I encountered a strange problem. It is software based for sure because all works fine on my secondary Win XP x64, however in Vista x64 i had rare trouble when quickly changing channels. The issue happens especially when switching between sources (digital vs analog) and usually when trying to jump a few channels at once with arrow keys.
Result of above scenario is that PVRX2 hangs (black screen) and after a while it starts displaying video (vista x64 displays Data Execution Prevention warning that PVRX2 was closed while it was not), but suddenly audio becomes seriously offset (a few seconds) and when changing channels again the audio from previous channel still stays on for a few seconds even during switching.
Besides that i had no other issues what so ever ... until last night when the issue happened again and now LIVE TV mode in main menu doesn't work anymore, it always kicks me back to main menu. at same time WinTV works fine.
I attached logs for sub, man i believe in your wisdom, please give me a hint. i already re-installed Hauppauge drivers for Vista with no luck. perhaps something is wrong now with my config file (corrupted?) which i also attached.
Thanks for help.
sorry for clumsy English I used for describing the issue, but it is not my primary language.
I recently upgraded to a HD PVR and initially everything was good. Recordings were playing back just fine. However I didn't have the latest version of comskip that supported H264. I upgraded Comskip to version 80.20 and Comskip appeared to be working. Now during playback it pauses at the beginning of a commercial break. The screen sometimes looks slightly pixelated, other times it looks just like I paused it. I can get around this by pushing the fast forward(skip) button once or twice. Then playback continues until the next commercial break is reached. I'm not sure if this is a Comskip or a GBPVR issue. Has anyone else experienced this type of problem?
After a couple of weeks of farting around with DVB-T, drivers, motherboards, HDMI cables and the like, I have come to the conclusion that freeview signal we receive here is patchy at best. Watching TV is fine but I've had a hard time getting a clean enough signal to record anything longer than an hour and have the .ts file work.
The options are to either get a fancy wideband high gain digital aerial (no guarantee it'll solve our problem) or just fix it first time by getting a dish installed and going with Freesat, which should guarantee a clean signal. Having spent the last 6 hours reading forums, websites and almost contracting a migraine in the process, I now have a few questions relating to Freesat and GBPVR which I hope some of you wonderful, shiny people can help me with.
1. Hardware, in particular a low profile DVB-S/2 card. It's got to fit into my low profile HTPC and ideally needs several receivers on board. I understand that the BlackGold cards are a bit naff and the Compro ones have some issues scanning for channels. Being low profile causes one or two problems. Dual tuner would be ideal but two cards are better than none.
2. Satellite dish. If I want multiple tuners then I need at least a dual LNB, probably a quad for good measure. Are there any obvious gotchas that I'm missing? I must confess that I'm a satellite n00b. My plan is to have this installed professionally. There's an interesting cheat to get a cheap dish install but will that allow me to get the Freesat HD content?
3. Other satellites. I read that Freesat comes over the Astra2 satellite but are there any other satellites that I could have extra LNB's installed to point at that would provide other, free, *unencrypted* content? (I don't want to have to faff around with CAM systems).
4. Freesat EPG. From what I read, the EPG is encoded in a strange way that makes it tricky to read directly. Although this is a work in progress and MythTV have cracked it, I'll need to use XMLTV for this. How has this fared for you?
5. HD. I'm looking forward to BBC HD, I'm ambivalent towards ITV HD but LuxeHD looks like it might interesting. Are there any obvious problems (other than H264 support on Vista) that I might run into? Can I use the "red button" ITV HD with GBPVR?
Sorry for the barrage but my research has still left me with a few unanswered questions
I have the PCH A110 on the way. I plan on using it mainly as a GBPVR client in my home but I would also like to bring it with me at times and play media off an internal HDD on other TVs or the entertainment system in our van.
Is it going to be easy for me to disconnect and run it while not connected to the GBPVR server?
Well, I knew better but... maybe someone will learn from my mistake.
I had set my default video recording directory to a folder off the root of C. Everything was fine until I went out of town. (I generally clean up and/or archive recordings to another drive at night). When I got home from my trip, my system was acting a bit 'off' so I rebooted. Once the system came back I realized what happened - my hard drive was completely full.
Bad news: my old windows profile is now corrupt, and so is Windows. All that 'tweaking' I have done to get GBPVR working is now gone. :mad:
It looks like I need to reinstall Windows because now I get various errors and loss of basic functionality (i.e. control panel crashes explorer.exe, changes to application settings are not retained, etc).
Take my advice - have your recordings go to a different partition.
