After getting frustrated some months ago and tossing my HTPC project under the workbench I've recently pulled it out, dusted it off and decided to have another crack at it with GBPVR.
My HTPC project system specs as of today are...
Silverstone Lascala LC20B case with iMon VFD & remote
Abit AV8 S939 mainboard
AMD Opteron 148 2.2ghz cpu
2 gigs ddr 400
ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256meg
Sapphire\ATI Theater 650 Pro
Sound Blaster X-Fi xTreme music
TI PCI firewire card for my mini DV cams
2x WD800JD in RAID 0 for OS\programs
1x WD1600JB for recording
1x WD10EACS in a USB enclosure for added media storage\portability
1x LG Super Multi DVD RW
32 bit Vista Home Premium OEM with SP1 and all current updates
So as I said I messed around with this project some months ago with the only difference being that at that time I had an ATI TV Wonder PCI and a Digiwave 103g installed and I could not for the life of me get those 2 cards to play nice. I tried XP & Vista with GBPVR, various Linux distros with and without MythTV etc etc with no reasonable success. I did manage to get the 103g working ok with XP and My Theater plus the TV Wonder worked well with ATI's software but that's not what I wanted, I wanted to use a media center type application that does it all like GBPVR or MythTV! So okay I traded off the 103g months ago for a set of speakers, I sold the TV Wonder PCI at our yard sale in the summer and just yesterday I bought a Sapphire\ATI Theater 650 Pro which right now is working fantastic with Vista and GBPVR tuning in 60 some odd cable channels. So now my dilemma is what would be a good choice for a DVB-S card that will play nice with Vista, GBPVR and the ATI 650 Pro? Locally I have 3 choices of DVB-S card that I can run out and buy right now and they are the Digiwave 103g, Digiwave 202g DVB-S2 and the Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-S-Plus. Other than buying local I see on ebay many Vision Plus 1020A cards, plenty Digiwave 103g's selling for more than the price is locally and many others that I can't really figure out who the manufacturer is. I've also been looking at the Prof Tuners 6200 Red Series DVB-S PCI card as it appears to be very well support by the manufacturer and DVB Dream although I don't see it listed at the GBPVR wiki.
Comments or thoughts would be very much appreciated :o
I'm trying to convert mpg files to xvid (mp4 I'm assuming ?) for use on a Pioneer DV-410V-K DVD player via a usb port and a thumb drive.
(Perhaps later via a notebook drive.)
I've selected auto convert vxid in the gb- pvr auto conversion in the setup menu. I've read the auto convert won't work until my next recording. In lieu of that I went to my video library and selected a mpg. The only conversion that works manually from that window was dvix. Xvid was an option, but if fails to convert the file and just closes the window ?
A few other questions. Should I record in low quality since the file will be converted anyhow ?
And does gvpvr automatically move files from the recording directory to video library ?
Thanks in advance.
Note: I should mention I'm using a Hauppauge 1600.
XP Pro
Intel 930 Dual Core 3GHz Processor
2 GB of RAM
Nova-T-500 Dual Digital PCI Card
I tried installing your latest DVB Radio Plugin. I did the Lame.ax filter using the BAT and manualy. Installed the service but it wouldn't play. I tried for 2 days, it scanned and found 20 channels but no sound although it was using a whole core of the CPU.
I eventually decided to download the previous version and whey hey, it works
Thanks for the plugin and for the amount of time you spend on making it work so people like me can enjoy it.
EDIT I have three channel logos missing and I can't find a channels.csv file to edit can someone enlighten me?
When I try to do a channel-scan I get this error message "GB-PVR was unable to start the BDA device you have configured. Check that the device is configured properly and not already in use."
The device is not used but im not 100% sure it is configured correctly. I only use default values (exept for the satelit selection and diseq).
Im not sure what to do. What I have done is to try and update the driver for the card. Im using the BDA driver.
GBPVR detects these two DVB card models on my machine "Skystar HD2" and "Twinhan AD-SP300". What I have is a AzureWave AD-SP400(Twinhan AD-SP400) (same driver as the Twinhan card). "Skystar HD2" and "Twinhan AD-SP400" should be the same, so I installed the "Skystar HD2" driver (because it is newer version). This driver does not work for me though.
I just got my 2250 setup and working and I recorded 2 shows last night. When I watch them, everything is fine until about 2/3 of the way through, the video jumps back to an earlier part of the recording and the time line is messed up (IE, it says the recording is 85 minutes long and there are unusual commercial spots) If I hit fast forward, it no longer skips through the video, but "plays" it really fast and when i get to roughly the same place, it then again jumps back, so I cannot watch the end of the show.
Under processing I have comskip run during recording (always worked fine with analog recording) Should I have it convert TS to Mpeg2 in order for it to skip commercials properly?
I'm having difficulty with this one.
I'm using the map digital chanels options and am using the k-world dvb-s 100 card.
1. the scan finds some but not all of the freesat channels (leaves out bbc3, bbc4 )
2. When I subsequently try to view those channels I get a black screen.
Also, The manual channel alignment with the epg imported channels is very hard. For each of the 25 freesat channels I'm have I have to wade thru 650 scanned channels in the drop down. Thats a difficult visual search as the scanned channels are not in alphabetic order. Any easy or manual way of setting up channel aligment.
I'm wondering if anybody is using 'dvbguide' to get their satellite channel listings, and has successfully combined this with ultraxmltv?
I'm running the latest version (1.2.152) and always get the following:
Run-time error '13': Type mismatch
... when I get to record twenty something thousand. For example record 26610/37708. I would like to diagnose the problem in more detail, but the logs don't seem to show anything. They just end at "Start Processing 37708 records ..." (and then a warning about 'not commited').
In case anyone is wondering, I use dvbguide because I can get listings over satellite instead of the net (I don't have internet access - long story). It also seems quite a bit faster than e.g. xmltv. I use it instead of the built-in DVB EPG, because it has data for seven days or so. I'm pretty new to all this, so if there is a better way of doing this that will solve my problems, please feel free to make a suggestion.
I was also wondering if the source code for ultraxmltv is publicly available? It would help in diagnosing these sorts of problems I think ...
I have been an avid user of GBPVR for almost 4+ years now - incredible program. Well this old user has decided to upgrade his PVR and add a digital card Hauppauge 1800 to my existing 500. I have gotten everything set up and running! - Thanks to rob11252 for the great guide on the wiki! I am have been using schedules direct as my EPG source (set up through GBPVR). - My problem is, I have and need the same channel info for both my OTA and cable channels, but I need separate channels. For example channel 4 is KNBC here in LA and on cable. What I need is for 4KNBC on cable to be 4 and then to have a duplicate listing (with the same info) at another number (104 etc) - so I can differentiate between the OTA and cable listings and choose which one to record. - How can I make this happen?
Thanks,
bajabronco
Figured it out! - If anyone runs into the same problem, what you can do is on Schedules Direct you can create multiple lineups - including both the ATSC and cable data, when GBPVR downloads the file it puts it all together, you simply have to deactivate the ATSC listings in the EPG of the analog capture cards, and activate the new EPG listings just for the ATSC (my1800) card.
Is there a link to a 1.2.9 version of GB-PVR. Trying to upgrade on a machine infrequently used and Vista is pukeing about the missing .msi installer package (probably deleted in a clean up)
