Hi.

I am just setting up GB-PVR with a Popocrn Hour A100 and Windows Home Server. Making progress but need help.

In the CGI script I have the line 'mount -t cifs //192.168.0.8/mvpmc /etc/mvpmc/ -o username=mark,rw;'

The MVPMC share is not at the root of C: i.e. C:\MVPMC it is D:\shares\MVPMC. It is shared correctly in WHS and I can see it and access it from the Popcorn Hour as Network Share. The user name is the same as teh one used when accessing the share from the Popcorn Hour.

Do I need to reference it differently in the CGI script?

Many thanks

Mark

Can someone help me with the best way to connect my STB, HDTV and GBPVR PC?

I guess I have 2 options:

Option 1 - have HDTV from STB go directly to television, and have DVR on input #2. I dont think I have the horsepower to record HDTV so I am leaning toward this.



Option 2 - Have GBPVR do everything


Any suggestions?

I got the headset for gaming, but I couldn't help trying it with GB-PVR, and it's pretty impressive how well things works out of the box. First of all, it's neat to be able to change the audio device from the GB-PVR menu (Settings), 'cos this is sometimes a problem in other programs where you have to go through the Windows control panel to switch audio output. But the coolest thing is how the buttons on the side of the headset (volume and an "answer call" ment to be used with something like Skype), works with GB-PVR. Using the volume buttons brings up the volume bar in GB-PVR and the "answer call" button works as a pause button! I dunno if Sub intentionally integrated headsets like this, but it works beautifully

hey sub, i think i found a bug.

PluginHelper.GetSkinRootDirectory();
returns the "skin" directory and not "skin2"

My computer specs:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600)
AMD Sempron 2800 (1.6 Ghz)
ASUS M2NPV-VM ACPI (BIOS Revision 1201, 9/20/2007)
NVIDIA GeForce 6150/nForce 430 (integrated to the MB, 181.22 driver)
Available Physical Memory 3.21 Gb (4 Gb real, but OS only 32bit)

WinTV-HVR-2250 Dual Tuner PCI Express TV tuner w/ remote kit
WinTV-PVR-500 w/ remote kit

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So now that I have been using my new HVR-2250 to record OTA ATSC shows to dvr-ms files its just been a pain.

The show records fine and if I play them back using PowerDVD (7.3) they play pretty well (very little choppy-ness, but if you look real hard you can see some occasionally, CPU railed). If I play the same file in GBPVR it is real choppy all of the time. By choppy I mean the video stops for a second and then continues to play and the whole time the CPU is 90-100%.

Is my system to lightweight to handler the HD content or is there another deeper issue?

I can't really upgrade my whole system for this, so my other thought was to convert the video to something else. But after hours of trying and searching web/GBPVR I haven't found a solution that works well. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be helpful.

I have been using ver 1.3.7 for a while with my Nova-t 500 dual DVB-T tuner card with great sucess
I got a Hauppauge NOVA HD S2 card to try with the UK freesat service , just got dish fitted yesterday.

I am having some serious problems with the new card , namely channel scans can crash config.exe
And if I use a scan cache from some of the posts here I can tune to the channel fine when
mapping digital channels to epg screen ( small window preview ) , but if I run up pvrx2 and
select that channel the pvrx2 crashes within about 6 seconds ( the picture/sound is fine for those 6 seconds)

I have tried using the card with progdvb6 and it works fine , I have tried several versions of drivers.
I have also tried the newer version of gb pvr 1.3.11 and I have the same problem.
I am just trying to tune to normal SD channels that are not encrypted , aint even got to trying HD yet.

Has anyone else got freesat working with a Nova HD S2 card ?

I spent ages at it today to no avail , sub can you help me out please.

Some logs attached.

I see that on the Net Radio tab there is a "favorites" option - how do I add favorites to Net Radio?

Also - is there any way to expand the selections presented (i.e. search for more programs?)

I have searched and can find nothing about this problem. When I click on Live TV the program does nothing. I have tried looking for anything I can find in the config dialog and nothing seems to work. Also, I can not receive any channels from my tuner. (I have listed my setup below)

Also, is there anyway of getting the OSD (windows taskbar and gbpvr filebar) off while the program is running? I am planning on using the PC strictly as a PVR and don't really want these bars showing on screen.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

My setup:
Dell Dimemsion 2400
P4 2.8GHz Processor
768MB DDR2400
PCTV HD Ultimate Stick
42" LCDTV for Monitor
GB-PVR v1.3.11

No sure if this a wish list item but I'm sure there used to be a shortcut to GBPVRtray.exe on the start menu. In recent builds it doesn't seem to be there any more - I find it handy when you find the tray useful sometimes (like when installing/testing new things) but don't want it to always run on startup (which seems to be the default).

SUB,

There are many of us who want to use multi-record and therefore TS files however we have MVPs which don't natively support playing TS files.

Transcoding has proved problematic with the various types of differing broadcast formats.

Several of us have tried using the mvpmc dongle in emulation mode and find the mvp will play a SD TS file without transcode to mpg. Unfortunately the skip functions do not work and the timeline shows incorrectly.

I understand why this is however it's been discovered that if the file is renamed to .mpg the file plays well with all the required functionality (assuming the TS file actually contains a valid timeline)

Would it be possible to include an option for the MVP in the config.xml that tells GBPVR to treat playback of .ts files as if they were .mpg files.

This could make for easy MVP playback of .ts files, may allow us to watch a file whilst recording and possibley even watch live TV (via timeshift). It would be a big improvement on having to transcode everything.

What do you think?

(It's understood this wouldn't work for HD TS files.)