I had mine set @ 13Mbps constant (constant bitrate mainly because it made skipping easier with my PCH)
I have my cable box set to 720p (even though my set is 1080p) because I thought it would give me a better bitrate/pixel ratio. Does that matter at all?
Would a given bitrate be less prone to smearing & artifacts @ 720p than at 1080i? I could probably set the bitrate lower since Comcast compresses the crap out of everything anyway...
After I map my Channels to the EPG, using the Map Channel button, I cannot view some of the channels in there. I don't know what information to post for you all to help us out. I am Using a Happauge HVR-1600, I can watch all the channels using WinTV, but some of them I CANNOT view in the GB-PVR Preview Window or PVRx2. It's just certain channels, mostly the main ones for my area. I was wondering why. If you need some more information, let me know what to post for you guys.
I just did a system reinstall, and everything is working fine again except movies I shot w/ my blackberry. They play in Quicktime, and even in WMP (I installed a directshow adapter). In GB, they just don't play (no error, just a pause then nothing). They played just fine before, as well.
Hey all, I did some more scanning after upgrading to 1.3.11 using the base qam.ini file and again it didn't find anything. After upgrading to the latest version of Haup drivers for my HVR1600 I was able to scan by country instead off all countries (that never worked before). After doing that I was able to build a qam.ini file that works perfectly. It's pretty much the same as the base except each entry is shifted by either 1250 or 1150 KHz. Give this a try!
Hi, I just installed gbpvr. Running XP, Service pack 3, 4 gigs ram, AMD dual core AM2 processor with a brand new Hauppauge 1600 card. I have two real annoying problems and a question.
1. In the config program, anytime I hit the OK button to exit an area, it takes FOREVER to close the window I was working in. I've mainly noticed it in the capture setup area, but that's the part of setup I'm using the most. Also, the config program has locked up on me a few times as well.
2. I've setup a QAM capture entry, and mapped some channels to QAM entries, but when I go to the viewer, the mapped entries don't work. When I go back into setup to check them, they are checkmarked and assigned to the proper channels. What am i doing wrong?
3. Is there any way to view the raw QAM channels in the viewer. I'm having trouble identifying some of the channels, and it would help to hear the audio.
Hello, I had an issue with my second hard drive not showing up earlier due to a faulty SATA cable. I have all of my recordings saved to this hard drive and since this happened none of the old recordings show up in GBPVR even though they are on the hard drive and have not been moved. Is there a way to add them back to the recordings in the program? If not is it possible to pull the episode information from the video files so that I can rename them with the episode number and title? Thank you for the help.
I'm new to home theater, and have a few questions.
Here is my setup. I have a Pinnacle PCTV 310i TV Card, Nvidia GeForce 8600GT video card (512MB memory), Core2Duo E6850 CPU, 4GB Memeory and Vista Ultimate 32-bit. I have the Imon remote (and display/remote device mounted inside one of the DVD bays), and I have a Logitech Harmony remote, although I'm not yet too crazy about that.
Now, I want to set up the system so I can change channels on my Technomate (5400) sat receiver. I understand i need an IR Blaster to do that. I also have a cable box and it would be nice to be able to control that from time to time. I'm willing to buy another TV card if I need to in order to get this set up. If I do that, I'd prefer one with two tuners in it and one that is USB as my motherboard only has 3 slots.
Any recommendations on what I should do here? I did a search and wasn't able to find something that made sense to me as the solution, so pointers to other posts is welcomed, as are new, fresh information.
Today things went better with testing then expected, and now I am ready to begin a wider public release. To get an idea of what to expect, check out this earlier thread http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=41809 if you haven't already
Right now this is an upgrade only a full install guide will follow, probably with the next new GB-PVR version. If you haven't installed mvpmcx2 yet, follow the Dummies Guide instructions. Also note that HDMI is not supported at this time.
Note that OSD is a bit washed out in 720p mode 1080i/p mode does look better.
Usage
mvpmcx2 has always emulated an MVP but now this is complete. For those that haven't used an MVP before, the remote key reference is here http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manua...dReference The names on the remote keys are a little different as follows
Angle = Record
Source = Menu
Return = Back
Next = Skip
Prev = Replay
Repeat = Prev Channel (Different then in the earlier mvpmcx2)
Additionally based on the tester's feedback I did implement the NMT Video Zoom feature to toggle between "Full Screen", "Fit Screen" and "Crop"
Troubleshooting
The mvpmcx2 client is now a full media player when running with GB-PVR so in the initial release I do expect a few problems to come up. Please try and document the problem as best you can and open up a message on it with the messages.
If you find a problem mpeg ts file, that won't seek, play or plays without sound (and it isn't a HE-AAC file), please telnet to your PCH and issue the command cat /tmp/dumpts.txt and copy the output into a message on the forum. Keep the source video file because I might ask you to create a 20 MB SD or 100 MB HD snip and upload it to a free site like megaupload or rapidshare and provide a link.
One caution is that if the file time isn't very representative of the file, there probably are multiple timelines in the file so skipping won't work, but it might play and you might be able to use FF/RW through the file. I feel the best solution for these is to use TSMuXeR from http://smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html to fix the time.
Finally a big thanks to Sheik Yerbouti, BrainStormer, BrettB, dark_half, tcmy95 and lehanne, who really helped me get to this point. Of course sub helped a lot and he had to make significant changes to GB-PVR for the NMT, which probably will help mvpmc users too.
I look forward to reading about your experience good and bad.
Today things went better with testing then expected, and now I am ready to begin a wider public release. To get an idea of what to expect, check out this earlier thread http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=41809 if you haven't already
Right now this is an upgrade only a full install guide will follow, probably with the next new GB-PVR version. If you haven't installed mvpmcx2 yet, follow the Dummies Guide instructions. Also note that HDMI is not supported at this time.
Note that OSD is a bit washed out in 720p mode 1080i/p mode does look better.
Usage
mvpmcx2 has always emulated an MVP but now this is complete. For those that haven't used an MVP before, the remote key reference is here http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manua...dReference The names on the remote keys are a little different as follows
Angle = Record
Source = Menu
Return = Back
Next = Skip
Prev = Replay
Repeat = Prev Channel (Different then in the earlier mvpmcx2)
Additionally based on the tester's feedback I did implement the NMT Video Zoom feature to toggle between "Full Screen", "Fit Screen" and "Crop"
Troubleshooting
The mvpmcx2 client is now a full media player when running with GB-PVR so in the initial release I do expect a few problems to come up. Please try and document the problem as best you can and open up a message on it with the messages.
If you find a problem mpeg ts file, that won't seek, play or plays without sound (and it isn't a HE-AAC file), please telnet to your PCH and issue the command cat /tmp/dumpts.txt and copy the output into a message on the forum. Keep the source video file because I might ask you to create a 20 MB SD or 100 MB HD snip and upload it to a free site like megaupload or rapidshare and provide a link.
One caution is that if the file time isn't very representative of the file, there probably are multiple timelines in the file so skipping won't work, but it might play and you might be able to use FF/RW through the file. I feel the best solution for these is to use TSMuXeR from http://smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html to fix the time.
Finally a big thanks to Sheik Yerbouti, BrainStormer, BrettB, dark_half, tcmy95 and lehanne, who really helped me get to this point. Of course sub helped a lot and he had to make significant changes to GB-PVR for the NMT, which probably will help mvpmc users too.
I look forward to reading about your experience good and bad.
