PromiseNasDude Wrote:We (Promise Technology, Inc.) are hosting a Digital Media Focus Group in the San Jose - San Francisco Bay Area on August 12th and August 14th (2008). We will "Focus" on Next-Gen NAS - Digital Media Server Products and upcoming Digital Media Products. Please see the announcement notification below. This same information will appear on the Promise website tomorrow (not sure what time though). The number of participants is limited so please do not become disappointed if you are not selected (nothing personal). I plan to hold sessions on a regular basis (1 or 2 times per quarter) therefore more opportunities will arise.
Promise Technology Digital Media Focus Group
When: Tuesday August 12th, 2008 and Thursday August 14th, 2008 from 6 PM to 9 PM (Food will be provided)
Where: Promise Technology Worldwide Headquarters in Milpitas, California (San Jose â San Francisco Bay Area)
Session Size: 20 Participants (Participants will be screened)
Scope â Discussion involving Promise SmartStor DLNA Digital Media Servers (NAS) and future Digital Media Products. Involvement will require signing an NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement). Sorry folks, but some stuff needs to stay "hush hush" for a little while.
NOTE: Employees and or Family Members of competing companies such as ADS Tech Buffalo, Calvary, Coolmax, Dlink, Drobo, Hammer, Hawking, Hewlett Packard (HP), IO Data, Iomega, iStar, Lacie, Linksys, Netgear, Roku, Syabas, Seagate, Synology, Thecus, Thermaltake, Trendnet, Tritton, WD and Zyzel are not eligible to participate in the Focus Group. I am "so" sorry. :p
Requirements: Must meet one of the following Prerequisites â Two is a bonus
⢠Users of HTPC and Current Digital Media Players from Dlink, Netgear, Linksys, Syabas (Popcornhour) and others.
⢠"Novice" or âMust Userâ - Uses Technology because it is a must and not by choice. Does not care how it works as long as it works. Non Tech or Gadget Savvy.
⢠Current Users of Promise SmartStor NS4300N and NS2300N Digital Media Servers â Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Gift for attending and participating in âBOTHâ sessions: Promise SmartStor NS2300N**
** You must attend both sessions, PERIOD! No the dog ate my car keys or a meteorite struck my car on the way stuff.
How to Apply: Send email to [email]Billyh@promise.com[/email] with âPromise Digital Media Focus Groupâ as the Subject. Please include Full Name, Email and Phone Number with good time to be reached.
Tried most of the possible fixes that I thought might work but no such luck. Using HD Homerun and have tried re-installing the software and many other things but I still don't get any picture at all. This has all happened since my recent upgrade to 1.2.13. FYI, I am trying to tune digital cable (Charter). Standard def works just fine through my Hauppauge 150s, just no luck with HD. Please help. Attached are the logs.
As noted in another thread, I changed from DVR-MS to TS to solve a recording failure isse. It seems to record ok, but playback has a few issues:
1. If I pause, it will either not restart at all (just stays frozen), or it will restart at the beginning of the recording. Pause is important. Sometimes if it does not start at all, pressing play another time or two strats it jumpy, and then it synchs up again.
2. Fast Forward in some cases actually moved the pointer back toward the beginning of the file.
3. Comskip worked apparently OK on NCIS, but has issues with Without a Trace. It shows plenty of commercial breaks, but they are all scrunched up at the beginning of the time line. I think I had that problem once before with DVR-MS, and you had me turn on EDL. I upgraded GBPVR and Comskip both this week to latest version. Not sure if maybe some setting did not carry through. Interesting that one worked, one did not.
Perhaps the Comskip issue is related to the DVR-MS problem. If the timeline is corrupt, perhaps it could affect both. The txt file seems to properly distribute teh commercials throughout hte show, but on playback they are scrunched. Seems it ha something to do with the timeline or frame size or something changing near the beginning of the show.
If we can get TS to work right in these two areas (comskip and pause/play), then I can say good riddance to DVR-MS.
I am recording the same program on analog and HD on different channels so I can view with either popcorn hour or MVP. After recording finished, I can only on recording in the New Recording, the HD recording exists in the Video library but not register into the recording database. Is there anyway to fix this? Thanks.
I am attached the before and after pictures and the logs. The program is "KOMO 4 News" from 6:00-7:00 PM from channels 4 and 104.
I am having trouble setting up my Hauppauge HD PVR with GB-PVR. When I go to Live TV or select a channel in the guide I can see the video from my sat but if i go back to the main menu or guide then select another channel, I only get a black screen. The red light on the HD PVR does turn on when i have this black screen. To make the HD PVR work again I have to power it off then on again. I have also noticed that when I select a channel the red light turns on then off, it changes the channel on my sat then the red light turns back on. When I change the channel changer to "No Channel Changer Required" in the config this problems goes away.
sorry if this was discussed elsewhere, but I was unable to find a solution in the forum.
Using version 1.2.13, I can record and watch video flawlessly. I use the PVRX2.EXE application.
The problem is that every day (at some point and for a reason I do not quite know) the application quits (possibly when the system wakes for a recording) and this error is displayed in 2 different dialog boxes.
I never saw this happen on screen, because launching the application several times generates no errors.
I have tried to change the video renderer settings (tried them all) but to no avail. I should mention that everything has worked smoothly while using the previous version (also using PVRX2.EXE). My video card id a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200.
