I am new to EWA but WOW this is an amazing tool. I am mainly interested in the streaming portion with ewa because I travel allot and I am not able to watch all of my local sports teams, so the streaming feature is a very attractive feature for me.

I have it all working... No problem with ports, able to log in, all of that. I am even able to stream...BUT only at very low qualities. Low res and low bit rate.

My provider speed is 17Mb/s down and a steady 3-4Mb/s up during the day and sometimes near 6 at night. I am however running a 10/100 Linksys wireless wrt54g router, running ddwrt firmware, wired for the htpc. I am running vlc 8.6 on both ends

My remote client location has a 16Mbs down speed...

I don’t think network bandwidth is problem considering I move about a gig of data from one machine to another on the same network in about 10-15 min. I host my own ftp off of the same network and I get consistent transfers in both directions of 100k-275k/sec on a regular basis.

I feel like it may be a setting issue with vlc or something. I have tried many variations of settings, read thru the forums and used the recommended settings etc.

I was wondering if anyone could share what quality they successfully and consistently stream with.

I can successfully stream at wmv2 512, 320x213, audio mp4 64k 1 ch, with an occasional break in the stream, I assume buffering.

If I go any higher in the resolution, or bitrates the video plays for a second or two....stops, acts as if it is buffering for 30 seconds, then vlc minimizes as if no file is open. WMP does the same thing. Kind of strange I thought.

I would like to be able to get the video up to the LAN bitrate and 480x320 without any problems. It is just hard to see the numbers/scores on such low resolution/bitrate.

Thoughts anyone?

Thanks!: D

Just got my Hardware to make my HTPC and after googling a lot and reviewing all kind blogs and web pages, decided to choose GBPVR.
Installed XP Media Center SP3 and using HVR1600.
I have a copy of PowerDVD 8 and also plan to Install WMP 11 and CCCP.
So before installing gbpvr need someone to explain or help me understanding what is all the Buzz about video/audio decoding?
Am I covered with the above applications installed or Do I need more?

Can someone please point me to a guide or How-To get rid of all that annoying microsoft-babysitting-security in Vista, all that "do you really want to do this" asking is killing my patience.

Thanks

Hello,

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I searched the forums, but cannot seem to find the answer, so...

Sometime in the near future, I'm going to upgrade my box from 512 MB of RAM to 2 GB, but until then, I would like to be able to make the GBPVRRecordingService.exe NOT start with my Windows XP Pro SP2 machine.

I cannot find anything in the Config tool to make this not start with Windows and I also cannot find anything in the System Configuration Utility of Windows that makes it not start with Windows. In the System Config Utility, there's only an option called GB-PVR Tray.

I unchecked that, but after looking in Process Explorer, I see that GBPVRRecordingService.exe is still starting with Windows.

I even do a search on Google and no answers from there.

Also, I know that this is not really a big deal, but until I upgrade my limited RAM, I'd like to NOT have to go into Process Explorer each time my system is started.

I'm new to gbpvr. I just bought a MEDIAMVP (wireless/flash version). I was able to get Mediamvp to boot up gbpvr. But when I try to click on "net radio" MEDIAMVP reboots and says, it can't locate the GUI server but eventually returns back to the first GBPVR screen.

Has anyone seen this error before?

I also get the same error when I try playing a stream through Ubustream but I think that's expected since ubustream channel mode does not work with PVRX2.

Is there a way to video online video through the MEDIAMVP?


Thanks,
Aliusa

I'm running windows vista ultimate. I finished the installation of windows media center a few nights ago and now all of the programs that gbpvr records have huge file sizes and nothing on my computer can play them. Even if I record a few minutes it's a hundreds of megs and unreadable. The other mpegs recorded earlier are just fine and can be read and displayed by windows. I can still watch live tv without a problem... only the recorded programs in gbpvr aren't working.

I'm guessing it's done something to the codecs.. but I have no idea where to begin to solve this problem.

Any ideas?

Hi there team. We are shortly moving to Sydney from NZ, and I would really appreciate some advice from people in Sydney who have successful GBPVR based setups.
I'm really interested in the best EPG options, I currently use xmltvnz which has been rock solid here. My initial research threw up bigs cans of worms just in the sheer variety of similar Aussie solutions. I see the commercial option in ICETV, but is there a reliable free grabber?
The tuning etc should be pretty straightforward, so really the EPG I could use some help with. I think I'll try and stick with GBPVR as the family has come to love it, so the easier it is for me to transition the better.

Thanks :-)

I am getting frustrated I have been trying for almost a week to get everything working with MVPs. I am moving my GBPVR computer to another room away from my home theater setup and want to use a MVP. I am using GBPVR 1.3.11 and the mvpmc-20080930 dongle bin with a Hauppauge 1600 using the digital side. All of my recordings are TS files the video is fine but the audio is off. I have read so many post that my eyes hurt and I still can't get it right. Can someone post a setup that works. What dongle bin? What video decoder? What Audio decoder?

Thanks,
Tom

SearchWizX2 is a great plugin. Congratulation to the author!

I found this little bug however:

Scrolling up the search result listing, by pressing the Up arrow or
Page Up, causes SearchWizX2 to close to the main page. From then
on it will not work normally until PVRX2 is restarted. I also
noticed that when the plugin is about to close, the title
description at the bottom of the page is gone.

To avoid this bug I need to scroll the result listing down only.
To scroll up I must exit the listing (return to the left pane)
then re-enter and scroll down again.

The log files are attached.

jactry

Hi everybody,
This is my very first post here.


First of all I would like to say that I'm amazed with this GBPVR software. I set it up with a HdHomerun ATSC tuner, xmltv and a few plugins and I have been using it for a while now. The initial set up work (epg, mpeg decoder, multiplexer, etc) was a little tricky but I can say that I now have a full featured working HD-PVR on my laptop!

This is the first of two bugs I would like to report here: LiveTV works very well until I use the escape button to exit to the main menu. From then on, it appears to be impossible to get the tuner signal again when I re-enter LiveTV. The only thing I get is a "No signal detected" message or something like that. In fact I need to quit PVRX2 and restart it to get LiveTV working again. I got used not to touch the escape button but to use the backspace button instead which keeps the TV image on in a smaller window.

I logged the activity while triggering the problem (log files attached). Hope someone sees something.

jactry