I've searched the forums, followed some tips, applied patches, updated codecs, but can't resolve this.
LiveTV works great for DVB-T (HVR-2200) as well as analogue.
If I record a digital channel it creates the TS file just fine. But if I try to watch the recording I just get a black screen, no audio or video. If I open in WMP I get a great video but no audio.
GSpot tells me the file is MPEG-2 Transport Stream, MIME Type video/mp2t
GraphStudio shows a video out connecting to ffdshow connecting to VMR Input of Video Renderer. But no audio links? (I really don't know how these programs are supposed to help me!)
This is like several other threads, I know, but those haven't led me to a solution!
Anyone have any advice?
PS. Using the Cyberlink mux on Misc 2 tab, Cyberlink H.264 Decoder from PowerCinema, AC3Filter, MPA Audio Decoder and Monogram AAC Decoder.
Hi - when setting up the source of EPG for a tuner device, user who wishes to use an XML source is prompted via dialogue box to browse to a local XML file, to establish the path.
Nothing in this suggests to the user that they can instead enter an url which GB-PVR will then automatically check for updates.
This is great functionality, completely hidden by the user interface!
Can the dialogue box that appears during setup of XML source please be changed to positively identify that an URL is an acceptable alternative to a local path?
Even better, if known url options appear based on users region, or at least a link to a webpage containing a list of known urls that work.
I am still having problems playing back recordings from Freeview satalite on the MVP with not skipping consistantly, same thing happens when entering a number & then hitting the skip key the resulting playback positon could end up anywhere in the recording.
On mvallevand's advice I have been trying to transcode these .ts recordings to .mpg's but the resulting transcoded recording still won't skip correctly, I started this thread asking for advice on transcoding http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=40792 but the response was small & the posted transcode settings still don't fix the problem, I'm fairly sure now after further testing that the one I thought was "great" doesn't actually fixes all the recordings either.
Right from the start of trying to use a digital tuner I have been wondering if the underlying problem is signal strength but looking at the log for my HVR-3000 after a recording the other night that had the random skip problem the lowest result were two -2500,100 (assuming -2500 is lowest) most were in the -3???,100 range & one up at -6599,100
2009-02-25 23:05:06.313 VERBOSE checking signal stats took total: 0ms (1,1,-2500,100).....(,0,0,0)
2009-02-25 23:11:37.204 VERBOSE checking signal stats took total: 16ms (1,1,-6599,100).....(,0,0,0)
2009-02-25 23:23:40.079 VERBOSE checking signal stats took total: 16ms (1,1,-3500,100).....(,0,0,0)
2009-02-25 23:33:42.657 VERBOSE checking signal stats took total: 16ms (1,1,-2500,100).....(,0,0,0)
does this look like it could be a signal issue?
I have a 900mm dish with the cable going directly to the HVR-3000 with no splitter or anything else in the circuit at the moment until I get this problem sorted out, so technically it should be a good signal.
I am using 1.3.11 & have multi record turned off at the moment as I was loosing post padding on the recordings from the analog tuners & the WAF was dropping rapidly as it is with the digital recordings not skipping correctly. This is really pissing me off as I have spent heaps & heaps of time on trying to fix this issue. All I want to be able to do is select programs we want to watch from the TV Guide & then later sit down to watch them & be able to skip the adds & if it skips to far jump back a bit.
Any & all help/advice would be welcome, after all the time I have wasted trying to get this to work I am quite happy to have to transcode all recordings to be watched later if there is a practical way by doing that to fix the skip problem & increase the WAF again.
Hi ...Wonder if anyone can help. I have two wired MVP units. Individually, these units work well and I can access all my stored media, however, it appears that when both units are powered up only one will be able to access this media. It could be either one that works depending upon which one is powered up first, but they will not both work together. Strangely, both will show the GBPVR GUI, but if one is connected and playing music -for example - any attempt from the other MVP to access recordings, or any other media on my media PC (where GBPVR resides) will simply cause this unit to show the Hauppauge 'Contacting server' message for a while. Usually the GUI is re-loaded shortly afterwards, but attempting to do similar operation gives same results. Original (first booted) MVP will still happily access any media that's available.
I use a router to provide DHCP for my network, and am running GBPVR v1.2.13 with standard supplied dongle.bin My desktop Zonealarm firewall has during tests been disabled to see if this was causing issues, but no difference.
