Forgive me if I'm being an idiot here, but I'm not entirely sure what this is supposed to do or whether I'm using it correctly.
I pointed the metadata grabber at a directory in my video library containing episodes of '30 Rock', the program chuntered away for a long time but I can't find any evidence of it having done anything when I browse the directroy in GBPVR.
Do I need to format my filenames in a particular way, or tell the program what the format is?
Currently they are all formatted like: 30 Rock 104 Jack The Writer.avi
I used to be able to record and replay TV3 fine, but now when I try to play a recording I get audio for 2 seconds with black video then video starts and the audio goes mute. I am running Win xp pro and hauppauge 2200
If I do this multiple-record, is it possible to then save each recording as a separate MPEG (I can see wanting to keep one recording around for a while, but not others in the same multiple record .ts file).
I am also assuming here that when you delete from the recordings screen each specific recording, it doesnt actually alter the .ts file, just marks it in the database and then removes the ts file when the last multi-recording is deleted?
Forgive me for posting this in the main support forum; it's not directly GB-PVR related, but I don't see any other suppot forum it would be better in and I don't want it to get lost and ignored in the General Discussion forum (if a moderator sees fit to move it there then so be it....)
I have need to launch a custom task that will change the screen resolution, launch Internet Explorer (or another browser if that would somehow help), and then change resolution back before returning control to PVRX2.
Anyone know of a GB-PVR friendly way of doing this?
I know that gbpvr needs .net 1.1 and .net 2.0, but does it make any difference if I have .net 2.0 service pack 2, rather than the original.
I ask because I'm having an issue on my new set up whereby my mvp reboots spontaneously. I seem to remember that when I had this problem last year with my original gbpvr server, reinstalling .net 2.0 helped.
So should I be uninstalling the service pack 2 version of .net 2.0 in favour of the original?
Can anyone else confirm what frequency is being reported out of the TS reader?
I went to watch prison break tonight and had no sound. It was being reported as AC3 and sent to AC3filter, but it couldn't be passed through as the freq was 24 kHz which I assume is out of SPDIF spec.
I loaded up a copy of the file it in graphedit, using the GBPVR ts reader, and the mpeg & ac3 streams were listed as 24kHz, but the AAC was 48kHz (all showed as 48khz when I looking in mediainfo)
I recently added a new 8600GTS to my HTPC and while doing this managed to break my machine which previously would standby and resume perfectly, let me tell you how so that these can be avoided for you too.
Whilst in the BIOS for the init VGA setting, I couldn't resist changing some other features.
In my 780G BIOS, I had an option for "away mode" for MCE use, which I put to on. Bad! this stops the machine from going into S3 properly, even with XP it seems!
I also enabled Cool'n'Quiet, the AMD clock stepping feature. This is great as, at idle, it drops the clocks from 2300 to 900MHz, reducing power and heat and therefore fan noise. The problem seems to be that the PVRX2 screensaver uses more than 10% of the CPU at 900MHz which stops Windows power management from kicking in (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899975), preventing standby. Disabling the PVRX2 Screensaver or leaving the clock at 2300 solved this.
When installiing the processor driver, it wiped all of my power profiles and greyed out all the boxes, you can restore defaults with "powercfg /RestoreDefaultPolicies" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913622). It seems that deleting the unwanted schemes (why do I need "Max Battery" on an HTPC????) causes problems, so my advice is to leave the defaults intact.
Vista has a new option in Powercfg.exe, -lastwake which will tell you why the machine woke up. Unfortunately under XP, I did not have this.
WOL still works fine but in my experience, you must make sure that "Only allow management stations to wake...." is checked and send a WOL packet, otherwise every little tid bit of network traffic destined for the box will wake it. I put a startup script in the router which would look for a connection request on the webadmin WAN port and send a WOL to the HTPC as a result. This makes it so that the first request to view a page (when asleep) takes a few more seconds to load, but no manual WOLing required for phones, PDAs etc. when away from home.
The last piece of the puzzle was the PVRX2 screensaver which I had to disable, is there a way to reduce its priority instead as I liked it for music?
After having been away from GB-PVR for a long (too long in fact ) time, I have downloaded it and is in the process of setting it up.
I have a number of DivX movies made with the tool Converter from DivX.com and my movies have embedded subtitles as made with the Converter tool. When playing such a movie in GB-GVR's Movie Library the movie it self plays fine (except when it has to read it over my network - see below). A small popup is displayed that this movie contains subtitles (I think this is done by the Divx codec). When pressing the on-screen subtitle button the subtitle is not displayed.
Any ideas?
While we are at it. As indicated above, when playing DivX movie over my network (cable 100 mbits) the move is jittery and sound full of "chops". Playing the movie in Windows Media Player or DivX player show the movie perfectly.
I have tried to look through the forums and wiki for a solution to this but nothing found.
I have just installed v1.3.7 (computer specs in signature) and install seems to go fine. When I go to try and scan in config.exe my tuner it initialises and then starts scanning 1 of 3 but nothing happens. I have left it about 20 minutes but nothing. I cannot stop or cancel it or it just brings up a "not responding" error.
Hopefully I have attached the correct files.
Any help much appreciated and apologies if this is covered somewhere else.
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