Well after over 300+ views on my 2 Asus PE9400 threads with no solution, I gave up on that card and reinserted my PVR150. Now with the current 10307 gbpvr the live video plays 4 seconds, freezes 1 second over and over again. I even dumped MCE 2005 and went with XP Pro hoping that that would cure it. I had such high hopes for gbpvr. the configuration is at dotnet 2 sp2 verified.
help!
anybody heard there's a REAL accelerated video transcoder coming out with catalyst 8.12!
they finally enabled the stream processors to be used for transcoding..
tho it's supposed to be only for 4xxx series cards, they say the sdk works on all uvd cards [2xxx+]
they're supposed to release a free transcoder app and others are working on adding it into their apps [cyberlink,avermedia]
i know, i know, sounds painfully familiar right? lol
My system was running great for months...
I'm not compressing any recordings.
When recording 2 or 3 shows at once I started getting choppy playbacks during while the machine was recording other programs...
Over 90% of the 1TB drive was fragmented. Even with a SATA-300 the impact of fragments was hitting hard.
Defragged the drive, and set a schedule to do it during wee morning hours (3rd party defrager), and the performance went back to normal.
If I were to buy a Blu-Ray drive and put it in a USB external enclosure and connect it to my PCH would I be able to play Blu-Ray disks? I don't want to burn, just play. I've seen some reasonably priced drives so I was wondering if this would work.
Syabas have been able to provide more information on the NMT hardware which now offers several opportunities to change the NMT client and I have uploaded a YouTube demo on the PCH here http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=5pwQtm-hNC4
What you see is the client running without mono playing an mpeg-ts file from a QAM digital source in live TV. With this new approach it could be possible to
- start audio and video in well under two seconds,
- have more responsive livetv channel changes,
- OSD over video
Clearly the demo is not optimised, and some of the offset are not quite correct, I even had to run as an MVP, but I expect that the OSD navigation will be close to the same speed you get with GBPVR menus and faster than the MVP.
If I go this route, I will need a much deeper commitment from sub to get mpeg-ts support, since GPBVR doesn't provide this to the MVP/NMT client today Effectively you will lose all the capabilities in mono including file navigation (ff/rw, time seek, 30 second seek etc) and resume (next firmware), info button and anything that is added to mono in the future. I am estimating that the GBPVR navigation tricks will require about 1.5 seconds of blank screen, for skips including com skip too if that helps, a little faster than the livetv pauses in the demo.
Additionally I only intend to support this on mpeg-ts and mpeg-ps files. The other container formats (mkv, avi, dvd, wmv) are handled well by mono and I don't want to provide anything less.
This all leads up to the question is this something you want me to continue to devote time to? Ultimately sub controls the destiny, but if you don't need it I don't want to waste a few weeks building and investigation this.
I've written a little utility to generate the tuning information required for digital capture cards independently of the GBPVR config utility. You might find it helpful if your capture card doesnât work well with GBPVR, e.g. if it crashes during scanning, or fails to find all the channels expected.
It's called GBPVR PID Grabber; it's actually a MultiDec plugin for use with a "host" TV application. It takes the tuning information from the host and writes it to a GBPVR compatible file. So you need to have your card working correctly with a suitable application first.
