GBPVR has been working GREAT for us! But as with everything in life there was a couple things we thought would be nice if we could change them.
Customizing a remote control is well covered but there was some tweaking available beyond reassigning keys that we've discovered ("we", as in my son and I).
The problem with reassigning keys is that those reassignments affect all the modules in GBPVR, so if you reassign the up/down buttons for example it may be difficult to navigate the menus.
We have the Hauppauge 1062 MCE remotes and they aren't backlit so when sitting in the dark watching TV sometimes it's a bit hard to find the proper keys - especially the skip forward and back keys. We use those a lot as we played with the commercial skip and found it more bother to setup and refine than it was to just set the skip forward to 30 seconds and the skip backwards to 10 seconds - now it's a breeze to skip the commercials and you're sure you're not missing anything.
Anyway, the things we do most often are turn the volume up/down, skip forward/backward, pause, and mute.
The 1062, like most MCE remotes, has a left/right/up/down/OK keypad on it so we thought it would be nice if we could make that key pad do our most commonly used functions as those keys are big and easy to find in the dark. The volume was already there on the left/right keys. Looking at it we decided to try and assign the skip forward to the up key, skip backward to the down key, and pause to the OK button. Mute we decided to leave alone as it's big and just two keys straight down from the pad.
We got to poking around and found you could do some tweaking on the remote commands by modifying the xml file for the specific modules that are in the KeyMappings folder.
We backed up our VideoPlayer.xml file, then opened it up with Notepad and made the following changes, then saved the file and started up GBPVR and WahLah! The remote was doing exactly what we wanted it to do!
(I put the changes in red bold italics, but of course when you open the file in Notepad you wont be able to, nor want to, do that - just enter the extra lines and save and exit as normal)
Just thought we'd pass it along as we're finding it very useful!
Take Care, hope everyone is having a GREAT New year!
Anybody have suggestions on how to get GB-PVR to successfully use cable HRC freqeuncies in analog mode with an HVR-1250 card???
This card works fine with QAM now. I had trouble getting QAM to use the alternate cable HRC frequencies required by Comcast cable north of Boston, but thanks to whurlston's QAM.ini writer I could fix that.
I know that this card does NOT have hardware MPEG for the analog section, but a number of people have reported success in GBPVR ranging from live TV only to full functionality using the Soft MCE application from the Hauppauge driver disc. Nothing I have done gives me analog cable reception in Live TV or via the TV Guide. I highly suspect that somehow I am still not getting HRC tuning engaged in GB-PVR but I might be doing something else wrong.
I tried the following to get things working:
1. Added the below code to the .\DENZ\GBPVR\direct.ini file just before the first existing device (Hauppauge PVR150) in the file.
[Hauppauge HVR-1250 (Analog)]
INIT_MODE=ECP
INIT_MSP=0
SUPPORTS_FM_RADIO=1
BLACKBIRD=1
CONEXANT=1
FILTER_CROSSBAR=Hauppauge WinTV 885 Crossbar
FILTER_CAPTURE=Hauppauge WinTV 885 Video Capture
FILTER_TV_TUNER=Hauppauge WinTV 885 Tuner
FILTER_TV_AUDIO=Hauppauge WinTV 885 TvAudio
FILTER_ENCODER=MainConcept (MCE) MPEG Encoder
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_TUNER_IN=Video Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_TUNER_IN=Audio Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_DECODER_OUT=Video Decoder Out
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_DECODER_OUT=Audio Decoder Out
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_VIDEO_OUT=Analog Video
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_AUDIO_OUT=Analog Audio
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_IN=TVAudio In
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_OUT=TVAudio Out
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_VIDEO_IN=Analog Video In
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_AUDIO_IN=Analog Audio In
;PIN_CAPTURE_PREVIEW_AUDIO_OUT=Audio Out
;PIN_CAPTURE_CAPTURE_OUT=Capture
PIN_CAPTURE_I2S_OUT=Audio Out
PIN_CAPTURE_656_OUT=Capture
PIN_ENCODER_I2S_IN=Input Audio
PIN_ENCODER_656_IN=Input Video
PIN_ENCODER_OUT=Output
PIN_WRITER_INPUT_IN=Input
2. Did the forum recommended registry patch to make analog tuning use HRC frequencies:
For reference, this registry patch did NOT fix QAM tuning. I had to modify QAM.ini via whurlston's utility to get that to work. Hence, I suspect that just importing this registry entry is NOT enough by itself to get HRC tuning to work.
