Sub or whoever, I have decided to record in mpeg from TV rather than TS as the manual convert to AVI does not seem to work. I made the change to microsoft DVR-MS in misc2 in config but the recordings are still in mpeg TS format. Any reason for this or have I missunderstood the process?

Thanks.
Duncan

I finally received a replacement main board for my PCH. It had the June 08 firmware in it (wouldn't you expect the latest firmware in a replacement?) so I upgraded it to the Jan 21 09 release (took over an hour to download it...56MB...their servers are really being hammered). Now I can't get it to run GB-PVR. I get the dreaded 'Request cannot be processed' error whenever I try. I'm using the same server to run it from that I did before I had to RMA it. I didn't change anything at all on it. It was running the 21Jan release and as far as I can tell I have the PCH set up as the same as it was pre_RMA. It sees the shares and I can play ripped DVDs and my recorded shows native just fine but it won't start GB-PVR. I'm running XP SP 3 on the server. I used the Dummies install on my other GB-PVR box (also XP SP3) and it installed just fine and everything looks OK but it also gives the same error. I'm very frustrated...it worked right off the bat the first time around. I can't see what the problem is. Any suggestions will be very much appreciated.

I was wondering if there is a config.xml options list documented anywhere. i'm trying to debug some tuner and mvp issues and i'm changing options according to some posts but i'd like to see an official list of options (some of the posts mention options that are not in the original config.xml file of the latest version).

Thanks!

If possible, could you include whether the video is interlaced or not on the ctrl-o video info popup?

MVP seem to restart randomly when watching a recording giving a 'Failed to locate GUI server' before starting again. The restart happened approximately at the 7:12pm time.

I have been having this problem for a long time with different GBPVR versions. Can someone review the logs to check if you can spot a problem?

I just re-installed the latest GB-PVR (v1.3.11) last week and the problem persists. It was a fresh installed.

The file I was testing GB-PVR with is: MotoGP.2007.Round18.Spain.Valencia.Race.PDTV.Eurosport.XviD.English-asd.avi

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

V/R

Ralph

I am trying to encode recorded shows into H.264 files. In my config.xml file, I am trying this code...

Hi,

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.

Cheers

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