I have an old laptop that can't run GBPVR, but I still wanted to be able to view my videos and recordings on it. I created a simple 'Video Plugin' type windows program that can be used as a Windows UI for accessing the movies. It simply navigates the directory structure and displays video entries and associated metadata and thumbnails (if they exist).



WizMovieLauncher Prerequisites:

• Install of VLC (to play the movies)
  
• .NET 2.0 runtime.
  

• Location is the physical drive mapping or UNC of a target directory
  
• Description is the text displayed in the list box for that entry
  

I've downloaded 1.3.7 and installed it and it is working well.

I've noticed a few things and there appears to be some patches in the thread labeled "v1.3.7 survival guide" that might apply.

Can the patches be applied independently or should I apply all the patches.
Also, I've noticed some other threads have patches that can be applied also.

I guess I'm asking how and what patches should I apply to a clean install of V1.3.7?

Thanks in advance.

I had some settings that I needed to change for my PVR-150, and when I go to download the Hauppauge Tweak Tool at http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com/pvr_tweak.html , I got a 404 Not Found error. Could someone be kind enough as to give me a link to this application. I would really appreciate it!

Hi Good Folk,
I'm 90% done with my HTPC build -using GBPVR and a Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE Kit (with IR Blaster). Everything looking good so far, EPG working nicely, had a h*ll of a job getting the USB IR receiver to install, eventually forced it through Hardware wizard-New USB device after installing a Microsoft patch. The blaster transmitter flashed during installation so I know (assume) it's okay.
Every attempt to run the blaster config. s/ware throws up the message "IR Blaster hardware not found" -any suggestions? I've downloaded and run the middleware/IR Blaster s/ware -no joy.

The remote is good otherwise, power button puts PC to sleep/wakes up the PC from standby, DVD control buttons operate with the Cyberlink Power DVD software perfectly. I can live without the Blaster functionality but it nags at me...as I'm just taking a feed from the Sky Digital set-top box I can progam the shows in the Sky EPG and use that to force the channel change on the Sky box?

One other issue, I want to re-program the remote WinTV power button (small red button) to start the GBPVR software from windows (XP SP2). The PC boots straight into the GBPVR program, but I drop out to use windows from time to time. I've found the command line in the irremote.ini file that starts the Wintv program, but attempts to change it to start the pvrx2.exe app just through up an "application not found" message when button is pushed? I've tried including/excluding full directory in command line.

Sorry for so many questions but it's all a learning curve right now...

Hey.. I love the way the screenshot looks for browsing movies in Slick. Is there some easy way to grab this XML data from somewhere? Or would I have to write it all out myself for each movie as it comes in. Is there some sort of XSLT out there that can already translate and create the required files?

Can Movie Wiz export this stuff?


I did a quick search and nothing came up.

I have just bought a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus TV card for my computer. I'm using it to access Freesat channels, but the supplied WinTV software does not allow access to the Freesat EPG.

I'm looking for some software that will allow me to use the Freesat EPG to see program listings for the Freesat channels, and schedule recordings based on the listings. I came across GB-PVR, but I can't find any instructions on how to set it up, other than snippets of information in various forum posts.

Can anyone tell me step by step how to configure GB-PVR to use the Freesat EPG, once I've installed GB-PVR and scanned for channels?

Many thanks,

Gary

Against my better judgement I allowed the HD Homerun software to run an update the other day and ever since I did that it's been dropping the signal within GBPVR. I have been able to get it back the last time by restarting the recording service or doing a reboot but now I can't get it back. I can view the channels within the HD Homerun config utility but when I try to open live tv within GBPVR it says there's no signal. Not quite sure where to go from here. I tried doing a remap of the digital channels and the config didn't find anything but the ID for the tuners within the capture source tab is correct. I've attached my logs just in case that helps.

Curious to know if anyone has this cracked now. I had no problems getting full Hardware Acceleration on HD .mkv files, but once I got a satellite card neither MPC-HC or Cyberlink PDVD8 could accelerate the H264 .ts files (in an mpeg container) used by BBC HD, ITV HD, and Luxe TV HD - at least not with acceptable results. Would get bad interlacing and strange stuttery play.

So I settled on CoreaVC - because it works - though it does have it's own quirks, notably not seeking through .ts files so well. Play usually freezes after a ff or rw skip, and you have to press RW - FF a few times to start play again.

I could not even use the hardware deinterlacing with CoreAVC, because it would stop deinterlacing working properly. Downside of this was typical 60-70% CPU viewing the HD channels, thus noisy fans. This was also the reason I chose not to use MPC-HC or Cyberlink decoders without HA - because the deinterlacing was not right.

The reason for me looking at this issue again is, firstly, because I saw a post by user 'Adspence' saying that a newer version of CoreAVC fixed some issue - so I installed CoreAVC 1.85 and, sure enough, hardware deinterlacing now works perfectly - if NV12 is selected as the output colourspace (the NV12 option is new) - This alone has dropped CPU to 45%.

Secondly, for the the first time, I managed to get perfect playback (with no interlacing or stutter) of GBPVR HD recordings, with HA, in the MPC-HC stand-alone player. To achieve this was just trial and error, but the the following settings (image attached) - and only these settings - plays perfect HD with only 10% CPU. Any deviation from these settings - for example using 3D surfaces or YUV mixing - and play of the files becomes unacceptable.

Using the MPC-HC stand-alone decoders, or Cyberlink PDVD8, in GBPVR results in no HA. Looking at the filters used during playback, the only difference I can see is that MPC-HC is using the Halli media splitter, and PVRX2 uses the MPEG-2 Demultiplexer. No idea is this has any bearing though...

I need help to use my Asus PE6200 anlalog tv card in gbpvr which works well with the arcsoft media center software, this media center software comes with the card. The card uses a vixs chip with mpeg hardware. Adding a new card definition with the method of using grapedit can't be used as it does not show any names.
I have no idea what to do now, I checked forems etc. as I also receive errors about some crossbar ?

Kind regards:

Rob

I keep finding unscheduled recordings that have titles like this:- gbepg-TC23,489834,0,0,8.mpg.

I've also had a few occasions where I get something recorded twice.

I've also had a few occasions where the recording starts 30 minutes late.

Any ideas?