Just updated my W 7000 to RC1 and usually since I've kept GBPVR on another drive, usually reinstalls are simple. Not this time. Started from scratch but trying to get live tv to play on some channels doesn't work. Whether clicking Live TV or using the guide to view certain channels, I get nothing. Other channels work as they should (this is all analog I'm talking about).
Once I get a channel to work I can then change channels to the ones that won't work if you try them first.
Logs attached.

I'm looking to see if GBPVR will allow me to browse my video library and add a marker to any file, to indicate that a particular individual has watched it.

Currently, I'm just using the free Xplorer2 file browser, in Details view with the Comments field visible. In the comments we put the initials of those people who have already watched it (Xplorer2 makes it easy with a quick ALT-Z) , i.e. "ap" would mean that Ariana and Pete have both watched this video. This is REALLY useful, as it keeps track of what episodes each person is up to, and when you're by yourself, you may choose to watch something that your partner has already seen, leaving more choice for when you watch things together.

We also have a convention putting any paused position in brackets after the person's initial, e.g. "a(23)p(37)" would mean that Ariana has watched this up to the 23 minute and Pete the 37 minute. This helps when anyone comes back to finish watching a movie or episode. [We don't actually do it, but Ratings could also be stored like this, e.g. "a[4]" meaning Ariana watched it and rated it a 4.]

Storing this info in the file's Comments field ( which is saved in an Alternative Data Stream) means that we can also move the file around to other drives or machines (backups, to the van's laptop, etc) and the info travels with it. And viewing the server-located file from any machine on the network exposes the Comments info too, without needing any client-server database sync.

(Aside: In order to supports the Comments field, files can not have an .avi extension (I'm not sure why?). I just mass-rename .avi files to .mp4 extension, and my preferred VLC player plays them fine.)

I haven't yet found a media player that can meet these requirements as effectively as a simple file-based explorer like Xplorer2. What about GBPVR?

I'm using the Hauppauge PVR 500 dual tuner card. I'm unable to get the second tuner to show what I have connected to it, all it is showing is what is connected to the first tuner. I have followed all the directions from the wiki and am confident both deceives were installed correctly (both show up in the config and detector and the board numbers match the device type detector.) I would prefer to use a manual EPG. I've been trying to get this to work for several hours today trying every possible combination of settings I can think of with no luck. Has anyone had a similar problem or have any ideas on what I can do?

The VS developers (in their infinite wisdom) have done something to VS2008 Express editions to break designing SQLite datasets/datatable adapters visually.

I've recently upgraded to VS2008 C# and just found out I can't make some necessary changes to a dataset. :mad:

Has anybody tried reverting a VS2008 project to VS2005? Is it possible?

Cheers,
Brian

Recently I've noticed that the TV Guide is loosing days and I reckon it's due to the auto update EPG failing.

I've attached what appears to be a relevant log. Lots going on it in but not quite sure what I'm looking for :confused:

GB-PVR is set to auto update the EPG ever day at 1pm, to wake machine and do a 'complete EPG reload'. EPG source is UK 'Freeview' DVB.

Manually updating the EPG via the System screen works fine.

I use xmltv using radio times as the grabber to get my tv listings. But radio times do not have the listings for The Military Channel.

Do anyone know where I can get the tv listings for this channel in an XML format that can be imported into PVRx2???

If not I might write a grabber for this channel, and would anyone else be interest in this once complete.

Corn

I have bought a system comprising a PC with Vista Home Premium and 3000 GB of hard disk space. It includes a FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital4 for receiving free to air television in Canberra, Australia.

The expectation was that I would be able to watch or record shows, strip them of unwanted parts and replay them with subtitles (for the hearing impaired members of the family).

Microsoft Media Centre does not handle subtitles for this region.

At present I use the DViCO FusionHDTV software that came with tuner board for viewing and recording live TV. It is OK but has some deficiencies with subtitles on replay.

I have had limited success with Comskip and VideoRedo in processing the transport files from FusionHDTV software.

I am hoping the GBPVR will provide an alternative that will provide all the functionality I need, including processing subtitles. I have downloaded and installed the current version of GBPVR, but have been unable to configure the Tuner card.

In Vista the two tuners are each identified as FusionHDTV USB, Avstream Capture (DBVT DUAL).

In GBPVR Configuration, the program identifies the Capture source as Dvico Fusion Dual Digital USB, when the check box ‘Only show devices detected in this machine’ is ticked.
Trying to populate the list of channels gave the error message “GB-PVR was unable to start the BDA device you have configured. Check the device is configured properly and not already in use”. (I had closed all Divco software.)


I referred to the GBPVR Documentation: Config – Define HDTVSource and found the following message:

“Troubleshooting tip: if no channel found, close config file, run ReRegisterFilters, (Start→All Programs→GBPVR) then try again. Sometimes installing and registering mpv (video)and mpa (audio) decoders free from free-codecs.com helps. If still nothing, do a scan and check your config.exe.log and config.exe-native.log files. If no clue after that, head over to support forum, zip and attach those files, somebody will help.”

I have run the ReGegisterFilters bat. I did not attempt the mpv and mpa install because I did not know what it meant. I will attached the two log files in zipped form if I can.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
I set up a client PC and successfully connected it to my server. When I try to play regular ts recordings on the client it looks like it's about to work, then the screen flicks back to the recordings list.

I have attached the logs.

Thanks heaps
Julian.


[edit] ok, the file doesn't play in windows media player when I browse to it either...

I've had GBPVR stable for many months now under XP now with my analog PVR150MCE tuner.

So I decided to try to see if I could get NZ Freeview to work, first with a no-name Chines USB DVB-T dongle off ebay (only partially successful) and then with a Hauppauge WinTv HVR-900 dual analog / DVB-T USB stick (better).

After many evenings spent trying to fix problems with jerky pictures, freezes, stutters, and pixellation related to signal quality, codecs, hardware acceleration and with quite different results depending on which USB port the tuner is plugged into, I *almost* have it usable except....

In Live Preview mode, when I try to record Freeview | HD the confirmation dialog comes up but when I click "Record" the picture just freezes with the dialog still present, until I exit PVRX2. The recording does seem to happen behind the scenes though. Other channels seem to record OK. I also get picture freeze if I change channels off HD and then back onto it again.

With LiveTV in Timeshift mode, the video and audio quite rapidly go out of sync by a very noticeable amount (on all channels), which makes this mode unusable.

Any ideas what could be causing these symptoms?

I'm using Cyberlink PDV7 H.264 / VMR9 for video and Monogram AAC /System default for audio. DXVA is definitely working on my nvidia 9400GT. Live preview delay is set to 2000.

Haven't even tried analog on the HVR-900 yet, but expecting this will bring a whole new swag of problems!

Any help gratefully appreciated.

I have had gbpvr running well for some time and was congratulating myself that it was finally sorted. I like it very much.

However....

Last couple of days - my recurring recordings (set by clicking on the appropriate time slot in program guide) have appeared with ridiculous time slots. eg. 6 pm news shown on guide as 6 to 7 pm. I ask it to record season daily in this time slot. When i check recordings/recurring it comes up as 4.30 pm to 8pm. The recording is one hour when it is made but the first hour from 4.30. The program guide seems correct but somehow recording does not follow the guide.

I am using epg nz to generate the xml file. My computer clock is correctly set.

Any suggestions gratefully accepted.