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 finally managed to get GBPVR to automatically convert from TS to MPG2, so I have been going back through my old TS recordings and xcoding them outside GBPVR with the aim to have everything on the drive as MPG2 from now on.
I cant get the <checkforrenamedrecordings) to work the way I think it should, I have it and <autoremovemissingrecordings> set to true, but when I delete the TS file from the directory leaving behind the MPG it dissapears from the recordings menu.
When does check remaned run and what triggers it? PVRx2 startup or when you enter recordings plugin? Or Pehaps with the recordingservice?
I assume autoremove runs after check renamed, (otherwise it would never work?)
but I want a utility to run once the recording is finished how can I get postprocessing.bat to get PVRX2 to stop the playback automatically so it won't interfere with the utility's process and I don't have to keep looking at the clock in order to stop the playback manually?
Posted by: mkenyon2 - 2009-03-08, 03:11 AM - Forum: Wishlist
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So, some of you know I lost a drive recently. My recordings drive.
I was able to switch over to my main OS drive temporarily, but I missed some recordings until I did.
Could we get an option to have a failover location (or two) where GBPVR will record if it can't get to our main recordings folder?
I know the database comes into play, but for failsafe measures, I think we'd be able to live with the recording going into the alternate location while the database still has the entry as if it's in the main location.
(For my purposes, I made a new share with the same name as the original/main share, and now am copying the files to the new drive which will have the share name. The database won't know where the files really reside as long as the share path doesn't change.)
