Hi all!

I am ever so confused! I have Hauppauge WinTV PVR2 USB2, and I know that it's working correctly because I have the software installed and am seeing the signal. However, I'm not happy with their software and thought I'd give this a try.

To make this easier, I'm adding screencaps of what I have set up:








Now, obviously I'm missing something, because when I switch to the channels tab I have nothing. Incidentally, all I really want is to pick up channel 3, the channel that I have my digital cable running through. What I'm doing is running the video that I'm actually seeing on my tv, through to my computer so I can see it here and record it. I'm recording clips of shows, and also clips of shows that I have saved on my digital PVR.

Could someone please help me with this? :o

We have been using an older version 1.12.93? (sorry overwrote file and not sure) wiht few issues.

Followed upgrade this mornign on a whim, installed OK. Then went into PVR, live TV comes up, shows 5 seconds of audio + video then comes up saying no signal detected.


All recordings seem OK and playback + EPG is up to date and has pending files. (Also settings work - this didn;t used to on older version)

Rebooting machine a couple of times - still only 5 seconds of live TV.

Tried runnign PVR repair from msi and this failed

Uninstalled and reinstalled PVR, now no LIVE TV at all - everythinig else looks OK.

In config when I go to MAP EPG channels config crashes. It showns my channels. Logs are attahced.

I wish to roll back to my previous version: Can you tell me where to find it as I rebuilt machine and used your online version in December to build application.

HVR4000 Win XP SP3

I have updated before with no problems. Can you advise?

Thanks in advance, really appreciate your help, even though It's just great weather today!
Mike

I've run into a problem with setting up some recurring programs. If I double click on a program in the TV Guide, and set it to Record Once, the TV Guide entry turns red, and it works.

If, however, I double click the program, and choose to record with any of the Recurring Options, the entry does not turn red, and doesn't show up on the Recurring list.

It doesn't do this all the time - just once in a while.

01/24/2009 : 1.0.23.0 (WizUiHelper v1.0.20.1, WizWebHelper v1.0.10.1)
* Plugin - Fixed Ctrl-y (Yellow remote button) Category navigation
* Plugin - Fixed bug that caused entries to be sorted incorrectly in plugin.
* Plugin - Added (d) eyecatcher to date/time placement when sorted in date added order.
* MovieWizManager - When on Manage Content tab, if Show Hidden is checked, ONLY hidden files will be displayed.

I have been using your program for the last 4-5 months. All this time it has worked great! Thanks for the good work.

Couple of days ago I moved to your latest version (1.3.11), and now I have a problem. I can successfully exit from Config only through the Cancel button even if I have made no change. PVRX2 hangs when I click the Record button. I have to kill the applications to get out.

I made a few other changes when I installed the new version. I moved to the latest version of .net framework (I think it is 3.5). I also updated the MS runtime using your link http://www.gbpvr.com/vcredist_x86.zip. I dont think I had done that on the install few months ago. I also added the Cyberlink Mux from twinhan using instructions here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=18699. I had also switched to autoconversion to Xvid just before the new install.

There is one other problem. The autoconversion is working fine for MPG, but not for DVR-MS. I see a small mpg file getting created, that has only the first 2-3 minutes of recording. I also see a never-ending GBPVRconvert.exe process running at 50% cpu.

I am running xp/sp3 and Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800.

I have repaired as well reinstalled, but it has not helped. I have attached the logs here.

I am a new convert to HTPC, and was surprised at how hard it is to get a HTPC up and working. I have been at it for weeks and I still do not have a working system!

I actually bought a HTPC case on a whim while I was buying my main PC. It looked pretty cool (a Thermaltake DH-101), it came with a remote and all required software. Or at least - that is what I thought and what the salesman said! Suffice to say the included Medialab software verged on useless.

I initially put on MediaPortal (purely by chance). That looked good, saw my TV card ok, saw all my videos, etc. But it is very hard to control with a keyboard and/or remote control. Also the menus stuffed up all the time, and it locked up so many times I gave up. The TV stuff worked, the EPG stuff was just here (nothing to setup), the Movie Database was there.

I gave up because of the menus, in the end. I then tried GB-PVR and I was sold on the menus. They just worked - and every time. ie I could navigate through my media library and find stuff to play! Sounds like a simple thing, but that is all I really want.

Having said that - now I would like a few other things (perhaps even a few things that I saw I could have when I was using MediaPortal).

