Hi all,
I just installed the latest version on my machine and can no longer view live TV. I also cannot start a recording from the TV Guide. I cleared my log file and tried to start Live TV and attached the log here.
I have run the ReregisterFilters.bat as well as updated the EPG for each recording device, but to no avail.
On a pc client, I can navigate the TV guide and for analog channels I can select and watch a show.
For ASTC channels when I pick a show to watch it doesn't work. I see right the capture source start to record, but then it stops and goes back to the tv guide.
For analog and digital channels I cannot Record or Quick Record. I can pick it in the UI, but nothing happens.
The same happens when I am in Live TV. I can watch analog fine, but when I try to watch a digital channel it exits back to the menu.
I'm using an HVR-2250.
client and server logs attached.
I've installed GB-PVR on my Dell PC (Vostro 200, built in realtek sound) with a Nova-T-500 card. At the moment I've got one tuner working, and it's a hell of a lot better than MythTV was (some semblance of functionality in 20 minutes compared to hours and hours for a temperamental mythtv)...
Anyway, Live TV works fine, but pause it, or record something, and the sound disappears. I've got the defilerpak codecs installed, and so far I've tried changing the Audio codec from system default to MPEG, Intervideo for Hauppage and FFDshow (defilerpak stuff) and nothing helps.
GB-PVR plays downloaded videos absolutely happily by the way. I'd be really grateful for any suggestions that could get this working today as I'd like the chance to record some of the christmas telly that I'll no doubt miss (Top gear for a start! ).
Does anyone know of a decent replacement for the Video Archive plugin? Apparently Jeff has abandoned it, and also will not donate the source code for the project. We have really enjoyed the capabilities that the plugin offered, but alas, I guess it is time to move on.
Ironically, I'm really not that much in need of the archiving capability as in the ability to display all of my recorded videos in a single list, regardless of which of my 6 drives they are located on. I know that I can access the videos through the Video Library, but then I have to search through each of the drives in order to find what I'm looking for. I also lose the show description information that I have in Video Archive.
If you know of something decent that you think might fit the bill (and that is still supported under the latest version of GBPVR!), please let me know.
My problem is that I am using HIP with the MCE remote that came in the HVR1600 media center kit on windows XP. It works pretty good, but whenever I go into a sub-menu ( like tv guide ) it takes a few seconds to wake up when I go back to the Main Menu. Which is weird, I can't seem to replicate the behavior in regular windows. It seems better since I set the polling interval to 500ms. Any HIP/gbpvr related wisdom?
Some background:
What prompted me to upgrade and switch remotes is that the older of my two HVR-1600s ( I had one with the old style remote, and a newer MCE style one ) started having problems. The system would spontaneously reboot with no errors. A few days later the older card reinstalled itself on boot up ( a clue! ) and the old style hauppauge remote quit working. The ir.exe refused to start. I pulled the card and it stopped "black screening". The system has run for 3 days flawless since I pulled the card. It was rebooting twice a day before. Now the ehome ir receiver is not supported on XP, so I'm using the irbus.sys out of the hauppauge driver pack with the major and minor numbers added to the inf file, the MCE remote entries deleted out of the registry and HIP to receive the commands. So, it's not like I'm surprised by some occasional strangeness.
My system is a Athlon64 3200+ 2ghz 1GB RAM, ATI 2600 PRO ( saphire ) running Windows XP sp2. Gb-pvr version 1.37 ATI Mpeg decoder dvr-ms mux.
However, I am having an issue with Comskip timing. It is going to commercial skip about 30 seconds too early! The strange thing is the timeline dark bars seems OK. In other words, it is going to skip before the pointer reaches the dark bar indicating a commercial. If I backspace to before the commercial, and let it run, it looks like the pointer just hits the dark area when teh commercial starts.
Therefore, it would appear that COmskip is marking the commercial properly, and your timeline is displaying it properly. However, GBPVR is going into skip prematurely.
I have preferEDL enabled, and Comskip.ini shows true for creating EDL files. I do see edl in the storage location.
What logs might help? Or is this a known problem?
I can do some more testing, see if it is SD only, or if it includes HD.
Till now I had no external settop box and my connection was co-axial cable coming in connected to my pc using ATI TV WONDER 650. I used the schedules direct and everything was fine and danddy. I could change the channels using my PC keyboard.
I have since got a settop box and my cable coming in is connected to my settop box and the output from the settop box is connected to the TV tuner in my PC.
I used the ATI catalyst software and set my TV to channel 3 and used my cable remote to change channels in my settop box - The channels showed correctly in my PC. I am however not able to control my settop box WITHOUT the settop box remote!
How do I setup my GBPVR so that I can use just my PC keyboard instead of the settop remote. The TV Guide does show the schedulesdirect channels but when I select any channel I see a black screen.
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