I have two DVB-S cards in my PVR. I don't have multi-record enabled in PVRX2, because I prefer to record to .mpg files.
Back when I had only one DVB-S card, if two adjacent programmes on the same channel were scheduled to record, even with pre & post padding, I would get two files each with the required padding at both ends. PVRX2 was cleverly recording to two files from the same stream where the post padding of programme 1 overlapped the pre padding of programme 2.
Now that I have 2 DVB-S cards, when padding overlaps on two adjacent programmes on the same channel, the 2nd tuner gets tied up to record the 2nd programme, meaning that no tuner is available to watch another channel.
My wish is that PVRX2 is smart enough to employ the same technique that it uses when only one card is in the PVR and record overlapping programmes on the same channel with only one card. This would leave the other tuner free for watching/recording other programmes.
GBPVR is awesome and the only way I watch TV now that I'm out in the country with no decent terrestrial coverage. Keep up the good work, sub, and I will keep up the donations :p
Up until now, I've been using the spacebar of my keyboard (plugged in via keyboard port) to wake my HTPC manually. I just got one of these remotes to wake up my PC via USB. It basically functions as a keyboard and requires no drivers. I comes with a USB receiver that I put next to my PVR-150 IR receiver. My hopes were to use both remotes in the same activity on my Harmony remote, but I can't seem to get the new USB remote to wake up the PC. I have an older ASUS P4P800 MB and it has jumpers on it to enable waking via USB and I've also ensured the settings in the device manager allow the device to wake the PC. Can anyone think of anything Ive missed?
Over the past couple of weeks, I've noticed that many of my recordings are freezing at random times during the recording for a couple of seconds, then plays fast for a second to "catch up" then resumes fine, until it (maybe) does it again. The audio also stops when the video freezes, but when the video plays fast afterwards, the audio plays at the normal speed. As far as I know, I have not done any updates on this PC for quite some time. I thought maybe it was a hard drive fragmentation problem at first, but then I remembered I have Diskkeeper running in the background which keeps my HDD defragmented on-the-fly. (I've had Diskkeeper installed for quite a while without this issue) Any ideas?
So, I have one of the $40 ATSC digital adapters. It will not get any signal off my cable. It specifies in the directions, only ATSC. So, I'm assuming ATSC and QAM are different frequency sets?
If that's the case, can they be combined into one cable? For instance, can I get an adapter that puts my ATSC antennae into the same wire that has my cable's QAM? If so, how does a digital tuner handle that?
I am running the latest version of GBPVR (1.3.11) and I can't cancel a recording in progress with the EWA. This is bizarre. The cancel button doesn't appear. Any ideas?
My MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital board has just died so I'm left with a load of components I'd, ideally, like to reuse so any suggestions would be appreciated.
1. I need a motherboard with at least 3 PCI slots for my Nova-Ts, preferably 4 as I'd like to experiment with a satellite card as well.
2. Gigabit ethernet. I've recently moved into a new place, which I'll wire-up soon, and want to connect my clients up with an eye to HD in the future.
3. Onboard graphics would be good but not essential.
4. SATA HDD - I've both a 500GB and 1TB drives
5. Form factor doesn't matter as it'll be in an ATX size tower.
6. 2GB DDR2 Memory
ATI or Nvidia graphics are fine as I've managed to have success with both although I could only get the ATI 690g onboard graphics working properly in Vista.
I'm happy to build this as either just a server machine or server/main PC machine.
I have had an issue going on for the past couple weeks where my wife would call me and tell me that she could not see the DVD when she would play it. So I would tell her to reboot the computer and I would check it out when I got home and everything would seem fine.
Well tonight I realized what is happening. If I play the dvd first after PVRX2 is started then the video would not appear. Audio would be there and if you can figure out what you were doing (i.e. remember if you have a resume screen up) then you can navigate with the buttons. This goes for a first time viewing a DVD or not. However if I watch anything else recorded or live then the DVD works fine. And I can turn on the other videos and immediately back out and the dvd will work fine.
I have tried Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder and Dscaler I even added ffdshow in the config.xml file just to see if it would reproduce it and it did it also.
I had another DVD drive lying around so I tried swapping the drives for good measure. No change.
I am using GBPVR 1.3.11. And so far the only thing I have added is the skin blue-retro-SHV
Other specs would be:
Windows XP SP2
Dell Optiplex GX280 P4 2.8GHz
1Gig RAM
Hauppaugge 1600
Nvidia 7600GS
Hi all.
Had a MediaMVP new in box sitting on the shelf here for a year and a half.. bought it from praise on here and other sites.. knew I was gonna do some htpc eventually.. lol. Well, finally got around to running the cat5e and installing the thing.
I have to thank Sub et al , other than having to figure out and install a 3rd party dhcp provider since Im using a 2nd nic on this pc direct to the MediaMVP.. the install of this app is quite friendly. I could see a day that this program goes Pro, and it would be worth the money.
My photos display great, mp3's are cool, I added some webcams of my own, etc. mpeg videos play good, avi's seem stretched out of the box a bit.. will work on it.
I configured the weather plugin for my location (in Canada). The radar shows a full country though.. and my location is under the text of another city name label.
As it happens, I have an app I wrote that scrapes the current radar image from the local radar site page. The program then makes the earth map transparent and sets it up for use in googleearth.. but I can edit the app to just grab the radar image with background map for use with GBPVR.
I can start the radar image grabbing exe via the custom tasks in GBPVR.. but how would I go about displaying it out to the MVP ?
Is there some simple dll call I could use ? The only 'programming' language I use is Autohotkey (http://autohotkey.com). It can call dll's if you know the parameters etc.