TV - I use a Dvico FusionHD Dual Pro. It was the best card my local supplier could give me. Works ok with it's own software, and with MediaPortal, not too good with GB-PVR. I am not too fussed - I rarely watch TV anyway, but nice to get fixed one day.

EPG - seems a big deal in GB-PVR. No problem in MediaPortal. I do not know how they do it, but I had nothing to setup, nothing to update, etc. It was just here. Not even an issue I had to consider. You might like to see how they do it?

Movie DB - seamless in MediaPortal. Nothing in GB-PVR. I have run up the MovieWhiz plugin, but that is limited. It works just fine - even better than the one in MediaPortal - but it is separate from the Movie player. What use is that? I want to open up the Movie player as now - navigate through my movie list - and see at that point, the Movie DB. Actually, all I would like to see is the movie cover graphic. If the MoveWhiz (or other) plugin could do that, then no problem.

These are only small things - other than that I have to say you have done a TOP job. At least now I can view my TV Shows and movies with ease.

I'm currently running GBPVR 1.0.16 on the current machine listed below. We're generally pleased with the PVR as something to record our shows, but there is a pretty decent drop-off from the digital antenna signal and our recorded shows. It's not choppy, it's just not near as crisp. Would a video card upgrade make much difference?

Current Machine:
AMD Athlon 1.33Ghz
DFI AK75-EC motherboard
640MB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 video card*
OS is on a pared down 6GB hard drive.
GBPVR/BeyondTV are outputting to a dedicated 300GB Seagate hard drive.

My second question is whether a new video card added to the potential machine listed below would be enough to run the latest version of GBPVR. I really like the new interface and would love to use it if I could.

Potential Machine:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1.8GHz
MSI K8N Neo2-F 939 NVIDIA nForce3 Motherboard
640MB of RAM - could possibly up this to 1GB if I thought it would make a difference.
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 video card*

Lastly, what kind of video card do I need to get? I want to get one with S-Video and HD outputs to keep my options open, but beyond that what do I need to look for? Memory size? DirectX? OpenGL? Please bear in mind that I will not be upgrading either of these computers for at LEAST 3 more years, so I do not want to buy more video card than I need.

Thanks for the help. I know this was wordy.

I am able to record, but every time I try to play a recording in GB-PVR, it says "pvrx2 has encountered a problem and needs to close." It seems like the recordings are ok - I can play them with Windows Media Player. Live TV works ok, but file playback does not. The problem occurs every time when I have the mpeg video decoder set to "InterVideo". Playback works if I set mpeg video decoder to "System Default". I'd rather use the InterVideo, however, because it provides closed captions.

Thanks for any help.

The main reason I am using GB-PVR is that it allows me to select and play my movies pretty well. A lot better than MediaPortal, for example.

There is one issue that occurs when you try and select a video to play. I use list mode. I store my TV Shows (say) in a folder structure something like

Video
-- TV Shows
--- Friends
---- Season 1
---- Season 2
---- Season 2
S02E01.avi
S02E02.avi
S02E03.avi

This is a fairly standard naming convention. The problem is that when GB-PVR navigates down through the menu structure, but the time you get to the actual video files themselves, you have no idea where you are.

It would be a good idea if you displayed at the top of the screen the 'breadcrumb' list - to use a term from web design. ie display something like
TV Shows | Friends | Season 2

I sort movies into similar sub folders (ie Action, Kids, etc).

Another small visual issue - in List mode you display the list with square brackets around each item. ie

[Friends]
[Monk]

This is a bit off-putting. Why not simply leave them out?

I have HTPC with GB-PVR installed. Quite a few issues, but basically working.

My capture card is a DVico FusionHD Dual Pro. The reason I go this card was becuase it had a video input. I planned on plugging my (Australian) Foxtel output into this, thus feeding it into the HTPC. If I use the software that came with the capture card, I can do this. But I have to use that sofwtare to select the S-Video or Composite video input - not Antenna (which seems to be the default).

When I setup the capture card in GB-PVR, it only seems to use the default antenna input on the card - and reads in the TV channels. Mind you. it has a hard time doing this, but that is basically what it is trying to do.

Is there some way to get GB-PVR to switch the capture card input to another input?

Is this a problem just with this card - or can GB-PVR control other capture cards better? It does not seem to have very good support for this card (none at all, as far as I can see).

I do not mind buying another capture card if that is required.