I have a wired client PC that is fairly low powered 800mhz with a resonable video card.
I currently have it setup streaming, and it plays videos pretty well. My problem is commercial skipping. It's almost like there is a timeline problem, but it only exists on the client. When I play the recording on the server, the commercials skip perfectly, but on the client it gets off timeline and does not match up with the commercials. This is not only visible from watching the video, but the OSD seems to be off as well (ie. it does not match the 'real' commercials either). The audio remains in-sync.
I've just noticed that ctlr G and F1 are bringing up the same mini guide during live tv.
On previous versions F1 would be a cut down full guide, and ctlr g was the mini guide.
Is this deliberate?
OK, I got the pc client up and running and things seemed to be working fine.
Last night as a test I scheduled a recording at 11pm. I had a show going on LiveTV. I have three analog tuners so this shouldn't be a problem. It showed up as pending in the recordings list.
I turned off the tv and went to bed. This morning I found the recording had failed. I looked through the logs and couldn't find any errors, actually no events in that time frame at all.
I cleared the logs out and rebooted both the server and the client today since last night I had been playing with the client a lot (updating windows, updating the video driver, etc.) and have been playing.
There seems to be some odd stuff going on.
First the GBPVR icon in the lower right corner is sometimes black and when I click on show status it lists 8 empty tuners. Other times it's green, whether I'm recording a program or not, and clicking on show status does correctly report what the tuners are doing.
I haven't been able to get a recording to fail today, but I'm getting some odd things in the displays.
If I'm not watching LiveTV on the server and select three programs from the tvguide for quick record they do all record and they all show up in the pending que as recording. If I do the same from the client with no LiveTV being viewed on the server it does the same, i.e. it works fine.
However if I'm watching a LiveTV program on the server and have two programs recording (started from either the server or client) and then start a recording from the client things get a bit weird. It will kick the server out of LiveTV and exit back to the main menu. In the pending recordings tab it shows the program the client wanted recorded but shows it as pending rather than recording. It does record the program though. Also if while this is going on you try to enter LiveTv on the server it pops up the no tuners are available message and gives you the option to watch one that's recording or exit. However it only gives you the option to watch the two programs that are listed in the pending que as recording, the third program that was started while the server was watching LiveTv and is not being reported as recording in the pending que does not show up as an option to view.
Not really a big deal, but might it not cause a problem if someone tried to record too many programs at once and caused a recording conflict?
I still haven't figured out why the recording last night failed as it had two tuners available, but it may have been due to the updates that were done to the client and maybe the reboot fixed it. I'll keep playing.
I purchased a new xp/vista compatible remote and I am trying to make it work with GBPVR. The problem I am having is that the remote sends the same key for Play and Pause buttons(Media_Play_Pause). In GB-PVR, these are different (^p and ^q). I am wondering if there is a way to change them to be the same key throughout the gbpvr interface?
I set the remote in config to mce remote, I could not find a keyboard option.
I forgot to check the box "adjust for daylight savings" on my PC. Last weekend (I'm in the USA) when we adjusted our clocks forward an hour. Now all my recordings are off by an hour. (so is my EPG). (I use schedules direct).
After researching a bit here in the forms, I tried the following:
-In the config app, on capture tab I ensured that the "replace all" box was checked. (didn't help - schedule is still off by an hour)
- I selected the dump EPG option - that didn't help either. Note - a message indicated that my pending recordings would be deleted - but they were not.
Could I really just plug the hdmi cable from pvr into this, and directly capture into pc? Is there any other devices that permits "on-the-fly" hdmi capture, for pc?
This has happened a couple of times now. We'll be watching a show that's currently being recorded. When we get near to being caught up, and I try to skip ahead, everything suddenly jumps into fast motion and stops responding to input.
The audio is unaffected, but the video plays very quickly, not unlike a Benny Hill sketch.
It will do this for 30 seconds or so, and then resume normal play.
I also saw it do this when I had paused it briefly and then tried to resume.
It always happens when I get near to real-time.
I'm using a PVR-150 with one of the more recent versions of GBPVR. 1.13, at least. (Sorry I'm not at the PC so can't verify the exact version number.)
