My system has its video library on an external USB hardrive which has internal power down logic. When the drive has powered down there is a significant delay (about 20 seconds, give or take) when PVRX2 tries to access it before the drive becomes ready. PVRX2 handles this happily and just waits. My MVP reboots if I try to access the library with the drive powered down. Once the MVP is back up it can access the library as the drive has also powered up. Then the MVP can then access the library happily until the next time the drive powers down when there is no use for a prolonged period. Other than disabling the drives power management, which I don't want to do, is there any other workaround to make the MVP more tolerant of slow device availaiblity?

Hi,

My first post here. I am trying to decide if my system has enough horsepower to properly run a--1st Preference: SiliconDust HDHomeRun or 2nd choice: Hauppage 2250. My application is fairly simple. I want to watch TV from OTA antenna, preferably in HD, while, sometimes utilizing PIP and other times recording a 2nd program while I watch live. I’d also like to use the TIVOish functions to skip commercials, scheduling, etc, nothing too complicated. I live in central LA, so I shouldn’t be too far from station transmitters--maybe 20-30 miles or less.

If I can’t do HD, then I’d live with SD as long as I can watch one program and record another with some of the PVR functions.

Will I need a splitter, and if so can someone advise which one. Also any antenna recommendations would be welcome.

I would prefer to run GB-PVR as the software, but I’ve read that some registry editing may be necessary (but I’m unclear if this is still necessary with the new beta software). I probably have enough knowledge about computers to really screw myself up, especially if I have to edit the XP registry. But I can follow clear, simple instructions and have a more knowledgeable friend to help me if I really get in trouble. The registry editing seems like the biggest downside to the HDHomeRun from what I’ve seen. Either way I just want to watch and record some OTA TV and don’t want to spend months troubleshooting and trying to get my system to work with whatever route I go.

If my system doesn’t have the juice to support the above functions, any advice as to a simple tuner/software to get that would work with my current system would be appreciated.

Is there anything else I should know about that I haven't covered?

Thanks for your help.

Laurence

My system:
Athlon64 3800 Dual Core 2.0GHz 939 socket, L2 cache-512Kb x 2

RAM: PC3200 DDR400 1Gb total (I’d consider adding another 1 GB if it would significantly help. Otherwise 1GB works for all my current needs.)

MOBO: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium with heatpipe (running only 1 video card)

Video: ATI Radeon X700 PCI-e 256 MG DDR3 (If absolutely necessary to get HD, I would consider adding a 2nd video card, since my MOBO is an SLI type which can support a 2nd card. Can someone advise if this is necessary?)

Monitor: Gateway FPD2185W that says it is HD capable, 720p or 1070i max.

Hard Drives: Multiple (caddy system) Seagate and Western Digital 7200 SATAs

Power Supply: Enermax Liberty 500W

LAN: 2--10/100 cards

Router: Wireless/Hard wired—Linksys WRT 54G IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u,
IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11b
Ports Internet: One 10/100 RJ-45 Port
LAN: Four 10/100 RJ-45 Switched Ports

I have read that the wireless connection can be problematic so I am prepared to hard wire if necessary.

Available slots: PCI-e 16x, PCI-e multi 4/8/16, PCI-e 1X, 2-PCI standard

OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 (I can put SP3 on as well)

Hello and thanks,

I am using the mayhem skin and GB-PVR 1.3.11
when in the video library and selecting or highlighting a file i get a popup related to that movie or TV show, trouble is it hides the transcode message behind it.

Is there anyway to turn off the original file information from displaying - it doesn't happen with them all

Thank you
K :o

Hi

I'm currently using 2 HVR-4000's, viewing and recording NZFreeview via satellite successfully.

What I would like to do now is add an MPEG2 encoder to record some Sky channels from my settop box.
It looks like I should be able to use a PVR-150 using the S-video and audio inputs to do this.

Has anyone done this and if so are there any pitfalls to watch for?

Thanks

I have started to get the no signal pop-up when viewing LuxeHD - sometimes after a few seconds, sometimes after a few minutes.
I am using Eurobird 1 & Astra 2A/2B/2D in the UK.
The signal quality of Luxe and the other Eurobird channels is lower than the Astra ones - typically 100% signal strength and 70% quality compared to 100/90 from Astra.
But in other apps (DVBDream) Luxe HD does work fine...
I have all the patches applied - so is GBPVR a bit more fussy about signal quality?
Perhaps some other UK users could let me know if LuxeHD is working for them - and no, I don't often watch Luxe, but we only have 3 HD channels free-to-view in the UK, and it makes a nice wallpaper until the scenery channel 'broadcasting beautiful views 24 hours a day' comes along!

06/20/09 v1.0.10.0 - WizUiHelper v1.0.22.2 WizWebHelper v1.0.12.5 WizGenHelper v1.0.0.4

• Fix bug related to description field not getting built correctly with additional metadata elements
  
• Create folder.jpg if does not already exists. User must selection option to save folder.jpg on options tab.
  
• Minor change to series/episode logic to improve hit ratio
  
• Allow ability to resize form
  
• Enhance the Description logic to include the ability to include element names as part of the output string. For example, try setting field separator to \n and check "prefix data with element name"
  
• Add feature to enable/disable metadata source lookups (ie internet, db, file, embedded).
  
• Add feature to have separate source lookup lists for GUI (interactive) and Console (batch).
  

06/20/2009 : 1.0.26.0 (WizUiHelper v1.0.22.2, WizWebHelper v1.0.12.5, WizGenHelper v1.0.0.4)

• MovieWizManager - Provide ability to mange 'folded' entries. If you have a series of files that make up a video (ie Movie.CD1.mpg, Movie.CD2.mpg,...), you may now 'fold' them into a single entry via the Manage Content tab. When you play the entry, each file will be played in order.
  
• MovieWizManager - Fix bug where thumbnail did not save correctly on local lookup.
  
• Plugin/Manager - Add key on Title, this should speed things up a bit.
  

So I've followed the directions for setting up UltraXMLTV as listed in the wiki. I'm using mc2xml to get my EPG listing. I'm using "Zehd's Picks" as my default.

UltraXMLTV seems to be recoding the xml file properly (I've done a before/after comparison), yet the information displayed when I'm running GBPVR and looking at the guide isn't any different.

For example, I'm not getting any of the actor/director information, even though that information is in my xml file.

I'm running GBPVR 1.3.11, and UltraXMLTV version 2.

Is there something I'm just totally missing that I should have done configuration-wise?

I have two digital hdtv tuners: FusionHDTV5 RT Lite and Mygica U6012. I tried to do mapping for both cards, but neither worked

I searched the passed posts on FusionHDTV5 , seems this still has problem to work in gbpvr. But why it is still listed in supported hardware :confused:

For Mygica U6012, it is not listed. So I add these lines in bda.ini following the gbpvr wiki:

[HDTV Stick]
TUNING_TYPE=ATSC
FILTER_TUNER=HDTV Stick Digital Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=HDTV Stick Digital Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

But still I can not find any channel The ArcSoft ToolMedia 3.5 (come with Mygica U6012) can detect >100 channels w/o any problem. Can anybody help me to configure this tuner? I have attached the filtercheck log and the config logs with this post. Thanks a lot for your help.

I cant remember which port I need to use when using IE or firefox to connect to the PCH. tried a few of the top of my head without sucess.

thanks steve