Hello,
I'd like to know if there is a preferred way to connect a client to my server over a shared lan, without exposing writable network shares to everyone on the lan. Here's the situation. My server sits behind a linksys router on my local lan, which sits behind the apartment building's router. I'd like for someone in a different apartment to be able to connect to my gbpvr server and access recordings, etc. The client computer sits on the apartment building's router as well.
I envision opening a port on the linksys router and pointing it to my server, then telling the client my router's ip and appropriate port. The client would then be able to access stuff on the server via the gbpvr interface.
I say the network is semi-open because I'm not too worried about exposing a port to the apartment building's lan, but I wouldn't want to expose writable folder shares for any yahoo to delete at will.
Any thoughts or experience?
Thanks,
Matt
I finally upgraded the HTPC, and all I can say is that I can't believe I tolerated my old system for so long, because it just is not expensive at all to get a really nice system now.
I was using an old MS-6385 motherboard harvested a Sony desktop using a Pentium 1.3 ghz with only 512mb of RAM. What spawned the upgrade was going on eBay to buy 2GB of Rambus RAM -- OUCH! It was going to cost me $400 for used chips! Yeah, Rambus memory was ahead of its time, but it was expensive then and even more expensive (and rare) now.
So I went shopping online, and ended up striking gold at CompUSA.com, upgrading basically everything except the hard drive and HTPC case for just a little over 1/2 what the Rambus upgrade would've cost me. No, I'm not exaggerating -- I couldn't believe the prices either!
So now I have a XFX MG-610i-7059 motherboard, Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 2.2Ghz, EVGA GeForce 8400 GS 512MB PCIe graphics card, 2GB of RAM, new Lightscribe DVD Multi-Burner (SATA), and I'm still using my old 200GB hard drive and nMediaPC HTPC 100BA case and PSU. I also bought a really nice Socket 775 CPU fan. All that totaled to $220 after rebates (two of those were instant rebates/discounts), and this is now the fastest and most capable PC in my entire home.
The big non-GBPVR improvements were:
1. DVD playback directly to my Panasonic 42" plasma (outside of GBPVR) no longer stalls gets out of sync (that's why I was looking to upgrade the memory originally).
2. DVD conversions (for iPods/Palm PDAs/etc.) are just ridiculously fast now.
3. Burning a DVD is much faster now, too.
4. The DVI to HDMI from the HTPC to my plasma display works much better now. Before I couldn't see anything on the plasma display during the boot process until Windows loaded. Now I see the entire POST.
5. The EVGA card also handles HD resolution/adjustments better than my old Nvidia card did. The actual display is now truly edge to edge, whereas the old card couldn't do that.
6. The entire system actually runs cooler AND quieter now. Go figure -- more power, less heat, less noise. I'm expecting the Swedish Bikini Team to arrive any time now...
GBPVR Related Improvements:
1. Did Comskip run? Really? Well, then why isn't it showing up as running 15 minutes after the show ended? Yup, Comskip actually runs that fast now. Before it would actually take Comskip longer than the 1-hour show I recorded to figure out all the commercials -- now it's less than 15 minutes and that's even on a two-hour show!
2. Even though GBPVR was amazing before in that it could be recording on all three of my tuners, playing two other shows via my two MediaMVP devices, and even playing another show via the HTPC machine itself without much of a hitch, no it does all this without even so much as a blip on the CPU stats. Now the MVP's and the HTPC can even been playing Divx files and the machine still doesn't bog down.
3. Even the TV Guide updates faster due to faster parsing.
4. Guess who is finally running PVRX2 in VMR9 now? Finally.
GBPVR Issues:
1. I did have a sleep/wake problem, but read about MCE StandBy Tool in another thread here, and that solved my problems immediately.
2. My beloved Dscaler decoder isn't working very well with this new setup (double-image, jerky video), so I have to use the Cyberlink decoder instead. I'm still looking into the Dscaler thing.
3. Too damn many advance features to learn about now that I have the hardware to use them!
I'm sure there will be other improvements once I start playing around more with GBPVR features that I couldn't previously use. I'm looking at the DVD plug-in now, and in the near future I want to upgrade at least one of my three tuners to HD. I might have to upgrade my PSU for that though.
The WAF is high on this, believe it or not. I think she was getting a little tired of stalling DVDs and even GBPVR playback on the old system. I did get a bit of surprise in that I didn't realize that you have to reinstall Windows when you replace a motherboard. However, I learned that a repair install works just as well and then I don't have to reinstall everything. I may end up doing that anyway, just to make sure that everything's working as it should, but it only took me about 6 hours from the opening of the boxes to the final tweaking to get everything up and going. That even included a call to Microsoft since my Windows license freaked out over all the hardware changes. And the price was very right. My only regret was that I didn't buy two of everything so I could upgrade my office desktop as well. I think I might have difficulty getting that buy the wife in two separate transactions...haha.
Anyway, don't be afraid to upgrade -- it's really not that expensive, and it is definitely worth it if you can do it.
How do I record a show that I have found in "Search Guide" in PVRX2? I select the show I want to record and press enter on my keyboard and nothing happens. The record and Select buttons on my remote do nothing. Ctrl-K on my keyboard does nothing.
