I have GBPVR 1.3.7 and a PCH A-100.
mvpmcx2 runs great on the PCH so far and so does MovieWiz to play movie files ripped as .mp4 files.
I tried to see if I can set it up to play DVD images stored as ISO's to get DVD menu functionality in GBPVR. I used a car reference guide DVD as my testing DVD - it is an ISO file stored on a FreeNAS server (where all the other movie files are currently).
I can access the iso fine directly through the PCH network browser and it plays fine with all the menu functionality.
Through GBPVR, Video Library cannot open the sub-folder in which the ISO resides - the permissions are open (chmod 777). MovieWiz shows the file in the list. When I play it through MovieWiz, it attempts to start playing the ISO, shows the Popcorn Hour screen for a few seconds, and then comes back to the MovieWiz screen.
I have attached -
1. GBPVR logs
2. Putty output during this attempt (I ran mvpmcx2 manually through telnet for this trial). I also gave the mount command (just 'mount') initially just to confirm the mount went o.k., so you see the initial part has the output to the mount command.
3. My mvpmc share folder - so you can see how the share/mount commands are written.
Please let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks,
haripj
After intermittent problems with various file types (many of which were solved by Sub), I eventually decided to construct a parallel "clean" build with as little as possible installed. I plumped for ffdshow as both the video and audio decoder - its Free, and don't have to pay Cyberlink or Core anything at all in the future (though I do own copies of both right now, they've given me endless pain). It also has HD audio options that the others don't.
But I've the following problems.
1. TS files - MPEG2
These playback audio but a blank screen video. The log implies everything is fine and ffdshow is being attached.
2. TS files - H264
These don't playback at all, and just switch back to the menu.
Using graphedt and good old Haali as the splitter both these files play back fine. It seems that ffdshow and TS reader can't be coming to an agreement on how to deal with the video in #1, and anything in #2.
Has anyone else got ffdshow to work with TS files in GBPVR.
ffdshow is fine for MKVs, DVD etc etc, its just TS files it has a problem with.
Its likely that I could get them working by installing Cyberlink. But given problems I've had with that in the past on other files (and its cost), I'd prefer to see if its possible to get ffdshow to work. outside of GBPVR ffdshow is happy to play anything I've thrown at it so far, so I'm hopeful its achievable.
I have been running a PVR box for about a year using XP MCE 2005 because it's easy to set up, but my OTA reception (ATSC) is not ideal for watching the local networks in HD. Forunately, I receive all of the local networks in HD over CATV QAM, so I would like to take advantage of the HVR-1600's QAM tuner to record HD in GBPVR.
Cable background: I have Comcast in Northern Virginia and receive the following channels plus others:
0 - multiple digital cable non-HD stations in the clear
1.4 - Fox
1.6 - PBS
1.10 - NBC
1.11 - ABC
109.5 - CBS
After some tinkering in the config and reinstalling of the Hauppauge software/drivers/codecs, I now am able to see myriad digital channels (mostly UNKNOWN / unusable) when I perform the digital channel mapping w/ autoscan. I am able to locate the ABC, CBS, and PBS HD stations and map them to their analog station numbers, but I'm not able to find the NBC and Fox stations in HD, just their non-HD counterparts (which show up on other channel numbers over QAM). Does anyone have any recommendations for picking up these stations? It is the last step in my GBPVR configuration.
Other config info: I have both the analog and digital sides of the HVR-1600 set up as device #1. The HVR-1600 is using system default for all of its settings.
System Config GBPVR: Ver 1.3.11 OS: Windows XP MCE 2005 Software:Hauppauge CD ver. 4.6 CPU: Athlon XP 2000+ Mobo: Asus A7V400 RAM: 512 MB PC-2100 -- works well enough w/o anymore Video: ATI Radeon 9600 XT Sound: On-board sound
The gbpvr rec. service somehow registers wake-up requests so windows wakes up for recordings. I've had a look on MSDN but I can't find out how to do this. Any pointers gratefully received.
I've setup Djkxml (as I'm in New Zealand) as my EPG scraper and put the djkxml executable file into the C:/Program Files/Devnz/GBPVR main directory, so the generated xmltv.xml file resides in this directory as well. I've pointed the GBPVR Config app to this directory. I have also created an UpdateEPG.bat file in this directory that has the following in it:
@ECHO OFF
Djkxml
The problem is that GBPVR doesn't seem to be automatically updating the TV guide each night. The Djkxml file works perfectly if run manually and 7 days worth of data is imported after I hit Update EPG in the GBPVR Config app. But nothing seems to happen overnight.
With the Digital cut-over in the U.S. looming (now postponed) I decided to build a new system. I purchased a Dell Studio (Vista Home Premium) and a Hauppauge 2250. I was running 1.03.07 on my old system and client, so I installed the same version on my new system. The installation went fine. I discovered that there was no audio when playing back recordings on the main system, but there was audio when playing the same recording on the client PC.
I did some checking on the forum and found an entry in the 1.03.11 survival guide that said there was a patch that might fix the lack of audio problem. I decided to upgrade both systems to 1.03.11. I also applied the patch. Not only did this not fix my problem, now when I try to exit from Live TV GBPVR hangs on the main system. It only hangs when exiting Live TV. Problem number 1. The client PC (also running 1.03.11) does not hang when exiting Live TV.
Putting the hang problem aside for a moment, I compared the two systems and found that the Dell came with the Cyberlink codec and I have the Intervideo codec on the client. I installed the Intervideo on the main system. Now I get audio when playing recordings, but now the volume is quite a bit lower than it was with the Cyberlink codec. Problem number 2. This is a probem because I have to turn up the TV volume so much, that I start to get a hiss. Is there a way to boost the volume for the Intervideo codec? I used the Hauppauge Tweak tool on my original system to set the volume to maximum. Does the tweek tool work on the 2250 or is there a registry setting?
Any help on resolving will be greatly appreciated.
Daris
Is there a way to reduce my capture quality (and file sizes)?
I have set the capture settings as low as GB-PVR allows -- 320x240 resolution, 1500 bit rate. I would like to save storage space, and don't mind further reducing video quality, but no lower settings are available. Anything I can do? Thanks.
Quote:Unable to cast object of type 'System.Collections.ArrayList' to type 'GBPVR.Public.GBPVRUiElement'.
exception when calling UiButton.Dispose() I noticed the following bug in UiButton.Dispose():
Code:
public void Dispose()
{
ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
if (this.normalUiElement != null)
{
list.Add(list); // SHOULD BE: list.Add(this.normalUiElement);
}
if (this.selectedUiElement != null)
{
list.Add(this.selectedUiElement);
}
PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().DisposeResources(list);
}
