Was just out to the Schedules Direct (SD) site and read their posting from January....they highlighted that they are beginning to conduct survey's and the first one is to gather information from non-US/Canada people that may be interested in SD providing feeds to your area of the world.
Using HVR-1800, analog side, S-video in, GB-PVR 1.3.11, Community Skin.
1) When I record, my recording quality choice is not respected. If I choose medium (3500 kbps) the recording is made at 5000kbps. Even live preview is 5000kpbs (thought it should be higher than this). The 5000 seems to be the default setting for the card in GraphEdit, if that's any help.
2) When canceling an in-progress recording from the Pending recordings list, and clicking OK to confirm, the show still appears as "Recording" on this screen. Looking at the file, I can confirm that the recording did indeed stop. If I go to What's New, the program appears as ready. If I go back to Pending, the show is correctly removed. So it seems like the Pending list isn't refreshing after the cancel. Might be a skin issue, I haven't tried with "blue".
I've attached some logs (start recording American Idol, cancel after 30 seconds or so).
Is anyone using a movie download rental service here?
UK available services such as Channel 4's seem to be Kontiki based (bandwidth hogging p2p comes bundled free :mad
I've also taken a look at lovefilm.com and tescodigital.com which seem to have a pretty limited range just now for online download rentals.
Amazon Unbox looks pretty decent but hasn't arrived from over the atlantic properly yet.
I know it's almost always going to be MS DRM infected/infested but I can live with that if I really must if it's only for nightly rentals rather than to own.
My big requirement is that I'm paying as I go rather than having a subscription charge.
My plan was just to hook to the media pc or a laptop to the lounge TFT to watch.
Has anyone here had any joy with an existing UK available service?
I am looking for a script to transcode all dvr-ms (mpeg2, 480i previously recorded through gbpvr) files in a directory to xvid. I am able to do so one at a time using the transcode button pvrx2. I am on xp/sp3. Thanks in advance.
I've got one monitor hooked up to my PC, which is monitor #1, and is generally turned off. I just use it for admin sorts of things. Monitor #2 is my TV, and that's what I view GBPVR on.
Netflix Watch Now always starts up on monitor #1. Is there any way to change it to start up on monitor #2? Maybe have it check the GBPVR flag for the second monitor?
Hi,
I'm new to this software, but when it works it's great!
I just installed on a Vista 32 laptop, with no errors on install. Tried to run gbpvr, and a window comes up, but with only a white screen inside. not a menu nor anything else. config seems to work ok, but i can't really tell since gbpvr won't work.
.NET 1, 2 and 3.5 are installed. I tried to reinstall .NET 2, but Vista says it's already installed. I uninstalled gbpvr with no other results.
I tried to install tuners, with the same white screen result. I tried running with no tuners installed, same result.
(very) new user here...
System info - not in front of my PC currently so sorry if my details are not 'detailed' enough...
- Dell Dimension 2400 (PCI architecture), ~712(?) MB RAM, P4 2.8 GHz
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I am using a Haupaugge PVR-1600 capture card and comcast cable (no STB).
Playback of live TV is great, but some channels (History channel is one I know for sure) are 'missing' - they show up when I scan for channels but when I try to watch that channel it is all just static. Any ideas?
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My recorded shows - the video looks great, but audio 'stutters' and sounds like it is slowed down a bit. Could this be caused by my audio settings in config? - or possibly - could this be a limitation of video memory? I know the mimimum requirements are 64 MB video Ram. I am shopping for a new card but currently only have 16 MB. BTW - I have the same issue when using the 'native' software that was installed when I set up the capture card.
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My capture card came w/ a remote. It appears to have basic functionality w/ GBPVR (channel up/down, volume up/down) but that's about it. I could not find documentation on how to set it up - I did see some key mapping threads but could not translate that into steps I need to take to remedy.
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BTW - in my first posts I asked for help w/ picking the right hardware and the general consensus was to dump the Dell and get a board that supported PCIe. But I found a (PCI) PVR-1600 on sale ($69 on closeout at Circuit City) and now it looks like I am going w/ the original plan of recycling the Dell into a makeshift HTPC.
Running 1.3.11, everything -was- working fine up till a few days ago. Now when I try to watch a recording it will crash out to the recordings menu when the recording is about 50% through.
The recordings show as "ready", none show as "failed".
The first time I noticed this I was watching the super bowl. Everything was great until suddenly it crashed to the menu. So I started it up again, only to find out that while I could skip to where it crashed, it wouldn't go any farther and crashed again. I tried this 3 or 4 times. So I went to my recordings folder and checked the file size. The game was still on and according the the vista gadget it was still being recorded, but the file size was not getting any bigger. At the specified time, the "recording" stopped, and was labeled as "ready".
Same story for two other programs recently.
Is this a problem thats been encountered/solved before? I could not find anything with search.
Could installing plugins cause anything like this? I've put in the weather, cinema, and netflix plugins recently. They all work except for netflix which I disabled in config (I should probably uninstall it too). This seams improbable but I really haven't touched any settings except to add plugins.
I may as well say this too, even though it's probably not related: The whole computer freezes up now when I try to map digital channels to EPG. I found this out trying to add 1 measly channel to my lineup. Also, I can't channel surf anymore w/o a crash back to the guide. -sigh-
I'm baffled with all this, cause honestly, it was all working fantastically and I really don't think I changed anything!
I will provide logs if requested after I get home from work. I'm am leaning heavily towards a GBPVR re-install...
Is there a way to properly stream Live TV from the PVR-250 without re-encoding at lower quality? I can use VLC on a client computer and open up the MPG file in the LIVE TV buffer folder which kind of works. but I would like to stream the MPG stream that the PVR-250 creates with out re-compressing it is that possible?
Different media files that I play come in different aspect ratios.
I found that I can control the resize of ffdshow to get full screen, but
I need different settings for different files.
Is it possible to always have the correct resize to full screen resolution?
Is it possible to control resize during playback? how?
