I'm very new to all this and I'm having problems setting it all up.
I’m having a problem getting GB-PVR to pick up any channels from my HDhomerun. I’ve installed the HDHomerun software and ran a channel scan and it picked up about 30 OTA stations with very good signal strength over an ATSC antenna. I was able to view these channels with VLC and they were crystal clear.
I installed GB-PVR as per the instructions adding as the first entry into the BDA.INI file as follows
I signed up for schedualsdirect and created my channel lineup.
I then selected digital recording source and selected the HDHomerun
I then selected schedualsdirect as my EPG and updated the EPG. This bought in the channel lineup with no problems.
I then mapped digital channels and it scanned all 68 channels and signal indicator would display a signal every so often. But at the end of the scan it would display a message stating that no channels were found please check connections on your device or configuration.
I’ve uninstalled HDHomerun software as well as GB-DVR then reinstalled but still have this problem.
I’m using the latest version of gb-dvr v1.02.13 and the latest version of HDHomerun which now comes packaged with totalmedia which I also installed. I uninstalled totalmedia to configure gb-pvr and I still have the same problem.
I hope I’ve given enough information. I’ve also included the log files.
Please help I’m really stuck
Hello everyone, I have a big problem with the setup i'm trying to do and I'm hoping someone out there has the same setup as me... here's what I have:
HVR-1800 NTSC/ATSC tuners
ACTiSYS ACT-IR200L IR Blaster (on COM2)
Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2200 STB for my digital channels
Recently installed WinXP Pro with all updates, all drivers installed (and seem to be working correctly)
I receive analog + digital cable channels from Videotron cable company in the Montreal (Canada) area.
Here's how I set it up:
My COAX cable line splits; 1 directly in the HVR-1800 analog connector, 1 to my STB. From the STB, it goes, via component cables (with s-video adapter for video) to my input connectors on my HVR-1800. I also tried using the cable-out COAX connector on my STB to my digital COAX connector on my HVR-1800, but that didn't seem to work either.
The problem I'm having is the setup, I just can't seem to get it right.
Setting up the analog cable is easy and quick, but when it comes to doing the setup for the digital, nothing works.
If anyone out there could help me out by writing a quick setup guide to help me out, I would really appreciate it. My major problem is that I am unsure of my settings, especially in the "Capture Sources" section, and all the seperate individual settings for each capture source.
My ACT-IR200L doesn't seem to be working at all with the STB, even tho i'm pretty sure that the config is right.
I can't even see my digital channels, not even 1. So I can't even map the channels out (since my IR200L doesn't seem to work).
Please help, I need to know what I'm doing wrong! Thanks in advance!
I have this nice setup of GBPVR and a LCD TV connected through DVI to a Intel graphics chip.
My recordings are interlaced MPEG2 and my big problem was the terrible deinterlacing done by PC based deinterlacers.
And yes, I tried many but none can come near to the quality of the deinterlacer in the rather good TV i have.
Finally I succeeded in getting rid of the deinterlacing by the PC by setting the graphics card to 576P at 50Hz (yes I am PAL) and disabling the deinterlacing by ffdshow.
The TV then discovers that, although it gets Progressive from DVI it actually is interlaced and starts to deinterlace.
Picture quality goes through the roof without tearing, blur, yaggies, stutter or other artifacts.
The home cinema experience finally becomes acceptable using a PC for playback (and GBPVR!)
I have a friend who is in the process of moving his family over to Kuwait and would like to set up (well for me to set up) a GBPVR system for use over there. Apparently, he will be getting Showtime Satellite TV.
Does anyone here have a GBPVR system that they're using successfully in Kuwait. I have no idea what kind of TV cards would be needed.
Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Great release so far. Much faster on my old machine! There is only one issue I discovered, which is the FF skip in the video library to scroll down in the list quickly appears to not be working. Is there a new setting for that? I upgraded from the version before the previous one.
