This is a general question regarding anybody's experience and/or success with Firewire capable set top boxes from cable companies into GBPVR. Specifically USA Comcast folks.
What boxes work?
What do they provide? (Signal thru Firewire or just channel change.)
How'd you do it?
I'd love to step up the cable box abilities in my home.
The ability to set my slideshow/music to random. I have seen other posts which say to install plugin X or software Y and hope it works - I'd rather have something built in. Oh, and the ability to loop music and photos.
Ability to adjust the size of the font and window in config. I have a old TV with the font size cranked up as large as I can, however I am unable to adjust the font size for windows like config. I've found a workaround by using the magnifier. Also, If the config window scrolled, that would be great!
Move the cancel button away from the close button in the recordings section. They are right next to each other, and I've hit them by accident more than once. (Yes, I've already found the check box in config for the extra "are you sure..." window, thank goodness!) In general it would great if I could move any of those buttons around if I want. Another button I have a hard time with is play & resume. I'd love for resume to be on top.
To be able to remove the exit button from the main menu without the bug monster getting me.
It will be nice to have channel profiles match properly with their EPG equivalent.
I'm currently using Comcast so the first 80 channels from the EPG match correctly however for the QAM part you will have to do this manually and any other channel that is transmitted in its digital version.
Being searching for a definition or purpose of these files on the wiki and the forum.
Could you please help updating the description or usage of these files for me and for the new people coming to use GBPVR.
Thanks, File
Before I started using GBPVR, I had a Panasonic DVD Recorder which had a feature that I could play back a recording at 1.3 x Normal Speed. It would do pitch correction so voices sounded normal; just talking faster.
I assume that this is probably exclusively a function of the CODEC but it would be very nice to have this ability again.
I use MediaMVP and Popcornhour A100 exclusively for playback of files so this might present a problem even if an appropriate codec could be found.
Is there anything that could be done to add this fast playback with pitch correction to GBPVR?
Thought I'd post this in case anyone else has similar problems.
I was getting intermittent jerkiness / "micro-stuttering" of Freeview (H.264/HE-AAC) video and audio from a Hauppauge HVR-900 DVB-T USB stick, on both Live-TV and recordings. Since playback of downloaded Freeview TS samples was completely smooth with minimal CPU, I was pretty sure that it wasn't a codec or hardware acceleration problem.
After a lot (and I mean a lot!) of tweaking, I eventually put this down to signal quality causing dropped frames, as I have a number of splitters between my antenna and the tuner, no line-of-sight to the transmitter, and the symptoms were worse with HD channels.
I was about to give up on Freeview completely when I discovered I was also getting some similar symptoms (but not so bad) from the analog tuner, so I decided to investigate a bit further.
Turns out it really *does* matter which USB port the tuner is plugged into, what other USB devices are on the same internal hub and possibly what other PCI devices are on the same IRQ.
Of my eight USB motherboard ports (on 4 internal hubs), only one gives perfect playback and only then if the second port off that hub is unused or has something very low bandwidth and usage like a mouse plugged in (not the IR receiver!)
Of the other seven ports, quality ranges from slight intermittent hiccupping to completely unwatchable with picture freezes, breakup, pixellation and the dreaded green bars, depending on which port and which other devices are plugged in.
Also got the best results with PCI latency set to 32 in BIOS. Possibly something to do with USB polling, USB / USB-PCI bridge bandwidth, PCI BUS or virtual IRQ contention? Anyway, by trial and error unplugging USB devices and swapping them around, it finally seems to work perfectly on all analog and Freeview SD and HD channels.
I've had this problem for the past few revisions of gbpvr. I thought I read somewhere it was resolved in 1.3.11 but I just upgraded and still seem to have it. When viewing a recording if I press the info button then playback stops and I'm sent back to the main screen.
I have attached logs. I tried it today at 18:41 .
Sorry if i missed any talk of this in the new revision. I checked the survival guide but found nothing.
Hi, sorry if this is a boring read for some but I have been reading the forums/wiki for a few weeks now and have some questions.
What I would like to do is turn my dell Pentium D 3.0 ghz dual core with 3 GB of ram into a media server running gbpvr. I have installed a hvr-1600 and another atsc capture card I removed from a new Gateway computer into the machine as I would like dual tuner capability. I dont have that working as yet but dont forsee any problems.
My problems come in here: I want to capture OTA ATSC from local stations (have antenna in attic) and then push them from Gbpvr server to several tv's in the house over cat5. I have 1 HDTV and 2 SD tv's. Can I do this ????
I would like to watch HD on the HD set but am confused about the process. I was initially thinking of getting a MediaMVP but later found out it wont do HD. So I started looking at the PCH A-110. But by the looks of it that thing costs $280 (give or take). Is that right? If so, I dont think I am going that route.. Are there any other alternatives for HD in a set top box?
So to get to the crux of it, can I record the OTA ATSC and send it to multiple tv's?? If I get a MediaMVP for my SD set can I then watch the same show, Live with pause capability on the HD set and then go in and finish watching it on the SD set???
I have tried searching the forums but there seems to be a steep learning curve with this technology due to the extensive use of acronyms..
I spend more time googling the words found in this forum than actually reading and understanding the posts here...
