I used to have a pretty good handle on GB-PVR, but these days I just can't win for losing. One day it works, the next day it's fucked up again. My last nerve is wearing thin, very thin.
I just spent a couple of hours trying to watch The Amazing Race and Simpsons and could not make any headway. Last night I watched American Dad and it played with only one little glitch that I put down to a broadcast problem. WTF?
It's only saving grace at the moment is that it plays xvid stuff out of the video library very well so downloaded stuff like the recent WSBK races (go Elbowz go) work well.
I'm recording OTA ATSC with the TSmux and the client is set up for file sharing. I thought this was the accepted way to do it.
What I don't understand is if TS files are played with the internal TS reader then why do changes I make to the MPEG-2 decoder section change the playback? No combination of any of those seem to do any better, one will have good video and no audio, but most just stutter horribly or freeze up completely.
I have been following the other threads and I'm hesitant to try the patch because it's a bit of a different situation.
I'm feeling pretty damn stupid at the moment. Any help getting this working would be much appreciated.
Running 1.3.11, I am unable to un-pause live TV. It pauses for 8 seconds before going to the screen that shows the recording bar at the top and the program name at the bottom, then the screen goes black and I can't un-pause the recording. Nothing happens, either with the keyboard or using the remote. The only thing I can do is "back" out to the TV guide and start watching the program again.
Please find enclosed a fresh set of logs (quit everything, delete all the log files, launch PVRX2 and try pausing live TV). I'm going to experiment with some different video codecs but it doesn't feel like they're the problem, everything else seems to work fine at the moment. Where should I start looking to try and make this work?
I'd like to see an option to force pre or post padding for a recording. Since we would not always want it, I'd say the option would be to force the padding on any recording if it is greater than the default amount. Personally, I always need to add an extra hour when recording NASCAR races and I always need to make sure I cancel any other recordings that are scheduled to start during this extra 30 minute time period. It would be nice to not have to do this, but not have the default extra 2 minutes get in the the way of any "regular" recording schedules. Also, any recordings that cannot be recorded due to the extra padding would show up in the "Conflicts" list. I guess the best way to do that would be to adjust the actual recording end time of the program with the padding, rather than have the padded time separate.
I am running a GB-PVR from a Popcorn Hour A-100 in the lounge. My Windows Home Server runs GB-PVR and provides video, music and photo storage. House is fully networked with CaT6.
This all works fine, although obviously I cannot watch or record TV through it. There are numerous problems trying to install TV cards on WHS so I am very tempted to purchase the HD Homerun device which has just become available in the UK (£159).
The family currently use a reliable HDD recorder in the lounge (TVOnics DVR-250 http://www.tvonics.com/digital-tv-recorders/) but all the recordings are 'stuck' on the HDD and not available anywhere else in the house.
Will my set-up with the addition of the HD Homerun tuner provide as good as, if not a better, set-up for the family as I currently have?
With 4 children my budget is tight so I need convincing!
I am running a GB-PVR from a Popcorn Hour A-100 in the lounge. My Windows Home Server runs GB-PVR and provides video, music and photo storage. House is fully networked with CaT6.
This all works fine, although obviously I cannot watch or record TV through it. There are numerous problems trying to install TV cards on WHS so I am very tempted to purchase the HD Homerun device which has just become available in the UK (£159).
The family currently use a reliable HDD recorder in the lounge (TVOnics DVR-250 http://www.tvonics.com/digital-tv-recorders/) but all the recordings are 'stuck' on the HDD and not available anywhere else in the house.
Will my set-up with the addition of the HD Homerun tuner provide as good as, if not a better, set-up for the family as I currently have?
With 4 children my budget is tight so I need convincing!
I have a dell server I am using for my dvr and I currently only have 2 72gb drives in a raid mirror. I want to add a larger drive for storing recordings.
Are there any issues with using an external USB drive for recording to or is it best to avoid this?
I have a microsoft MCE remote (and receiver) + GBPVR version 1.3.7+ HIP.
The "channel changer" MOSTLY works using TV guide as well as LIVE TV. MOSTLY works needs explanation. Let us say I select CNN from TV GUIDE which points to channel 205 - Sometimes the "channel changer" changes the channel to 20 and then the channel 5 is played! I am not sure how to fine tune the timing of the IR blaster! After 2 or so attempts, the "channel changer" works! I have no idea why!
However, when I set GBPVR to record, it records ONLY the the last channel I viewed. In other words, the "channel changer" does'nt seem to change channels!
I need help to troubleshoot this problem and any help would be much appreciated!
Let us say I have programmed channed 4 and 5 to be recorded using TV Guide and Last viewed channel was 7. The recordings has that of channel 7 only and not channels 4 and 5!
