I recently purchased an ipod touch. GBPVR is configured to transcode all recordings to an ipod format. My problem is that itunes does not monitor folders for new files that are created. I have to manually add them to iTunes. I have seen various 3rd part applications for monitoring music folders and updating the itunes database, but I am looking for one that handles videos as well. Is anyone using an app to handle this or is there a way to get itunes to monitor folders for new files (even Microsoft does that)?

Thank you,
Taz

Hello,

I have a brand new install of gbpvr on my Thinkcentre S50 (P4 3ghz, 512MB ram, 350GB SATA HD, Hauppauge HVR-1600, NVidio Geforce 6200). Install went smooth and it picked up my channels from Schedules Direct.

What does work is searching for a program title.

I cannot browse the guide.

Watch TV results in absolutely nothing.

I have looked in the logs but, frankly, have no idea what to look for. I have looked at other sorts of logs (Linux and Windows system logs) and I see nothing obvious.

I have a source configured, but I'm assuming from my experience that it's wrong. Is there a succinct guide to setting up atsc viewing and tuning?

Is atsc viewing supported on Hauppauge cards? Wintv shows digital channels but it's pretty awful, like a series of stills with choppy audio.

If I threw a couple GB of RAM in, is there a chance it will solve my problems?

Thanks.

Michael

I've had a couple of cases recently where there was an apparent scheduling change of a show already scheduled to record in gb-pvr (via a recurring recording), and it didn't handle it well.

In one case, The Biggest Loser was originally scheduled from 8:00pm-10:00pm, and gb-pvr had scheduled the recording accordingly. at some point the show was bumped back to 9:00pm, to make way for an nbc special about death-defying escapes or some such (you know, car crashes, stunts gone wrong, etc.). the TV Guide was a bit strange - it showed a 1 hour block of the biggest loser at 8:00pm, but said it was from 8:00pm to 10:00pm (ie, visually the block was 1 hour, but the text said 2 hours). Then at 9:00pm it showed a 2 hour block of the biggest loser, but again the text said 8:00pm to 10:00pm. Finally if I moved to the 11:00 hour (news or something), and then back to the 9:00-11:00 block, the text time would be correct. the death-defying special never appeared in the TV Guide. gb-pvr recorded from 8:00pm to 10:00pm, the original schedule.

A day or two later, Lie to Me was pre-empted by American Idol for two hours from 8:00pm to 10:00pm. Lie to Me was scheduled at 8:00pm for 1 hour. The TV Guide still showed Lie to Me at 8:00pm, and at 9:00pm it showed "No Show Details". gb-pvr recorded 1 hour of American Idol, but of course called it 'Lie to Me'.

(this in itself was no big deal to me, since I couldn't care less about American Idol, and Lie to Me wasn't actually on anyway... but let's say I had a recurring recording for both Lie to Me AND American Idol - even with two tuners it probably would not have picked up the second half of American Idol)

It appears to me from the behaviour that once a show is scheduled to record, it gets 'locked' in the database. if the epg data changes, the recording won't be adjusted; further since the TV guide draws from the same database, it won't display the new information either.

this doesn't come up very often I'd guess, only when there's a scheduling change after the epg data is first delivered and the recording is scheduled.

comments, thoughts?

p.s. sorry, I don't have any logs from those days.

Hi JW,
I've noted a couple of issues with MovieWiz memory usage I hope you can find some time to look at:
1. MovieWiz Plugin and Manager
Thumbnail images appear to consume their uncompressed bitmap image size. (e.g. a 100KB thumbnail can occupy 3MB+ of RAM). Thumbnails are loaded each time their entry is selected and never released. If like me, you have 500+ movies and each thumbnail is large, and want to scroll through each entry, MW memory use will exceed 1.8GB and unexpectedly fail.

2. MovieWiz Manager
Movie table memory is not released when switching from "Manage Content" tab to another tab. Further new memory is consumed when switching back to "Manage Content" tab for the same data.

Can you develop some smarts to avoid memory use getting out of control? Perhaps release oldest thumbnail memory after a certain amount is consumed?

MoviewWiz is now an essential tool in meeting my media centre needs. Please keep up the good work.

Cheers,
Dan

Trying to use the Arcsoft H264 decoder in gpbvr. It shows up as an option in the advanced tab and I can choose it and set parameters. But on playback there is no video - just audio.

Is this a supported codec for H264 content?

I have been using PDVD8 H264 decoder which works okay but I am unable to turn of HW acceleration (XP - the DXVA tab) - well whether I turn it on or off HW acceleration is always on and I need it off for SD content

Thanks

Just letting you know I got this card working.

[WinFast DTV2300 H]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=WinFast PxDTV2300 H BDA DVBT Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=WinFast PxDTV2300 H BDA Digital Capture DVBT
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

Needs to be added to the bda.ini

Note this is a different card to the DVR3200 and DTV2000 I'm not just getting my numbers and letters confused ^^

(Also note, these are with the latest drivers from the leadtek website, the cd's that came with the card werent used at all.)

Howdy,

I am trying to learn how to configure GBPVR with my Hauppage 2250, and wondered about tuner numbers with the multiple analog/digital tuners inside. So, I saw the wiki page about DeviceTypeCheck. Problem is, when I run it, it just opens a blank white window, and it never populates that window with any text.

The contencts of the "DeviceTypeCheck.exe-native" log file are below:

19:57:10.244 INFO Log started
19:57:10.245 VERBOSE FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
19:57:10.248 ERROR Failed to find requested device: Hauppauge PVR150 (instance 1)

So, why could it not find the requested device? And, why does it think it wants to find a PVR 150?

I appreciate any insight that can be provided.

I just got GB PVR working with my PVR250. The problem is that the Live TV feed starts to stutter after about 10 seconds of play and gets progressively worse. Changing the channel restarts the clock on the problem. I have tried changing the renderers and decoders in the configuration program and got no change. Streaming music works fine. I am using version 1.3.11 with no plugins.

Does anyone have any advice?

Suddenly GBPVR was taking several minutes to go from the main menu into either the Recordings or the Video Library. I had just changed the database directly (deleted some channels, renamed, etc. - yes I know I shouldn't do it this way, but it's imposssible for me to do the correct way) and I'd changed some plugins and MDAPI files. I'd also changed my main recording drive (the old one had filled up, and I had a new one that was empty, so I just changed the pointer to the new one).

Replacing gbpvr.db3 did not fix it, so I undid everything with a restore. This did fix it. I then redid each step carefully checking to see if the slow problem reappeared. After all the steps were repeated, it was still working OK ... for about a day, then it was back to incredibly slow to enter Recordings or the Video Library again.

This time I checked the logs carefully and noted that it was taking a minute and a half after I requested it to show the Recordings to do the "/CheckForRenamedRecordings" steps. There were over 300 of these entries (only two shown below):

I'm branching off talk about the Post-Processer (aka ReNamer) to avoid confusion.