I am recently having a problem after upgrading and reinstalling some software.
that gbpvr is recording my episodes about 15 minutes early or so...

Example. I keep "House" on my must watch lists... I got home late today...
and besides the fact, it started 15 minutes early, which means it didn't record the last 15 minutes... I guess this episode was 9 minutes longer or so...

it also only recorded the original 60 minutes and not the entire new advertised 69 minute length...

So I am missing about 20 minutes of the ending of this latest show...

and it isn't the first one that was like this... And as soon as it was over. I verified the clock on the computer (gbpvr) and my wall clock was set the same... and wanted to verify that before submitting this...

(I prior had issues on getting my PC to keep good time, but set it up to frequently update the time using a 3rd party software running in the background).


I am just very frustrated.!

OK - I have only set up one QAM and one Analog tuner. If I have been watching a show on QAM, and have a QAM recording that starts, it exits from LiveTV (probably because it only has one QAM tuner) but shouldn't it change to the recording channel? Problem now, when I try to fire up LiveTV, it tries to open back to the QAM channel I was watching, and it won't open.

What is it SUPPOSED to do here? I would think, change to the show that is recording.

Hello all,

First, I’ve been trolling GBPVR forums and the website (obviously down for now) for some time now out of curiosity. GBPVR has always come across as an extremely competent PVR but I have always taken different approaches to my HTPCing software for no real apparent reason.

I have a situation now, which will allow me to take GBPVR “out for a spin”. I am currently using Vista VMC in my living room entertainment system but because of the lack of H.264 support I cannot record any HD (albeit somewhat compressed) programs from my DirecTV STB. As a result I’m am going to bid adieu to VMC in short order and either return to SageTV or maybe GBPVR so that I can record my programs in glorious (compressed) HD.

Rather than totally submerse myself in a VMC replacement in the living room (and risk a plummeting WAF) a situation has arisen which is the perfect vehicle to allow me take a good look at GB without leaving a permanent mark on my person. In the past whenever the missus and I had competing programs showing at the same time, one of us would retreat to the guest bedroom where another DTV receiver/TV is available to resolve the conflict but now I have another locale that would provide a more comfortable setting for me as opposed to the guest room.

If you’re still with me, here’s the crux of the post…

I plan to run coax cable from one of the spare LNBs on my satellite dish to my office and have DTV activate on of my spare SD STBs so that I can watch TV on my PC’s 22” monitor. My choice of STBs is an old (and still functioning flawlessly) Hughes model HIRD E1 or a DirecTV D11-300 I’ve never used.

My quandary is over the control of the STB in my office. I don’t particularly care to rig up some sort of blaster when the Hughes has a low speed data port (RJ11) and the D11 has a USB port. After performing a search on these forums for more information on the topic it appears at this early juncture that the best way to go would be with the old Hughes STB because of the simpler RJ11 to DB9 connection. My search may not have been as thorough as I would have liked so I might have missed some salient points. Any advice from the forums would be greatly appreciated, as I will be converting the office PC to a quasi-HTPC in short order.

Which way should I proceed? Use the box with the RJ11 data port or the USB port?

Oh, BTW, I am planning on using something like a cheap Hauppauge HVR-1250 to serve as my tuner card on a rig with the following specs:

AMD A64 X2 S939 4200+ CPU
2GB (4 X 512MB) RAM
nVidia 9600GT video card
2 X 250GB HDD

Thanks in advance.

Hi all,

I recently purchased and installed an HVR-1800 card since I (finally!) realized I was getting ClearQAM channels from Comcast. I'm an old hand at the analog side of things, so no setup issues there at all. I had quite a few issues with the digital side of things, though, most of which I have worked out.

Some background: I have the latest version of GBPVR (1.3.7) installed. I have an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processor with 2G of RAM. I'm using the on-board video (yeah, I know...) which is the Nvidia Quadro NVS 210S (basically, the 6150LE) chipset.

I know the video chipset is weak, but before you say anything, I did install WinTV 6 (not real fond of it :-)) and was able to detect and play all the HD channels without any issues. Signal was great, tuning was great, playback was very reasonable.

