I most of the weekend converting to digital, TV's, Tuner Cards, STB's and a couple of DTA's.

I managed to get my USB UIRT changing the channel on a DTA (pace dc50x). Everything seems to be working with one exception.

It's been so long since I fooled with it that I've forgotten how to reset my TV guide. I went to Schedules Direct and changed my line up from analog and replaced it with the digital package. After that I updated the EPG, it looks the same to me?

Is there something I have to do with xmltv?
Do I need to empty the EPG and just re-setup recordings?
Should I just delete the whole capture source and redo it all?

Any thoughts from those of you who have gone before??

Hallo together,
first of all, sorry for my English, I am from AUSTRIA (NOT Australia!) .
My new project is a HDTV HTPC with GBPVR. I get the TV-Signal by DVB-S (Satallite). I searched for the perfect hardware, but I didn´t found anything.
I talked to some people who uses Mediaportal, because the channel change is very long, and then I found the GBPVR, because this should be faster (is this true?), but no German support.
I prever the following hardware.

Hardware:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4600, 2x 2.40GHz
Graphic-Chip: Gainward BLISS GeForce 9500 GT, 512MB DDR2, VGA, DVI, HDMI, PCIe
RAM: Kingston HyperX DIMM Kit 2GB PC2-8000U (2x1Gb)
Mobo: ASUS P5QL-EM, G43
:eek:TV-Tuner-Card: Hauppauge WinTV Nova-HD-S2, PCI or Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV S2 (can I use those Cards vor HDTV over satallite?)
Remote: Microsoft MCE Remote
Blu ray Drive
Case, cooling, storage is not so important now.

Is this configuration good enough for an HDTV-HTPC? Can I use this TV-Tuner-Card? Is the graphic-Chip good enough? :confused:

I hope somebody can help me.

Thanks a lot!

Sincerely yours,
Heiner

Hi,

I've got a dual Hauppauge 500mce system that I am running on a standard MS XP home edition. Everything works pretty except the remote which I can not get to work at all. Does anyone have a tip or a suggestion to get this to work or am I just screwed?

Thanks!

I normally record/playback on the same PC that my HD-PVR is installed. I decided to playback a recording on a difference PC.

Holy crap. Nightmare.

I've tried various direct show codecs that were posted in the net. K-Lite, with the default settings...

Does anyone have a magic combination to get these to playback in WMP?

I had considered plugging my HD-PVR into the other PC so I could install the Hauppage stuff to get the correct codec, but that just seems... stupid.

I would like to play a Video_ts folder and have found out I need to add some instructions to mount the share in Gbpvr.cgi but I cannot find it.
I have searched locally in the mvpmc and checked the network share of the PCH and the GBPVR program directory.
Please I know it's probably obvious but I cannot find it. I have GBPVR running on my WHS and loaded it from the NMTInstall program, mvpmcx2 I loaded using the Community Installer.
I cannot find the startmeup file either!
In the Video Library I have the .dvd file ready but at the moment I just get a few seconds of the Popcorn splash and then a return to GBPVR.
Frank

This is an AU oriented question. I'm a newbie, have got my Hauppage 2200 installed and working across a home network using PVRX2. Problem is, while the scan has picked up all the local channels including SBS and SBS HD, SBS works sometime but a lot of the time it's just a black screen. I know my signal isn't perfect, I'm in the bush, but WinTV always picks it up perfectly - that's the real rub, that Win TV shows it perfect, even HD, with no jitters or pixellation, while most of the time SBS doesn't show on PVRX2. PVRX2 generally is sohowing the other channels ok. I've tried re-scanning and resetting the EPG, I'm running EVR as the video decoder on both WinTV and PVRX2. I've tried disabling the Hauppage TV services, but that makes no difference, and I've made sure that PVRX2 is not running at the same time on any other network computer. Is it just that somehow PVRX2 doesn't use the hardware as efficiently as WinTV?

I have only just “discovered” GB-PVR and after spending a couple of hours searching threads and topics I can’t find any discussion about co-existence.
I have been using VMC for a few months and while it does 90% of what I want and well it has these horrible limitations which can’t be hacked into submission. GB-PVR looks ideal and well suited to my personality. However, almost 100% of the discussion that I have read is based on the unstated assumption of using GB-PVR as a stand alone system.
Could I please ask for advice about a migratory process rather than an all or nothing approach? If I have VMC that works and I like the bits that do work, can I install GB-PVR and start to experience GB-PVR and will that leave VMC un-affected and where it was before the GB-PVR installation? If for example if I get into a little trouble early with GB-PVR, could I go back to the Green Button to watch and record TV a few moments later?
My thoughts turn to the question of should I use Linux or Windows? Until recently that meant either a dual boot or dual HDD’s if up wanted your cake and you want to eat it also. With respect to XP, I could imagine you can’t have MCE AND GB-PVR installed at the same time, but Vista comes with VMC so with Vista I imagine you can install GB-PVR without hacking out VMC, but what about the many settings that taken hours and hours to tweak into submission, the thought of have to start again would be too much.
Someone’s thoughts please?
Ken

hope all r keeping well.....................
need little guidence...............
can anyone guide me how to set Pixelview PlayTV USB 415 settings in GB-PVR.............

When I turn on my HTPC, I have to wait some minutes to log in until all services etc har started or else things will not work properly. I'd like this process automated so that in case of a powerbreak or other event makes the computer restart while I'm away, it starts up and continues all scheduled tasks and so on.

Does anybody know of a way to make this happend without using some software one have to pay for?

Could someone explain to me how what is the tuning algorithm of gbpvr.
I have a problem with Vista’s (not alone I know) tuning algorithm. One of our TV stations (SBS Foothills) is broadcasting with a frequency tag in the digital stream which wrong compared with the physical RF frequency. VMC tunes TV like this: It looks at the designated channel frequencies along with the upper and lower offsets. If it finds a valid transmission it extracts all frequencies tags and compares them with the physical frequency. If any tags are similar to the physical then it assumes that for better or worse that the near tag must be better than the physical so it stores that number in it lookup table. If there is a large discrepantly which could happen with a rebroadcast transmission from a repeater then it disregards this part of the table building process. This latter process (disregarding) is only available with the latest patches. The net result is that SBS can not always be viewed with a Vista computer. There are instances where very non selective tuners will work with this error but albeit not very well.
My question is, if I use gbpvr will it use its own tuning algorithm like most sensible STB’s and digital TV’s or will it pick up M$’s supper smart and (stupid) scanning algorithm? I say stupid because what they do is clever if they allowed manual fine tuning but no M$ can’t trust anyone because they judge others as they assume others might judge them.