I have attached my GBPVR logs, and also a screen shot of a Net runtime 2.0 application event error (left in Logs zip)that seems to be generated when the above situation arises .
Thanks in advance if anyone can help
I installed the plugin as per the instructions but I can't see the SystemStatus menu anywhere in PVRX2. The DLL is in the Plugins folder, the skin data is in the Skins folder and I'm using the default Blue skin but alas, no SystemStatus menu. Any suggestions?
I've been using GBPVR for at least 2 years now and have always had this issue, I figure it's about time I fix it. heh.. Recording is fine, quality could be a little better but it's not bad. My issue is dark, low light and night time scenes. It is almost unwatchable, is there some way to turn up the brightness for recordings?
I have not tried burning to DVD and playing back on a DVD player, maybe I should try this and see what the result is.
I have spent the last two days experimenting with a client PC for GBPVR. I wanted to share this with you and see if anyone has any more tips I can try. I am using the most recent GBPVR version on both machines. I am using Nvidia Purevideo decorder on both machines (client has Intel GMA 950 graphics- but purevideo works fine)
Server and client both are capable of playing files in question (made sure that worked first). I set LiveTV pre-delay for client to 4000 in all scenarios. Both machines running Windows XP. I am using a wired network with no speed issues.
As you can see from my results, I am not able to get LiveTV to work from both tuners in one single setup. DVR-MS was out of question as it does not support LiveTV. I am wondering if there is anything left to try to make this work.
Digital ATSC Server Mux- TS (ts files)
[INDENT]FileShare
[INDENT]LiveTV- Good Recordings Playback- Good[/INDENT] Streaming LiveTV- Does NOT work (PVRX2 quits after few seconds, ts file is generated on the server but does not playback on client) Recordings Playback- Mostly Good[/INDENT]
Server Mux- Cybelink (mpg files)
[INDENT]FileShare
[INDENT]LiveTV- Does NOT work (stutter and hiccups) Recordings Playback- Good[/INDENT] Streaming
[INDENT]LiveTV- Does NOT work (stutter and hiccups) Recordings Playback- Mostly Good[/INDENT][/INDENT]
Analog Sat Dish (PVR-150) produces mpg files
[INDENT]FileShare
[INDENT]LiveTV- Stutter and hiccups (unwatchable) Recordings Playback- Good[/INDENT] Streaming
[INDENT]LiveTV- Mostly works, but a hiccup here and there Recordings Playback- Good[/INDENT][/INDENT]
I have the newest version GBPVR and all the patches. After I setup the HVR-1600 I try to map the digital channels it starts and says initializing then after a couple of seconds it kicks out of the config program. WinTV works and I can scan all off the clear qam channels but not in GBPVR what am I missing.
It would be nice if the option to show US Closed captions could be turned on or off while watching a recording. It seems like there's something there for some other method of displaying subtitles, but not for the closed captions that I'm using.
If it's part of setting up playback and can't be changed on the fly during playback, could it at least be a part of the Settings menu within the program? As it is, we need to open up Config in order to change it, and that wants to restart the Recording Service and interrupt anything being recorded. It seems strange to me that I can change the MPEG decoder there but can't choose whether Closed Captions are on.
Last night I recorded a program from my ATSC OTA setup (720p).
When I went to play back the .ts file, I noticed that my skip forward button (which is set to skip 60 seconds) was now only skipping about 1 second. When the OSD was up, I noticed that the current position timer seemed to be moving very quickly although the video was playing at a normal speed.
I went and played an old recording and noticed that the 00:00:00 format is normally Hours:Minutes:Seconds. However, when I was watching my new recording it was more like Minutes:Seconds:Milliseconds. For both videos, my skip 60 seconds button incremented the middle number by 1, but for the new recording, that equated to only 1 second.
I also noticed that the audio sync was way way off for this recording. Not sure if it was related to this timer issue or not. I tried to find out if anyone else in my area had audio sync problems last night, but didn't find any.
My singal is good (TV reports upper 90s). Hauppauge's WinTV signal monitor showed SNR of 30 (max), 0 uncorrectable errors, and every once an a while 1-2 correctable errors (which I believe is normal).
Any ideas on why this might have happened? The only thing I did differently yesterday was I replaced some F-connectors on my coax, but I don't see how that could possibly have any effect. Especially when my signal strengths stayed the same.
