Not sure how to describe the problem. GB-PVR 1.3.7 . Dell Optiplex GX280, 2.8MHz, 2.5GB DDR RAM, 160GB Seagate HD, dual video using on board and Dell PCIe card (not pushing video playback from this system. Just recording), Hauppauge PVR 1800 PCIe capture card (Basic cable only at this time), MediaMVP on 32" Vizeo HD LCD tv. NAS box using FreeNas with 2 500GB Seagate drives (not recording to the NAS yet). All cabled with Ethernet 10/100.
Basic cable channels all show up fine in channels tab. EPG based on the yahoo GO Tv. Works fine. Schedule shows up and I can select record. Shows record. When I try to play them back, the video is very bad. Unwatchable. fuzzy, pixalated, scrambled. Hard to describe, but it isn't like when the signal goes weak or static like. Below is my GB-PVR configuration. When I get home this evening I will zip up the log files and post them with this thread.
Thanks for all the good information I have read thru.
rich moberly rmoberly@swbell.net home rmoberly@arvest.com work
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here is what I have at this point. I can record audio really well most of the time. Video is extremely blurry, pixalated, jumbled. Hard to discribe. I get all that over the MediaMVP (connected by ethernet). When I try to play a recording on the pc thru PVRX2.exe, I get no video whatsoever, but the audio is pretty good.
GB-PVR Configuration:
General tab
Current Skin: Blue
Language: English
FullScreen/Windowed/Placement: Show in windows mode checked
Logging Level: Debug with Enable Log Flushing checked.
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Playback tab:
PVRX2.exe Video Renderer: Video Renderer: EVR
MPEG-2 Playback:
Video decoder: MainConcept (Hauppauge) MPEG Video
Audio decoder: MainConcept (Hauppauge) MPEG Audio
AC3 Decoder: system default
Audio Renderer: System Default
Advanced Codec:
H.264 Decoder: System default
AAC Decoder: System Default
HE-AAC decoder: System Default
Aspect Ration Control:
Television Shape: Standard 4X3
Default forward skip size 60 sec
Default back skip size 30 sec
manual skip timebase: Minutes
Live TV: LiveTV Pre-play delay 500ms
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Capture Sources tab:
My Source Name - Direct Recording Plugin - XMLTV Plugin - No Channel Changer
Cable Analog - Direct Recording Plugin - SMLTV Plugin - No Channel Changer
Video Library Directories:
MyVideos: \\Freenas\500gbmaster\My Videos
DVD: \\Freenas\500gbmaster\DVD
Music Library Directories:
My Music: \\Freenas\500gbmaster\My Music
Photo Library Directories:
Photos: \\Freenas\500gbmaster\Photos
Genealogy: \\Freenas\500gbmaster\Genealogy
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Processing tab:
Commercial Detection:
Comskip.exe from current directory
Run during recording instead of after recording is UnChecked
Conversion Processing:
Start conversion between: ASAP and 6:00am
Wake machine for conversion unchecked
Delete original file after conversion unchecked
Update database to point to converted file checked
Auto-Convert MPG recordings to: No Conversion
Auto-Convert DVR-MS recordings to: No Conversion
Auto-Convert TS recordings to: No Conversion
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DVD tab:
DVD Playback:
Navigator: DVD Navigator
ideo Decoder: System Default
Audio Decoder: MainConcept (Hauppauge) MPEG
Audio Renderer: Default DirectSound Device
Show DVD button checked
use DVD Chapter Skipping unchecked
ISO File Playback (Requires Daemon Tools)
Daemon.exe: C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools
Drive: F
Device Number: 0
Remote Control Type:
Dafault (Hauppauge)
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Plugins tab:
Menu and plugins:
TV Guide checked
Recordings checked
Search Guide checked
Live TV checked
Music Library checked
Video Library checked
Photo Library checked
DVD checked
FM Radio checked
Net Radio checked
Settings checked
System checked
Exit checked
Easy View Unchecked
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Channels tab: All channels normally picked up by Basic Cable are checked.
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Misc:
Extra Features:
Auto-create folders when recording checked
Confirm Delete in Video Library checked
Auto-skip commercials (needs comskip files) checked
Enable screen saver checked
Enable splash screen checked
Use cached channel sequence headers checked
use built-in transport stream reader filter for .ts files
Live Preview Mode:
use Live Preview mode if possible checked
Return from timeshift mode on channel change checked
Deinterlacing: Encoder pass through
I am new to all of this so please forgive my ignorance. A lot of this has already been covered in the forums, but I want to make sure I know what I am doing before I go and spend any more money. My setup:
HP dc5100
3.2 Ghz pentium 4
2 GB RAM
Hauppauge HVR-2250
ATI Radeon 9250
80 GB c: - for win and programs
120 GB d: - for recordings
XP Pro SP2
GB PVR 1.3.7
Video is very choppy. I am guessing this is due to the ATI card. Unless I can find a software fix, I will need to purchase a new video card. Here is the issue: my PC only has 1 PCIe slot (the HVR-2250 is sitting in that slot now). Is the Radeon 9250 fast enough for OTA HD broadcasting? Is there a PCI video card that would suit my needs? Would I be wasting money on old technology buying a new PCI card? Or do I need to start looking for a new motherboard with additoinal PCIe slots? If I need to go that route, what should I be looking for?(taking cost into consideration of course)
Anyone out there have any luck with a ATI Radeon 9250 and HD?
