I've been playing with the XRecord skin (both the community skin 3 and the beta CS4 HD skin) and have 2 questions (I assume the answer would be the same for both, but if not...I eventually plan to move to the CS4HD once all the bugs are worked out.
1. I see that the skin is pulling images both from ...\gbpvr\media\art\ and from my recording directory...in that order. Is it possible to set the skin to look for images in the recording directories first and only use the media\art\ path if it does not find anything?
2. In the Recordings "plugin" I can skin it to show both 4:3 and 16:9 aspect images without distortion by using:
on lines that specify the size/location of the images. I have set the size of the image such that it is 16:9, but using the above code any 4:3 image display such that they fill the height of this space and the width is scaled properly to maintain the aspect ratio (i.e., there is some unused space to the left and right sides as the properly scaled image is centered). I tried adding these commands to the lines specifying image size in the XRecord skin, but it has no effect...aspect is automatically the same as the size of the image regardless of the original aspect of the image. Is there some way to make the skin preserve the aspect of the images or would this require coding changes to the plugin?
I upgraded to 1.3.11 yesterday and now I can't access GBPVR from the PCH. When I try to connect, I believe it is timing out. The screen goes black and blinks like it normally does, but then it reboots after 10 seconds or so (I believe it's timing out).
My server is headless and doesn't have the capability to run PVRX2. However, I can access the GBPVR configuration and scheduled recordings are occurring so I believe my installation is working.
My method of connecting to the PCH is through a shortcut from Swisscenter. This was working fine yesterday before the upgrade.
Hi, I just installed the latest gbpvr and I'm having some problems with the basic set up. Things I change in the config, such as changing the skin from slick to blue, and editing the menu and plugins section, do not take effect when I run PVRX2. The settings I changed are remembered but every time PVRX2 is run, it just looks like the default set up.
I'm running vista which is fully up to date as far as I know. I tried restarting the system just incase that would fix it, but no luck. I attached the log files too. Hope someone can help with this bizarre problem!
Just done a fresh install of Windows XP and GB-PVR and had trouble getting my 45 button Hauppage remote to do anything on the GB-PVR main menu.
Clicked "fix button settings" in the config app and still no joy. Then I compared the irremote.ini to my backed up version and noticed the new one didn't have a PVRX2 section?
I am planning for when I will start recording some programs in High Definition. I know that the analog cable (NTSC) programs I record now take approximately 1.7GB to store a one hour program (with the settings I currently use).
Can anyone tell me approximately how large HD programs captured by a QAM tuner will be.
I've just installed zprocess hoping it will help with a minor issue I have and I'm on a steep learning curve, I'm still not sure if it will do what I want can someone help.
Setup:
XP running the latest version of gbpvr, 6 tuners (4 dvb-t, 2 dvb-s) , TS-mux
1 MVP on a wired connection running MVPMC used for live tv and watching recordings mainly.
Problem:
I have config.xml set not to xcode TS to the MVP <MvpTranscodeTS>false I think it is. This gives me very good live TV, but if I play a recording I get the lip sync drifting, If I convert it to mpg offline its all good.
This problem would all be easy to solve by setting up a autoconvert from TS to MPG, which to date I have been doing without problem, but now I have HD channels which breaks the autoconvert from TS to MPG. I am not interested in viewing the HD live tv or HD recordings on the MVP so I'm happy to keep them as TS....so in summary:
I want Zprocess to allow live tv -ts to go to the MVPMC without any conversion, but I want it to do an on the fly xcode of recordings in ts to mpg when viewed on the MVP.....
From my limited knowledge the problem would be with <MvpTranscodeTS>false there is no differentiation between live and recordings so trans2mvp will never be called...correct?
the alternative is to get it to convert all recordings from ts to mpg at midnight and either ignore HD content or also convert it succesfully....
Both TV Guide and TV Listings allow the user to find more instances of the program in the currently viewed listing. This search is limited to the channel of the viewed listing.
I would like the option to do an extended search that would list all programs of the same name, regardless of what channel they appear on.
I followed all the suggestions such as updating files in the survival guide and re-registering filters. I still can't get any channels recognized even though during the scan there are channels in which the strength and quality are being recognized. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I attached my logs.
My problem is that if I record two HD digitial programs at once (which I assume is not re-encoding, but rather a direct stream copy) they will both be fine up until around 45-50 minutes, then they both begin to skip. Sometimes the skipping goes away a short time before the end of the program (55-58 minutes), but usually it does not.
It doesn't appear to be a processor speed issue (using very little CPU as reported in task manager) and if it were a disk / io issue it would show up as soon as I start recording, right?
I disabled comskip to make sure it wasn't running, and I have checked to make sure nothing is running in the background.
This doesn't happen when recording 2 analogue, or 1 of each (to the best of my knowledge).
System:
Vista business (not SP1 as when I upgrade to SP1 my system becomes unstable, perfectly stable without SP1).
4 Gigs of DDR3 Memory (sorry, don't remember the speed, think its 800 mhz)
1 500 gb SATA (150 I think, not 300).
If it is a disk transfer / seek issue, and I were to add a second disk, is there a way to tie separate tuners to separate disks (so tuner 1, analog or digital records on disk 1, and tuner 2 on disk 2)??? If not, this would be an awesome option.
I would really like to resolve this as I was hoping to add another card so that I could possible record 3 or 4 shows (I only watch a half dozen shows, but they all seem to come on at the same times).
