Just wondering if any of the developers had the time/patience to write a TVGOS plugin.
if not, what exactly would i need to decode the TVGOS data stream? i did a dump from my CBS station in TSReader Lite and it has the TVG1 & TVG2 streams. i even dumped some data from them but it appears to be non-human readable. is it a proprietary encrypted format or can i decode it easily with some known algorithm?
and of course how can i integrate this as a plugin for GBPVR so that when i run my epg update script it switches to CBS, gets the data dump, optionally converts it to some XML format and loads it into the database?
i'm currently using a customized version of zap2xml perl script and i'd like to avoid the issues that all page scrapers have...
Does anyone have a stable HTCP that works for playback of over the air Digital Broadcasts as well as recordings of such? I am not looking for QAM tuner support or any cable/sattelite recording type HTCP's as I have found people who seem to do that well, but rather just a good ol plain DVR for OTA HD only. Before I delv into this again I need to make sure that is stable. My definition of stable is = less than 1 to 3 crashes a month, prefferably no crashing for reliable recordings. For some reason the OTA recordings seem to be the hardest thing to get right, at least in the USA
Background:
about a year ago I tried to delv into the HTPC thinking it's been around long enough it should be pretty stable by now. About 3 mos later, countless hours I didn't have and a very frusterated wife I had to give up. I settled for a dvd/hD recorder. Sure it had a clunky interface not unsimilar to scheduling recordings with a VCR but it worked right out of the box and I didn't have to have a monthly subcription to make it work such as TIVO, etc... although I did consider it. I used both Media Portal and GBPVR and favored GBPVR as it seemed to be more stable but still had quite a few crashes.
Problems I had:
I tried multiple codecs but some channels were smooth while others looked choppy, Not pixelated but rather stuttered movements as if it were a codec issue. i tried PureVideo, coreAVC and just about every codec imaginable as well as FFDshow but nothing seemed to solve the issue.
HardwareI tried:
I had a PCchips MOBO capable of core 2 duo cpu's but I just has a 3.0Ghz single core Celeron in it.
The MOBO had an AGP slot for video so I tried an Nvidia 6200 and a 7200 and an ATI 2400 pro.
I tried the Hauppauge HVR1600 and ATI 650. The ATI seemed to have the best picture.
I had 1 gig of RAM, I probably needed 2.
I had a 320 Gig Western Digital SATA drive.
Case cooling was not an issue and the cpu was always running around 40C
The reason I'm am looking at this again is I am wondering if my system was just not up to snuff. If I get some good feedback from folks who are doing OTA recordings successfully then I will try it again.
Provide ability to retireve metadata from the video file embedded in ADS.
Provide ability to store metadata in external format (ie filename.xml), or internally in video file (ADS).
Provide ability to edit either format data prior to saving.
Internal ADS format is compatible with recording format the GBPVR writes when saving recordings
Provide ability to export entries into recording.xml format. This is useful to update the GBPVR Recodings table so they show up in the Recordings Plugin
I had Windows crash on me this weekend and had to do a complete reload of everything. I'm getting GBPVR all set up again and the one thing I'm noticing is that, especially with SD mpeg2s, picture quality is really bad. The HD ones don't seem to be effected quite as much or maybe it's just not as noticabble.
I tried all kinds of different codecs thinking it was a codec problem but each one had the same issue. I'm not quite sure how to explain it. Everything has a lot of pixelation and colors look kind opaque It's particularly bad if there's a closeup on anyones face or if the lighting for a particular scene is strange for some reason.
Finally I just started pluggin files into graphstudio and trying every different combination I could. It appears to go away if I use a different renderer then VMR9. In graphstudio that's VMR7 or one that's just labeled "Video Renderer". However in the GBPVR config my only options are VMR9 or Overlay and overlay gives me some srange looking grid on the screen every time I start a file or skip back and forth. My system should be able to hangle VMR9 fine so I'm trying to figure out what I can do to fix this. I would have left some logs as well but as it is actually playing the files I'm not sure it's really going to show much. Any ideas?
System:
Mobo: MSI K9N Platinum
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 5200+
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 3870 512
RAM: 3gb Mushkin DDR2 800
OS: XP MCE 2005
I did update the catalyst control center software to try to fix this it's at version 9.1
I'm trying to use the Cyberlink PDVD7 codec with this but I've got ffdshow and some others on here too.
Sorry I almost forgot. This is GBPVR version 1.3.11 as well.
Hi,
First of all - thank you all for advice thus far.
So here's what happens - I hit live TV or guide. Takes about 6 seconds to start displaying video (ATSC OTA on Hauppauge 1250) and things seem to be working great.
Then I try to change a channel, have 5-10 seconds of delay and I'm thrown back to the menu screen. System is an Athlon 4850e, 4GB Ram, 780G mobo with latest drivers on XP. (I installed the aviva drivers and the free-codecs multi plack as advised on some other posts.) CPU load tops out around 38%, even on an NFL game with HD.
I'm a bit disappointed as I really have not heard any information from Comcast regarding this change over. But there was a newspaper article about it stating that Comcast was ditching analog and users would be required to get a box DTA within the next month?
So my question is this... I'm assuming all decrypting / converting from digital to anaolog is done with the DTA box on a per channel basis... or the user selects the channel to watch with the DTA tuner? So if that is the case I will need a channel changing device for GBPVR to continue to operate as it has...
What is a good performing channel changer that I should start purcahsing to get ready for the change over? Are there cheaper ones which operate consistently?
Now that I have .ts recording great in both HD QAM and SD dvbs, I am trying to watch them live on the client in file sharing mode. HD QAM works (and has always worked) great. The SD works great for anywhere from 15 seconds to 2 minutes, then freezes. If I hit the play button, it immediately starts again for a random period of time until it freezes. I checked the server and the temp file is there and keeps growing. I checked it and it plays smoothly with VLC. All logs look like everything is fine from what I can tell. My only guess is that it drops a few frames or something and that the client does not like and it stops it, then it won't restart. Usually it just freezes, but sometimes it sends it back to the guide.
I have livetv preplay delay maxed out on the client. Is there anything else I can set that might let it autorecover?
Thanks (by the way, I still have not had any 0 byte recordings since the patches!
Hey all, Dweeb Newbie here.
I have looked through the forum and tried to figure this out on my own but unfortunately it's over my head. Can anyone help me get this box working? Or at least send me to the right documentation as where to start?
Looking through the resources folder (great work btw Hairy - high quality throughout), I see that the images are named things like "Graphics\Buttons\Glossy\Rounded\Normal\Button_Normal - Light.png".
Although the names are clear and match to the CS Blue themes I think that when using the SkinPlugin to browse the options the names should be more descriptive. Using the above example a better name might be "Graphics\Buttons\Glossy\Rounded\Grey.png".
