What is considered to be the minimum requirements for GB-PVR and the pvrx2.exe UI?

I've been thinking of upgrades latley and after trying GB-PVR on many machines due to plugin/skin dev work I've realised that my actual HTPC is probably the worst of them all .

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1.36GHz)
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce FX5700 128MB (AGP)
Sound: Integrated 5.1
RAM: 1GB generic
(for full specs see link in sig)

Renderer: VMR9 FSE
Video decoder: ffdshow Video Decoder
Audio decoder: AC3Filter

Which one of the hardware specs do you guys think is the bottle neck here? Or is it all of it?

Would also be interested in hearing comments from people with similar specs and their experiences with GB-PVR menu performance aswel as video playback quality/reliability.

I have two PCs running GBPVR. The web scheduler has been working fine on one for quite some time and I'd like to be able to acess it on both. It's been a while since I set it up though and I'm having some trouble figuring out how to get it going. I can't just use the same port for both of them I'm assuming but how do you determine what to enter for the server port in the GBPVR config?

Manually running Update EPG (on UK freeview) works fine.

However, the scheduled run fails. GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log shows multiple entries like this:

2009-03-14 03:01:41.031 VERBOSE [8] Doing second chance tuning...
2009-03-14 03:01:41.984 VERBOSE [8] getValue cached value: /settings/DvbEpgHarvestDuration : 60
2009-03-14 03:02:41.984 VERBOSE [8] getValue cached value: /settings/SaveDvbEpgXML : false
2009-03-14 03:02:42.187 ERROR [8] DVB EPG error reading xml: System.Xml.XmlException: Root element is missing.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowWithoutLineInfo(String res)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.DvbEpgReader.x5fa1ab92a44acdf5(String x6c69fea84dd796c4, ArrayList xff8fa835f41900ff)
2009-03-14 03:02:42.187 VERBOSE [8] ParseDvbEpgXML returning 0

Anybody give me some pointers?


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Bill

Didn't know where else to put his, but I wanted to let everyone what happened here with Windows 7 Beta 7048 and PVRX2 yesterday.

I had a day off, and I had downloaded the 7048 beta of Windows 7. I thought I would try it as it had built in h264 decoding, and I saw an article on how to play MKV files in Media C3enter. So, I thought I'd play a bit. Loaded Windows 7 7048, installed FFDshow and Haali Splitter, then a couple REG patches. Set up Media Center, (easy setup, busy program) and when I went to Videos there were the MKV files. And they played!!

I was playing just pieces of them, and I when I got to my DVD rip of Iron Man I started to notice it was sputtering" badly. The sound was fine, but the video looked like everyone was doing the "Robot" (remember that dance?) I tried to get it to use FFDshow, and Media Center just kept using it's internal codec. At least I think it did, the FFDshow tray icon never showed up. Then I installed PVRX2 and set that up. I set the preferred decoder in PVRX2 to FFDshow and tried again. The same stutter, and no tray icon. I tried Media Player Classic Home Cinema and no stutter. (Using the internal codec). I tried forcing the merit on FFDshow to highest and still no FFDshow.

I think when Microsoft included the H264 codec they block all others in Windows from using any other codec for H264 playback on the computer. I wish I had thought to try Graphedit to figure it out, but instead went to Beta 7022 (no H264 codec) and everything went back to normal. I smell a rat here.

I am having trouble with one particular channel not recording correctly. All seems to start OK, but the files (DVR-MS) end up only 184 Mb. Other channels seem OK and it is not always a failed recording. Most shows record OK on the problem channel. During the week I have had 5 failed recordings, always the same show, and this afternoon there were two different ones that failed. All the same channel.

The daily show is at 3:30 (Hi-5)(5 failed recordings this week). The first failed show today was at 14/3/09 4:30 pm (Fishing Australia), the second at 6:30 pm (Funniest Videos).

There are shows on other channels before and after the failures that were fine.

Does anyone have any ideas?

I have been running GBPVR with a MVP for the last year 1/2 using a set top box (digital to analog converter).
I have now upgraded my pc. I am running Vista 64 and I have gbpvr installed. I have changed the dongle to the suggested Hauppauge dongle and have the MVP working... Sort of. I get the main screen on the mvp, I can go virtually everywhere in the interface. But when I try to watch live tv, the channel doesn't change. When I try to channel up or down, the screen goes black and I have to restart the MVP.
I have verified with blastconfig that my set top box does correctly change channels.
The other weird thing is that on my pc using PVRx2, I don't get a TV guide, and none of my settings such as video folder or music folder get applied. Any help appreciated. Is vista 64 not supported??? TIA

Hi All

Anyone who has a PCH should checkout Martin's latest in NMT integration.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=5pwQtm-hNC4

and if you like what you see there have a look at the latest public release which is a small step towards the final goal.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=41319

Martin puts a lot of work into this so if you can follow the instructions and leave some feedback in the post.


Cheers.....Ian

Hi all,
well I've got nice clear signals with my setup and this card:

ASUS EAH3450/DI/256M

http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=2&l...odelmenu=1

My problem is this card has 2 dvi outs and 1 hdmi out.
I have a tv with component, svideo, & rca inputs.
The card came with a DVI to vga adapter.
I bought an adapter on ebay (vga to svideo/rca), needless to say it didn't work.

Please please tell me that I can somehow convert this signal temporarily to the sdtv while I save up for an hdtv.

Thanks in advance

Can this software pause and rewind live TV like a store bought PVR? I'm new at this stuff and am still trying to figure everything out.

I'm sure there's an easy answer to this.
In the past when training HIP to use GBPVR.exe I would have many keys to choose from in the "System Keys/Predefined keys" section of the "Add Value" window in HIP
Now I am trying to train HIP to use pvrX2 and there are very few options in the "system Keys/Predefined Keys" section.
Can I load predefined keys from somewhere?