In another thread (Setup crashing while mapping digital channels), I mentioned the issue that I was having when trying to map the digital channels. In addition to my scan freezing before it reached the end of the available channels, I could also not preview those channels that the scan did find. I have been assuming that both of these symptoms are indications of the same problem (and maybe it is). However, I am wondering if they may be two different problems and I have to solve one before I can solve the other. Therefore I am hoping someone can explain to be exactly how the preview window in the "Digital Channel Mapping" DialogBox works.
If I stop the scan before the end is reached, I can keep the scan from hanging. At that point, I have a number of channels listed in the listbox under the preview window (box labeled "Channels found during scan"). I also have all the channels listed in the other box that were imported from the EPG source. When exactly should I see an image in the preview window? SHould it show when I select a channel in the box labeled "Channels found during scan", or should it show after I select one in the "Tuning Request" field?
In my case, I don't get any image in the preview window no matter what I select. Is that indicative of a decoder problem, an encoder problem, or something else. Also, should you also hear audio when you are previewing a channel? I do not hear anything. If you are suppose to hear the audio, it would suggest that this isn't just a decoder issue since you would think that in that case you wouldn't see the image, but would hear the audio.
Sorry for the very long post and hopefully it is clear what I am looking for. Basically an explanation on how the preview window works and what the problem might be when do preview is displayed.
I have a Hauppauge pvr usb2 that had been working fine. In my lineup I lost the Encore and Starz channels so I tried to use ChangeEPGSources to easily put them back. I use two capture sources, Tuner and Composite with XMLTV from SchedulesDirect. ChangeEPGSources didn't make the channels show up, and changed the Composite source so I had to reconfigure it. After I did that, I can no longer record. Either I get noise, or it records from the tuner. However, I can go to the guide and select a program and Watch it and it seems fine. How do I fix this?
The second question is how do I get the channels back that changed names, Encore and Starz? Do I add them under Channels? I have tried adding just one and am going to see if that has any effect.
I have the latest binary of FFMPEG installed and use the batch file encodeFromGBPVR.bat to encode each file separately. It also uses a nifty VBScript file to get the width and height etc of the video and choose the resolution it needs to be at automatically (because the Pixel Aspect Ratio setting embedded into MPEG files doesn't transfer well into AVI files).
This works brilliantly on about half the files but fails on others. I'm not sure if this is just because the MPEG files are damaged or because I've done something strange in my batch file. I would be really grateful if someone could have a look at the files I've attached and give me some advice. I really thought I'd cracked the niggles I had with the GB-PVR encoding with this! I've tried using the libxvid vcodec option as well as mpeg4 with no improvements.
I use AVIDEMUX to reindex the file as that's the software I use to cut out adverts etc afterwards and it doesn't like the indexes that FFMPEG/Mencoder create. This can't be part of the problem though as the AVI files that are created are screwed up before being read by AVIDEMUX. GSpot cannot read the AVI headers on the files.
When I run FFMPEG -i on the output AVI file I get:-
Code:
FFmpeg version SVN-r16596-Sherpya, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
libavutil 49.12. 0 / 49.12. 0
libavcodec 52.10. 0 / 52.10. 0
libavformat 52.23. 1 / 52.23. 1
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libavfilter 0. 2. 0 / 0. 2. 0
libswscale 0. 6. 1 / 0. 6. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Jan 14 2009 07:24:48, gcc: 4.2.5 20080919 (prerelease) [Sherpya]
Input #0, avi, from 'G:\GB-PVR\_Recordings\Claire Sweeneys Big Fat Diet\Claire S
weeneys Big Fat Diet_20090106_21002200_New.avi':
Duration: 00:00:00.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: -2147483 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 1024x576 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 25.00 tb(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified
I'm sure there are some people who would find the batch and VBScript files useful too. If anyone wants to use them or steal bits of code please do.
Any comments at all would be gratefully received!
Thanks
Andy
PS I know the video I'm encoding is sad. It's for my gfriend!
