I've been playing with using mencoder to do the double whammy of excising commercials (with aid of comskip) and to transcode to mpeg4 so my 1.5TB hdd isn't full after a month of HD recording. I think I've finally got a recipe that results in acceptable quality in a file small enough to stream over wireless to my laptop (and using a video codec that doesn't push my cpu usage through the roof, <cough!>x264<cough!>). Mencoder code at bottom of post...comments welcome, hopefully with an answer to my main question:

On almost all programs recorded from my HDHomerun, there are 2 audio streams (I can see them with media player classic under the filters submenu). The second stream is sometimes another language like spanish, but sometimes it's in english and includes a drab narration voice-over. I assume since it pops up as english, it gets included in my transcoded .avi's. I figured out I can use -aid to select the 'non-narration' audio stream, but the actual audio ID changes from program to program. -aid 84 might work for one program to isolate the correct stream, but another requires -aid 52.

Anyone know of a better way to use ONLY the first audio stream or to figure out how to determine which aid is the main audio channel w/o the "extras"?


[SIZE="1"]Current mencoder batch file:
REM Pass #1
"c:\program files\gbpvr\mencoder" %1 -edl "%~dpn1.edlp" -o "%~dpn1.avi" -aid 52 -oac mp3lame -lameopts fast:preset=standard -vf pp=de/md -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=1:qpel:trell:v4mv:lumi_mask=0.2:vmax_b_frames=1:cmp=3ubcmp=3:autoaspect:vbitrate=4000:vpass=1:turbo:threads=1
REM Pass #2
"c:\program files\gbpvr\mencoder" %1 -edl "%~dpn1.edlp" -o "%~dpn1.avi" -aid 52 -oac mp3lame -lameopts fast:preset=standard -vf pp=de/md -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:qpel:trell:v4mv:dia=-2:lumi_mask=0.2:vmax_b_frames=1:cmp=3ubcmp=3:autoaspect:vqmax=10:vbitrate=4000:vpass=2:threads=1 [/SIZE]

I have two tuners a Hauppauge WinTv usb pvr2 and a Diamond XTREMETV_PVR_600. I can make either tuner work w/ Schedules Direct but not both. I want to be able to watch TV on one and record on the other.

It will let me set it up both tuners and import the EPG. It seems fine when exiting config but it won't let me record and watch TV at the same time. I just get a blank screen. If I delete the 2nd tuner(I can do this with either tuner) and re-launch Gbpvr the guide has my channels but is blank. If I go back in and re-set up Schedules Direct I can make that card work. But every time I add the 2nd tuner it looses its mind.

My process for adding the is going into config
adding the device.
picking the tuner
selecting Schedules Direct for the epg and setting it up with my login
updating the EPG so the channels all show up and OKing out of config


I have been using GBPRV for about 2 years now but am recently adding a tuner. I have never gone to far out of the box in setting it up so I apologize if I am missing somthing easy. I have updated to the newest version of GBPVR but the problem prevails.

When using two tuners do I need to do something different to get it work work properly with Schedules Direct. in playing around trying different orders of added and the tuners it seems it is tripping up on using the same data for both tuners and maybe if I can differentiate it somehow it would work.


Any help would be appreciated

I use the following command line to get a list of the last recordings. I want to order it by date. I've looked at the msdn help section and I can't seem to relate the database-related examples for the syntax of 'orderby' to this situation. Can you help please with syntax for the orderby switch? Thanks.

I really would like to do a better of job of searching for answers before I reask the same old questions, but I am having a bit of a problem. It is likely that I am doing this wrong so someone can straighten me out.

Let's say I want to know if you can play netflix over a pch.

I search for 'netflix pch'

The problem is it just gives me the threads the topics appear in but the posts inside the topic and many have dozens even hundreds of posts.

Is there a way to search at the post level instead of the thread level?

Hello,

I'm just starting with my PCH-A110 and GBP-VR configuration so I'm not an expert.

I have installed GBPVR mvpmcx2 2.6 with the CSI installer on the PCH and installed GBPVR on my Windows XP system.
After configuring some shares on my PC I’m able to start GBPVR on the PCH.
If I select Video library from the menu I see the shared directory and the included files.

If I select a “ts” file and start I see the video but I don’t get any sound. If I play this file from a network share from the PCH I see the movie and hear the sound correctly.

Who could help me further to solve this problem?

Many thanks,

Richard

Had reports on a A110 that AAC works after getting the new firmware.

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?for...o=1#270786

Guess I'll try my A100. Any thoughts Martin?

Anyone else having this problem?

Seems since upgrading just before Halloween, many shows I thought had simply not recorded were actaully recorded and just not showing up in the Recording page.

2 days ago, I went through the db3 and removed a bunch of entries with bad dates (made a backup first) but I still see the problem again today, so that's not the problem, this time Scooby Doo did not appear, but Bugs Bunny and Suite Life show up...

**Update: This morning, Bugs Bunny and Suite Life are now also missing form the list, even though they were in the list yesterday. Also, overnight conversion to xvid has failed.. The files are still in *.mpg format.

I might have to roll back to the prev. version.. Everything was working fine there.


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recording-dump.xml does not show anything from today.
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PostProcessing.bat:
mpg2srt.exe %1

comskip %1
rectracker %1 > rectracker.log
call comclean.bat %1
rem recycler.exe
move “%~dpn1.txt” “%~dpn1_original.txt”

rem yes, not *.mpg
del .mpg

addepisode %1 "{show} - {episode or date}"
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I do get a *.srt and comskip seems to have run.

Since no one was home during the day yesterday, PVRX2.exe-native.log shows no activity at that time, as does PVRX2.exe.log
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GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native.log (Doo is missing, Suite shows up, I don't see any difference in the logs...) :

Thanks.

I frequently finish watching a recorded show and would like to put the computer into stand-by, except GBPVR is in the process of recording another show or Comskip is running. Since I can't shut down the computer without messing up the recording, the computer ends up staying on all night.

I'd like to be able to set a time window (say 12:00am - 6:00am) within which GBPVR would put the computer into stand-by automatically, assuming there were no shows being recorded or watched.

thanks,
pete

Whats the easiest way to get gbpvr play .m4a files? Will the K-Lite Codec pack work? If so, would just the "Basic Pack" be ok? Does installing these codecs take up a lot of system memory? I have AC3Filter installed but that doesn't seem to work with the .m4a files. My current operating system is Win 7 64 bit.
It works using PVRX2 on my computer, but not the PCH A-100

Hello,
I have installed the GBPVR 1.4.7 Version and have also adjust the "Recording Source" with TechniSat SkyStar HD2, when I press "Map Digital Channels to EPG.." I get the message that the Msgbox "GB-PVR was unable to start BDA-Device ....and not already in use" ??

The DVBViewer found the TechniSat SkyStar HD2-> TechniSat Mantis DVBS BDA Receiver !

what can I do ???