Correct me if I am wrong, but I understand that the HVR 1600's S-video input uses the same MPEG encoder as the analog tuner.

I would like to connect the set top box's S-video output to the S-video input on the HVR1600 (and control the box with the IR blaster on the MCE remote receiver).

In this scenario, where I have two analog sources and I digital, will I be able to record three shows (2 analog and 1 digital) at the same time or can the MPEG encoder be used by only one of the analog sources (either S-video or analog tuner but not both) at a time?

Just wanted to see if anyone might know the answer before I start down this path.

Thanks,
-Topper

I've been working on this for several days now. My setup is XP, gbpvr1.3.11, ATI TV wonder 650, and using COX basic cable.

The problem is that some public HD channels(QAM) are not picked up in gb-pvr. I know it sounds very much like a signal strength issue, however, I don't think it's the case, because:
1. Catalyst Media center on the same sestup can pick up those channels without problem.
2. The ATI tuner can pick up many more HD channels than my HDTV. (of course those are unknown ones, which is encrypted) This means the tuner card is more sensitive.
3. If I change tuner mode to ATSC, the missing channel actually show up in the preview list. (yes, I know I won't be able to watch them since tuner mode are wrong) But this at least shows the signal is there and the card can see them.

The odd thing is missing channels all having a higher channel id, e.g., I can get 4.1,4.2, 5.1, 20.1...., but can't get 26.1, 26.2, 50.1.

I tried to follow this thread: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ight=tweak
but no luck so far. There are just so many BDA related config to tweak and I'm not sure their function.

One more thing, I have .net 3.5. The wiki said .net 2.0. I'm not sure if I should downgrade. But want to make sure this is the issue here.

Is the Hauppauge HD-PVR 1212 on of the supported platforms? I just bought one and I can't use the remote with the software it came with. They recommended I go buy something for $95, but free.99 is a much better price.

Thanks

I have been getting the following error in my MVP-PVRX2.exe.log

[COLOR="Blue"]2009-03-18 18:23:21.351 ERROR [6] Error initializing panel plugin: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\plugins\TV Listings\TV Listings.dll
2009-03-18 18:23:21.351 ERROR [6] Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: 'TVRecordings' Key being added: 'TVRecordings'
2009-03-18 18:23:21.726 ERROR [6] at System.Collections.Hashtable.Insert(Object key, Object nvalue, Boolean add)
at System.Collections.Hashtable.Add(Object key, Object value)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.xc4f12ec3a8a4c96b.xd1ccdef346e6a297(Boolean x8bae2a88590d8cc0)
2009-03-18 18:23:24.945 WARNING [6] Received unknown request of type: 0[/COLOR]

I know the error is about TV Listings but it appears in the MVP log file and not the PVRX2 log file so I'm thinking it may be related more to MVP than TV Listings. I also get the messages in the CONFIG log.

I've posted this question in the TV Listings thread also. http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post328940 At this point I would take help from anywhere.

Any ideas on what this is and how to eliminate it?

Is it possible to 'book' a show from the guide/etc so that gbpvr switches to that channel when it starts? If not, any chance it can be added?

I realize its possible to just record the show, but by default it doesn't seem to play the show while its recording - just drops back to the main menu.

I've been trying to look up some information on the documentation wiki. I can get to the Home page but if I try to get to any other page, I just get a "waiting for gbpvr.com" message at the bottom of my browser.

Is there a known problem with accessing the wiki pages?

Hi JavaWiz,

I finally tried the latest version of your matagrabber after having many problems everything seems really good with this vertsion. Since we last talked a month ago you had made an update to metagrabber so I scannned a folder with 200 movies and I selected the "put data in file" option and scanned and discovered that most of the movies in the directory lost the jpgs and some of the tags were now wrong so I gave up for a few weeks. But I tried your latest version and I manually fixed all the movies and jpg's and changed the files to "read only" so I won't have to worry about mucking with them anymore since they are all now correct in that dir.

now brings me to my latest dilemma. I used to use the slick skin for the metadata reader but there is no delete file button and since I auto convert my files to a ffdshow codec I usally end up with doubles one mpg and one avi if I happened to watch part of a show while it is encoding it won't auto delete these afterwords since they were locked. So I went back to the blue skin which has the delete button in video library so I can find and remove these unwanted files. Now I also have my movies in moviewiz but many of the tags are wrong or incomplete since I never fixed any using moviewiz and I am trying to figure out how I can get moviewiz to use the saved metawizgrabber info we created using your new tool and use that in moviewiz instead of what I already have there? I def don't want moviewiz to make an internet search since I had to fix so many from before so I would love moviewiz to use the info we already grabbed from the grabber and the ones I have corrected.

