Posted by: qaxooti - 2009-03-10, 04:12 AM - Forum: Hardware
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Hey, I have the HVR-2250 MCE-Kit that comes with an IR Receiver and 2 IR Blasters. I have Vista Ultimate 64-bit. I have used this in VMC with no problem.
Here is my setup:
I have 2 Set-top boxes which are connected to the HVR-2250 card by s-video (for video) and composite (for audio). I have a receiver connected via USB to the PC. The two IR blasters are plugged into the receiver and are on the front of each set-top box (to send the IR signal to the boxes). This setup works fine in VMC (channels are changed in set-top boxes correctly), but I tried using it in GBPVR and have had limited success. I can navigate the menus and everything, but the channels on my set top boxes (2 of them) do not change.
HIP doesn't work (it crashes when I try to start it) and I haven't had much success with either IRServer or EventGhost.
I installed the MCE replacement drivers, but that didn't work either. The closest I got was IRServer recognizing my IR receiver, but when I tried to learn commands, it would say "Learn IR Failed".
Has anyone gotten this to work with the Hauppauge MCE remote (specifically the one packaged with the HVR-2250)?
I'm at a standstill and am open to suggestions. If anyone has gotten this to work, I would greatly appreciate a detailed explanation.
I feel like I've tried everything, and nothing has seemed to work.
Got an odd problem with the tuner setup. When I do a scan for mapping channels, the initial scan and matching all the channels to the guide works fine. If I hit rescan and then subsequently try to change any of the channels, the config gui errors out. I've got almost all the patches up to current installed. I thought it was just my computer, but I got this on another family member's computer also.
The errors should be in the logfiles I just uploaded about the HDHomerun problem if you want to see them. I'll save you the bandwidth and not upload them a second time. Let me know if you want me to post them here or if you want anything else.
I finally upgraded my box from a p3 to a AMD athalon 2000+. I installed windows xp sp1 fresh then strait to sp3. I installed the .net2.0sp1, vcredist_x86, and the drivers from my two huagpauge wintv 250's. next i got the remote control software installed. then last gbpvr.
I setup my cards, and added the SD chaannel sources.
I play livetv, and blam... no picture. The sound is fine. even the OSD works.
SO.. I thought that the wintv 2000 app had to be installed, so I did that. It plays tv and records live tv. no problem. then I thought about winodws media player. I installed version 10. Still no picture.
What am I missing? the logs talk about some errors but they are greek to me.
I have attached them here. can you take a look and see what you see? its probably something simple.
My computer crashed over the weekend, and I'm in the process of reinstalling it. I downloaded the HDHomerun app from the Silicondust website, installed it, configured it, and got it setup in GBPVR just fine. Live TV works great. But all my recordings stay at zero size when they are recording from the HDHomerun, and the HDHR gui shows a zero network rate. No errors that I can see otherwise. I can even watch TV with media player just fine. For whatever reason, the feed just isn't being sent to the file on the hard drive.
I've attached logfiles. The problem recordings should be within the last 1.5 hours or so of the logfiles. Thanks for any ideas.
Forgive me, I'm new to the whole networking thing.
I noticed in the firewall that I could allow a Remote Desktop through.
I did a quick look up on what that was and it appears it may do something I would really like . . .
I hate having to pull the htpc out of the entertainment center to hookup a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to do upgrades and other tasks that require me to run programs on the htpc (I can easily move files on and off through the network).
It appears that the Remote Desktop would allow me to do that?
Or is there limitations to it? If so, are there other programs that would do that? (cheaply?)
I have uploaded a new version of mvpmc2 which I believe is the first big step in making the NMT a richer GB-PVR client. Anyone with component, composite or svideo output will be able to immediately see improvements in mp3 audio playback. The full GB-PVR UI will be available during playback so you can select new music, run slide-shows, or have a screen saver, just like the MVP or PC client. If the file is not an mp3, the NMT player will be used.
