Today I installed an older computer with Windows 2000 and GBPVR, planning to use it as a media PC. The TV/FM card is a Conceptronic CTVFMi2.
The chipset used on the CTVFMi2 is from Philips Type: SAA7131E , the tuner
is also a philips one: 8275AC1, IR chip seems to be KS003.
How do I set up GBPVR to use this card for capturing TV?
I've already been looking through the forums for similar questions (using searches on; Conceptronic, ctvfmi2 and SAA7131E) but without any hits.
I just got BBC HD setup using CoreAVC and it looks ok, I assumed that because I'm using XP and EVR that Hardware accel wouldn't work so I'm getting 70% cpu, which isn't really a problem.
On searching the forum on another topic I see some suggestions that HA+EVR is possible with some filters.
Does anyone have a definative answer?
Is it possible to have HA + EVR + XP + H.264?
If so which decoders?
Also do any of the hookey Directx 10 for XP releases give us any hope of DXVA2 on XP?
It was a cinch getting GBPVR to record using my new HD PVR; this program has really come a long way for user friendliness.
Here's my issue: What I'm used to doing is recording using a PVR-250, editing the output with Videoredo, and encoding with Autogk. This system works wonderfully. Now I'm faced with the .ts file made by the HD PVR, and I want to make a high quality avi (xvid). The pathway that I found worked was somewhat convoluted:
HDPVR -> ts file -> TotalMedia Editor "make disc" function -> tsMuxer (to cut the stream) -> Handbrake (avi, decomb)
This is particularly annoying in light of the fact that the truly awful TotalMedia software only works on my HTPC, not on my main computer (the application crashes when trying to make a disc). Another possibility is to use tspacketeditor to cut the ts stream directly and bypass the Totalmedia nonsense, but I didn't find that software to be very nice.
I know Videoredo is "working on" supporting this, but in the interim, has anyone found a less clunky way to do what I am interested in? I'd appreciate any advice.
I've been having a lot of unusual recording problems lately. Sometimes I get files with a zero byte size. Sometimes the recording stops half way through. And tonight I had a record not start at all.
Two shows recorded fine at 7:00PM and 7:30PM. A show should have recorded at 9:00PM failed. This was in the Event Viewer.
"The GB-PVR Recording Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 2 time(s)."
I tried watching live TV after I noticed the fail and just had a black screen. I restarted the Recording Service and tried again and it worked, but it was using the standard recorder instead of the HD.
I've installed all the fixes in the 1.3.11 thread. I have a PVR-150 and a HVR-1600.
I'm using hipsend with .exe channel changer on a dish 322. Live tv preview mode changes channels perfectly but whenever I pause tv or uncheck "use live preview mode if available" gbpvr refuses to send IR blaster codes. My IR blaster is the one from Microsoft MCE remote 2005 version 2. Anyone have any ideas why timeshifting would mess things up? Thanks
I normally used VMC for my recording, but decided to give gbpvr another try. I tried it sometime ago and had issues setting everything up. I have a hvr-1600 tuner card. I am using an OTA source for HD tv. This antenna allows be to receive every local channel except WBBM in chicago.
Right now, i was able to get the channels setup, scanned digital channels and the guide is functioning. The problem I am having is with the audio, it horrible. It just chops in and out like crazy. I have a quad core Q9450 xps 420 pc with a nvidia 8800 gt video card. The video appears to be working just fine, it just a problem with the audio. It looks as if ffdshow audio is currently the decoder.
I'm having a bit of trouble with GBPVR 1.3.11. I'm running a Nova-T 500 dual tuner on XP SP3 32bit.
Certain channels such as E4 show in the config program as available via both tuners (rescanned a couple of times), but when I try to play it or record it, all I get is audio but no video. Wierdly, E4+1 works fine...
I've tried 3 different decoders (ffdshow, nvidia and intervideo), but this doesn't seem to make a difference.
Have attached the logs, for irony's sake the program playing at the time was a film called Picture Perfect
Edit: Just to add, the channel plays fine through WinTV
The TV Guide will let you Play a recording that's currently in progress. How about letting you play a recording that just completed?
for a real-life example, yesterday I was in the TV Guide and noticed House was recording; I made mental note to watch it a soon as I was done watching another program live... by the time I was ready to watch it though, the recording was finished so I couldn't play it from the TV Guide any more.
It struck me that it would be very cool, convenient and intuitive if the TV Guide knew which shows during the past few hours were recorded, and would allow you to play them from there (just the same as it will let you play an in-progress recording). Pick a new color to mark completed shows, perhaps green? (I thought blue at first, but I know that's already used to mark future 'shows of interest'.. EWA uses green, so that'd be consistent)
Recently, not sure exactly when, I have started getting some problems with some recordings. They say they have recorded ok, but won't playback for some reson. I click play and they just sit there without playing.
Ilooked in the logs for some clues, but none of it really means anything to me.
