Hello

I have a Nebula DigiTV digital terrestrial PCI card. I have installed GB-PVR and under settings I have it seeing the card, but it is not in the list for the tuning assistant .exe which I am assuming is what I use to tune the programme to the MUX’s. Am I barking at the wrong tree?

I expect when I have a quiet day tomorrow I will red the FAQ again and find something!

This isn't really a question, just a vent.

After being forced into going digital with Comcast, after they assured me 3 months ago that it wouldn't happen. I called them, got a STB and 3 DTA's. They assured me that was what I needed. I asked about my TV tuner cards and they again assured me that as long as they were digital and able to receive clear QAM channels that I would be covered.

So I bought two new tuner cards that receive digital and QAM, one new TV with a digital + QAM tuner and was happy as a clam thinking I was ready for their switchover. WRONG!!

They made the switch yesterday and my Two new Digital tuners and the new TV lost about half the channels it had, including the channels they told me would be available as clear QAM. I just get a picture of a Comcast box with a note telling me I'll be needing a STB to receive these channels.

I do get a lot of clear QAM channels, if you can call them that. 5 Spanish language channels. 4 history channels. 8 shopping channels. and more than a few duplicates of local network channels, none of it do I really care about.

After a call to Comcast this morning and talking to 3 different people and getting two different answers it seems like not all the channels on the basic/standard tier will be broadcast in clear QAM, unlike what I was told. Can you say pi**ed.

The end result is Verizon will be here Monday to install FIOS TV and I can kick Comcast to the curb, this was the absolute last straw with them.

Anyway, thanks for reading or not, but I feel better anyway!

I am running GBPVR on XP SP3. The windowed instance (and the actual monitor) are 4:3 where as the live TV looks to be wide.

I cant resize the window as it appears constrained to 4:3 and the paly back setting in config has no effect (at least to live TV, I cant check playback yet as that is not working and I am seeking advice in another post)

F7 changes the picture within the instance, but all options produce a compressed width picture.

Have I missed a setting somewhere or is this a restriction in GBPVR under XP?

Allan

This has got the better of me (hence this post) and you guidance would be appreciated.

I have it (Haupauge WinTv Nova TD 500 Pci) installed and configured (as Hauppauge Nove TV Tuner 1 (and 2 seperately)).

DVB EPG loads and matches to found channels (East Midlands).

Recording occurs (TS files created in appropriately named folders)

However on selecting recordings for playback, and selecting play nothing happens. The box with 'play' button closes and leaves GBPVR at the program detials screen.

What should I check, try or alter next?

thanks
Allan

This isn't a real urgent issue or anything, I'm just curious if anyone is having the same problem. FYI, I'm using a PVR-150.

I've got GB-PVR configured to auto-convert my recordings to XVID, for use on my Samsung P3. Everything just works, and works great.

Everything that is except Warehouse 13. It converts to XVID just like the others, but the file size of the XVID is actually BIGGER then the original recording.

For example, my usual source recordings are ~2.6GB and convert down to somewhere in the ballpark of 500MB. Last nights episode of Warehouse 13 was ~2.6GB, and the converted file is ~2.7GB. I've even gone into the video library and forced a manual conversion and have the same results.

For now I'm just torrenting the new episodes as they become available but I'd love to figure out what it is.

Anyone else having an issue like this? I hesitate to think it's a configuration issue because ALL other shows work perfect.

Does anybody know of a SW CAM that can read the smartcard from a USB cardreader? I'v looked at PoorMansCam and some other but they all require a serial-port reader (RS232) and I have an USB reader.

I'm NOT looking for a cam that uses a keyfile to crack the encryption, but a SW CAM that can replace the add-on CI module for a digital DVB card.

Would have thought this has come up, but I searched to no avail.

Are there any modifications or plugins that can put, say, 11 lines of channels in the TV Guide? Or maybe eight. How about eight?

And while I'm asking that, how the heck do you scroll sideways in the TV guide just using the mouse? I swear I've never seen that answered anywhere.

And how about Escaping/Go Back from the TV Guide using a limited remote control? Sub has said he tried to make everything work with just four arrows and an Enter button, but can you get out of the TV Guide that way? It seems Escape is quite impossible, Mr. Bond.

Hi,

I've been using GBPVR and Schedules Direct for a while. I recently moved and tried to set everything up for my new location but I seem to be having trouble. See attached screenshot of the error message that I get. Can anyone help?

Thank you much,
Kenneth

Yesterday, I recorded a TV program with the Hauppauge HVR-1950 and GBPVR. I played it back, and the recording had sound but had many coloured cubes in the picture and rolling lines. I watched a bit of live TV from my computer, too. Same problem. I then thought perhaps the cable signal was the culprit, so I checked another TV in the house. The channels all looked good. I then unhooked the cable from my HVR-1950 and tried the internal Hauppauge HVR-1600. It worked perfectly.

I then noticed something this morning when I played back the file and looked at its properties. Its dimensions are 720 x 576, which is PAL. I'm in NTSC land, and the device has always worked as it should. Could something have caused it to accidentally set itself to PAL?


File Name: C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\My Documents\My Videos\As the World Turns\As the World Turns_20090824_14001500.mpg
File Size: 2118361088 ( 1.97 GB )
Program Duration: 01:02:57.00
File Type: PS - MPEG2
Encoding: MPEG 2
Video stream Id: xE0
Encoding Dimensions: 720 x 576
Display Size: 720 x 576
Aspect Ratio: 4/3
Frame Rate: 25.00 FPS
Bit Rate: 7.200 Mbps
VBV_Buffer: 224 KB
Profile: Main/Main
Progressive: Prog or Int
Chroma: 4:2:0
Audio Format: Layer 2
Audio Stream Id: xC0
Audio Bit Rate: 224 Kbps
Audio Sampling Rate: 48000 Hz

I don't think this is possible, but I'll ask anyway.
I have one input to an anlog capture card which is setup on it's own as AV1 on my guide.

If one client is watching this channel, can another client connect to the same TS or MPEG steam and watch at the same time?
This channel will never be watched by anyone on the server.