Hi,

I'm running a fairly old motherboard+processor and finding not surprisingly that 2 concurrent recordings or even sometimes 1 recording and 1 playback generate some noticable refresh/drawing/stutter issues so after failing to find anything on the support pages or a quick search I thought I'd just ask this forum...

I was hoping to add a 2nd drive (500-1000GB), change the mobo, proc and add/change memory carrying over as much as possible in add-in cards. Oh if it reduces power consumption then that would be good too.

Does anyone have any particular recommendations???

current machine:
P4S333 mobo (SiS645 chipset, PC2700, Socket 478, twin IDE-100)
Pentium 4 2GHz
1GB PC2700 memory
Haupauge Nova DT Dual DVB-T Tuner (PCI)
NVidia GeForce 6200 A-LE (PCI)
Videomate TVSAA 7130 (VCR capture on S-Video)
Firewire & Wireless ethernet (2xPCI)
500GB 7200rpm IDE Drive
DVD drive
This is housed in a mini-tower cab, the current mobo is ATX, PSU is 320W IIRC


Thanks
Stuart

Hello,

I have been using GB-PVR for a while now with the Popcorn hour client, and it's been working great. [Granted, the install process is a bit hairy, but once you get past that, it seems to work just fine]

I recently tried out using GB-PVR with client-server mode, to see liveTV on one of my home machines as a client [Using streaming mode], and it seems to work fine. I did however notice two things:

a) It takes almost six seconds after you click on LiveTV in client mode before I can actually see the TV being displayed.

b) Channel changing is also extremely slow, taking six-seven seconds before I can view anything.

I have pretty good machines - a dual core Intel as the server as well a similar machine for the client, both with 2 gb ram on them. Then network is also a gigabit network, so bandwidth shouldn't be an issue.

Once the TV starts working, it seems to be smooth, but the channel changing / startup delay kind of makes this very annoying to use.

Any help in that matter would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jalpesh.

PS: This is a great product sub, keep up the good work; with a few minor tweaks, it'll completely blow away the Windows Media Center app from the windows world.

I just reinstalled Windows XP and the latest version of GBPVR. I have FFDShow, the Haali MP4 Splitter, and Mencoder installed, and that's about it. Without using ZTools, GBPVR will correctly play both AVI and MP4 encoded video files on my MediaMVP. The problem of course is that most of my video is 16:9 and the aspect ratio of my TV is 4:3.

Once I install ZTools, neither AVIs nor MP4s will play on my MVP. ZTools will transcode the files manually to the TEMP folder, but it won't transcode for the MVP; it just crashes every time. I've followed the instructions in http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=34303 to resolve this problem but nothing helped. My computer transcodes at about 108 fps using ffmpeg.

Help! Thanks!

Alex

Was trying to see how reliable the PHC has been for GBPVR users.

1. How many people have got one and had no issues.

2. How many people have had to RMA the unit once?

3. How many people have had to RMA the unit twice?

4. How many people have had to RMA the unit 3 times or more?

Hi

Apologies for starting yet another thread like this, especially on my first post but I'm getting nowhere fast and I'm hoping someone can help me out.

I am running the latest version of GBPVR (with the patch because the channel scan was crashing sometimes) on Vista Business. I am trying to get it working with a NOVA-T USB2 tuner which works fine with the WinTV software. As per the title I never seem to find any channels, I get video in the little preview windows and audio but no channels listed.

I've attached some files which seem to asked for in these circumstances, hopefully they'll point someone in the right direction and they can point me

Thanks in advance.

For those PSP owners do you know if PSP AVC format will work in hardware MP4 DVD players like those from Philips?

I'm hoping to convert my DVDs to a universal format that will play in my HTPC, PSP and DVD player (which I do not have but may get).

Thanks,
Jam.z

Had a hard time getting the PVR-150 IR blaster to work with the QIP2500 FiOS STB, thought I'd pass along some tips.

1) Make sure the IR blaster works. I was using the Hauppauge blaster config tool and none of the IR codes worked. Luckily I had a spare duplicate Hauppauge IR receiver/blaster cable, and that one worked. You know it works because the blaster bulb lights up briefly when transmitting.

2) There are no QIP profiles in the Hauppauge config tool. The Motorola DCT2500 profile works though.

3) Turns out the IR blast from the Hauppauge cable is EXTREMELY weak. The only way I could get it to work was to:
a) remove the white plastic piece from the blaster housing (exposing the bulb)
b) pry open the plastic window on the front of the STB
c) hang the blaster from the top of the STB so the blaster bulb was TOUCHING the STB bulb
d) replace the plastic window and ensuring the bulbs are still touching

I've read sporadic reports of the serial port being active, so I'll try that next (but I'm not holding out much hope).

I've been using EWA quite extensively to stream from my Media PC to my laptop across my home wireless LAN quite successfully.

One thing that bugs me though is when the commercials come on I'd like to skip forward quickly but the default forward skip is only 10 secs.

Is there any way to increase this 10 secs?

Cheers, Tim

I'm new to gbpvr and have a few questions.

I don't have a tuner yet in my old laptop but have set the pch to see the front end of gbpvr on the laptop. So all looks good. I can stream a ~5000kbps mkv from the laptop using the pch gbpvr front end under the video section.

Now the wait till my Fusion HDTV tuner turns up.

I hoped to see if my system will let me record and watch tv on the pch.

My old laptop is a Dell D630 with the 1.4Ghz mobile cpu, 500Mb RAM and uses a wireless 54mb/s card so I realise it will be near the edge of HDTV.

I have a new laptop with a 2.4Ghz core2duo that will definately work but I'd prefer not to use it.

I was hoping to find some relatively small example HD recored files to stream from the laptop to the pch using gbpvr but have had no luck.

I know the laptop will play a 5065 Kbps mkv with 6 channel AC3 640 Kbps.

I doubt I will be watching tv on the laptop, more recording and watching from the pch.

I live in Australia so we use dvb-t that broadcasts up to 1080i but most hd channels are 720 as far as I'm aware.

Any suggestions of what to check to see if the system will work? Or is it best to just wait until my tuner turns up?

I'd like to be able to play Blu-Ray and HD-DVD's stored as an iso and mounted with daemon from inside GB-PVR. Right now, what I do is the following:

Using Video Library, I select the iso file. This causes it to be mounted, but since GB-PVR expects it to be a DVD, it doesn't play. I then exit the black screen, and go to the main menu where I execute a custom task that plays a batch file to play PowerDVD. Since the iso I want remained mounted from the failed attempt to play it as a DVD, PowerDVD plays it as the Blu-Ray or HD-DVD it really is.

The custom task is a bat file that I found here:

@echo off
Rem PowerDVD.bat
taskkill /F /IM "pvrx2.exe"
C:\PowerDVD\PowerDVD.exe X:
start C:\gbpvr\pvrx2.exe
exit

My question is if there is an easier/single step way to do this. Can I get PowerDVD to run instead of the internal DVD player? Can I associate a bat file with the iso file so that selecting an iso runs the batch file to both mount the iso and run PowerDVD? I've done a lot of searching and saw one post saying someone had figured out how to do something like this, but he didn't say how.

Thanks!