I was looking for some software to make my gbpvr server goto sleep from the command line and stumbled on some audio switching software that might be useful for some of you.
I remembered at one point someone said they had two sound cards and wanted to be able to change between them easily so one could be hooked up the the reviver for surround sound and the other to headphones for night time listing.
http://www.quicksoundswitch.toflo.de/eng/index.html
supports command line usage so it could be called as a custom task in gbpvr. I was looking a the guys sleep / shutdown / log off tool and it gets great reviews so I figure this tool is probably good as well.
http://www.vistaaudiochanger.com/About.aspx
my quick look over doesn't indicate that this supports command line but it does support hot keys for switching so you could change with either you keyboard or remote if you used hip or something similar. This was linked to form the previous software's page and looks nice.
On a side note does any one know of a way to make windows run a command on resume form sleep so I could wake my gbpvr server before gbpvr starts up. It would be nice to only wake it when its needed instead of waking at a specific time everyday and avoid the mad dash to wake up the server on weekends when my wife turns on the client and the servers not up.
I want to install ML2 or ML3 for use with the PCH and I wonder if there a consensus on which is the prefered version right now. Sorry I have been following for a while but I want to offer it as an alternative.
If it matters anymore, I plan on using it with MLPanel.
recently I noticed while watching AVIs through GB-PVR that the volume icon appears (At the top of the screen) and won't go away. I have a Hauppage remote, and the volume buttons don't seem to make the volume icon go up or down...not sure how this got on the screen in the first place - and also can't seem to make it go away!
This doesn't seem to be a problem when watching recorded TV shows - just AVI files.
I see an updated Win7 driver for the HVR-1600 in the Windows 7 optional updates. Details of update state published March 2009 and releases 21 April 2009. Currently using Win 7 drivers dated 28 Jan 2009.
Any pros and cons to updating? I'm in the "if it ain't broke...." camp with these drivers due to the rescanning required. I do however have an issue with HD recordings freezing and the timescale substituting seconds for minutes. I'm more inclinded to look to codecs to resolve that but thought I'd ask the community.
I had timeline problem w/ GBPVR recordings from my HDPVR that Martin suggested may be driver related. I thought about stepping up to the latest HDPVR driver, but it appears that it records in M2TS format.
How is image scaling supposed to work? When I look at horizontal photo images full screen, they always seem to be fill the screen even though typically my images are not 16:9 ratio. Is there a setting that controls this?
Also what does this setting do? Can it be used to stop the problem where somewhat randomly images play at a terrible resolution?
Can anyone suggest a good codec, combination of codecs, and/or gbpvr settings for playing back transport stream recordings. I am using a firewire connection from my Motorola STB with GraphRecorder and GBPVR but I don't seem to have a codec which plays the TS recordings very good.
I upgraded my Microsoft Vista computer recently, and I'm using the latest GBPVR and Hauppaugh's 950Q. The system records nicely, but when I play it back, the sound drops off about 30 seconds into the recording. The same symptoms happen during Live TV. Forwarding and rewinding does not bring back the sound. If I play back the recording outside of GBPVR on Microsoft's Media Center, the sound is fine. I've tried the various combinations for audio decoder & renderer, but it did not make a difference. Any suggestions? Thanks!
