Can someone please suggest a capture card (with remote) that is compatible with gbpvr? I have a Hauppauge Win-TV Go card (which I learned won't work due to lack of hardware MPEG compression).

My PC (PCI only - no PCIe or AGP slots):
dell dimension 2.8 GHz P4
500 MB RAM (can buy more if necessary)
120 GB HDD (can add more if needed)
WIn XP SP3

I know I need a card w/ hardware MPEG compression - but would also like to purchase a unit that comes with a remote.

I have a 52" Zenith HD projection TV (it has component (R, B, G) only for HD input - no HDMI) and the usual composit/s-video inputs. What video card would you recommend that I buy to drive the TV? (BTW - my TV is a 'monitor' - no NTSC or HD tuner).

My local (Memphis, TN) cable provider is Comcast - due to recent financial cutbacks I have elected to drop my HD service and now have just basic cable in SD - which looks terrible on my HD set. I don't plan to upgrade back to HD service for a couple of years (trying to pay off some student loans) so I am stuck with SD on HD TV for a while. I understand why it looks bad (e.g. 480 to 1080 interpolation) - but is there a video card that would 'up-convert' my SD signal to it doesn't look quite so bad on my HD TV (even if it isn't 'true' HD).

One option I believe would work is dual tuners - and use an antenna to pick up over the air HD channels, and the other for cable?

I don't have a lot to spend - would like to do this for less than $400 if possible (am I even close to being realistic here?)
Anyway - my main concern is that it works with gbpvr.

also - can I use my old Win-TV GO card for another input? I know I cant record of that card, but would it allow me to watch one channel while recording another, PIP, etc? (or should I just retire this to the scrap heap?)

If my $400 budget is unrealistic, could this be done in 2 stages: stage 1 - get capture card working (with remote) and record/watch on my PC.
Stage 2 - buy a 'good' video card and connect to my TV.

to recap - here are my limitations:
$400-$500 for project
No HDMI plug on HD TV
No PCI express or AGP port on PC

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I will try to make a move from Mythtv to gb-pvr. One WAF are if teletext are working in gb-pvr? I can see forum posts saying that it works and some that it does not after a certain release.

(Will run a Technotrend C-1501 DVB-C on Windows XP if that has anything to do with teletext)

Hello,

Whenever I update the EPG with my new xmltv file that I created with mc2xml, GBPVR does not show any shows in the TV Guide. This was happening before and I fixed it by deleting the temp .dat file mc2xml creates, but now that is not fixing it.

I have attached my logs.

Thanks

Hello,

I tried switching to the slick skin, but the green leaf backgound doesnt show up.. just the same blue background as the other one.. any idea how to get that picture background?

Thanks!

I installed version 2.8 today. I found two bugs that I already reported for ML3, so I guess they are in the backend. (See hyperlink in my signature for full report of my testing. For your convenience I reproduce the errors here)

Random play with All/All selected (ML2 version 8.0.5.21941)
- Something funny happens to the end of the playlist. If the last track is reached, it is skipped and a new list is generated and displayed. This track nicely plays till the end, and then the following is displayed. However the sound has gone. It seems that ML3 hangs at that point. After a while the server starts hibernating.
Queue (Yellow button) (ML2 version 8.0.5.21941)
- If one or more tracks are added to an existing(playing) queue, the whole queue restarts playing from the beginning.

Pieter

I'm using the built in transcode function. The compressed files are still a little big. How can I adjust the bit rates.

Quote:- if you delete the last recording in a group in the recording ready screen, it now returns to the group list, with previous item selected (instead of returning to top of list)

Went for downloading v8 ML2 (and ML3). Had similar folder issues as seen elsewhere but got it working in the end. Now doesn't play the first track twice, so big thanks for that, but I seem to have a problem with MLUpdater. The service wont start. No errors in logs or event viewer other than 'failed to respond'.
Went into config and Updater tab still had 'Use External Updater' ticked but the Install and Uninstall buttons are greyed out.

The service references MLUpdater .exe in the ML2 folder but I see that it now exists in common so I have deleted the one in ML2 but obviously now the services gives 'file not found'. How do I uninstall and reinstall for the new location?
Thanks again for your help so far.

Is it possible to recording in WideScreen with a pvr500?

Oh, via composite, not tuner.

I am having an intermittent problem but only with channel five.

Sound is fine, but the frame rate seems to be below 25 fps as although the picture is clean the motion is a little like a flip book.

I'm guessing it's loosing only a few frames a second.

Any ideas?