I try to kick my analog Hauppauge PVR350 out of my system because I changed to a digital TT card. My only problem is that I am using the ir from the hauppauge. But I found the winlirc guide and took the old winlirc receiver out of the hardware box. But when I tried to learn the hauppauge remote (this one: http://www.hauppauge.com/images/new_remote.jpg) I didn't get a consitant signal, it seems like the signal toggles between two different codes by each button press. Does anybody use this constelation? Is there a workaround for this prob?
Over the years, when GBPVR has occasionally crashed (usually my fault), I've always wondered if it is helpful to GBPVR development to send the error report to Microsoft. Do they pass along this kind of thing and is it useful to send in??
Hello. I am trying to use GB-PVR to record shows from a Sagem Digital Cable TV Tuner. I have an Acer L250 Livingcenter PC with a Hauppauge WinTV 88x chipset TV card running Vista MCE. The tuner is connected to the S-Video input on the card.
I use Vista MCE to record from analog TV channels (via the coaxial input) but since I could not find a way to select other inputs from Vista MCE, I installed GB-PVR.
I added the "External S-Video" capture source, and now I am able to view the live image from my TV tuner box via GB-PVR. However, the image seems to be clipped, for example I cannot see the subtitles in the lower end of the TV image.
I have played around with aspect ratio settings in the config.xml file, and I am able to squeeze the image. However, when I squeeze the image it is still clipped, and the lower part of the screen becomes black (instead of showing the lower part of the image containing subtitles etc.)
When I watch video on the S-Video input via the Hauppauge WinTV 2000 application, the image looks fine (no clipping occurs).
My GBPVR just started with this prob yesterday.
From main menu i select "recordings". The recordings menu displayes for about a second and then reurns back to the main menu. I have restarted the computer, but to no effect.
Hoping for a pointer in the right direction (where is the problem..) .. have a repeatable error, when I tune into a station using the HDHomeRun, it always works the first time, but from then on any channel change will show a "No Signal Detected, Quality 0 Strength 0" box. Restarting GB-PVR will allow me to watch again (once). The other two tuners always work fine.
The steps in detail to repeat:
Open GBPPVR, open TV Guide
Double Click on a show that requires the HDHomeRun Tuner
Show shows up fine
right click to close the show and return to TV Guide
Double click on the same show (or any other show that runs on the HDHR)
Show doesn't show up, "No Signal Detected" window.
Exit GBPVR and restart
Open GBPPVR, open TV Guide
Double Click on a show that requires the HDHomeRun Tuner
Show shows up fine again (once).
My Config:
GB PVR 1.3.11
WinXP Pro
Tuners: Vbox 3560, Antenna
PVR150, Antenna
HDHomeRun (only first tuner configured) Firmware 20090524b1, tuned to Clear QAM
Schedules Direct
I was watching The Supersizers Eat The Eighties on Live TV.
At 22:20 I started to record the show in order to continue watching in a few minutes time - really I should have just hit pause but there you go....
at 21:29 I think I just played back the recording and when finished I deleted it from the recordings list.
A few minutes later the recording appeared in the list again. humm, that;s a little odd, deleted it again and it re-appeared. So I went to bed.
Earlier today gbpvrtray showed that it was recording something "odd" which I think was still live tv. I found that the file R:\temp\Springwatch Close Encounters_4_20090615_20002100.mpg was 80GB so I shut down recording service, restarted it and deleted the file.
In pvrx2 log it shows
2009-06-15 21:29:48.876 VERBOSE [1] tv guide render [email=took@final]took@final[/email]: 0.0210136342793703
2009-06-15 21:29:49.052 ERROR [1] Unexpected error: System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: image
at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height)
at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Rectangle rect)
at GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.x5a9eb2e1e3e75ea1(ArrayList xdb709c688ba8f3ab)
at GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xdb012c437aec4a40(Boolean xd23bf32f3b17e3be)
at GBPVRX2.xb979ad394703258e.xfb409e85bd292293(String[] xf18a926310372520)
2009-06-15 22:27:44.494 ERROR [6] Failed to delete recording: System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'R:\temp\The Supersizers Eat The Eighties_4_20090615_21002200.ts' because it is being used by another process.
Just thought I'd post some success I had, even though many may already have known this. With the HD transition and file sizes swelling, especially for movies, I'd been trying transcoding MPEG-2 format .ts files into H.264 encoded MP4 files.
Handbrake was working ok on 30 minute shows, but the output was unreadable for longer shows/movies. I didn't know there was a 4GB file size limit on MP4 files since I'd never hit it ripping DVD's. Once I checked the "Large File Size" box in Handbrake, the resulting files were readable by VLC player and GB-PVR. I guess this box creates a 64-bit encoded file, rather that 32-bit, so the size limit is removed at the expense of compatibility with iPods, etc.
I know you can set up GB-PVR to auto transcode everything to save disk space, but I prefer to selectively transcode anything I plan on keeping long term, rather than wasting CPU cycles transcoding something I'm going to watch once and delete. (Takes about 2x real time to do the transcode on my Core 2 Quad@3.6GHz, and would likely take ~8x real time on my Core Duo based media PC@2.3GHz that I run GBPVR on)
Here are my final Handbrake settings:
File Format - mp4
Encoding - H.264 (Large File Size)
Bitrate - 7000kb/s (results in 50% smaller file than original for both 720p and 1080i recordings)
Audio - AAC, Dolby PL II
I know it is a non-supported device that in previous versions of gbpvr didn't work very well, but it works quite well with the current version except for this annoying quirk.
The first time a recording, or live TV (the logs are live TV) is made (probably after coming out of hibernate - I don't do standby anymore) often brings up the no signal/quality box. If I close that record window and go back to the channel (via tv guide) it works fine.
Any thoughts or suggestions most welcome - there doesn't seem to be any updated drivers for the device that I can see.
I get following message when trying to load shows in WIzimage grabber
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: InvalidArgument=Value of '0' is not valid for 'index'.
Parameter name: index
at System.Windows.Forms.ListBox.SetSelected(Int32 index, Boolean value)
at WizImageGrabber.frmWizImageGrabber.LoadShowListBox()
at WizImageGrabber.frmWizImageGrabber.cmdLoadShows_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.
