Having moving to the newest version of GBPVR (the one with multi tx mux magic where you can record multiple streams if they are in the same TS) *and* comcast unexpectedly moving many of the basic tier digitals to clear QAM, I am now able to record many shows that otherwise would have been in conflict.
However I still use and love and refuse to give up XRecord/CDKScheduler.
I am wondering now if CDKScheduler "knows" about the multi-record capability... in other words does it handle correctly this new ability to record 2 or more shows at once?
I've updated to the latest XRecord drop off the wiki as well - and I cannot tell looking at the recording.log file if its doing the right thing or not!
Hi guys, I installed GB-PVR yesterday after finding MediaPortal extremely buggy.
I've liked everything so far except that GB-PVR seems to not be able to play the 1080p videos I have smoothly. It's not bad enough to be called jittering, but it would at random times the video would pause for a millionth of a second during playback. This problem has not occurred for the 720p and 480p video clips I have tried on GB-PVR.
All the files I tried works perfectly on Media Player Classic. I have downloaded Storm Codec and K-Lite Codec pack on my machine. I have tried switching the default video renderer to ffdshow but the problem is still there.
Please let me know of your past experiences in solving this problem! Thanks.
Well it seems that I've found out the hard way about the crappy HDMI support on the 780g chipset. We splashed out over the weekend on a lovely 37" Toshiba XV, a cracking set that's really impressing me. The problem is the HTPC refuses to drive the display at 1080p.
When I plug my MacBook Pro in using the DVI/HDMI cable the panel it brings the panel up at 1920x1080 no problems. When running it out from the HTPC I simply can't get it running at anything over 800x600. Turns out I'm not alone, there are loads of people experiencing HDMI problems with the 780g chips, some even have identical rigs to me (Toshiba 37XV555DB). Firmware updates don't help, driver updates don't help, southbridge updates don't help. I've wasted about 14 hours researching, trying drivers, tweaks, cables, all to no avail.
So I caved and ordered an Asus M3A78-EM. This has GeForce 8300 IGP and will accept all my existing components so it should be a straight swap. Yes, it means that I have to faff around swapping the mobo out but the benefit is that I get working HDMI that carries 1080p and audio on one cable with no additional cards, heat or power consumption in the case.
I've written a small program that will scrape IMDB and get thumbnails and relevant data for the .XML file - is there a valid entry for a MyMovies.XML file that'll point GBPVR at a file in a directory other than that file? If not I'll stick with individual .XML files rather than merging an entire scan into a single output file.
I know there's other apps that do the same job, for for some reason they're all painfully slow, taking upwards of 20 seconds per video file, mine usually takes around 4 seconds per file, should be less if you've got a better link to IMDb than I have. (Using the XBMC scraper often takes the best part of a minute per file).
I'm not much of a coder, the whole thing is written with AutoIt, is under 300Kb, all it does is run from the root movie folder, scour all directories for any supported videoformats and then downloads .JPG thumbnails and metadata, writing it to a moviename.XML file. It's simple, and it works. It misses sometimes when imdb returns odd results, but it's approx 95% accurate. The only graphical element is asking if you want to rescan existing files, and a progress bar show what it's up to.
I've had a look, but didn't turn anything up, is there a complete list of valid .XML metatags that GBPVR accepts somewhere?
ok, I messed it up. I am/was trying to get mc2xml to pull data from titan (it wasn't even though I had the -t option) well, got that to work, renamed the dat file and all seemed to be ok, but now I can't get any data to show up in the tv guide. If I go to live tv, it seem so to be ok, and the channels are mapped, but still nothing in the tv guide.
how to I get it to get the data? If I look at the xml file, it looks like there is data, but maybe not the channels that tv guide is looking for?
Anyone interested in trying it out, please read at least some of my new wiki page.
Some points:
Version 2 isn't finished and some of the features available in version 1 have not been activated/developed yet. But they're coming...
Please try it out with 'Zehd's Picks', as explained on the wiki.
I'm mostly interested in a user's first look. How did it go, what error right from the start...? Then I want to see how well Zehd's Picks work for you, and how well a Manual Enhancement works..
Then I'd like to know how it goes with your nightly EPG update.
If this all goes well for you, we can talk about the Seas/Ep Lookup tab - which is really quite intense for a beginner user (I don't want to scare people off)
If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd sure appreciate it.
I just noticed today that I am not downloading any listings for the History Channel International. I use SD and XMLTV to get my listings (for DirecTV).
My XMLTV configuration has "271 HISI" as a channel. But when I actually download my listings, it's no where to be found. This is with the latest XMLTV. The XML file it generates doesn't even have the channel info in it.
Does this sound like a SD problem, or a XMLTV problem? I'm at a loss...
I have a Hauppage HVR900H USB card. (DVB-T capable)
Most of the channels in Spain transmit two audio chanels, which are detected by GB-PVR as different video channels detected
So I have for example
TVE (one channel)
TVE #Audio 2 (as if it where another channel).
My poblem is that EPG is only received on the second one, and usually it corresponds with the "foreing language broadcast".
I've tried XMLTV but I can't find a source which provides information for some local channels... the EPG broadcasted with digital channels is better (for me).
How can I do to use EPG broadcasted for TVE #audio 2 as if it was the EPG for TVE?
Thanks.
I've got more issues, but this is the one that would make GB-PVR the PERFECT tool for me. (for example, how can I apply ".ax" patches?)
I have never worked with any PVR software before.
This is a first time installation of GB-PVR 1.3.11 on a new PC.
When I enter LiveTV, I see the channel name and hear the channel. But the image is black. I can change channel. Each channel remains black but you do have sound.
I tested with Hauppauge WinTV. All works fine. You see the channel program and hear the sound.
What is installed:
[INDENT]Windows XP Professional Sp 3
Hauppauge HVR 2250 TV card
Dot Net Runtime 2.0
Microsoft Visual C Runtime
DirectX 9.0c
Windows Media Player 9[/INDENT]
Please see the attatchment for the HVR 2250 setup images and GB-PVR logs.
