Build 80 of EWA has been released. You can download it directly here or on the wiki.
Date: 2009-02-22 Build Number: 80 Changes:
UncleJohnsBand: Correct server time bug in CSS Manage Recordings page.
UncleJohnsBand: Converted CSS pages to use a CSS based Master page to ease maintainability.
UncleJohnsBand: Added .flac file extension to the music mask so they show up in EWA.
UncleJohnsBand: Fixed positioning issue on the CSS Player pop-up window.
UncleJohnsBand: Added 2k, 5k and 8k HD Streaming bitrate options.
UncleJohnsBand: CSS General Notes:
CSS Note: To access CSS based screens use guide2.aspx as your start page.
CSS Note: CSS screens are coded in strict standards mode. This will make future updates easier and provides the best cross-browser (Firefox / IE) compatibility. However, this also means that the CSS sceens will only be fully supported by IE 7 and FireFox. Some screens will not work correctly in IE6. Sorry.
CSS Note: CSS screens are optimized for screens with 1024x768 resolution or higher. Lower resolution will just cause more scrolling on some screens.
CSS Note: Please post feedback/bugs in the EWA CSS Guide sticky thread located in the EWA support forum.
Hello all, I've been playing with GBPVR here and there and have had difficulty setting it up with HDHomeRun. Finally after using a combination of instructions, for the most part it looks like I can get it running.
However, there is a key problem, no picture in the PVRX2 app. I've been able to get the gbHDHR_tune to record video manually, that is I use a command line to enter a channel and file path and it does record, but even that doesn't seem to work correctly.
It looks to ignore the channel I enter in the command line and records whichever channel is tuned in using HDHomeRun Config.
By some miracle, I had it working temporarily. I tried to save my settings but something wasn't right. Also note I've had strange results with the bgHDHR_tune, it works sometimes with "" or no " when using the parameter mode.
I've checked the log files, and I have no errors aside from the typical skin errors.
I don't know why the picture won't display using PVRX2 and don't know why in command line mode why the app won't record the channel I tell it to.
Note that in GB-PVR mode, if I change channels the status tuner shows the channel changing. Don't now if it's actually doing it but it does show it.
Running a Dell 1210 with 7400 go gfx card 2 GB of memory
Windows XP Home edition SP3
GB-PVR 1.3.11 version, I did install one of the patches
VLC .9.8a
gbHDHomeRun version 1.0.0 (config.exe)
I know it's not one of the recommended or supported tuners but...I bought this one to revive my old system and add HD. I have an old P4 3.0 with a crappy Soyo Mobo and 2 Gigs of ram. In order to get some decent recordings and playback with HD I upgraded the video card to a Radeon HD 3650 (AGP) and this tuner with hardware encoding (it's quite a good tuner). That actually worked, and the system can now handle HD recording and playback by unloading some of the work onto the upgraded cards, but I'd REALLY like to be able to use GBPVR.
Based on a previous thread (http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=39943) the analog side is up and running fine. After reading through as many threads as I could, I tried to update the DBA.INI file with following:
[ASUS PHC3-100 (ATSC)]
TUNING_TYPE=ATSC
FILTER_TUNER=ASUS PHC3-100 ATSC/QAM Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=ASUS PHC3-100 Digital TV Receiver
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
[ASUS PHC3-100 (QAM)]
TUNING_TYPE=ATSC
TUNING_SPECIAL=2
FILTER_TUNER=ASUS PHC3-100 ATSC/QAM Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=ASUS PHC3-100 Digital TV Receiver
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
GBPVR now recognizes the hardware, but will not tune any HD stations (using either the ATSC or QAM. The tuner works great with the (crappy) software that comes with the card (including picking up all QAM and ATSC signals), but GBPVR will not recognize the same channels. At one point, while using the bundled software and watching QAM, GBPVR recognized the frequencies during a scan, but then showed "WEAK OR NO SIGNAL" when I tried to watch them after closing the other program (I since tried uninstalling the bundled software as well).
Also, when I run the Tuning Assistant it seems to recognize some of the ATSC channels, but they don't show up when trying to configure the tuner.
I've attached the FILTERCHECK log and latest CONFIG log and can attach any others that might be helpful.