Notes
The usage instructions are straight forward (HDMI is not supported)
- change to use the new PCH2 type <MVPClientType>PCH2</MVPClientType>
- Play your audio files and have fun. I have not implemented Pause yet but Mute should be working
- If you use the USB Eject key when selecting Internet Radio the stream will be consider an aac+ stream
Feedback Wanted
Please leave me any feedback good or bad, but don't ask when HDMI support will be added or a new version will be released. Before posting if you try and play an mp3 file and the NMT player starts, you have an older PVRx2.exe, mvpmcx2, HDMI has been detected or the PCH2 mode is not selected.
Download
I have uploaded the file to http://www.mvpmc.org/~mvallevand/mvpmcx2a.7z I have decided to use 7-zip format for all future distributions (available from http://www.7-zip.org/ ) This may not be a popular decision, but does a much better job at compressing mvpmcx2 and I don't like defacto standards. Old timers like me will remember pkarc and lha
Beta Testers Wanted
I am also looking for a few more beta testers to help move from here as I start to implement some video changes. It will be private beta and rough for a bit but one condition is you use this trial version as a standard. Public trials will occur later. PM me with your email address (that can be shared with other testers) and I will get back to you. A huge thank you to Sheik Yerbouti and to Brainstormer for helping get to where we are now.
The goal of this next phase of development is to work with sub to take advantages of GB-PVR power in media playing where appropriate especially as it relates to mpeg video and audio streaming. The NMT players do a really good job with DVD, BD quality video, mkv's, avi, etc that I will not attempt to change how these work, but I want to improve others.
I use a USB-UIRT to, in theory, change channels on a Pace cable set top box. However, this only works when using Live TV - when using scheduled recordings, nothing happens. The activity LED on the USB-UIRT flashes when Live TV requests a channel change, but nothing appears to make it to the UIRT for scheduled recordings - looking in the recording service native log, the USBUIRT fails to open.
I've searched the forums for USBUIRTHelper and there is a thread from a few years back with a similar problem. I've updated the drivers, updated the UIRT flash several times, but recording doesn't want to play ball.
Logs zipped and attached - hopefully some light can be shed on the issue.
Running version 1.3.11, on a Dell Inspiron 530S running Vista SP1, Hauppauge PVR-150LP, USB-UIRT
I suppose this request is as old as PVRX2, but any chance of getting a function call for plugins to pop-up a line of text over video? I'd really love to implement CallerID, but the old CallerID plugin (or any potential new plugin) can't be resurrected until there's a way to do a pop-up. Nothing fancy is needed, just a single line hard-coded to the top (or bottom) of the screen will do to get things started.
I currently have my music files in ML 3 and they are saved on my pc at C://music. I want to be able to see album art in ML 3 when playing my songs.
I imported my music into WM11 and that created album art for my music. This can be seen when I open WM 11. I do not know where this art is stored on my computer.
I would like some help bringing this art into ML3 . Currently when I open ML 3 my music is in list form. Can I get some assistance helping me with this task.
Hey, I have the HVR-2250 MCE-Kit that comes with an IR Receiver and 2 IR Blasters. I have Vista Ultimate 64-bit. I have used this in VMC with no problem.
Here is my setup:
I have 2 Set-top boxes which are connected to the HVR-2250 card by s-video (for video) and composite (for audio). I have a receiver connected via USB to the PC. The two IR blasters are plugged into the receiver and are on the front of each set-top box (to send the IR signal to the boxes). This setup works fine in VMC (channels are changed in set-top boxes correctly), but I tried using it in GBPVR and have had limited success. I can navigate the menus and everything, but the channels on my set top boxes (2 of them) do not change.
HIP doesn't work (it crashes when I try to start it) and I haven't had much success with either IRServer or EventGhost.
I installed the MCE replacement drivers, but that didn't work either. The closest I got was IRServer recognizing my IR receiver, but when I tried to learn commands, it would say "Learn IR Failed".
Has anyone gotten this to work with the Hauppauge MCE remote (specifically the one packaged with the HVR-2250)?
I'm at a standstill and am open to suggestions. If anyone has gotten this to work, I would greatly appreciate a detailed explanation.
I feel like I've tried everything, and nothing has seemed to work.