3. In GB-PVR Config on the Capture Tab I added the following:
Analog Recording Plugin
Capture Card Type: Hauppauge HVR-1250 (Analog)
Country: USA
Tuning: Cable
My results so far:
1. In Live TV if I channel change from QAM to an analog channel I get a still image of the last QAM image and no sound. Moving the mouse does not bring up the menu like normal and right click does not exit TV like normal. I have to hit PageUp to get back to a QAM channel to work.
2. If I select an analog channel to watch now from the TV Guide I get a blank/black window and not sound. As soon as I move the mouse it goes back to the TV Guide.
3. If I select an analog channel in TV Guide and do Quick Rec I do get the appropriate diretory created but no file. Doing the same thing on a QAM channel gives a directory and a .TS file as expected.
When I select Cable HRC in WinTV I get all the channels fine. In the GB-PVR Tuning assistance selecting Hauppauge "HVR-1250 (Analog)", US, Cable finds the channels fine and clearly shows the tuned value is the alternate HRC freuqencies.
I ran GB-PVR's MuxChecker and it reported
"NO MULTIPLEXER FILTERS WHERE FOUND ON YOUR MACHINE."
Can this really be true? I get full functionality with QAM on recording and so if a third party MPEG multiplexor is required I would assume there is one. Any ideas??
Anybody got any suggestions on how to get GB-PVR to successfully use cable HRC frequencies in analog mode??? If that is not my problem anybody got an idea what I am doing wrong???
Thanks in advance for any help.
gby
For reference:
GB-PVR ver 1.3.7 with sub's 12/17/08 improved GBPVRTSReader.ax file
(fixed the lack of audio when playing back over the air ATSC recordings)
Hauppauge ver 4.6+ drivers dated 10/24/08
(Did clean install via hcwclear.exe)
Vista32 SP1 Home Premium
Q6600 quad processor
4 Gig RAM
Just updated my network to 200mbs homeplug. Could anyone recommend a Firewall software. It has to be freeware and ideally use as little system resources as possible as well as be easy to set up.
If I use the SQLite Database Browser (yeah, I backup the gbpvr.db3 before I dare), while the recording service is active, and the only changes I make are to a show's description column, can I mess things up?
I mean - is it doing per-entry locking? Something else? Do I need to edit, and save changes immediately for every change?
I've finally gotten my GB PVR machine up and running, and I've found out that the aerial in the living room isn't good enough for DVB-T. The aerial that's hooked up in the spare bedroom is though. I really don't want to get into buying new aerials as I'm in a rented place and will probably move in a few months time.
I have an 801.11g wireless router and wifi card kicking around the place. Is recording on one machine in the spare room and streaming over to the other machine in the front room a sane or feasible idea?
Decided to have a bit more of a play tonight and pulled out my old Twinhan DVB-S StarBox - surprisingly it was detected and setup without much hassle on Vista.
GBPVR detects it as available, so I setup Optus D1 (FTA) and some channels TV1,TV2,TV3 and C4, clicked 'Map to Digital'. It scans through but finds no channels. I had a quick look through the logs and it is getting 94% signal and 99% quality and is getting some kind of results/listings but all have a Video PID of 0.
Any hints/tips?
Logs attached.
Should also mention that it was working fine in the TwinhanDTV application - detected channels fine but was unable to display anything as it always had 'unable to connect filters' errors. Also, I have my dish cable split and feeding a sky unit and the twinhan box - sky is supplying power, twinhan is not.
Has anyone had any luck getting a Hauppauge HVR-2250 to work?
I tried installing the drivers off of the CD that came with it (version 4.7) and neither GBPVR or WinTV (Hauppauge App) were able to tune in any channels. I then installed version 7.5.6.26354.PreRelease drivers, and it tuned in all the channels that it should. However, most channels it would not show any video (in WinTV or GBPVR). Sometimes I would get audio only, other channels nothing at all. WinTV would simply crash with the new drivers...
I've tried the MS DVR-MS mux and TS Mux, but with no luck.
Admittedly, this is probably a driver issue and nothing to do with GBPVR. I am very disappointed in the Hauppauge product so far, at this point it is completely useless. I am also unable to get the second IR port on the Hauppauge blaster to work, but that is a problem for another day.
I am running GBPVR v 1.3.7, on Win XP, SP3. using OTA channels. I believe that both tuners are set-up properly (I can watch some sub-channels, but not the "main" .1 channel)
So is this hopeless, or have others been able to get this to work? I could care less about getting the analog side to work (I have 2 PVR-150s, which worked very well).
