I had to trade in my comcast box since one of the channels wasn't tuning in anymore. Much to my dismay, when I got home, the box I was given did not have a firewire port.
I've tried the using the blaster that came with it, but recording seems to be flakier with the blaster.
Has anyone here had success w/ the blaster? Any particular settings that make it work better? or do I need to go back to the office & try to haggle for a box w/ a firewire port?
I'm curious if you guys have looked at the change I made to the method of selecting the number of rows in the TV Guide. My method may be more elegant, but I'm unsure whether it gains anything.
I was pondering the idea of alternate TV Guide layouts, but I don't know that there's any need or demand for that. One that occurs to me is a widescreen layout where the listings go to the bottom of the screen and the selected show details appear on the side. Another might be a guide that shows 3 hours of programs instead of 2, if that is possible (I see there's a setting for that in config.xml, but it doesn't seem to do anything).
If there are to be alternate layouts, then having the selection of the number of rows separated from the selection of the base layout certainly makes sense.
I setup a recording, and although PVRX2 says it is recording, the status from the tray icon says my card is sleeping. Also, the recording is not saved to any file. However, watching live tv works fine.
Its not a problem with my card or cable, because I can record with virtualdub just fine.
I've been using a Nova-T PCI card for the last 3 years with GBPVR and am currently running v1.3.11. A couple of weeks ago, I needed to rescan because of the digital switchover in the UK, and now I cannot pick up half my channels.
I have run the test program scanchannelsbda_uk (Provided by Hauppauge on their support site) and this program picks up all the available channels.
When I run GBPVR config, I only get half the channels. I'm missing the BBC channels on MUX1.
I have a Hauppauge pvr150 card and I can't seem to get the IR blaster to work with GB. When I click to change the channels on the remote the channel changes on GB but not on the stb. So I'm guessing the ir blaster is the problem. I tried it with winTV2000 and can change the channels on the stb just fine.
Under Capture Sources what should I put for channel changer? I currently have .exe Channel Changer.
Hi Guys,
Looks fab, but can't get it to work.
HVR1100 card, works fine under WinTV 7, got all the channels, got EPG (from radiotimes) and than works via XML file (checked with TVG).
Gone through the guide with a fine toothed comb (errr....I think!).
Got loadsa codecs, 209 according to Gspot. (divx, h.264 etc) & muxes as well.
Capture device seems OK, used config to set it up, all channels listed, deleted card & re-created a number of times, always looks OK.
Start PVRX2 and get the lovely opening screen (blue) opening at "TV Listings" Hit it & it blinks & does nothing. Live TV - same.
Search Guide = does list programmes in alphabetical order & will apparently let me 'record' them, but nowt in the 'Recording -> Pending' list.
GBPVR ver 1.3.11
Show Status -> HVR1100 sleeping
pvxr2.exe.log says "no channels have been set up please use the config utility" but i HAVE! Honest! Lotsa times!
Even the 'Config' utility recognises them in the channels' tab, attached. Can't seem to upload the log files....
I'm not normally a dummy, but I can't help feeling I've missed something - any helpful suggestions gratefully received.
Best regards freakyfred
I'm now recording everything as dvr-ms files via a hauppauge 1600 card. I can't get the transcoding working quite yet but I've got a big enough drive in there that it isn't really an issue.
The main problem I'm having is that on some shows it will randomly stop playing in the middle. It's not paused as I can hit play and it will do nothing. If I hit the FF then it will continue playing. I imagine it's some spot in the file that can't be interpreted and is tripping up the playback codec? It seems like it would just skip to where it could continue playing though.
The other small issue is weird. If I go to live tv via the guide or directly via the remote button, the first channel doesn't tune and is just black with no sound. If I go up a channel then back it tunes in just fine. Not a huge deal, especially since we rarely watch anything live but annoying still.