Question: I had a heck of a time (mostly trial and error) getting GBPVR working. Is/are there configuration file(s) that I can grab from my current system so when I reinstall Windows and GBPVR, the setup and configuration of GBPVR won't take so long? I am not necessarily concerned with my recordings, but I am fretting about setting up my EPG, capture device, and playback settings again.
Also - for the users who do have their system configured like mine was - is there a way to prevent this from happening (e.g. stop the recording service if the hard disk surpasses a threshold)?
Anyway - hopefully a noob will see this and learn from my mistake.
(I guess I know what I am doing this weekend...)
I am looking to build a new PC, mostly to create a PVR and blu-Ray player (blu-Ray/HD-DVD/DVDRW/CD-Rom drives are only $100 for those interested!)
I am in the midst of choosing the best option for my money when it comes to TV tuner cards.
My setup is going to be for basic Cox Cable in Omaha, so I will need an analog tuner for the basic cable and a QAM for the unencrypted HD that comes through the cable... Is that correct?
I want 2 tuners, each with QAM capabilities (probably choose 2 of the same tuners, Duh)
Originally I had selected using 2 Hauppauge HVR-1250s ($49x2), but I read on here that you need hardware encoding for GB-PVR to work with analog cable... Is this correct?
I had also looked at the new HVR-2250 ($109)... which has 2 hybrid tuners on the card, but I thought I read that it can only support one QAM channel and the other would have to be analog in my case... Does anyone know if that sounds correct?
I also looked at the ASUS - My Cinema-ES3-100/NAQ/FM/AV/RC ($49x2)... I thought I had seen hardware encoding on this card, but now I can't find that anywhere so maybe that was a different card... Does anyone know if this has hardware encoding? What about the quality of the card?
Last I looked at the AVerMedia AVERTV Bravo Hybrid PCI-E (H788) ($56x2)... Same questions with this one, Encoding? Quality?
Though the reviews were mixed for all of these tuners it seems most had problems with recieving a signal (ATSC.) I will not be using ATSC only NTSC and QAM so I should be able to have better luck with the lower end tuner (i think/hope.)
Anybody with suggestion would be greatly appreciated
Please suggest different tuners if you have a similar setup
I was looking to stay around $100 give or take, maybe up to $150
(prices i got off newegg)
Probable Set-up as of now...
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200 Brisbane 2.7GHz
Gigabyte ATX 780 Mobo (Radeon HD 3200 w/ crossfire)
Sapphire Radeon HD 3450 (w/ crossfire)
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM
LG Black Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM & 16X DVD±R DVD Burner
2x TV Tuners???????????????????
I am new to using the Popcorn and am trying to acclimate myself. I have a question regarding rewind and what to expect. I tried searching and found some postings that state that when watching live tv or transport stream files rewind is not supported. I have not seen any reference to completed recordings that are mpg files. When I try and rewind any of the above files I just get a not supported symbol on the top left of the screen. I can successfully rewind mkv and iso\DVD files. Just wanted to know if this was the expected behavior or if it warrants more investigation on my part? These results are using the version installed by the download in the dummies guide.
Hi everyone, first post and pretty new to GBPVR. I have searched and haven't found anyone else having problems with the renamer, so I hope this isn't a stupid question!! I have also reread the wiki instructions several times and haven't found any answers there either.
I am using UltraXMLTV Enhancer with no issues creating the new xmltv.xml file. Now having trouble getting the Renamer working. Before adding the renamer line to my PostProcessing.bat file I have been trying to get a manual rename working by running UltraXMLTV_Renamer.exe from windows.
When I input a recently recorded show in the Input Filename, ie
Z:\Video\Recorded TV\American Idol\American Idol_20090310_20002200.avi
I click "Do it", then an error box "error writing to Recording_schedule, in database can catch and stop error"
And this in the log:
3/11/2009 12:12:26 PM : error writing to Recording_schedule, in database, can catch and stop error
3/11/2009 12:12:26 PM : Renamed: American Idol_20090310_20002200.avi to -.avi
And the file is renamed as -.avi
So can anyone point me in the right direction here? I'm assuming that UltraXMLTV_Renamer isn't finding gbpvr.db3, or doesn't know where to look. I have looked through all the ini files but can't find a pointer / file path.
FYI here's what I'm running:
database location = C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR
Ultra location = C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\EPG\UltraXMLTV_Enhancer
Conversion - done via the selection in Config now, so the file name *should* be updating in the database OK, but I haven't yet looked for a good utility for database lookup
