Hello, I'm new to GB-PVR and am still trying to figure the thing out. Right now I can't get an OSD to display while watching Live TV on my PC. What's the deal? Do I have to download plugins or something? I'm using my keyboard for control, I don't have a remote. My OS is WinXP SP3. My Tuner card is a Diamond Xtreme TV PVR550 which shows up in GB-PVR as a Conexant Falcon
Having just updated to 1.4.7, my config.xml was (again) stripped of my preferred audio decoder setting (AC3) resulting in no sound. I don't consider this is bug, it is the way it is.
It would be nice, in the case of the HD-PVR, if this was either left alone during an upgrade OR, maybe more appropriately, placed somewhere in the Config. Maybe in the Capture Source for that device?
No big deal, it no longer confuses me, but it might a new person.
just seen version 1.4.7 is up. will give it a try and hope it will solve the problem.
Hi!
I have installed GB-PVR 1.3.11 and there was no built in support for my tv card. I have an Avermedia AverTV Hybrid Volar HX USB dongle.
I searched the forums and added these lines to bda.ini:
[AVerMedia Volar HX DVB-T]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=AVerMedia Hybrid TV BDA Tunera
FILTER_CAPTURE=AVerMedia Hybrid TV BDA TS Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
and it now seems to 'recognize' it.
however,
when I go to LiveTV I can only hear what is been broadcasted, and the screen shows the program's menu, but the screen is black other than the blue bar with buttons.
I can get audio and video with the program that came with the dongle.
reading more into the forum I found it may be a codec problem.
so I went to free-codecs.com and downloaded and installed the audio and video MPEG codecs. still no picture, only sound.
tried to change the renderer and mark the 'use FFDSHOW if installed', no picture, only sound.
I tried to do a mini hack -
I recorded some station and went to c:\temp to see what happens there.
I found a .ts file there that VLC was able to play and there i saw picture and sound. so I guess the coder is ok. so its something with the Decoder or renderer.
any suggestions?
thanks in advance.
I am using windowsXP sp3, avast antivirus , zonealarm.
2 gigs of RAM
directx 9.0c
sub Wrote:Sorry, I dont have any recommendation for you. If your TechoTrend is working well for you, you might be best to go with a second one of those. Otherwise you might want to wait until the release is out and see what feedback you get form other users with CI cards.
The Technotrend 1501 works well, but channel startup/changing is anoyingly slow, this is probably due to the fact that the CI has to wait for the next key from the transport stream (the one that is transmitted every 10. sec). In another pvr-program (which I hate to mention the name of:p) there is a function named "allow this card to be preloaded". I guess this functionality makes the card constantly watching one transport stream an picking up this key as it appares. Would it be possible to have a similar functionality in GBPVR? Or is there other cards that switch channels / starts quicker?
After upgrading to 1.4.7 I noticed that on my MVP the skin plugin did not seem to work. I only got a blank screen. MVP is my routine interface to GBPVR.
Even after a couple of reboots (MVP and GBPVR server) it did not work.
Next I connected with VNC to the console and there I could open and see the skin plugin menu. After having done this I restarted MVP and voila, it functioned there as usual.
So it seems it has solved my problem. I thought it might be usefull to share this experience.
Pieter
Some time ago we were talking about support for dvb-c cards (Cinergy C HD and Technotrend 1501), is there any work in progress? It seems not to work for me...
I was wondering if there is a plugin where you can synchronize playback of video between clients. The situation I am trying to handle is my wife is watching tv in the living room and I am watching tv in another room. I want to watch what she is watching. We used to accomplish this with a Slingbox but now we want the picture in HD.
I looked at the events and it seems like most of the events to determine what a client if playing. Does anyone know if this is possible in the API?