So - on to what I'm seeing with GBPVR. I had some issues at first with the channel scan, which after twisting some knobs and pushing some buttons (read as - I don't know what the heck I did to fix it), went away and GBPVR found all the stations. Next, I had some issues with the live preview window, which I finally attributed to the decoders I was using (I think). Once that was solved, *all* the channels showed up in the preview window - no problems. Great! I ran through all my channel mapping with the EPG data and was ready to go.

I finalized the config, dropped over to the TV Guide menu and selected one of the HD channels to view. Nothing. No video, no sound. Didn't make sense to me since the preview window was showing everything fine. Then I realized if I changed the channel up or down (up-arrow or down-arrow), the channels would come in, even the channel that was chosen from the TV Guide. This works (or doesn't work, depending on how you look at it) consistently, regardless of the channel chosen. Once I select a channel from the TV Guide, it does not seem to tune??? (no video, no audio) But as soon as I channel up or down, the tuning request to the new channel seems to work just fine. Very confusing.

Anyway, I have zipped and attached the logs. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Any by the way - GBPVR is the best. (When you have to mess around with WinTV, you realize how great a program GBPVR really is.)

Thanks in advance!

I'd like to see the livetv buffer limit reduced. I think in 1.3.7 this was uped to 2000ms and it was working nicely for me at 500ms. If I change it manually via config.xml I assume it works as before but I get an error loading with config.exe

Martin

Made you look! OK. I've asked this so many times, even I'm getting sick of it, but I'm ready to start digging into making a plugin/skin.

Problem is the very first thing: I don't get the concept of my development space, program files, compiling, test environment...

In the VB6, non-plugin days, I write, I compile onto my production machine, and try it out.

Now I have a dll, a skin, and tricking GB-PVR into believing my dev tools is a compiled dll.

I'm thinking of getting my ideas (and stealing heavily) from the DVD ripper in VB.net.

I believe it's already been converted into vb.net, so that's the hard part (I think)

But what's a braod view of how I'll be developing, compiling and testing...?

Thanks.

Hi,

When I click on "settings", it flashs the setting window for half
second and comes back right away. Is it something wrong with my
installation?

I got Window XP pro SP3 and GBPVR 1.2.13.

Thanks,

SZ

I experienced some strange kind of distortion while watching the RLWC final on the weekend. It actually looked like the Kiwis won.

This can't be right, so I'm thinking it must be a problem with GBPVR

This wasn't a "Stitch-up", was it Sub?

Hi, another minor point, but I've only noticed recently.

I use scheduled recordings. When I watch the show I just watch them on a laptop directly from a share. The recording device is a PVR350 (analogue).

What I've noticed for recent shows (over the last year - just catching up) is that the recording itself has a jump / stutter / skip in it. What I mean is imagine a scene, suddenly its goes in super fast mode and back to normal. The result is like its only recording a few frames over the few seconds.

I've checked the recordings a few times to check and it always skips at the same point. Over one hour it happens at one or maybe 2 points (never in the commercials or music intros!).

Any ideas? - Oh yes I used to run 0.99.5 and now 1.2.xx. So I don't think its GBPVR related.

Hi all - post #1.

After a few days of wrestling with it, I've got GB-PVR running pretty-much seamlessly and with rock solid stability - and what a great app it is too.

I know this has been asked before, but I havn't found a defintive answer after a few searches - is there a 'global' setting for picture brightness anywhere?

I've noticed that GBPVR produces a slightly over-bright picture - all filetypes, all decoders, DVBT.

I've fixed it with the nVidia control panel, but it means other media players are now too dark, which isn't too much of a problem as GBPVR has everything I need from a media player, and with almost complete functionality of the Hauppauge remote, which even Hauppauge's own software doesn't manage with DVBT, but it would be nice to be able to fire up media player classic for quick previews of videos.

If it's of any interest, these are some of the settings I use;

- DBVT; VMR9 Fullscreen Exclusive (only option with tear-free video on my rig), default audio renderer

- DVD; Intervideo Mpeg decoder / AC3-Filter

- Video files; CoreAVC / AC3-Filter

- Zoom set in config.xml to 1.11 to fill 16:10 monitor

System;

Asus P4G8X P4 N'wood Non-HT 2.8GHz/533 @ 3.4Ghz/648 (Prime95 stable) / 1GB (2x 512MB) dual-channel RAM
XP Pro SP2
nVIdia 7600GS AGP
Hauppauge Nova-T PCI 90002
M-Audio Delta 410 PCI soundcard