I can delete the moviewiz database and start from scratch so that is no problem. I would like to try to import one of my directories.

any suggestions?

thanks!

I tried to disable the live preview and decided to enable it again and now it appears as though when watching Live TV the keyboard is not being recognized. I can use the keyboard to select from the menu, but once in Live TV I cannot set to record using the keyboard and I have to exit out of live TV with the right mouse click.

Any ideas?

what log file would I find this error in?

My computer is running Vista Home Premium x64 SP1 with an i7 CPU and 8GB of RAM. It has a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1250 (Model 79xxx, Hybrid ATSC/QAM) tuner card. The tuner works fine with Windows Media Center and WinTV. I know that analog reception is not supported by GB-PVR with this tuner card, so I'm only trying to use it for ATSC over an antenna.

I can successfully receive HD television broadcast using WinTV, and I'm now trying to configure GB-PVR. However, I'm running into various types of problems.

The first and most visible problem to me is that after I configure everything (EPG, channel mapping, etc), I open PVRX2 and hit "Live TV". There is barely a blink and nothing else happens; the cursor goes back to "Live TV". The logs indicate that no channel mapping has been done (but I know I dit it, or tried to do it). The logs also include errors about not findings skin images (.png).



Before configuring the capture source, I found a post that included settings to use in BDA.ini and I'm using them:
[Hauppauge HVR-1250MCE (ATSC)]
TUNING_TYPE=ATSC
FILTER_TUNER=Hauppauge WinTV 885 BDA Tuner/Demod
FILTER_CAPTURE=Hauppauge WinTV 885 TS Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Hauppauge HVR-1250MCE (QAM)]
TUNING_TYPE=ATSC
TUNING_SPECIAL=2
FILTER_TUNER=Hauppauge WinTV 885 BDA Tuner/Demod
FILTER_CAPTURE=Hauppauge WinTV 885 TS Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport




After multiple tries to see Live TV without success, I noticed that I cannot even change the default skin. The PVRX2 background is always Blue. Any attempt to change it will not work. From PVRX2, it will crash the program.


Just as a test, I also tried to add a new location for Video files; after adding it in the configuration program, it does not show up in PVRX2.


In the Digital Channel Mapping window, there is a black square in the top right where I expect to see a miniature TV image. Even if it successfully found many digital channels during scans, there is never an image in that area.

During my various tests, I was able to see jpeg images and stored videos using PVRX2.


Finally, I have done previous attempts and it did not work. To start a fresh installation, I uninstalled/reinstalled everything (two times) and, to my surprise, it looks like some settings that I have previously made are already reselected. What can I do to remove all traces of a previous uninstall? Are there some preferences saved in the registry?


I am very experienced with computers, new to Vista, new to TV tuners in computers. The wide range of issues that I experience make me believe that Vista restrictions are causing some of it. Sometimes, it looks like the selections I make in the configuration program are not seen by PVRX2.

I deleted all old logs, then ran the configuration utility, scanned for channels, and performed all configuration. I closed it and ran PVRX2 without success. Logs for this sequence of events are attached.

(Note: if it makes a difference, the first installation was NOT using the default path. Since then, I uninstalled everything, deleted some leftover folders, rebooted and reinstalled everything using default paths and default options. I also remember that at one occasion, the tray icon was not responding and I was not able to kill its thread, and maybe this had some side effects in Vista? I have administrator rights on the computer)


Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks.

I'd like to be able to add a custom genre/name/flag to my recordings at the time of scheduling them to record (or later) so that i can later go to a list of recordings with that flag/name associated with them and choose one to play,

EG:
rather than having to sift through movies, kids programs etc when wanting to watch a news recording i can just go to a list of news recordings and pick from there.

Did that make sense?

Cheers