Hi all.

a year ago i tried to set-up GB-PVR and partially succeeded. Problem was I could not make my PC to control cable box, and the tuner I got (ADS MCE-3000) produced bad video quality using RF input, (AV video quality recording is acceptable). Another thing that through me back was free guide – it was too much hustle to deal with.

Given that “recording PC” was my promise to my 8 y.o. and she did not have any intensions to let it go, I ended up setting up for her DVR based on cheap licenced MCE 2002. It does what my daughter needs – SD recording of her favorite cartoons automatically, pretty stable and without any interaction from me.

As per my taste I’d like to give another try to this great project. I’d like to setup low-end HTPC based on a spare PC I have. All I need is an external tuner.

Here are specs for the potential HTPC:

Toshiba LCD 42” 720p (DVI input)
Low-profile Dell PC with 2.8GHz P-4 HT (800 MHz FSB)
1 GB DDR-3200 RAM
500GB SATA-1 HDD (I’m willing to upgrade if I’ll make it work for HD playback)
GeForce 6200 low-profile card
XP SP-3

Here are my questions:

1. I can network both PCs. Where in MCE 2002 Guide stored? I want to run import guide utility on daily basis to get listings from one pc into GB-PVR PC.
2. I need external tuner with QAM capability and good video quality over RF. Given that GeForce 6200 AGP video card CAN BE a bottleneck for HD playback I might do not need HD tuner (on other hands external tuner can be transferred to more power PC someday…) I’m thinking about HDHomeRun card, but I’m not sure at all. As far as I understood it cannot be used in pair with cable box in even I’ll decide to subscribe to scrambled channels…. What else can you suggest?
3. also I’m not sure if IR blaster capability to control cable box is part of the tuner or it’s something that can be purchased separately and a tuner card independent feature.

Thank you in advance,
Vlad

I have (from one I now read, a rather lemon like) 780g based gigabyte board, with a 4850e athlon running XP & gbpvr. I have managed to get it to the point where 99% of the stuff I run I'm happy with. Most video is fine, I get no tearing and I'm a happy boy. However, I have two issues left and need help!

The first is playing ISO's - I've installed daemontools "lite" from their website, pointed gbpvr at the correct folder & drive, but when I hit play on the iso, I just get a black screen for 20 seconds or so and then dumped back to the videos menu. Where am I going wrong?

The second is the one which I suspect is going to cause me some pain...
I have a two 1080p videos that play, but the audio drops out of sync after the first few seconds, ocassionaly totally drops then comes back out of sync again (like 5-10 seconds or so). Framerate playing seems ok (no choppyness), and the processor is running about 70-80% (so not maxed out, but I'm also assuming not using HA). Watching them in MPC I can see the jitter climbs and climbs and seems to match the delay in the audio. I'm guessing this is due to my box not having enough horsepower for the video, but I'm confused as other 1080p stuff plays without a hitch and when watching, it doesn't seem to drop more than a frame every few seconds or so.

Is the answer to get HA working on the 780g? Is this even possible? I'd really rather not have to add another gfx card, as the whole point of this was that it's energy efficient and almsot totally fanless..

As an aside, I was thinking of replacing my PVR-150 card with an Nova S2 HD card. Am I a glutton for punishment....?

I occasionally get some choppy bits when recording HDTV (OTA/ATSC). It's really evident with moving frames with a LOT of data that doesn't compress well (like that really busy rock wall texture Faraday was looking at in the Lost premiere opening).


Anyway, I think I've narrowed it down to the recording of the DVR-MS, as it's always in the same spot, and h.264 versions of the same video play back OK.

The CPU utilization when recording is fairly low at around 10%, so I don't think that's the bottleneck.

So is it my Capture Card or HD?

System Specs
CPU: Athlon X2 Dual Core 4800+
Memory: 2GB DDR2
Video: NVidia 9500 GT
Capture Card: WinTV HVR-1600
HD: Samsung 500GB clocked at 55MB/sec average transfer rate by HDTune


If it is the capture card, is the newer 2250 any better? Any other suggestions?

I think I've got the guts of this done and I'd like to check format and naming.

