Hi Guys,

I started on a HTPC a couple months ago but side tracked by work, life
in general, and a Seagate 750 gb SATA drive that just refuses to work
for any length of time.

I tried GBPVR, SageTV, and BeyondTV. I prefered GBPVR, but the remote
that came with my tuner card did not work properly with it. If I
set it to Hauppage in the configuration it hardly worked. If I set it
to MCE then it worked better but not 100%. This was actually why I
tried the other programs - I just didn't want to mess with making the
remote work!

I finally got time to work on the HTPC again and then the dangblasted
Seagate drive went out again! GRRR!

OK, I sent the Seagate back to Seagate for replacement and installed
an old ide drive and decided to play.

I decided while I was playing with software I should try Windows Media
Center too. I loaded up Windows Vista Ultimate since it had Media
Center in it and I wanted to work with Vista a bit too.

I like Vista Media Center, but I DON'T like DRM so I decided to try
GBPVR again and see if I could get the darn remote to work.

The remote I have is the Hauppauge model 1062 that's pictured on this
link:

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Hardware/MCERemotes

I ran across this thread and was able to use it to get my remote
working GREAT!

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?p=263455

There were a few things that needed clarified though . . .

*) When you unzip the zip file attached to the message it creates
a folder with the files in it -> this wont work as the files need to be in
the GBPVR folder so just cut and paste them into the proper folder.

All this does is put GBPVR In the Vista Media Center menu so you can
take or leave it, it's not really relevant to just getting the remote
working.

*) Next was to keep the remote from trying to run Vista Media Center
when you are in GBPVR or other programs. To do this you disable
ehtray.exe and the instructions for that were clear and worked
perfectly.

When you have this done the remote will no longer pull up Vista Media
Center, but if you launch Vista Media Center manually it will function. If you
load GBPVR it will work there too without interference from Vista
Media Center ... well ... if GBPVR is set to a MCE remote it will mostly
work but not all the buttons work correctly.

*) To make the remote work perfectly you must set GBPVR to Hauppauge
remote -> this is important, it doesn't work if it's not!

Then install the LM Remote keymap program. It's simple and easy to
use so I wont cover how to use it, just follow the directions provided
with the software.

When using LM Remote keymap choose the Media Center remote (when in
LM Remote keymap, leave it set to Hauppauge in GBPVR). It's
very similar in key layout to the Hauppauge remote and so far all the
keys of the same label seem to work fine. Note there are some added
colored keys on the MCE remote the Haupagge doesn't have, but you just
end up with four less buttons and everything else works great.

When using LM Remote keymap just set the remote keys to send
keystrokes that emulate keyboard keystrokes. The GBPVR keyboard
shortcuts are listed here:

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manua...dReference

I hope this helps others get these remotes working - they are a common
remote and it's frustrating they don't work with GBPVR out of the box, but it
turns out to be a very simple fix!

Take Care,

Steve

I'm trying to setup my new HD PVR 1212. In the capture source list, I don't see this device listed.

Hello,

fine to have finally found a HTPC software solution that also works on small machines

There is only one problem left: Whenever I watch a DVD, DVB-T or some videos, the left and the right half of the screen is swapped.

This only happens when viewing in an aspect configuration other than "Letter Box", which is the only aspect that is working correctly.

As the view isn't high enough in "Letter Box", it would be fine to be able to switch to "Auto" or something else so that the aspect is fixed.

This only happens when running GB-PVR in fullscreen mode, in window mode everything is okay.

In other media players, everything is okay too, also in fullscreen mode.

Thank you for your help in advance,

Nils Schneider

Hi all,

I'm having problems when attempting to watch or record analog TV via a Hauppauge PVR-150. DVB-S receoption through the HVR-3000 works without a hitch. In order to troubleshoot things, I've disabled all channels via the HVR to force GBPVR to use the PVR-150. I'm in Wellington, NZ.

If I launch PVRX2 and try to watch a program, PVRX2 goes to 99-100% CPU. The screen is black and there's no sound. If I view the Recording Status via GBPVRTray, it shows the PVR-150 is in Live Preview mode, as I'd expect. PVRX2 is unresponsive at this point and I have to kill it with Task Manager.

If I select "record" rather than "watch" then GBPVRRecordingService goes to 100% CPU. The recording status shows "sleeping", which is odd. PVRX2 is responsive though, and I can quit gracefully.

Using the Tuning Assistant displays pictures as I'd expect, so I know I am at least receiving the broadcasts.

I had suspicions about the Windows install, as it's quite old. I did a new install of WinXP Pro SP2 to a new disk, but the problem persists.

The HVR-3000 is using driver 2.122.26109.0, and the PVR-150 is using 2.0.48.25037 from the WinTV 4.6 driver CD - the latest I could find.

ffdshow-tryouts rev1723 is installed on the system to provide audio/video decoding. .NET 3.5 is installed, as is the vcredist package. The hardware is a 2.4GHz P4 Celeron with 1Gb of RAM. Onboard video via the Intel 865 chipset, so nothing flash but DVB-S works a treat.

The BPVRREcordingService-native logs are aroud half a gig each, and one of the pvrx2-native logs is 160 Mb, so I'm loathe to attach them to the first post!

Any advice appreciated

Cheers
Buzzy

Hi,

I just bought an AnyTV USB ATSC/NTSC tuner, with video capture, off eBay and it worked great the very first time I installed the driver and BlazeDTV, the included TV-PVR software, but the second time I tried to run the BlazeTV program, it locked up my computer and no amount of reinstalls or upgrades changes that. Hence, my present interest in using GB-PVR. When I tried to run the latest version of GB-PVR, it asks what hardware I have and the AnyTV tuner is not on the list.

I looked at the Win XP Device Manager and it has drivers listed in the Sound, Video and Game controller section for Auvitek Dongle ATSC Capture Device and for an Auvitek Dongle ATSC Capture Device, and USB Audio Device.

How do I configure GB-PVR for my AnyTV tuner?

Thanks.

whats more important for getting a clear block free image on DVB-T

..in case anyone is still interested in this crappy but capable piece of hardware, I'll offer my own account on getting it to work with GBPVR (=best thing in freeware I've ever seen).

I wouldn't enjoy my notebook much without this application, honestly!

Too bad, the manufacturer supplied software is so limited and obviously faulty. However, I could get it to work with GBPVR (1-2 yr ago) in manual recording mode and this changed my opinion about a) freeware and b) limits of HW with short design cycles...

Yada, yada (I'd better keep this to myself) - drop a message (in)to my e-mail inbox in case you want to know the whole truth (not sugar coated).

Marc.
m.forestier@vtxmail.ch

It happens only while watching MPEG’s on MVP.
By pressing SKIP forward instead skipping 1 minute ahead as programmed skips 2 minutes or more.
While by pressing SKIP backward skips 2 minutes forward or more. In effect skip time is random.
I changed dongles, muxers everything is possible to solve this problem but with no evident result.
Mpegs checked with Gspot seem good. Hauppauge drivers are the latest available.
I don’t know what to do more. Any suggestion?

I have setup my client using instructions in wiki

When I play the recordings the screen is blank!

FYI, the recording listing menu is shown before hand and I am able to play the recording from the client with VLC (this tells me that the shares are accessible).

Any pointers that I must check?

I am using GBPVR with community skin.

When I hit the EXIT button I have found various behaviours:

1. Exits cleanly and able to see the normal windows XP start up screen
2. Does not exit - Just hangs! But finally exits after some considerable time
3. Exits but the skin screen is overlayed on the windows XP start up screen

Anybody have such issues?

Thx