I have an HVR-2250 with Comcast digital (no STB). I have it configured with an analog capture source HVR-2250 and Schedules Direct. I get the schedule and if I try to select a program from schedule or watch Live TV, I get audio, but no video? Any thoughts? I tried to set up a digital capture source, but it locks up.
The PVRX2.exe-native-1.log shows the undetermined error, prob about the time I was setting the record, but I received no error notice at that time.
Because I'm having issues with signal strength with the digital OTA setup, I usually set the channel I'm going to record, then do a watch to make sure the Hauppauge Digital Signal Strength utility shows adequate signal quality, then complete the record settings.
As i play most of my recordings back on my pch and as i have learned the PCH does not handle recorded .ts files well all the time. TS doctor has been a great tool in correcting the issues and have yet to have a play back issue when running my files through it. But as a convinience factor i would love if this was automated as a post process bat file.
I would like to set it up that sometime around 11:30pm the ts files are run through ts doctor
I needed a third capture card to be able to record all the shows I wanted (good shows/documentarys tend to show up at the same time), but was out of free PCI-slots in my HTPC. But I had a (mostly) vacant pc, so I got a new card (ATI-550Pro) and istalled it and gbpvr in one of my "kitchen machines". I use WEB-admin from my htpc in the living room to schedule recordings on that system, and, after hours of head-scratching, I came up with a system that process and transfer the recordings to my htpc as well as import them to gbpvr's database automatically. (If anyone is interested in the setup I can post a how-to here).
The processing runs in the early morning hours when no recording normally is scheduled. But if the recording (on the kitchen machine) is finished early and there is no more recordings until next day, why wait until 04:30AM to process?
So my question is: Is there a way to obtaining information of when the next recording is due from a .bat file? If there is, simple math can be used to see if there is enough time to finish post-processing before the next recording kicks in.
I have been using GBPRV for a year or so but have just installed it on my "new" :o home PC (old DELL!) and have now started to ahve an odd issue.
I successfully tuned most of the UK Freeview channels using my Nova-T usb stick but now want to try and get the "missing" channels - like Film4.
When I run the config to try and tune I just get stength and quality of 0. However, the WinTV app works fine and the channels that were tuned in work fine (at least I can record them - live TV does not work but that is another issue!).
I am trying to map a generic remote control command (start) which produces ALT-ENTER to start pvrx2. I managed to map all keys to pvrx2 using that as a program setting in the config. However, I am not able to map the "start" key to anything outside the defined programs (in this case pvrx2). I am just wondering if HIP is capable of mapping keys when no programs are running.
The secret is the crop values. The values are in pixels. You will have to experiment with these. Remember the values used have to be divisible by 2.
The easiest way I could find to figure out the values for my setup was to take a screen shot of a 4:3 frame, open it with a picture editing program (I use Paint.NET), and carefully use the selection tool to select the borders for bottom, left, right, and top in order to get an idea of what I needed to shave off. Originally, my videos were saved at 720 x 480. Now they are 648 x 468.
Now my videos look really nice. I am not really concerned with 16:9 as everything is broadcast at 4:3 with my set up and GBPVR can remove letterbox borders.
I recently upgraded to version 1.3.11 and now it won't wake my Vista Basic computer up from sleep mode to start a recording. Prior to this it would wake the system up. Do to my own stupidity my original GB-PVR was deleted (not he PVRX2, just the GB-PVR). I don't know if this is the source of the problem or not, but it happened on the same day. I restored the program from the recycle bin, but still don't see GB-PVR in the folder, just PVRX2. Do I need to do a reinstall to get it to wake the computer up from sleep to record a show or is there some easier fix? Everything else is working perfectly. Thanks!
I came across a neat XviD trick. Instead of setting the quality as a set number such as -qscale 5 it appears you can get better quality by not using -qscale at all. Also file size stays relatively the same.
For example, the default XviD configuration in GBPVR's config.xml is...
For recorded TV, the following settings yield great looking video. A few things to note...
Instead of using -qscale, I am using -qmin and -qmax which gives the video a variable rate of -q instead of a set value throughout.
The bit rate for the .MP3 audio can be lowered without any noticeable difference other than smaller file sizes. I am using 128 audio bitrate with 44,100 audio sampling rate instead of 224/48,000.
-threads auto is added so multi-core CPUs can encode faster.
So here is the code I am using now for XviD in config.xml...
. I use WEB-admin from my htpc in the living room to schedule recordings on that system, and, after hours of head-scratching, I came up with a system that process and transfer the recordings to my htpc as well as import them to gbpvr's database automatically. (If anyone is interested in the setup I can post a how-to here).