3 Main plugins:

• I've updated the meta view xml's
  
• I've renamed "Slick" to "CS Blue - Slick" and included the list-background.png required. I'm proposing that the CSplugin loads this graphic from here. This then allows for future versions like Reflect - Slick and Glow - Slick each with their own specific list-background.png graphic.
  
• I've included the standard (multi view) XML in a folder called Standard - we could go with Standard View, Default or Default View something like that ???
  

• I've added the 3 main vertical mainmenu layouts (left, center, right)
  
• I've been thinking with the Horizontal and slick views but I think there is a bug with how GB handles the Background Mask.png here. It loads it initially but when you return to the mainmenu form a plugin view it no longer loads. I was trying to use this graphic to create the same effect, since the plugin is already setup to load a Background Mask.png. These views aren't show stoppers for me personally, and if required we can easily borrow subs graphics and layout for slick until we get something worked out.
  

• Added the 5 different views previously discussed
  
• I haven't added any live-guide.xml formatting yet. How do you guys think we should add this?, as a separate choice or some kind of complimentary layout based on the actual TVGuide.xml chosen.
  

• I wasn't exactly sure how to format this, here's how I presently have it. 2 sub folders - Internal Graphics and External Graphics. Internal Graphics folder has 2 files - Blue.xml and Black.xml and uses GB to generate the OSD graphics. External Graphics folder has 2 folders - Blue and Black, each contain the skin.xml and the 6 separate png's that make up the OSD (the plugin could then load the graphics based on the colour chosen)
  
• I have also made up a photoshop file for ControlIcons (this enables me to create various colour options). These are the transport controls that appear when you move the mouse in the OSD. They may also be useful to media plugins that may require transport controls. I don't really know what to suggest, implementation wise, but the option of multiple coloured control/transport icons is there.
  

• I'm not sure what to call this folder - Layout, Main Layout, Global Layout, Master Layout ???
  
• I've added standard text (13/15pt) and large text (15/17pt)
  

Hi all,

I hope I have posted in the right forum.

I'm a newbie here. I can't find my device listed in the software. I ran the filtercheck and this is what it came with:

18:18:49.968 INFO Log started
18:18:49.968 INFO Filter Check v1.0
18:18:49.968 INFO
18:18:49.968 INFO
18:18:49.968 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CAPTURE filters
18:18:49.968 INFO found: Realtek HD Digital input
18:18:49.968 INFO - (output) Capture
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) Input1
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO found: 713x BDA Analog Capture
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) Analog Video In
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) Analog Audioinput
18:18:49.984 INFO - (output) Capture
18:18:49.984 INFO - (output) VBI
18:18:49.984 INFO - (output) Audio
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO found: 713x BDA Analog Audio Capture
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) Capture
18:18:49.984 INFO - (output) Audio
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_ENCODER filters
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_CROSSBAR filters
18:18:49.984 INFO found: 713x BDA Analog Xbar
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) 0: Video Tuner In
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) 1: Video Composite In
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) 2: Video SVideo In
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) 3: Audio Tuner In
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) 4: Audio Line In
18:18:49.984 INFO - (output) 0: Video Decoder Out
18:18:49.984 INFO - (output) 1: Audio Decoder Out
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVTUNER filters
18:18:49.984 INFO found: 713x BDA Analog TV Tuner
18:18:49.984 INFO - (output) Analog Video
18:18:49.984 INFO - (output) Analog Audio
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_TVAUDIO filters
18:18:49.984 INFO found: 713x BDA Analog TV Audio
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) TVAudio In
18:18:49.984 INFO - (output) TVAudio Out
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO
18:18:49.984 INFO Checking AM_KSCATEGORY_VBICODEC filters
18:18:49.984 INFO found: NABTS/FEC VBI Codec
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) VBI
18:18:49.984 INFO - (output) NABTS
18:18:49.984 INFO - (input) HWNABTS
18:18:50.000 INFO
18:18:50.000 INFO found: CC Decoder
18:18:50.000 INFO - (input) VBI
18:18:50.000 INFO - (output) CC
18:18:50.000 INFO - (input) HWCC
18:18:50.000 INFO
18:18:50.000 INFO found: WST Codec
18:18:50.000 INFO - (input) VBI
18:18:50.000 INFO - (output) Teletext
18:18:50.000 INFO
18:18:50.000 INFO
18:18:50.000 INFO
18:18:50.000 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_NETWORK_TUNER filters
18:18:50.000 INFO found: 713x BDA DVBT Tuner
18:18:50.000 INFO - (input) Input0
18:18:50.000 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
18:18:50.000 INFO
18:18:50.000 INFO
18:18:50.000 INFO
18:18:50.000 INFO Checking KSCATEGORY_BDA_RECEIVER_COMPONENT filters
18:18:50.000 INFO found: 713x BDA Digital Capture
18:18:50.000 INFO - (input) MPEG2 Transport
18:18:50.000 INFO - (output) MPEG2 Transport
18:18:50.000 INFO
18:18:50.000 INFO found: BDA Slip De-Framer
18:18:50.000 INFO - (input) NABTS
18:18:50.000 INFO - (output) IPv4
18:18:50.000 INFO
18:18:50.000 INFO found: BDA MPE Filter
18:18:50.000 INFO - (input) MPE
18:18:50.000 INFO - (output) IPv4
18:18:50.000 INFO

