Hi,
I have been running MythTV for several years, but I am getting fed up with the system and thinking of using a Windows-based PVR. I've pretty much chosen GB-PVR, but I don't really want to lose all the recording information in my database if I can help it! What I'm looking for is if anyone has converted the information from the MythTV MySQL database into GB-PVR - the main thing I don't want to lose is the information on what I have already recorded.
OK, got GBPVR up and running on a Windows 7 box and since I'm a long time MythTV user, I've got some differences that I'm trying to reconcile.
Comm flagging. I think I need to install the commflagging plugin per the wiki, right?
Season Recording, first runs only. I don't see an option for this? I searched and I found some less than definitive posts about it relating to the fact that outside the US this data isn't really available. I have some season recordings that will be "first showing only" (i.e. prime time shows) and others that won't be (i.e. PBS shows for my son). I use Schedules Direct as my EPG source.
Setting up a season recording from the web interface. I've installed the EWA, but I just don't see a way to do this from this interface. I've likely missed something.
Setting up EWA to run under IIS7 on Windows 7 is giving me issues with the web.config (it says that the entry removing the default web service handler for asmx files isn't allowed at this point?). I know, not enough info to go on... My wife is cool with using a web interface to manage/schedule recordings, but I hate remembering a port (I did reset it to an easier to remember port, so at least that worked ).
I have 6 tuners (PVR 500 + 2 HDHomeRuns). They all are setup with the same EPG provider. Will GBPVR hit Schedules Direct 6 times, once for each source? Or is it smart enough to not do that?
In the Guide, my HD channels seem to be blank and then pop in after 10 seconds or though.
When watching live TV, channel changes on the same tuner are very fast (like instant, very cool). However, when I switch from an HD channel to an SD channel, all I get is a black screen. If I exit Live TV and get back in it's on the SD channel and it works fine and I can go to an HD channel just fine, but back to SD = black screen. I don't have speakers on this computer, so I don't know if it's just a video glitch and audio's still playing or what.
When setting up a recording that will use a HDHomeRun (QAM) tuner, I get the option for quality. I searched and saw that most people think this is ignored for ts recordings. I just wanted to verify this because transcoding the recordings is something I want to avoid.
I'm sure there are more... but this is a good list to get started
I've posted on the NMT forum about my issues getting my NMTs to talk to the GBPVR server.
Like the title says, I'm not a dummy, but man... I feel like I've taken a couple steps back for sure!
I've got a Windows 7 box with a PVR500 in it and 2 HDHomeRuns on the network (getting HD via QAM). I got GBPVR setup and works fine on that box. I can record 6-8 things at once (since the HD is via QAM, I can get stuff on the multiplex, very cool).
My issue is that I want to use my NMT (Kaiboer K100 and eGreat e34a) as a front end to the GBPVR box.
Either I'm overthinking it or the dummy guide is way out of whack... especially when it talks about a USB stick.
In any case, I installed via that installer, skipping the GBPVR install. I have a share that I can see from my other windows computers (all Windows 7 at this point).
I have mapped a network share on the NMTs to this location without issue. They are mapped as MEDIA:pvrmc (or whatever the share name is, I'm at work now). I can go to the network share and go to the 4th icon and launch the .htm file. No matter what I select I immediately get the "operation failed" error message.
One thing that's bothering me is that when I do the network browser from the NMT (either of them), I don't see anything but NFS server. I don't see the homegroup that the windows 7 boxes are in. I'm thinking that this is part of the issue.
Does the name 'Sub' come from the ol' BBS days? (Sub-op),(Sys-op)
I had some late nights into the BBS way back, I had a sub-op on my BBS we called him Sub too. We used a Commodore 64 with a MASS of 5.25 drives, (10 I think it was). Boy things have changed.....
Using GB-PVR 1.3.11 and XRecord. I like the XSuite, but am noticing that since I installed it, I think the "Max Recordings to Keep" feature has vanished from my recording options. Is this not supported in XRecord and, if not, any suggestions for trimming old recordings within a particular show + season?
I have an ATI HDTV WONDER card that runs fine with WatchHDTV so I know the card works, but cannot get it to work with GBPVR. Here're what I did:
- download & install GBPVR
- select capture source, found the card alright
- created a trial account with zap2it, was able to link up with EPG source
- but when I click "map digital channels to EPG channels", it automatically scans through 68 channels or so, some with no signals but some have strong signals (I have a good rooftop antenna). However even with the channels found with strong signals I still see a black screen on top-right corner. After scanning through 68 channels it says "No channel found".
I have already run "refregisterfilter".
PLEASE HELP! (zip file of the 2 config logs is attached)
System: Dell Dimension 4700 (Pentium 2.8GHz), XP Home, ATI HDTV Wonder
Diseqc with TT-S3200 / Skystar HD (and probably any technotrend dvb-s card) is not working. Dvbviewer uses a special dll file (ttBdaDrvApi_Dll.dll) to make diseqc work. I tried copying that file into the GBPVR directory, but it doesn't help.
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