This ought to be very simple, but something is missing. I click on Search Guide and I get a column of letters, starting with A. If I click on (for example) D, then a second column appears with several programs starting with D. But I can't find a way (I'm probably overlooking something) to get the third column which shows when the selected program in column 2 is being broadcast. The wiki says very little about this.

Any suggestions? What am I missing?

My ISP provides an IPTV feed with h264 video and mpeg audio.

I have setup the external component of the Graph/ External recorder plugin to record this however the plugin appears to only want to write an mpg-ps stream.

In this case, I have to transcode the h264 to mpeg2 and write to mpeg2-ps file. Unfortunately I have a lower spec htpc (P4@2gHz + Radeon 9250 video) and it is struggling...I've had to resize the incoming stream to 272 x 288 and the whole transcode -> write file -> decode and display maxes out the cpu to 100% and provides a greatly reduced video quality.

I've looked at the settings for graphrecorder and did not come across any options that enters this.

If the incoming stream could be dumped to a ts file, this would greatly reduce cpu utilisation and the video quality is far better. Is it possible that the plugin could have an option or accomodate the possibility of the external/ graph component writing to a TS file?

I greatly appreciate the effort of carpeVideo, NormanR and Ubu in creating and developing the external/ software recorder plugins. Out of all Windows PVR software, this plugin gives GB-PVR the greatest flexibility to adapt to any source. As there are more h264 video feeds and as IPTV becomes more popular, the ability for this plugin to write to a ts file would greatly enhance GB-PVR.

We just got a new STB (Motorola DCT6416) for watching and recording digital HDTV. I am trying to integrate this STB somehow with GBPVR. We would like to be able to:

• preview live STB channels using the EPG in GBPVR
  
• record shows from STB channels using the EPG in GBPVR
  

• STB firewire connection to HTPC
  
• STB RCA composite connection to HTPC tuner card (hauppauge 500mce)
  
• Successfully installed firewire drivers and software (timmmore)
  
• confirmed firewire connection using vlc
  
• built and tested live preview graph for STB firewire source
  

• should I be using the first tab (via executables) and/or the other tabs?
  
• what goes in the device ID?
  
• what goes in the start recording executable and parameters?
  
• same question for the now, post, stop, start preview, etc fields?
  
• will this setup turn the STB box on and off as required to tune and/or record?
  

Comcast just called and told me they were going to upgrade me to the digital cable package at no cost to me. So, I need to upgrade my tuner to record my new digital channels. I currently have an ATI 550Pro in there. Which I may leave to have additional recording capabilities, or install it in my other machine. Either way, what would you suggest? I was looking at the Hauppauge 2250, which should do the job, right? Any thing else I should look at?

I am a bit out of the loop when it comes to digital recording formats here in the US of A, how would my streams be saved (what compression, container, etc.)?

Thanks,
Dave

I wonder if you can spot what error may be causing the EPG to not empty itself during the overnight EPG update?
The "production" server was running the previous version so I thought I'd better update to the current before asking - same error.

Sources are:-
DVB-1 BDA DVB-T xmltv EPG
DVB-2 BDA DVB-T same xmltv EPG as above
RF1 PVR150 analogue terrestrial same EPG as above
Sat PVR150 analogue from STB same EPG as above
S350 BDA DVB-S same EPG as above
composite PVR150 NO EPG
301-302 DVB same tuner as DVB-1 for two channels and DVB EPG

I tried yesyterday with the last source as NO EPG with the same result (but smaller log!).

any thoughts most welcome as the occasional Radio Times EPG shifts of a few minutes are getting annoying on the display (I've not seen them for a long time until now).

Quote:2009-04-18 18:06:05.484 VERBOSE [13] Skipping EmptyEPG, since not all EPG updates were successful...

If you want PrimeTV on your GBPVR box like I do, then please sign my petition. I plan on passing this on to Sky TV (owners of Prime) once I get enough signatures.

Petition for Prime on FreeView

Thanks very much!

Sub I was recording two shows and it looks like when one ended, the video duration got set to zero and I had to exit. Log attached.

Martin

I recently replaced my broken PVR250 card with a HVR1950 box. It works fine with Hauppauge's software. I couldn't get my old GBPRV, v0.99.5 to work in Live TV mode, so I decided to upgrade to v1.3.11. I have managed to get LiveTV to work OK. I also have downloaded EPG and the TV Guide shows the array of programs.

Next, I set up one of the upcoming programs to record, but when the time came, nothing happened. The little icon (G) didn't turn green, as it usually does, and no file appeared in the appropriate folder. Also, during the recording time, while looking at "Pending", it says it is recording. Double clicking on this entry, I then clicked on "play", but play did not occur. Yet, if I click on LiveTV, up comes the program I'm supposed to be recording.

What am I missing? Thanks, for any help.

I just started using GB-PVR on my HTPC and my wife and I LOVE it! Currently we're using a wireless mouse (and keyboard) to control the machine. We've been wondering if there was any way to remap the video controls to better fit the mouse (rather than a remote).

Ideally we'd like to be able to left click or space to pause/play the videos as well as turn off the right click to jump back to the menu (we've accidentally done that a LOT of times now).

Any help would be great! Thanks!

Hi,

A scan shows the 3 radio stations I get here, and trying to play them appears to work (things pause for a bit as the tuner is initialised as it does for TV), but I get no sound. I can stop ok and play TV. TV is working fine, with audio.

I've installed and registered the lame.ax file as per the wiki.

Here are the logs.