Any help will be much appreciated.

My device is Asustek LNA Tiger. The driver was detected by windows Xp automatically.

Cheers

Hi Guys!

I've had a somewhat old version of GBPVR working in one of my PCs which suffered technical problems and as a result I had to reinstall the OS... but now that I want to get my old dinosaur Plextor 402U running I see that the capture device is no longer listed in the capture card type section.... nor is the GO7007SB Recording Plugin

So... does that mean I can't use this device to watch TV on my PC? ... :confused:

I'm guessing there's an easy way to do this, but just can't find it anywhere.


Say I'm watching live tv, and I want to set it to record for just the next 2 hours 15 minutes. How can I do this? Currently, I'm going into Manual record, setting start time to right now, and having to do Clock-math to get the correct end time.

Is there a simpler way to just press a button while watching live-tv, and have a dialog ask "How long would you like to record?"
Thanks.

I have a minor problem . . .

It seems that when I change channels amongst channels that are on the same multiplex I have no problems, the channel changes very quickly. However when the channels are on different multiplexes then it takes much longer and may never change. If I'm on an analog channel and punch the number in to go direct to a digital it works fine.

i.e. On Channel 111's multiplex I have PBS1 (111.1), PBS2 (111.2), a bunch of digital music channels, and Retro TV (111.52) and channel changes between those channels is fine.

On Channel 110 I have CBS (110.1), and ABC (110.2). And channel changes between them are fine.

If I try to change from say Retro TV, 111.52, to CBS, 110.1, then most of the time it will hang for a long time, if not forever. If I go to an analog and punch in a digital channel though it pops right up.

It's not a big deal as my analog feeds are good so I don't care about the networks in digital. All I really want is Retro TV and I do occasionally watch the digital PBS stations. I just found it curious and wondered if there is a fix for it . . . any ideas?

Thanks!

Steve

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum or not and apologise if not.

I’m trying to get IRServer to change channels on my STB but seem to be having problems.

I’ve configured IRServer as outline at http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mce-re...ete-29024/ .

The problem I seem to have is that when I use the remote to change channels it seems to change channels with in the display of LiveTV but does not change the channel on the STB. I have looked in the IRServer log files and in the IR Blast.log I get the following entries:
2009-02-09 22:15:48.734375 - Info: Connected to server
2009-02-09 22:15:58.031250 - Warn: Failed to register with server host "localhost", blasting not sent

Could this be the source of my problems? If so, how do I correct. If not, does any one have any other ideas?

does anyone no if
FusionHDTV7 Dual Express Tuner
or
DViCO FusionHDTV7 RT GOLD
or Hauppauge HVR-12250
works in PVRX2
have 2
Hauppauge HVR-1600 cards but havent been to get second card set as divece 2 working
allso have 2 ati 650 but can not scan so there useless will try any thing to get second card install