Yep, another Newbie with Nebula problems!!
I've actually got most of the way and am LOVING GBPVR.
I have everything set up & working, and it's recording OK. The issue is that the playback of recordings is very poor.
I've previously had my card set up with the DigiTV software from Nebula & it's all fine. Those recordings (.mpg) play back through GBPVR perfectly, as do .avi files.
However, GBPVR seems to record in .TS (transport stream I think?) rather than Mpg. These don't play back well.
I've tried going back to the old DigiTV software & the recordings there are still fine (even with the BDA drivers)
My PC is not hugely powerful (celeron 2.4, 512mb, XP SP3), but copes find transcoding AVIs.
I've tried watching on my MVPs and on the PC, and the results seem pretty similar....
other people seem to have got the Nebula cards running nicely - how?
I just bought a cheap USB TV plug in (AFA9015), and it works great at picking up my digital channels. Catch is, it seems to only record in TS. Now I assume, since TS is MPEG it should be straight forward to convert across.
When I try and convert it to MPEG2 or XViD (so I can save some space), it fails. When I try and do it from the command line with FFMPEG I get a Sampling rate 0 is not allowed in MP2 Error.
I think it does the trick when I do -acodec copy, but it comes up loads of non-monotone timestamp errors.
Am I doing something stupid. I assume loads of others have solved this so was just looking for a way to convert the TS to MPG properly. My guess at the moment is that the problem with the TS is that it stores three audio streams, one of which is subtitles.
i have looked for a DVR soft ware that will help me with this. i would like to try gbpvr. but what i need to do is record an all day event and be able to rewind and replay portions on a wim. the record must never stop. i thank i could do this with the Manuel record, how ever the file handling is something else. i would like my recording coped up in 1/2 hr or 1 hr files. i thought if i could make a guide for the svid in i could program 12hs of a fake 1/2 program. i would figure that the files would be named the name of my "fake show" all will be good.
can this be done? if not is there a better way or software
I recorded the first episode of Underbelly: Mr Asia last week while I was away, and I went to watch last night, and got audio - but only a black screen for video.
If I play with WMP - the video is there.
Did anyone else notice this behaviour?
All of my other TV3 HD recordings have been fine.
Would it be possible to allow us to assign F9 and F10 to plugins of our choice, or maybe adjust what some of the other function keys do? Like Music (F4), to Music Library 2 or Radio (F6) (if we're not using Radio) to the Cinema listing plugin or Gamezone?
They seem to think is a GBPVR issue. My system time is correct, my bios time is correct. windows time syncs correctly.
The SD channel lineup is mixed up on some of the channels, like they say the history channel is 71, but its 67 from my provider. so their data is flawed anyway.
I now have very intermittent access to the EWA through the localhost:port/gbpvr/guide address. If I set to the port to 7647 it will work for 2-3 days, then it'll shut me out - ie. I get an "Internet Explorer can't find this page" error. So then I'll change my port to 8081, and that'll work for another few days and then I'll get shut out again.... then I'll change it to 8082 and the same thing happens.... then 8083 etc etc. The interesting thing is that after 8083 I can put it back to 7647 and it'll work again, then I can go through the sequence again and get the same results.
It's like something is overwriting my port access in this range after a period of time. I don't know what it is for the life of me.
Almost have program working except my USB Tuner is not included in the list.
Where do I go from here? When I try other pinnacle devices program crashes when I select scan. Help
Is there any way to have the guide open up to certain channels? I find myself more more just watching and recording HD channels and they are in the 700's. The guide always opens with my SD channels which start at 2. Can I adjust something so that the guide will open with channel 702 on top?
I have minor trouble with very low volume on digital QAM channels while having loud and clear audio on analog channels. Not sure if there anything can be done with that. I suspect my cable provider to be guilty one (Comcast of Meadowlands in New Jersey, USA)
Is anyone experiencing same issue with other providers, perhaps in other countries? or maybe it specific only to my provider?
