So how did everyone receiving US OTA digital do yesterday?

I had a few of my channels switch around noon, but the rest didn't switch until midnight. Given the hap-hazzard nature of this whole excercise, I'm surprised they all switched the same day. I didn't want to scan and map twice, so I just let the dead ones lie until they all switched.

As to which ones switched, I had about half of my main 12 channels move around... the original VHF-Hi channels all moved back to their original channels (7, 9, 11, 13), while the original VHF-Lo (2, 4, 5) channels stayed on UHF. I understand it's that way in most markets, because the VHF-Lo frequencies require a much larger antenna to receive well, and are more susceptible to impulse noise which wreaks havoc on digital streams. My UHF-optimized antenna doesn't get VHF-Lo well at all, but does quite well on VHF-Hi so this all worked well for me.

Channel 2 actually took the UHF channel 9 had been using (43), so for half the day we could still watch channel 2 by picking 9 from the guide.

On the upside of all of this, my channels all seem to come in better now. Specifically channels 7 and 13 (formerly on UHF 53 and 66 respectively) could not be received at all by my USB tuner before, now they come in perfectly. No doubt this a combination of the frequency change and an increase in broadcast power. So at last both of my tuners have all the channels.

So my other pvr just died. Since I have gbpvr running on a main machine, I was thinking about using either popcorn hour or MediaMVP.

I thought there was something about one or both being able to be over written as a gbpvr client, but can't find anything on it again.

Barring that, is one better than the other for view files I recorded through gbpvr?

I am leaning to the mvp only because popcorn hour is twice the price.

Also there is a WD media player, it has ethernet, but seems to require a hd to play anything.

I don't want to build another machine, and if I can play back over the network, I will be happy.

No HD, just regular cable.

Hi,

I have experiencing this problem once in a while but it's really time consuming trying to catch it. Appreciate if anyone experienced the same problem could help me on this. I schedule a recording at certain timing and before that the PC was in standby. I have noticed it wakes up and start recording (I could tell from the hardisk led is blinking) and sometime after an hour or so during recording I tried to control the pc via a usb keyboard but the PC will not respond and the screen is blank. At this moment I notice the hardisk led has stopped blinking and has confirmed the recording has stop. The recorded mpeg file is somehow corrupted and unable to play. I can't tell is this symptom under recording crash or PC hang during standby. Please help.

I have a number of AVI files which I'd like to convert to mpg so as to have pause/skip control over them like TV recordings when playing from my server via MediaMVPs

How might I best achieve this?

The conversions I've attempted result in files that play with the following characteristics:

AVI via VLC on clientPC = plays.
AVI via PVRX2 client = Sound; no video
AVI via MediaMVP = Video; no sound

MPG via VLC on clientPC = plays.
MPG via PVRX2 client = Video; no sound
MPG via MediaMVP = plays but no time-bar and skip is very unreliable/unpredictable, readily causes loss-of-sync, restart or even a hang.

AVIs are XviD(624x352)/MP3. MPGs are MPG2/AC-3 but I guess I need mpeg audio somehow or, perhaps, extra codecs/whatever on the server or, most probably, a better understanding of GB-PVR dependencies for various tasks.

For completeness: used mpegImport to generate an xml file for mpg files which I imported using GB-PVRConfig.

Changes I am making using the config tool aren't beng written to config.xml.

I open the config tool and change the default skin and select ok. Config.xml file date updates as expected but the active skin in config.xml doesn't update when I look at it with an XML editor. When I look at it with note pad it has updated. Whats going on here? Why would the config tool update the file in notepad view but not in xml view??

How do I get rid of previously scanned channels in the dropdown box when mapping digital channels to the EPG?

to explain further, I'm rescanning my digital antenna channels tonight because the long delayed analog shutdown has finally happened. About half of my digital stations have changed broadcast frequencies (most returning to their traditional channel assignments just vacated by the analog shutdown).

After doing a new scan, the channel list drop down contains both the old scan results and the new... it's not too hard to figure out which are the new ones since the list is in chronological order, but shouldn't it just display only the new scan results?

Hey guys!

I just downloaded GB-PVP and I just got to say that it´s a really good media center, BUT I have a few things that I need help with.

First of all How do I rename the "external" plugins in the Slick Main Menu?

I tried the solution according to some of the other threads by editing the language.xml but the problem is that I can´t find them. I just found the basic ones, like Video, Settings etc. I want to rename the once called Cinema, Web Cam, Music, RSS Reader and GameZone so that I can have the whole menu in one language... in swedish. So far it´s half in english and half in swedish.

Second of all How do I get the Cinema plugin to work?

I entered the IDs according to the wiki but I only get 2 out of the 3 cinema names to appear and that´s it. No movies appear at all. No trailers. Just the names of the two out of 3 cinemas. It states in the wiki that in sweden it´s a four digit ID, the one that I don´t get to appear only has a one digit ID according to bioprogrammet.nu.

Last but not least How to get MameUI32 to work in the GameZone plugin as well as other emulators/PC games?

I did as the threads AND as the wiki state but when I for example click on MameUI32 and Ultrastar deluxe in the GameZone menu I only get error messages and some times nothing at all. The applications never execute.

Can you help a newbie like me?

Thanx in advance!

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=42474

fla, can you have a look at the issue in the thread above?
Could this be an Xrecord-soecific issue?

k.

Looks like "smart meters" aren't all that smart. I wish I could be there to see this demonstration:

Quote:New electricity meters being rolled out to millions of homes and businesses are riddled with security bugs that could bring down the power grid, according to a security researcher who plans to demonstrate several attacks at a security conference next month...

"We can switch off hundreds of thousands of homes potentially at the same time," Davis, who has spent the past few months analyzing a half-dozen smart meters, told The Reg. "That starts providing problems that the power company may not be able to gracefully deal with."

Had everything working just fine for ages... then EPG stopped working (wouldn't update).
Read a few threads, attempted a few things (ex. http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=42481) and in the end messed up everything beyond recognition and did a reinstall

Anyway, if I click on TV Guide it blinks and does nothing. Not even a blank grid (which I once had).

not running Vista (there seems to be a fix for this problem)....

Any suggestions what I can do next?

I've tried updating the EGP, clearing it, re-doing the channels, etc. Now I am in need of some guidance! :o

thanks!

PS logs attached...

XMLTV plug in, Microsoft Legacy, XPSP2, Hauppage 1800, ATSC. GBPVR 3.11, popcorn Hour, Freenas.