the progress bar at the top of the screen shows 0:00 to 0:00 with no progress indicator. Other movies show 0:00 to 0:06 (i.e. 6 seconds) and when it reaches the end of the progress bar, the movie still keeps playing (well, jumping forward).
c. I checked the log files and thought it might be some kind of commercial skipping so I turned off everything related to commercial skipping but that didn't help.
d. The videos play fine in Cyberlink DVD.
e. I have tried a couple of different codecs (the free MPEG-2 and Cyberlink).
f. Selection choices on the DVD tab don't seem to impact anything (i.e. DVD navigator etc.), so I am guessing that Video Library files (even VOBs) do not use any of those settings (unless maybe you are using ISOs with a daemon??)
g. I think I used Handbrake to rip these files, do I need to use a different program?
2. The TV Guide on a client computer doesn't show - It just has the channels and times, but an empty grid with placeholders at the bottom that show @ProgramTitle and @ProgramDescription or something similar.
3. I can turn on Live TV on the client computer, but if I change the channel, GBPVR freezes. I have to check the logs but I wasn't sure if this is a common issue so I thought I'd bring it up.
Can someone give me a detailed description of how to change filter merit priorties in XP so i can have certain codecs be the default ones even when using WMP. I am stuggling on how to change their priorities
I'm still pretty new at this so I hope I haven't wasted my time duplicating functionality which is already in GBPVR!
Anyway, I'm looking at moving over to GBPVR from Snapstream's BeyondTV product and I had a large number of video files I was using in BeyondTV which I wanted to have available in GBPVR's Video Library (the default plugin) but was disappointed when there appeared to be no easy way to generate thumbnails for all the videos automatically (if there is, I'd like to know about it!).
So, after a bit of searching I discovered that FFMPEG can generate JPGs from a wide range of video files so I wrote a little VBScript to do this and I've attached it here for anyone else to look at and use.
The script first finds your CONFIG.XML file and reads out the locations you have defined in the VideoLibrary configuration. It then scans each of the locations in turn, working through all the subdirectories to locate Video files (currently AVI, MPG, MPEG, MOV & WMV) and it then runs FFMPEG to generate a still image from that file which it places in the same folder as the Video (is there a better place to put these???). Finally, it randomly picks one of these files to be the "folder.jpg" - i.e. the image you see before you open the given folder.
The config of the script is straight-forward - in fact if you have used the default install options there is no config needed! Otherwise all you need to do is tell it where to find the CONFIG.XML file and the FFMPEG.exe file.
This has been tested on Windows XP SP3 running GBPVR 1.4.7.
Please reply with any thoughts/comments/questions!
