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!
I have a video that plays fine on other computers. When I try to view it on my GBPVR box I get audio only. I tried to open it w/ WMP to grab the missing codec, but WMP can't find or download the appropriate file.
Is there an easy way to tell what codec the video is requesting (and I am missing)?
Just got back to GBPVR after a year and a half hiatus from having a PVR machine. Am noticing slower movements as compared to before. The Wiki is outdated and I was wondering when it was last updated and whether it is still up to date to the latest version (1.3.11 as of this writing).
I've been playing around with the Windows 7 beta (x64) as a dress rehearsal for transitioning to a 64 bit OS. So far, so good. In fact, I'd buy Windows 7 right now if it was available.... it is that good.
GBPVR installs and runs perfectly from what I can tell. However, my Windows 7 machine is a client (the server is an XP machine) and I have yet to read up on the new networking procedure for Windows 7. Until I figure out how to make Windows 7 see XP shares and vice versa, the client can't see the server over the network yet.
But I did discover something very interesting.... although the XP server share isn't visible on the Windows 7 machine, the Windows 7 machine DID find all the GBPVR recordings on the XP server. They show up in a folder on the Windows 7 machine under my username called "Recorded TV". WMP plays them perfectly. But here's the interesting bit.... if I delete a recording from "Recorded TV" on the Windows 7 machine, it gets deleted from the XP machine as expected.... but it also no longer shows under "Recordings" in GBPVR on the XP machine. Does that mean that Windows 7 is manipulating the XP machine's GBPVR database or is GBPVR manipulating the database when it sees the file get deleted? I'm positive that the last time I deleted a recording from the GBPVR recordings share using Explorer on an XP client, the recording still showed up under "Recordings" in GBPVR until I also deleted it via GBPVR. ??
