and bought Windows 7 for £30 and got a good price on MS Office.
It appears that all that is required is a credit card and an email address that ends .ac.uk (and the card and email address don't have to be for the same person).
Edit: Does this post qualify as spam, I apologise if it does. I thought it was a good offer and didn't want anyone to miss it.
When trying to play any recordings (files exist on hd and are not zero-sized), the screen flashes black and immediately gbpvr returns to main menu. Other video files, dvd and live tv (and web admin and epg) work just fine. Recordings are made from dvb-c.
Newest gbpvr in vista 32bit, anydvd hd, powerdvd 9 and 7 installed, firefox, boxee, spotify, flash, evetghost installed on the same htpc, not much else. I have not installed any "external" codec packs such as cccp. Using default codecs/settings, only scanned channels and set directories.
I've only recently experimented with the PC client and I've had some uneven results.
- Both the server and client are running 1.4.7 and Windows 7 RC.
- Wired 100Base-T network on both server and client. Basic networking is OK.
- Using "File Sharing", I can browse the EPG on the server and playback recordings...both MPG and DVR-TS types...on the PC client. I cannot view "Live TV" or select to watch a live show through the TV Guide. System just sits there and I never see an indication anything is happening.
- Using "Streaming" I can browse the EPG, but cannot seem to watch a recording or Live TV.
- I thought there might be a firewall issue, so I've turned off the firewall on both machines, to test and see if that's a problem. Still have the same issues as above.
I am using vista and when I add a folder into the directories/video library or music library, after I press OK, the program does not update the PVRX2 program. it still has the old folders when i lunch the program and none of the new folders/directories.
I have to use a capture card to get any channel above 60. So I have a PVR-150 with a blaster connected to the STB and a second card (averymedia dual tuner) just attached dirrectly to the cable (no STB). My thought was I could schedule recordings on the higher channels on the PVR-150 and still have bandwidth to record other channels from the lower band on the other tuner. So I have set up two schedules on schedules direct. The first has only the lower band channels and is set on the averymedia board(s) the second includes all channels and is set on the PVR-150. I installed the avery card 1st thinking that would make it the prefered tuner but that does not seem to have worked. Anyone have any suggestions on how I set the prefered tuner for recording and/or live tv? I searched thru the forum (man there are a lot of posts. But could not find anything related. If you have seen one I would appreciate a link.
In a panic after discovering some BBC induced image retention on my plasma screen (too much morning TV and BBC News by the wife!) I want to create a custom zoom setting that will allow her to still watch these channels, but zoomed in enough to remove the logos, tickers, etc, while still maintaining aspect ratio.
Background:
I have a home-built PVR with 2 HDHRs recording OTA (up to 4 channels at once). Post-processing with TStoATSC. Display is via a Popcorn Hour A100.
Because of the bandwidth used, I direct the first channel on each HDHR to store its ts file to physical hard drive (X:), the second channel of each HDHR to a second physical hard drive (Y:).
The post-processing, via TStoATSC, reads the input file (from either drive X: or Y:) and writes the output file to a third physical drive (Z:).
Using LLink, I stream files on the Z: drive to my TV via the PH-A100.
Note: I write the output of the HDHRs to different hard drives because my hard drives can not sustain write speeds of 80mb/sec (4 active channels) so I split them up so that the write rate is a managable 40mb/sec.
Question:
Is it possible to use GBPVR to replace my home-grown PVR? If so, please point me to the configuration settings I would need.
For example:
1. How can I direct the output from a recording source to a specific drive/directory?
2. I only want to record one video channel, say 8.1, not all channels on the frequency (8.1,8.2,8.3). I also only want the English audio feed. How do I filter the feed?
3. How do I sent up a post-processing step that only runs when there are no active recordings being made (again to protect the bandwidth)?
Any help would be appreciated. I used GBPVR (before the 1.x days) when I was recording analog signals and thought I'd revisit using this outstanding piece of software again but am not quite sure how to use it in a HDHomerun, OTA, Popcorn Hour A100 environment.
When I hit Play All in a directory that contains several MPG's or AVI's one or two videos will play, but then it locks up into a black screen and won't respond to the remote so I need to pull the power to reboot the PCH.
I have to do a full windows re-install, on new hardware. I have available both an XP-MCE and an XP Pro system disk. Previously I have run gbpvr under xp-mce, quite successfully, but it was quite struggle to get everything working, a lot of the time, I think because of little issues with XP-MCE
Question; which would be preferable, plain old XP pro, or XP-MCE
Further Question: Do I go to SP3. I have seen in one of the forums that SP3 installed in XP-MCE gives you problems with my one of my tuner cards (Hauppauge Nova-T 500, dual)
The machine running GBPVR runs only as a server. All the material is streamed to the TVs in the house via three Hauppauge MVPs, running under mvpmc, so there is no need for any remotes etc for the gbpvr machine
Full spec of the GBPVR machine as follows:
Mobo: Asus M4A78-E
Processor: AMD Athlon 5000 Dual Core
Clock speed 2200 Mhz
RAM: 2 gb DDR-2 800 Mhz
Tuner card 1; Hauppauge Nove-T 500 Dual
Tuner card 2: Hauppauge PCR150MCE
On Board graphics
SATA disk drives
I'd like to use GB-PVR on a compact PC that only has VGA out (no TV), and I propose using a Sigma Designs EM8471 hardware MPEG2/4 decoder - has anyone tried this? I've searched the forums but couldn't see any posts on this subject. I'd either use a Video Home TV Champ for capture (as I happen to have one), or if this is unsupported, buy a Hauppauge PVR150 (as this seems to be a popular card to use). I'm basically a hardware engineer, but I have some 'C' programming experience.
