Today I tried ZProcess for the first time as my wife wants to watch home videos of our small children with sound on our MVP's on GB-PVR. I am running version 1.3.11. I followed the instructions on the wiki for installing ZProcess (including MVPScreenPosition).
When I then started the MVP the interface was corrupt, with buttons shifted and the screen black. Finding a video was difficult and playing it would result in the MVP re-booting, even with the sorry mpeg in the correct place.
I then tried the pre-release version with the same results.
Deleting the ZProcess files and clearing the registry has repaired the interface problems but now trying to play an avi reboots the MVP. Tonight I will re-install gb-pvr to restore the functionality I had before trying ZProcess.
Does anyone have any ideas what I may have done wrong?
I have recently (last night) upgraded to 1.3.11 and had hoped it would solve a problem I have had for a while in version 1.1.5, but alas no.
On the whole the MVP interface is brilliant but when I skip (>|) or press (>>) whilst watching a recording on the MVP I often (but not always) have two problems.
1) Sometimes the audio gets out of sync by a fraction of a second. This can sometimes be corrected by stopping the playback and resuming it. If that fails pressing the replay (|<) button once or twice usually sorts it out.
2)Sometimes, usually after half an hour or so of recording playback, the (>|), (|<), (>>) and (<<) buttons stop working correctly. It starts when the skip button only moves playback on by 2 seconds or so and this degenerates until it actually makes the playback go backwards to a point before the current (much like a rewind button should). Nothing seems to resolve this for a particular recording. If I play another recording the problem doesn't appear but reverting back to one which exhibited the problem and it returns immediately.
I can supply any logs that you think may be helpful - just let me know which.
My PC is a 3.0 Ghz P4 with 2Gb RAM servicing 2 MVP's
As with past releases, if you dont already have them, you need to have .net 2.0 or higher installed, as well as the updated Microsoft runtime from http://www.gbpvr.com/vcredist_x86.zip.
If you're upgrading from a previous release, I recommend you backup your gbpvr.db3 and config.xml files just in case anything goes wrong. Post any problem reports in the Support forum.
From the change log
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- fixed a couple of problem with multi-record (recordings that could continue recording after they were supposed to stop, and recordings that could try to record on the wrong frequency when there was a back-to-back recording with only a padding overlap)
- fixed a problem with .ts playback on files over 4GB
- fixed a problem that could cause slow half speed audio
- added logic to only try multi-record when no encrypted channels were being recorded with the device
- fixed a problem with metadata or cover art not updating in some situations
- fixed a bug where multiple video/music library directories are defined, and folder.jpg wouldnt be shown in icon view for the top level
- MENU_EJECT_CD key working again
- added popup to warn if no dvd was in the drive
- added new events to let plugins know when startup is complete, and when the app is about to shutdown. This is useful for plugins that own external limited resourses, like LCD displays etc
- fixed problem where .ts file duration reported during playback would vary widely until a good average bitrate could be determined (timeline OSD jumping all over the place until a good way into the file)
- improved .ts playback compatibility with certain audio decoder (MPA, ffdshow etc).
- updated the 'check for renamed recordings' to handle .ts files
- failed recordings are now listed in the 'whats new' section of the Recordings screen. Previously they were only listed in the 'ready' section.
- fixed a PsiParser bug that could cause occasional crashes
- fixed a bug with DVB EPG parsing which could access violation crashes.
- extended the current selection remembering to work with the top level selection when multiple video/music/photo directories have been specified.
- no longer showing the tray icon options to restart the recording service on Vista machines, since permissions wouldnt allow it anyway
- tray icon tuner status popup now compatible with Windows desktops using large fonts
- should no longer need the various "BDASubmitTuningRequestTwicexxxx" config.xml settings set to true. Live preview channel changes are slightly quicker with the
- 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)
- fixed a problem that could cause some channels to not be found during a channel scan
- fixed a jitter problem that could occur in the last build on the MVP and PCH.
- added a few minor tweaks to slick skin to avoid some text clipping, and to make text more readable
- updated EWA build
I have a VistaView DA 1N1-I dual tuner card. The manufacturer indicated that it should work with GB-PVR. I am able to scan all channels successfully with the TuningAssistant but that is about as far as I am able to get. I don't know if I was supposed to be able to view/hear anything during the scanning process. The card is not listed in the Config Sources and I can't figure out how to make it appear there. Any comments would be appreciated.
Right now I got a WinTV-PVR-500(dual analog) and I just ordered a Nova-T 923
Now I wonder when having both these cards in the same machine and to use them with GBPVR is there a way to prioritize the Nova card if I want to record a channel that is digital but still be able to use these digital channels also on the analog card cos for me I can also get that by the analog card.
ex. I want to record channel 1,2,3 where 1 is an analog channel, the other two digital.
When recording this I want to use the Nova card for either channel 2 or 3 but NOT 1 since that it can't receive that channel.
another ex. to record channel 1,2 where both are digital then I also need the analog card for one of the channels since I can also get all digital channels by analog means, thus I can't just remove those frequencies from it.
Is it possible to do this in GBPVR? I am looking into getting a Hauppauge 2250 in the hopes of recording the free HD channels that are broadcast over my basic cable package, however Schedule Direct does not provide listings for these channels. My main concern would be to substitute the HD version of the local networks in place of the analog (for example, I want to make channel 78-3 show up as channel 5) Is something like this possible?
I just updated to the latest version of GBPVR and installed the NetFlix plugin. I configuredf the plugin and restarted the recording service. The plugin appears on the MediaMVP screen fine, but when I select it, the MVP restarts. Any quick things I can check/verify before gathering and posting the logs?
I have followed the twiki on the subject but yet the logs do not show up in the TV GUIDE. Is there any another changes I need to do on some xml file for these logo's to show?
BTW, I am using the latest version of GBPVR with "community skin"
I saw a post to make the following change and now the channel number shows up but not the logo (the number has been changed from "3" to "0")!