I am running a laptop Pentium M processor 1400 with 512 of ram, it has xp pro service pack 3 installed and the latest GBPVR.
All my movies are divx or xvid. I do not use the pc for watching movies merely running a MVP in my daughters room.
The problem is that I can select a movie from the menu and it will start playing... the pc then runs at 100% cpu, which as it is not doing anything else (normally) is fine, however usually about 20 mins into the movie the film stops and the MVP goes to "contacting server" screen. The laptop for no apparent reason has switched off! it does not do this under any other circumstance so I must assume it is related to the transcoding.....
I wonder if it the processing is causing the cpu to overheat and the pc is shutting down to protect itself....
Any it is currently rendering the MVP useless and worse still my 6 year old daughter totally upset.....
I am looking at either fixing this problem or maybe reencoding movies so that they will play natively.... any one help with either???
On lots of recommedations I have just installed GB-PVR. My card was not in the supported list so I followed the directions to add it to the .ini file. However, when I start the service I get the status 'Capture Souce # 1 sleeping'. I am guessing my .ini settings are incorrect so I have detailed them below. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am unsure about INIT_MODE and INIT_msp
Thanks
[USB TV Tuner Video Capture]
INIT_MODE=IVAC
INIT_MSP=0
FILTER_CROSSBAR=USB TV Tuner Video Crossbar
FILTER_CAPTURE=USB TV Tuner Video Capture
FILTER_TV_TUNER=USB TV Tuner Video TvTuner
FILTER_TV_AUDIO=USB TV Tuner Video TvAudio
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_TUNER_IN=Video Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_TUNER_IN=Audio Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_DECODER_OUT=Video Decoder Out
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_DECODER_OUT=Audio Decoder Out
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_VIDEO_OUT=Analog Video
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_AUDIO_OUT=Analog Audio
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_IN=TVAudio In
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_OUT=TVAudio Out
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_VIDEO_IN=Analog Video In
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_AUDIO_IN=Analog Audio In
PIN_CAPTURE_CAPTURE_OUT=Mpeg Out
PIN_CAPTURE_PREVIEW_AUDIO_OUT=Audio Preview
PIN_WRITER_INPUT_IN=Input
Starting with 1.2.9 I was having problems installing GB-PVR on my Vista system. With 1.2.9 I could run the msi file with the "/passive" switch and get it to work, but on 1.2.13 even that wasn't working...I always got an "installation ended prematurely" error. I uninstalled the old version hoping that would help, but it didn't. No services were left behind after a reboot (I'd seen that a "sc delete..." command was helping some people).
I ran logging on the install and one of the things it was complaining about was not being able to create a temp file. I am an administrator on my computer and have UAC enabled, so if there was a permissions problem it should have prompted me to escalate, but the system never did.
What finally worked is that I enabled the actual Administrator account in Windows and set a password so I could log in. Running as Administrator, the installation worked with no errors. The only complication is that all the shortcuts were in the administrator's profile, so I had to copy them over to All Users.
I guess it is some problem with UAC in Vista becuase my XP client machine has been fine.
I am running a laptop Pentium M processor 1400 with 512 of ram, it has xp pro service pack 3 installed and the latest GBPVR.
All my movies are divx or xvid. I do not use the pc for watching movies merely running a MVP in my daughters room.
The problem is that I can select a movie from the menu and it will start playing... the pc then runs at 100% cpu, which as it is not doing anything else (normally) is fine, however usually about 20 mins into the movie the film stops and the MVP goes to "contacting server" screen. The laptop for no apparent reason has switched off! it does not do this under any other circumstance so I must assume it is related to the transcoding.....
I wonder if it the processing is causing the cpu to overheat and the pc is shutting down to protect itself....
Any it is currently rendering the MVP useless and worse still my 6 year old daughter totally upset.....
I am looking at either fixing this problem or maybe reencoding movies so that they will play natively.... any one help with either???
