I have a bit of an annoying issue with my setup. I have included a picture of a VLC player screenshot but this also happens when viewing on a regular TV set.
The picture should show the line/dots across the top of the frame. I enlarged the window vertically a bit so the line/dots are the top limit of the recorded frame.

Anybody have an idea what this is happening and what can be done to fix it?

Thanks

I recently bought a HDHomeRun and have been having very specific problems with GB-PVR.

First, I'm not connected to cable, only OTA channels.

All OTA channels display well in the Silicon Dust QuickTV program. However, using LiveTV, the NBC channel only has audio. All other channels display very well.

I'm not very knowlegeable about H.264, and the TS-Mux recordings I am getting are very jittery. I much prefer the higher quality recordings I am getting with either MS-DVR or Cyberlink mpeg-2. Both record all channels except the same NBC one that I only get audio with in LiveTV. When recording that channel, the recording format defaults back to .ts. It immediately reverts to my chosen mux when recording the other channels without any config changes.

I've parsed through the forum and have found all manner of threads seemingly almost addressing the problem I'm having, but I haven't found an answer. I've tried several different mpeg-2 decoders to address the playback issue, but the problem remains and I don't know this is even a relevant step.

I wouldn't mind the problem except that I bought the HDHomeRun for basically one reason - to be able to record the show Heroes in HD when I'm away. Of course, Heroes is on NBC... I am also trying SageTV and BeyondTV and playback and recordings work very smoothly with each - of course, I would much rather not spend $80 to $100 in order to record mainly one show.

Attached are fresh logs from after recording first the NBC channel and then the local CBS one.

My basic system specs -

Running XP Pro 64-bit on:
Phenom 9950 (2.6 G, quad core)
ATI X1900XTX
4 Gigs RAM

Any help would be most appreciated...

My current capture source setup looks like this:

#1 Recording HVR-1600 Analog
#3 Sony Mpeg w/ STB
#2 HVR-1600 QAM
#1 LiveTV HVR-1600 Analog

Everything works fine, Live TV, Recording, but here is what is happening. Lets say I have the following channel changes:

If I am watching channel 306 (QAM)...channel down to 94 (this is only available with the Sony card w/ STB), Continue channel down to 74 (available on HVR-1600 as analog and on the sony from the STB) it stays on the sony w/ STB instead of going back to the beginning of the Live TV list (bottom up) which is the HVR-1600 analog.

Is there a way to either prevent or make the video inset to not get in the way for DVD, Weather2, Stocks, BurnDVDX2, Jukebox2? You know, when you are watching LiveTV, then hit menu to check the weather conditions for example.

I checked with Jaggy, and he said it was not skin specific for the Blue Retro SHV skin, it does it in blue as well. (Thanks Jaggy, I didn't test that part thinking it was only the skin I was using.)

this kinda has a 2 sided request.

firstly to choose to multicast a program via the web interface.

And then secondly using the normal software to choose a program to multicast. so can watch something normally but also steamed to other locations at the same time.

Thanks

Attempting to run GBPVR 1.4.7 on HP 6400 laptop, for use as client only, no capture. Running XP SP3 with latest MS patches. .Net 2.0 is installed @SP2 along with the VC2005 (vcredist_x86.exe).

PVRX2 crashes immediately on startup, even before menu appears. Logs are attached.

I know the download of 1.4.7 is good as I used the same install for a Dell desktop I'm using as my GBPVR server and it's workging fine.

Sub, as it's been stated many time thanks for a great product and any way you can help.

Scifidude

I see all the work jaggy is doing on this, but did not want to mess that thread up. I am using the index.htm file sucessfully for startup, but would like to tweek it a little. Here is my situation.

I need to exit gbpvr from the pch to get my PC to sleep. With the current index file, I exit gbpvr, then hit cancel so it does not auto load in 3 seconds. (sometimes it takes so long to settle back at the 3 second screen, the timer ends and it relaunches GBPVR) Then I hit the "power" button on the PCH remote to sleep the PCH. To restart I wake up the PCH and select manually start GBPVR.

To increase the WAF, I would like to eliminate the auto start and just go to a single manual "Start GBPVR" button. This way I can exit out of GBPVR and hit the power button without having to try to catch the cancel. It will also just give my wife one button to deal with to launch GBPVR.

Looking at the index file, I can see how to extend the time of the 3 second timer, but have no clue on how to eliminate that part of the file.

So I'm watching the season premiere, and I notice the length, about average at 43 minutes. For those who didn't know, Fox experimented with longer show lengths last year, making both Fringe and Dollhouse closer to 49 minutes sans. And while I never felt like fringe needed the extra time or used it well, it was great for Dollhouse.

I guess I should just be happy they kept the show at all, but they left it on friday with crappy and completely unrelated leadins, so it's really just a matter of time anyway and I might as well complain.

Sub,
I managed to install v1.4.7 and to get it to work, however every now and then it crashes. I took a look at the logs (attached) and the only error I found is:

Error code : 80004005
E_FAIL
An undetermined error occurred

any idea of what is going wrong?
Thanks

I don't know if this is known or not, or just common sense to most folks. I'm not an XML guy, so maybe this is a known xml thing. Anyhow... on with the show:


Directory names that have "~" in them will cause GBPVR to crash if:

1) This directory is explicitly defined in GBPVR's config.

2) And you access the function related to that folder in the gui, or you try to run the config program.

I got pages of errors that made it look like a .NET issue.

For example, you define a video library directory that points to c:\Videos\~hidef

This will cause it to crash.

The reason is that "~" is used in the xml stringto separate the directory name you defined from the path to that directory.

The fix is:
Remove the ~ from the directory name.
Make a back up of your config.xml in the gbpvr directory.
Edit the config.xml
Search for the directory name
Remove the ~ from the directory name in the string.
Save config.xml
Restart the gbpvr service.

Its possible that the ~ causes additional corruption in the string. My string had additional corruption with ~
s in it. If thats the case, you might want to just delete the xml string leaving the tag intact and restart the service and redefine it using the config gui.