I have some weirdness with my recordings. I have multiple recordings scheduled they all seem to record and play fine but one show (the same show each week) always plays in fast motion. Any ideas?
I've never had a series of back-to-back recordings complete successfully. Sometimes 2 of the 3 will record, sometimes 1 of the 2 -- the only consistency is that it always appears to be the last in the series that fails. I'm tempted to always record an extra show on the end to see if it makes a difference Single recordings and those spaced apart by a half hour or so seem to work just fine.
Logs attached.
The PC is dedicated for HTPC use, so nothing else deliberate was going on during the recordings. I've been chasing this one for a while without success, so any ideas/suggestions/criticism are appreciated.
I've had this issue for about a 2 months now, and its driving me crazy.
PVR250 (w/ FM recording) on a 32bit Vista Business machine, recording with standard analog cable.
I'll be recording a show on channel 10, 2 minutes in the audio will drop out (though the video plays back fine). Playing back with MPEG w/ Media Player Classic shows the exact same audio dropout. All recordings following this, regardless of the channel, are also lacking audio - until I reboot.
I've stripped all the codecs off my machine, except for Xvid, Divx & the mpeg-decoder exe.
I've attached the logs directory, and zipped config file. I've turned the debug level up since the issue happened.
The oddest thing is that the recordings during the remainder of the week work fine, but the last time this issue happened, it was during the recording of the exact same show (and also dropped off around 2 minutes into into the pre-padding of the show).
Sorry I wasn't able to help myself better, let me know what else I can provide to help anyone help me.
I have (for the moment) given up testing GB-PVR because I just can't find a combination of mux, settings and decoders that give satisfactory results for watching live TV (I'm strictly doing OTA ATSC). I don't doubt plenty of people are happily using GB-PVR with ATSC, but it isn't working for me.
I've seen you mention in several places that you have/will improve things related to the ts mux in the next release of GB-PVR. I want to revisit GB-PVR when that next release is available. I plan to build a dedicated machine for it then, and get serious about making it work.
The question is, for my mental planning purposes, do you have even a vague ETA on the new release?
Rumour has it in the next release we might expect the following:
1. Support for an accelerometer so if you shake or kick you HTPC it will randomly shuffle your music. (Sound familiar?)
2. Intelligent scheduling. Looks at you viewing habits, and considers the alignment of the planets and stars to accurately predict the programs you want to watch in the future, including obviously all repeat-repeats of the Simpsons, and the Mythbusters.
3. Speech recognition remote function. If you can yell over the volume of the commercials the word "mute" the program will mute the output. Similary the command "What is this crap?" will initiate a IMDB look-up and tell you all the details about the program you are watching.
Note: The preceding are currently unconfirmed, but remember you heard it here first.
Please add to this thread your most outlandish speculations.
I got a used PVR150 on ebay, and installed GBPVR a couple days ago. I've just been tweaking ever since.
I have never been able to get ATI Hardware Acceleration to work though. Here are my specs:
Athlon XP 2500+
ATI Radeon 9600xt
GBPVR 1.2.13
PVR150 (using s-video input)
I upgraded to the Catalyst 8.530 drivers, which solved a couple other issues, but not this one. I have "video mode" checked as well as the Windows Media PLayer Support, which is supposed to activate DXVA.
I downloaded the MPC decoder files listed on other threads in the forum, registered them with regsvr32, and changed the config.xml file.
When I use the MPC decoder, Live TV returns to the menu after a few seconds of black screen, or else remains black. I can't watch any recordings or other videos either, both give similar results.
I've tried the Cyberlink decoder also, and I get a fairly good picture (as long as I use VMR9 and not VMR9FSE) but my system runs at 100% CPU load. The Hardware Accel box IS checked in the Cyberlink options.
I have read all the other threads but the fix of changing the <AllowableTimeslotVariance>0</AllowableTimeslotVariance> to zero doesn't appear to have worked.
I want to record "mythbusters" from 8-9pm and "the Border" from 9-10pm
even with the above change under the recurring tab it shows "mythbusters 8-9p," and " the border 9-10pm" which looks correct. But under the conflicts tab (and the orangish bar in the guide) the conflict says "the Border from 7:30 to 10:30) why is it still giving it a 90min variance?
I've always had issues with every single codec out there except for the intervideo one that came with my HVR-1600. HD was good, but still had occasional issues.
So I was poking around in my registry today and found the IviSDK4Hauppauge registry entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE branch. Under that is VideoDec. In there is an entry for DXVA that I guess defaults to 0 (that's what mine was set at). So I figure what can it hurt to change it to a 1?
Nothing bad at all! As a matter of fact, I'm getting full hardware accel across the board with my Radeon X1650pro. the avivo stuff works, and in hd I'm only using 5% CPU on an ATSC 1080i broadcast.
Sos now I have 7% or under 1080p with WMV and MPEG2, 10-12% on 720p h.264, and 10-20% on 1080p h.264. That damn bird scene is just the death of me though. I think I need a quad core. ugh. though my video card doesn't do 1080 h.264 accel, supposedly.
Just had to let everyone know. If you've got a hauppauge card, and are having any issues, this little tweak may do you in well.
Single recordings and those spaced apart by a half hour or so seem to work just fine.
