Here's a weird one (to me anyway). Hopefully it's something obvious to those in the know...
gbpvr has been happily plodding along for months now, but a couple of weeks ago, I found I could no longer change channel upwards (via keyboard, remote, or mouse) to Film4 (freeview). Changing down to it worked fine.
All of them are DVB-T freeview channels, except Film4+1 which is a DVB-S freesat channel. I can change up and down amongst all the other channels fine, but from some strange reason, I can't go from BBC News -> Film4, but I can go from Film4+1 -> Film4 (downwards). The onscreen guide data changes, but the picture stays on BBC News, but frozen. There is no sound. I guess it's some kind of failed tuning request.
Because it works going down the way, I thought it was the change between DVB-T and DVB-S tuners, but no, it makes no difference even if I move Film4 to another channel number (so it's surrounded by other DVB-T channels). Changing up to it never works, but changing down does!
Now, when this first happened a few weeks back, I eventually solved it by removing all traces of the channel (not an easy task with the number of recordings lying around from it), then readding it. It started working again.
But now it's broken again (and I've changed nothing recently, honest guv'). Deleting and readding this time has not solved the problem :-(
Every other channel - and I have about 50 or 60 of them in all - work fine.
I'm running XP Pro SP3, with three DVB-T and two DVB-S tuners, split between an external USB2 Nova-T and a Pinnacle 7010x. Latest gbpvr, and just the BBC iPlayer plugin, weather2, and cinema listings.
I've attached logs showing:
- successful channel-up from BBC1 to BBC2 (1 to 2)
- failed channel-up from BBC News to Film4 (6 to 7)
- successful channel-down from Film4+1 to Film4 (8 to 7)
It looks like resume is not working for HD channels, at least not for the recording I made last evening. Logs attached. For testing I started watching the recording, skipped 10 minutes and stopped it. Next I chose resume from the menu and it started at the beginning. I have no resume problems on my SD recordings, but haven't tested other HD recordings.
I have a Hauppauge PVR150MCE capture card that used to work with GB-PVR in Windows Vista, but in Windows 7 when I click on "Live TV" or "TV Guide" in the program, nothing happens. The screen flashes but doesn't go anywhere, it just stays in the main menu. In config, the tuner card is detected as "Hauppauge PVR150MCE". I'm using 1.4.7.
I just got my 2250 and have no idea how to set it up. I've found a few threads on the topic, but they are old and I think out dated. Is there a current guide for setting up this multi tuner card with instructions on how to map and all that jazz?
I set up my tuners to use mc2xml as the source for the guide data. The guide shows up beautifully...with one problem.
The actual time is 1 hour past where the guide data displays. In the settings I noticed a time shift area and set it at -01:00 on all 4 tuner guides, I then updated all 4 of them. Same problem.
Any ideas?
Since the wife requires recording a few things I temporarily set the windows time 1 hour back so the guide lined up and she could record accordingly.
I will greatly appreciate any help you guys can offer.
On a side note, the power supply in my box died 3 nights ago. I bought a new hard drive and loaded everything, including windows from scratch. Gbpvr loads and works as it always has...excellent. Thanks again for this program Sub!
May I know what's the optimal video bitrate for MPEG2 analog SDTV recording?
I used to record at 15MB/s for a few months.
Then changed to 12MB/s.
After reading from a website saying 8MB/s is the optimal video bitrate for MPEG2 analog recording, anything higher won't result in better quality. I dropped my recording to 9MB/s which is 1MB more than the suggested 8MB/s.
Recently, saw someone mentioned that it is not useful to use higher bitrate than 6Mb/s, due to the limitation of the analog channels bandwidth (<6MHz).
Can someone please explain what this is all about?
I have a Nova 500 with 2 DVB-T tuners, and was just setting up GBPVR.
Trying to test both tuners, and then tried to make a conflict, but instead it just records all 3 channels!!!
Hello All,
I have just found GB-PVR on the net and have now installed it and have it up and running ok, Wish I knew about GB-PVR a long time ago it's ace. As I'm playing around with it to set it up for my use I'm wondering if any1 know if I'm able to set the system up so that when I start it will open direct with Live TV???.
If this post is in the wrong place or the question has been asked before I'm soory.
Cheers
Paul
Would anybody be able to tell me what exactly the bottleneck is when trying to perform complex EWA functions?
I was messing around some of the functions in EWA such as recording any time and any day of a show, but now, after 15 minutes it seems like the GB server is still crunching away at something. Can't get any page to load.
Normally I work around this issue by selecting only a few things at a time to record, but I want to get to the bottom of what is happening.
Just wondering if whatever the process is doing the crunching, (i.e. SQL?) could be done by another computer (a full blown SQL server for instance.)