1.2.13 has been working well for me but for some reason all recording has stopped working today including even manual recordings.
The event log shows the following:
Faulting application GBPVRRecordingService.exe, version 1.0.3069.9824, faulting module WSTSRTAnalog.ax, version 0.1.0.0, fault address 0x0000b7a2.
I've tried re-registering all the filters but it still won't record. The RecordingService log shows the CreateRecorder() failed error. Any help would be appreciated on how to fix this.
im running a freshly installed v1.3.7 and the MCE standby tool from here http://slicksolutions.eu/mst.shtml on my also fresh installed XP SP3. I verified my power managment settings and everything else i could think off still...
- computer wakes up correctly
- gbpvr records scheduled program
- system goes to standby almost immediately after recording
what am i missing there ? i want to run a postrecording batch for comskip and cleaning up and so i need to put the system to sleep only after the batch has finished succesfully. Any tips on why the system goes to sleep right after recording ?
2008-11-18 22:08:49.090 ERROR [7] Media stream thread caught exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\forcefailure'.
File name: 'C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\forcefailure'
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share)
at GBPVRX2.MVP.x3ca133dee7547455.xf9d81bb81f7c2ff0()
Just gets a blank screen - I'm still on the august firmware. But if I reboot the pch, and navigate though the the pch interface to the same file, it plays... Any ideas?
Hi All,
I'm new to this forum, but after suffering this problem for several days and having just had the same problem occur following a complete hard drive re-format, I am officially stumped...
I have been using GBPVR for several months now, and until recently it has usually worked fine. About 10 days ago when I scheduled a program to record it failed to do so. Accessing the PVRx2 program, under the recording menu there was no record of it. When I was looking through explorer, I noticed there was a folder in the relevant directory, and there was a file under that folder which corresponded to the programme that I had scheduled to record. Double clicking this opened media player where the image was scrambled but I could hear the sound fine (always had the scrambled pic when trying to watch on another program, so not too bothered by that). By going back into PVRX2 and accessing the file through the Video Library tab, I was able to watch the programme. Although as the programme went on the sound and vision seemed to go further and further out of sync. Most confusing.
But it gets worse. Since then, when I try to record several shows in a row, it will record 5.6kb of the first one, and fail all the subsequent ones. But then sometimes it records just fine.
It seemed to start just after I had networked my xbox to my PC, so I thought it was something to do with file sharing, or the firewall, or maybe it was because I had an older version of GBPVR. I updated GBPVR to the latest version, and it kept happening.
I decided that as I was due a reformat I would start fresh, with file sharing turned off. So I've just spent the last 6 hours sorting out the whole pc, only to find that it's doing the same thing as before.
My head is frazzled, I'm at my wits end, and if it doesn't get sorted soon this damn machine is going through the window... PLEASE HELP!!!!
Hi, had only just updated to 1.3.7 last night and I'm reporting in with some probs with the timeline (and 'timebar').
I've seen a couple of other threads - eg 38702, 38677 which cover a similar area but thought worth mentioning my symptoms (also with that latter thread, there seems to be a lot of suspicion about the .TS filesize being an issue but I think that has no bearing in the cases I've looked at).
I played several recordings (.TS files made previously with 1.2.13) and have seen these problems:
- The initial start time can be totally bogus
- I played a 1hr15min recording and the end time was listed as 21 minutes
- Navigation (ctrl-arrows, ctrl-D,F) jumps unpredictably
- When I started one recording, the two 'seconds' digits started ticking over really fast as if they were 1/100th seconds
One good thing - ctrl-Q (resume from pause) resumed immediately (often it didn't with 1.2.13), however it resumed to totally the wrong place.
I know in the past I've had some timeline problems with broken streams, but now with 1.3.7 all previous recordings (including those that were good) are broken in one way or another (but which symptom they show is really unpredictable).
I've gone back to 1.2.13 and things have stabilised.
My System: Intel core2quad, 2GB, 8500GT video, hvr2200 cap card.
Frank, I don't know if you can interface to vlc but this will create a mvp compatible mpeg from an encrypted dvd D: is my drive dst is the destination. I was using it with mvpmc native interface for a while and it works ok. You can add it as a custom task if it is setup properly.
I recently tested the NMTinstaller and reinstalled MW (latest) but am now getting dotNet errors? Can you see what the issue might be from the attached?
I was watching DWTS and live it looked fine, so I pressed the record button. Came back later to watch the recorded file, nothing but blue screen and hiss! It is an .mpg file - I thought HD was supposed to record directly to disk in a .ts file? Mabye I'm totally off, so any input would help!
OH - and the TV buffer is working, because I can pause and play at will.
