To help automate some maintenance tasks, is there any way that I can communicate events to the recording service from a program or batch file? For example, I would like to tell it to stop a recording, without having to press "CANCEL" in the PVRx2 interface.

Also, I am aware of postprocessing.bat and parallelprocessing.bat. Is there any way to execute some commands BEFORE a recording commences?

I was playing an untranscoded dvr-ms file today, when I noticed a few skips that took out anything between a few seconds and a few minutes. When I rewound, however, that video was still there (if jumpy). Is this a familiar problem to anyone? I have never noticed it before, but I did lose my config.xml file yesterday.

I must say that GBPVRCLI.exe is just about the ultimate tool for a dangerous old programmer like myself. I am planning some error prevention and quality control with it.

I have found the list of switches, but is there anywhere that I can few a list of the output codes that are available? I am talking about anything similar to {MinutesToEndWithPadding} The only ones I know about are those that I stumbled across in other people's examples.

Hi Guys, apollogies if this has been asked before but I am new to GB-PVR and have been pulling my hair out trying to get my MVP to work.

When I try to play a recording or live tv the screen goes blank and the device goes back to "contacting servers" and then back to the menu's. When i check the logs (see attached) I see an error message in the MVP-PVRX2.log file to say it couldn't find the .mpg file.

I have trolled the forums and tried as many tweeks as I could find but nothing has worked. I am running 1.3.7. with a Hauppauge HVR4000 and caputing NZ Freeview DVB.

The only thing I have got to work so far is net radio. I have not put any video, photo or MP3 files on the PC yet. Hopefully I will try these tomorrow.

Any suggestions / help will be gratefully received.

I have a single tuner card and a dual usb tuner. Should 'device number' be set to 1,2,3 respectively or 1,1,2?
thanks

I installed a PVR-150 on an old PC to watch TV while working.
WinTV that came with the board works OK however it is not a good program. I read about GB-PVR and decided to give it a try. The installation went OK. I configured it as Live TV.
PVRX2 shows a transparent window, nothing happens and status is always "sleeping".

I searched in the forum. It seems that may be the video board is not good enough however there are many other errors in the logs.

Could someone please take a look in the logs to confirm that GB-PVR can run on this PC or not? If not is just a matter of the video board or is there something else that needs to be fixed? Thanks.

The PC runs XP SP3, CPU AMD Sempron 2400+, RAM 500MB, HD 80GB, MB SIS based ASRock with internal video board SIS 661FX_760_741_M661FX_M760_M741 (yes, exactly this soup of letters and numbers)

On my Vista 64 machine, the latest GB PVR version 1.3.11 reports an unhandled exception error every time it tries to start.

Un-installing and re-installing version 1.2.13 , there are no errors

I have uninstalled my virus checker & adware checkers, with no improvement.

Log attached - which seems to attribute the crash to no VMR support (which was not a problem for previous version, so probably wrong)

Can anyone suggest what might be causing this fault? What can I try to get the latest version working under Vista 64?

Cheers

I have a few channels that are only available on one tuner; if that tuner happens to be busy when I'm flipping channels with up/down or if I type in the channel number, all I get is a black screen and the program becomes slow to respond to further channel changes until I get it off the unavailable channel(s).

Two behaviors seem appropriate:

1) when changing channels with the up/down buttons, either just skip unavailable channels or put up a static box that says 'No tuner for this channel available due to recording(s) in progress'. The box shouldn't require any input, just inform the user, let them continue flipping channels. An even more elegant response would be to display which recording(s) is/are making the channel unavailable, but that of course is more involved.

2) if a specific channel number is typed, then I think either the static box described in case 1 or the same dialog as is employed in the TV Guide when selecting an unavailable show would work fine.

All,

Newbie question - I am looking at building my first HTPC using mainly spare parts if possible. I only have ATSC and would like to be able to record 1080i content. Should one of the following setups work smoothly?

ASUS P4B533 w/P4 3.06GHz
OR
MSI MS-6738 (KM2M Combo) w/Athlon XP 2600
Nvidia Verto GeForce 6200 128mb (AGP)
Up to 2GB RAM if needed

I don't have a tuner yet. I would like to be able to record and watch at the same time. Recommendations? I need either PCI or external.

Any preference on the mobo/cpu setup? I like the MSI only because it's miniATX. Thanks for the help.

With the update I can't seem to figure out how to delete all the clips.
My current process is to
open the Mange2.aspx file.
in the right tool bar select none
in the right tool bar select failed (I'll then see multiple failed files)
place a check mark in the box above the clips. (all the displayed clips now have check boxes)

Then I get lost.
for each clip I see FAILED under that is the chekc box with Delete me checked.
quality is set to medium
then under that is a button called "Cancel" which seems odd because the faild clip was from Jan 12th so nothing really to "cancel" there.

Is there a glitch.. or am I doing something wrong..

thanks.
Gren