OK, Frys had a sale on an LG Blu-Ray/HD-DVD/DVD/DV burner for $89. So I sprung on it. Also got a DVI to HDMI cable so I can see HD in all it's wonderful glory.

So, I install the drive, load all the software, bring it down to the TV, and when I tried to play an HD-DVD movie I also picked up, I got an error about HDCP. Well, the video card was a 7900GS, and I don't think it supports HDCP, so I swapped with the 9600GT in my main machine, fired it up, loaded the latest drivers, and was actually able to WATCH HD - notice I said WATCH! After I installed the latest drivers, nVidia decided since I had an HDMI connection, it wanted to transfer audio through that device, and since DVI doesn't support audio, I now have no audio!! How can I tell the driver that I DON'T WANT AUDIO via the DVU-HDMI cable, and to start letting the audio port on the back of the motherboard output audio??

I ran across this hack (can't believe it's not just a simple switch in the software), but I thought I'd post to see if someone else has a more sane way of accomplishing this.

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There's a way you can configure the NVidia driver (prior to installing it) to override/ignore that it 'discovers' an HDMI connection, and thus NOT send the digital audio signal through the DVI connector (obviously requires that you can and DO use an external analog audio cable). This solves the problem for those of us with [COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]HDTV's[/COLOR][/COLOR] that auto-sense HDMI/analog audio (mine's an Olevia 237T) and have nVidia graphics (mine's an HTPC based on a 7100/630i motherboard w/integrated graphics). I found this originally at http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s...=&#entry330319 - although it was being used for a different purpose - but I can certainly vouch that it works!

Here are the steps in full (rewritten by me)... You need to have your PC hooked up to your TV, so the EDID discoverer can get your display's ID code:

1. Get Phoenix EDID Designer, (http://www.tucows.com/preview/329441), [COLOR=green! important][COLOR=green! important]unzip[/COLOR][/COLOR] and run the exe (no install reqd)
2. Click Tools->Extract registry EDID, then double click the line for your TV/monitor in the popup
3. Click Tools->Byte viewer, and note down the values in row 00, columns 08-0B (4 bytes)
4. Start the installation of the latest Nvidia drivers and cancel out once the files are extracted
6. Open the file "nv_disp.inf" in a text editor. By default for the current drivers this is in C:\NVIDIA\...\169.21
7. Scroll down to the section [nv_SoftwareDeviceSettings], add the following line there, replacing the "XX" values below with the 4 values noted in step 3:

HKR,, OverrideEdidFlags0, %REG_BINARY%, XX,XX,XX,XX,00,00,FF,FF,04,00,00,00,7E,01,00

(In my case the TV code was SYN 0043, the four values being: 4F,2E,43,00 )

4. Uninstall your current drivers and reboot
5. Install the modified drivers by running the previously extracted setup.exe. By default for the current drivers, this is in C:\NVIDIA\...\169.21. You'll get a warning about the driver not being signed because of the modified inf. Just press OK.

Reboot, and you should have GLORIOUS AUDIO!!!
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I have installed GBPVR on an old laptop with a 40 GB hard drive. It has Windows XP Home upgraded to SP3. This is a new installation this week, and is my first attempt at this.

I am using a WinTV-PVR-USB2 tuner with a MediaMVP for access to my TV. The MediaMVP is ethernet connected to my wireless router and my GBPVR server laptop talks to the router wirelessly.

Everything works great as far as TV viewing, recording, schedules, etc.

My problem lies with accessing music, picture and video files that are on my main laptop (not on the GBPVR server) via my network.

I am avoiding keeping my 10 GB of music files on my GBPVR server, since it has only 25 GB of free space for video recording, so I am attempting to access these remotely across the network.

I have defined these directories in GBPVR config and everything works great when I access the network directories using PVRX2. But, when I use the MediaMVP to select the network directory, and click OK, the screen just blinks and fails to open the directory.

As I say, I can successfully play music and videos and display pictures from the network drive using PVRX2, which would indicate that all my permissions and network configuration are set correctly.

Also, when I define directories on the GBPVR server, I can successfully navigate local directories and launch pictures and music from the local machine using the MediaMVP.

So it seems that the Open Directory request from the MediaMVP seems to fail when the directory is on a network drive.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for a great product!

Michael

I'm liking I-xmltv but have noticed that whenever there is a channel without any guide info, I simply get 'Zap2it' in the guide area. If I click on the program to find out more about it, I just get 'no messages from Zap2it today'. Some of these are national programs such as Insider (nope, don't watch it ) but I wonder why that is. Others seem to be very late at night are look to be infomercials.
This is not a complaint but a curiousity question and one wondering if I didn't set it up correctly.

I just got a 1600, and got it working so far. Multi record is very nice all my locals are on the same channel :o. What comskip is everybody using for QAM? comskip79_121 and comskip79_144 are worse than analog with bad snow seems to be early on cuts.

Thanks

i have 2 computers running gbpvr, i have one thats working using the hdd of the pch as the recording directory.the other one is showing user name troubles in the logs and wont record to the drive ive both computers recording service running as admin.setting service to run as admin was the trick to get the one working but the other still wont work. both are xp computers the one that wont work happens to be mce2005 dont kow if it matters. simple sharing is on on both. i also notice on the one that wont work when i try to browse the pch hdd im always prompted for the user name pass and on the one that works i dont have to enter it. any help appreciated.

Installation instructions seem long and a little complex - esp the sevice relatd stuff. Ever considered anusing an installer?

I've tweaked the layout of the 3 default plugins (Vid, Music, Pic). I've tried to make them more uniform and appear wider on a 4:3 screen. But given my uncertainty with XML's, I'd appreciate opinions both aesthetically and technically please.

Cheers

I'm setting up ZProcess to read an aspects file to help decide some cropping...

I have many shows that are 4x3 but the program is letterboxed. I want to crop the 4x3 letterbox to 16:9.

After activating the output_aspect=1 I get aspects files.

How can I determine the main aspect ratio for the main program, not commercials.

Maybe comskip does not already detect letterbox inside a 4x3...

Here's a sample from mythbusters

Does the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1950 Hybrid Video Recorder 1192 USB 2.0 Interface work with GBPVR fine?

Is it worth getting?
I like the
Hauppauge HD PVR High Definition Personal Video Recorder 1212
but it doesnt look like it can really do SD.
Giving away this computer and making a new one and dont really have room for a tuner card, but still want to run a PVR.
So if anyone has any stories feel free to share.

And to clarify, im curious if the 1212 can do SD,because id rather just get that, and swap my SD cable box extra for a HD extra, at no charge.

I can watch clear QAM channels with WinTV. I was able to "map digital channel to EPG channels" in the setup. Analog channels are fine but there is no video nor audio when I tried to watch clear QAM channels. I'm attaching the log here. Can anyone help? I have purevideo codec installed. I tried all codecs in playback tab in the setup but none of them worked.