My local cable TV provider made a complete overhaul of the channel lineup about 6 months ago. Ever since, SchedulesDirect has been constantly adding or changing channels for my local lineup around once a week, and still going on. Every time they added a channel, I used to have problems with the program guide in 1.3.7 simply not showing any info for various different channels.
I tried updating to 1.3.11 a couple of weeks ago, and now nothing shows up in the program guide, and upon trying to do an EPG update, config.exe shows a pop-up box with a stack of exceptions, then crashes. In the past, the only way I could fix this was to uninstall GB-PVR, delete all the stuff left behind, then reinstall. But every time a new channel is added, it happens AGAIN and AGAIN, like every week!
If there's something I'm just doing wrong, please, somebody tell me what it is!
(config.exe-1 logfile attached, it shows the exception at the end of the file)
I have two questions. First, I am using XRecord on a High-def TV. I use the Community Skin 3 and it looks great...is there any easy way to modify the XRecord skin so that it uses the better fonts (smoothed curved letters rather than pixely)? I assume I'm asking if this skin can be made HD or not...I have no idea what is involved, but would love to do that if it is not beyond me (I've tinkered with skin alterations, but am really a newbie here).
Second, I really like the idea of password protection. Is there a way to set up the keys.txt file so that all shows taped have a password unless I specifically unprotect them? Alternatively, could I password protect everything in one command, then use a different password for selected shows. I'd like to restrict what my children can get to, but ratings are not available in my listings and I don't want to have to constantly remember to get in and password protect newly taped shows, so I want everything to be password-protected by default.
Thanks to all who have helped update this plugin for the new version of GBPVR...it has come a LONG way in the past year!
I am back looking at EWA after a few years. It really looks good. I am missing something though that I just can't find searching the forums.
I can't seem to stream live TV on my wired network (or even directly to localhost) and get a resolution that looks very good. The best so far is set to 1.0 but that still gives me really poor resolution. Should it be able to give me native resolution of the channel, as if I was watching it directly out of PVRX2? If so, how?
I just upgraded from 1.2.13 to 1.3.11. The new GB-PVR and recording service seem to work well. However, I experience a significant increase in navigation delay within PVRX2, especially transitioning to the TV Guide and Recordings pages, and navigating around the different Recordings menus.
My Live TV and Recordings source to a local disc, but a large portion of my recording library sits on a NAS unit elsewhere on the LAN, shared via SMB (//<ip address/<directory>/<recording>). I've used this setup for at least the last 3 or 4 versions of GB-PVR so it seems something has changed.
Through network sniffer, I verified that the HTPC is beating the LAN during almost every button push in the Recordings and TV Guide menus, especially when setting or deleting recordings. I don't know if it is PVRX2, the Recording Service, or both.
I'm not sure why PVRX2 or the Recording Service would need to access the LAN share more than once per navigation, but the delays render PVRX2 nearly unusable.
Short of adding additional HDDs and moving over 400G of recordings onto a local drive, does anybody know if there's a config.xml setting(s) I could flip to disable constant video library reads?
My playback was not good - the video looked OK, but audio would stutter a bit. Live TV looked OK, as long as I was not recording.
My system, while it meets the minimum specs, was a bit on the 'weak' side... (see my sig).
I have two hard drives (C and D). C (30 GB) contains my OS and that's about it. My D is 120 GB and was set for my recordings.
(edit) - C was set as master and D was set as 'slave' on primary IDE channel (end edit)
On a whim, I set everything to run on C - and that fixed my performance issues.
Next, I am going to try connecting my D drive to be the master on my secondary IDE channel - I will update this post with the results once I get a chance to test.
I'm having playback issues... recordings (and even items from my video library) are freezing at seemingly random moments. These are always catastrophic and require a full computer reset as the keyboard and mouse are inoperable.
I've run in windowed mode and checked cpu usage which seems very high 60-80%. I've also tried to recreate the issue in Windows Media Player or VLC and can't manage it, so it seems it's a GBPVR issue.
I'm using Dscaler5 as my video and audio decoders. I've attached the logs. Can anyone see anything that may be causing this?
