So I made the switch from analog Comcast cable with no cable box (coax plugged directly into the TV) to digital Direct TV with HD and I have a box now.
The installer saw I had a splitter with one line going to my computer/GBPVR box and then one cable to the TV. He says that Direct TV will not work with the splitter and removed it. My Direct TV with HD is up and running fine although I had to switch to composite? from the HDMI cable because every time I switched channels when using HDMI, the audio would cut out... it would come back if I powered cycled the TV but I didn't wanna deal with that and dropped back to I think it was composite cables. Anyway, the sound is an issue I'll troubleshoot later and is not my issue for this thread.
My question is, how do I get my GBPVR box hooked up to direct TV? Has anyone made this switch? Also, now that I have HD, do I need to upgrade the TV capture board in my computer to an HD card? or can I still use the non-HD card and just not record in HD? Do I need two direct TV boxes and use one to connect to the computer and one for the TV? I know I can watch live TV through GBPVR but I would rather not do this and somehow split the signal.
I've been having a problem with receiving live tv from a host computer with gbpvr over a wireless network. I am able to access recordings but not live tv. What happens when I select live tv is that it will be black for about 5 seconds and then goes back to the main menu. I've tried streaming and file sharing mode as well. Any help would be appreciated.
I've recently configured a new GBPVR system for my brother. His setup uses a Nova-S USB2 for reception of Freesat (UK).
Although the system can correctly tune and display satellite channels when in Live TV with "Live Preview Mode" enabled, it struggles to record them. Recordings usually fail (creates a file of 0 bytes) or record a random number of minutes and then fail.
Bizarrely, when I visited today to examine the system more closely, I discovered that from Live TV I can press record and the recording proceeds okay (data is written to the record file). If, however, I exit Live TV, no more data is written to the file even though PVRX2 and the recording service indicate the recording is still happening (file size constant). When I subsequently return to watching the channel being recorded, the file starts to increase in size again. On playback, the file has the chunks of the programme I saw in Live TV.
If I disable "Live Preview" mode, I can't even watch the channels in Live TV.
I'm totally baffled. I tried changing multiplexers but that didn't really seem to affect matters.
Anybody know how to set the audio gains (tuner and line-in) on the PVR150 with newer drivers such as 24227 or 25039? The old tweaks from Amontillado don't seem to work.
Can the audio gain be set through direct.ini? Globespan parameter? Or Gain under Procamp settings?
My analog recordings are way too loud compared to DVDs or digital captures that use AC3 sound. So far, I haven't found a way to set Stereo volume different than AC3 in the audio decoder. I've tried Nvidia and AC3 filter for this.
I know video libraries and recording are hip, but I use the picture library functionality of gbpvr a lot, and I find it very poor.
I wanted to ask if it is continues being developed? are there improvements planned?
My picture library is large - since 2006. The list of folders is long. I know I can arrange it differently, but that's a big hassle, I'd prefer the picture library to be able to index it in various ways other than directories/file names.
Also, displaying a folder full of pictures is extremely slow. Compared to explorer, or any other picture browser, it does not make sense. All these tools prepare thumbnails, why is gbpvr doing it the slowest of them all?
Many questions, I hope to have a meaningful thread.
Thanks,
Dan
I recently started using GB-PVR (v1.3.11) and am having difficulty with the channels on a certain frequency. For reference, this is with a Hauppauge HVR-1600 on cable. The channels in question are all on 5.x, aka 79MHz. Both WinTV and TSReader can tune to and watch them just fine; they are indeed clear QAM channels. GB-PVR, however, does not pick them up in the channel scan and if added manually using either the frequency or channel equivalent, I get nothing but a message from GB-PVR stating the channels are encrypted.
Logs attached to this post. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction!
I have the latest version of gb-pvr. When I go into guide and i am at a lower number and want to get to a higher one I usually hold the down key until i get to the channel I want. However if Ipush the button all the way down it starts the tv on the last channel I was on. if i only push the button down halfway it works fine. I have a normal keyboard and don't see why it should do this. I would appreciate any explanation of why it does this.
I've seen this twice in the last couple of days. When using the pause key to pause a recording for a time longer than my hibernate time for the server - the server hibernates. This upsets the PCH and recovery is a bit hit and miss how much needs doing.
I'm sure it didn't use to do this in the past and I'm sure I used to leave it in pause for half an hour or so without the server nodding off.
The above with PCH in PCH2 mode if that has any bearing on it.
I'm trying to get rid of some old channels that still show in all areas of GBPVR (I've removed them from the TV guide, but the still are shown in the digital mapping when configuring capture sources and some other places in GBPVR). I was planning to do this by deleting all 3 capture sources based on Sub's suggestions (http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=40946). However, doing this deletes all my reoccurring recordings...a real problem this time of year as many of these do not currently appear in the EPG because we are not in the active TV season so I can not even re-program them manually.
I saw suggestions for getting around this here (http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=29008), but it does not seem to work for me...I still lose all the reoccurring recordings (perhaps I'm doing something wrong...I empty the EPG via command line, open the config utility and delete the tuners, close then reopen the config utility, reinstall the tuner, update the epg via the tuner configuration screen, then map digital channels, then close the config utility and open PVRX2 and use the system utility to update...should I do this differently).
I've even tried exporting the old database's RECORDING_SCHEDULE table with SQLite Browser as a cvs and then reimporting into the new database (deleting and reconfiguring the tuners)...but then I can not even enter the Recordings utility in PVRx2 (I'm guessing there is either a formatting issue or the ID numbers fail to match other tables in the database).
Is there a better way to get rid of these extra channels without losing these reoccurring recordings? Anyone have suggestions?
i desparately need to get gbpvr working with PC clients...
with streaming - mpg files work great, both for live TV and recordings, but not TS files.
with fileshareing - ts files work great, both for live tv and recordings (depending on quality), but not mpg files.
I have one digital source (clear QAM) and two analog sources (ATSC tuner and S-video for cable box with channel changer).
Is there a way so that I can force all the recordings to be .mpg or .ts regardless of the tuner source? This way I can setup all the clients as streaming or filesharing, respectively.