I would love it if the GB-PVR service could set set to check for updates to the software at a configurable timeframe (daily, weekly etc) and pop-up a message box or a notification in the system tray when there is a new version out. I know something a bit like this has already been posted - but that was two years ago and seemed to be focused on plugin updates. I don't use any plugins but like to keep GB-PVR updated to take advantage of the latest bug-fixes and features.
I'm been having crashing issues for several versions of GBPVR and HDHomerun when attempting to run channel scans for channel mapping inside GBPVR. The work-around the whole time has been using the Wiz BDA Channel Tools to restore channel mappings I have from a still valid scan I was able to run the scan without issue many versions ago using the HDHR "Other: ATSC/Remap" setting. I've been fortunate so far with Brighthouse Cable in Tampa not remapping any channels since the issue started occurring but I know my luck will run out.
The latest attempt has been using hdhomerun_windows_20090123beta1 and GBPVR10311. I've attempted removing the HDHR driver fully and GBPVR and starting with a fully clean installation of each time including manual registry and file cleanups. The channel scan is crashing on random channels on each scan and with more than 10 attempts i have never been able to get past 25% on the scan. The existing threads regarding issues with crashing durring scans have not had a working work-around. The signal strength is as good as it gets on both tuners. Any suggestions?
My box ran out of disk space early this morning while recording Star Trek from 4:00am to 5:00am. GB-PVR acted like everything is a-ok, it keeps claiming that it is recording shows, none of the recordings show as failed, nothing bad happens except of course all the recordings are zero bytes. Nothing bad ever shows up in the logs.
Shouldn't it at the very least show the recordings as failed? Had I seen a failed recording this morning I could have cleaned things up rather than letting it go the whole day missing every recording.
I am hoping there is an easy way to read in the row attribut which I use for both my listbox and the menubuttons to control the number of rows displayed, I use Wiz utilities so any magic thats available would be really good.
I've been fighting with this for days now and am giving up and asking for help please.
I can see videoredo blip on the screen but then nothing. My latest iteration has videoredo outputting a .TS file.
Quote:C:
cd\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus note: the above two lines were recent additions
cscript //nologo "C:\Program Files\VideoReDoPlus\vp.vbs" "%~dpn1.VPrj" "%~dpn1_Cleaned.ts" /t4 note: I changed t1 to t4 because I read on the videoredo forums that t4 is for transport streams
Rem RENAME the old .ts file and rename the new .ts to the old name
echo %date% %time% renaming "%~dpn1.ts" to "%~dpn1_original.ts" >>postprocessing.log
move "%~dpn1.ts" "%~dpn1_original.ts"
echo %time% renaming "%~dpn1_cleaned.ts" to "%~dpn1.ts" >>postprocessing.log
move "%~dpn1_cleaned.ts" "%~dpn1.ts"
echo %time% moving "%~dpn1_original.ts" to E:\Originals >>postprocessing.log
move "%~dpn1_original.ts" E:\Originals
REM echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.log" >>postprocessing.log
REM del "%~dpn1.log"
REM echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.txt" >>postprocessing.log
REM del "%~dpn1.txt"
REM echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.VPrj" >>postprocessing.log
REM del "%~dpn1.VPrj"
REM echo %time% deleting "%~dpn1.logo.txt" >>postprocessing.log
REM del "%~dpn1.logo.txt"
I rem'd out the last few lines hoping it would leave some evidence I could look at. Also weird is that the postprocessing.log ends up in the videoredo folder sometimes. The videoredo logs don't even show that it tried to start. The postprocessing log sometimes shows that it completed the tasks when I know it hasn't because the files are still there and nothing is in the originals folder.
The vp.vbs file is in the videoredo folder. The postprocessing.bat file is in the gbpvr folder. Comskip is set to run concurrent with recording.
I noticed from reading another guys problem here something about the account that it's being run under, but that thread ended w/o a solution. When I run videoredo manually it shows up under processes as ADMINISTRATOR and PVRX2 is running under SYSTEM. I don't know how I would get videoredo to run under a different account anyway.
If anyone could offer me some help I would certainly appreciate it.
