I've noticed that using VMR9 the video looks a little washed out. Is it possible to add support for better video renderers. In particular I'm thinking of madVR http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=146228. But haali video renderer is nice too since you can at least set the luminance range 16-235 for video input so that blacks are really black and whites are white.
I want to view LiveTV using GBPVR and my Hauppauge HD PVR (H264). I installed GBPVR and the ArcSoft patch, added <PreferredHDPVRAudioFormat>AC3</PreferredHDPVRAudioFormat> to get the audio to work, set the video decoder to ArcSoft, and was able to view live TV, but the video stuttered. CPU utilization was about 10%, so it was using hardware acceleration just fine. Could be a problem with the ArcSoft decoder.
I wanted to try the MPC decoder since MPCHC works well and uses hardware acceleration for playback. I downloaded the MPCVideoDec.ax and registered it. Windows Media Player used it to play a H264 file, so that seemed ok. When I set GBPVR to use MPC filter as the video decoder, I get only audio. I tried all of the listed video renderers (VMR9 Custom, VMR9FE, EVR, and overlay), but no luck. I installed Haali splitter, but same result. What am I missing?
Here's a snippet from the log:
2009-05-09 21:10:16.843 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
2009-05-09 21:10:16.843 VERBOSE - Default DirectSound Device
2009-05-09 21:10:16.843 VERBOSE - MPC - Video decoder
2009-05-09 21:10:16.843 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
2009-05-09 21:10:16.843 VERBOSE - AC3Filter
2009-05-09 21:10:16.843 VERBOSE - ArcSoft Video Decoder
2009-05-09 21:10:16.843 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
2009-05-09 21:10:16.843 VERBOSE - Hauppauge HD PVR Encoder
2009-05-09 21:10:16.843 VERBOSE - Hauppauge HD PVR Capture Device
2009-05-09 21:10:16.843 VERBOSE - Hauppauge HD PVR Crossbar
Ok, so im currently building a solar space heater, in the typical kiwi #8 wire style - entirely home made. I will be making my own panels from old windows, getting a pair of pumps, and an old hot water cylinder/storage tank in which i will house water + rocks to hold the heat (heavily insulated). The basis of the system is such -
10m2+ of solar collector panels running water through some kind of heat exchanger (havent gotten entirely to that part yet, still deciding on materials/construction)
1x 200L+ tank with rocks to appreciate sufficient thermal mass
1x car heatercore + fan (obviously boxed up nicely as not to look terrible!)
2x pumps
so, when outside temp is hot enough that it will be generating decent heat vs the tank temperature, pump will operate to collect heat through solar panels.
internal pump will work when the following conditions are met - A) tank temp is significantly higher than internal temperature. B) time is within set limits/manual override is set to heat room.
I am heating a relatively small space, total of 30m2 or so, so nothing too significant. Obviously building this system with a view to increase panel size etc and have a decent project with it.
Temp sensing is done by dallas 1-wire sensors through serial port. 4 temp sensors monitor internal temp, tank top/bottom temp, and panel temp.
So far i am either logging through the two following methods -
now, to control the pump/fans i want to use relays via the parallel port of my pc - there are multiple ways of doing this, in many programming languages. I will be using windows xp as i will run it off my main gbpvr box, at least at first. both of the above progs output data from each sensor individually named with its own serial number for input into other programs. Logtemp offers many options for this, from xml, to csv, to straight to an sql db.
Now, my question is - i can program to the parallel port in many languages. What language would people recommend?
my options go from turbo c, to c#, to vb, java... i have had a very small amount of experience with vb in excel, but thats pretty much it. So i will be teaching myself from scratch - what i want to know is, what would be best for me to learn for future projects/programming? i dont want to learn a dead language!
any help appreciated
oh, of course - eventually i want to make a plugin for my gbpvr to be able to control the heating/cooling/variables with my remote, but thats the last step! This system wont be hot water heating just yet either, as i am in a rental - but i plan to make it able to be moved to a house when we buy one to be plumbed into the hot water to give hot water solar heating as well, with a 3rd pump + more sensors.
Is it possible to get key event notifications while a video is playing?
GBPVR.Public.IMenuTask.OnKeyDown does not seem to fire once the video starts. (Maybe because there is no way to differentiate which plugin to send the keypress to?)
I do note, though, that there is an IVideoPlayer that can be retrieved via getActiveVideoPlayer, and it has an onKeyDown. Can I use this to... somehow... respond to keypresses while a video is running?
when i switch from a atsc channel to a svideo-in ch. and that card is busy recording, i get black screen...it's almost as if it's trying to tune it, as i can wait there as long as i want and just hit ch down and it'll go back to previous channel. i thought it might be trying to display the [tuners are busy,select one that's recording below] message,so i hit down and ok, but it isn't...that didn't do anything..i just changed channel back and that worked fine..
so it seems like it doesn't know how to popup the busy dialog when changing channels in livetv...
when the tuner isn't busy, it changes fine...
just confirmed, changing channels in livetv from atsc to svideo channels, if the svideo ch's are busy, it doesn't do anything, just black screen, can successfully change ch back to atsc.
if svideo not busy recording, can change to and from svideo ch's fine..
expected to see 'busy' dialog where i could pick in-progress recording to watch, so i hit appropriate keys,in case i just wasn't 'seeing' it, and nothing happens, but can still change back to atsc ch fine...
i'm using the PCH2 pvrx2.exe currently...and can also confirm the resume problem w/that exe only happens on in-progress recordings,finished stuff resumes fine...
i'll try the 'official' 1.3.11 exe here soon to see if any diff...
need logs?
I can't find an entry for the GBPVRTSreader.ax filter/codec when I list codecs for my HTPC using Gspot. I can see and use it with GraphEdit and I have successfully registered it. One of the reasons I ask is I am trying to sort out TS rendering issues on my HTPC. All the other GBPVR filters/codecs appear in GSpot except the TSreader one - any guesses why?
I'm running GBPVR 1.3.11 and Moviewiz v1.0.25.1.... I have all my movies backed up to a drive as .iso image files and Deamon tools loaded.... When I select Movie Wizard from the GBPVR menu, it loads fine and all movies show up as they should, but when I select a movie and click "watch", the screen goes black and I can see that deamon tools mounts the image but the movie will not start...no matter how long I wait...
Now, If I hit escape, it will take me back to the GBPVR menu and I can select Moviewiz again, select the movie again and select watch again and it may or may not play this time....usually it takes at least 3 times but usually I have to do this 5 or more times....
I have tried manually unmounting the image between each attempt and I have tried mounting the image before the attempt...neither worked any differant.
Any ideas on what could be the problem?
Thanks,
Todd
If you need to see a log file, which file would you need?
Have problem that i don't have enough power out to the lnb´s only 0.5 V should be 12 V.
Cant find any manual over the card, have connection plug "format 3,5mm hole" in the back of the card but cant find out what thats it for. Can it be for external power supply??
