Ok, the setup.

1 capture card (Hauppauge 2250) on windows vista business with newest GB-PVR.

Card has only 2 tuners (both analog and digital capable).

My system is currently recording three digital streams.

Life, Lost, and American Idol.

All three are on at the same time, and I can watch the entire first 35 minutes of each (thats how far they have progressed so far).

I cant explain it, maybe someone else can?

Just a question here - running a 2.5ghz dual core processor with 2gb ram on Vista 32bit (I know it's not the cat's meow, but it should be adequate), everytime I have ever changed anything in gbpvr config (even just the video decoder, or any channel settings, or anything (I think)), it takes 30-60 seconds for config to close once I hit the "OK" button (or whatever is on the bottom). Is this normal?

My main video card is a PVR250. It has been working fine. Upgraded to the latest version of gbpvr but had to back it out because it was not stopping recordings after the set time. So just installed the earlier version.

Also had problems with config.xml so went back to the dont-edit one, renamed it, reset the parameters etc.

Now for some reason all recordings via my PVR50 (via composite) are overly washed out. I don't think I have changed any settings on the card and can't see where in gbpvr you can adjust brightness settings for recording. The recordings are washed out playing in gbpvr or VLC.

Older recordings made with the card are fine so it's a gbpvr setting I think but can't work out where I should be looking

Any ideas appreciated, thanks

Larry

Hi guys,

I'm setting up a new HTPC using the following :

Vista Home Premium 32 SP1
Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM-UD2H (780g chip witn HD3200 ATI video)
PowerDVD 9 Ultra
Hauppauge Nova-T 500

Now i've installed Vista, put in chip and video drivers for MB. Installed SP1. Installed nova-t drivers (but not powercinema that came bundled with nova card) and powerDVD9 Ultra. Installed GBPVR (latest version). When in GBPVR config I cannot select cyberlink codecs for h.264 or AAC3 etc as the only option showing is system default. I can however select cyberlink codec for Mpeg2 decoder. I have enabled hardware acceleration in powerdvd9.

I have in the past tried powercimema that came with the hauppauge card but could not find any where to turn on hardware acceleration. I could however select the cyberlink codecs for the h.264 decoder in gbpvr config but as always I only ever got a blank black screen watching live TV.

I've rebuilt this system multiple times and no matter what cannot get any picture on freeview HD channels nor the SD channels. I can scan for them and pick up the guide but when viewing liveTV in GBPVR I just get a blank screen.

I've not installed any other codecs as im unsure what else I need. Anyone offer any advice here?

I've now read the sticky so I'll try to be more imformative this time...

As the title says, I'm using USB-UIRT (to change channels) and while it works in Live TV, it doesn't do anything when scheduling recordings. That is, the channel just stays at whatever it was initially.

I'm using GB-PVR 1.3.11 on Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit). The cable box is a Motorola DCT700. Logs are attached.

Thanks.

when i am watching live tv on GB-PVR the picture is more in black and white, but when i record shows they record fine in color...any suggestions?

Hello,


Live TV is a bit "zoomed" or stretched on the MVP compared to the direct antenna reception on TV. It is cutting off some text and the people look fatter. I thought it might be the output resolution in Zprocess, but it is set to 720x576 which is correct for PAL.

Any help greatly appreciated.

thanks

[GBPVR 1.0.16, nVIDIA Dual TV card, Zprocess 1.0.1015 and MediaMVP, PAL analog signal via antenna on CRT.]

Hello again,


I was getting BBC Look East, but I did another channel scan, and now I seem to be only recieveing BBC East Midlands today when I am watching the news (or when it's on) If I select the Sandy Heath transmitter I don't get any BBC channels, I just get the others, so I choose all regions and I end up getting the East Midlands signal. Could anyone help?

Thanks,
suddste

As Freeview in my area has recently been f*&#ed around with what's the easier way of getting the DVB-T radio plugin to perform a rescan like it does on a clean install?

Has anyone else hit bottlenecks on the speed of their hard drive? I have an old IDE 7200rpm hard drive on my system. When I am playing back HD video I've been having problems if something else is using the hard drive heavily at the same time. The CPU usage is always relatively low.

Recently the problem for me was when CCExtractor kicked off on a finished recording while I was watching another HD recording. It became unwatchable. For now, I've taken CCExtractor out of my PostProcessing.bat file. This made the playback much better, but it would still stutter occasionally when comskip was running at the same time.
I've also run into problems when recording 2 HD shows while watching another, but that has been a lot less common occurrence.

I'm debating between just getting a newer, faster SATA hard drive or setting up a RAID 0 array (which I'd like to avoid). It seems like hard drive speed hasn't been an issue for a PVR setup in the past, but the HD transistion may be pushing traditional hard drives too far.