Just trying to get a PVR going on an older box. It has a GeForce FX 5200 and when I connect the TV-Out to the Video in (one yellow cable) on my old TV downstairs (once it's working I'll take it up to the living area with the good TV), but the screen quality looks really crappy.
Is the GeForce FX 5200's TV-Out quality not great?
If I had to pick up a card to use just for for the video out connection to my TV for my PVR box what a value-for-money card you would recommend? (PCI Express) Here's a link with the list of possibilities from my local store (i.e. which one of these).
I have bought a unbranded very cheap AF9015 DBA based stick to allow me to have a play with the newly transmitted digital video here in Wellington, New Zealand. But it just doesnât seem to want to work. I am not sure if there is a problem with this device in working in NZ or if it is just a dud.
The symptom is that there is no signal reported by any version of any software I have tried and no channels are found. The device is plugged into the house aerial and I live pretty close to the local broadcast site. My UHF analogue TV picture is very good which I am told is a positive sign that the DVB-T signal should also be good.
In both the supplied software and GBPVR, the device is detected correctly and windows XP says that the drivers are working. I have also tried the latest drivers from the Affatech site. In the logs (attached) I can see the software trying to scan for channels.
The question is should this device work in New Zealand or have I chosen my cheap device unwisely? It if should work and is faulty, I will send it back for replacement. If it just can't work here I will send it to a friend in the UK.
I have finally got around to trying to simplifying my layout with submenus, but have been having a couple of problems. The one that I can easily reproduce is that the standard shortcut keys for the music and photo libraries - now both in (separate) submenus - no longer work, but rather take me to the recordings library screen (in yet another submenu). The computer is in use at the moment, but I can reproduce and attach logs later on/tomorrow if needed.
Now i have 2 problems. I understand that with time shifting - if i paues live tv it starts recording so unpause will continue. Unfortunately Pause (or ctrl-Q) blacks the screen for 30 seconds and exits to the front page of the skin (menu).
Secondly, if a manual recording is started and then stopped - the program tells me there is no tuner available (even if i want to watch the same channel) and it is only available on reboot.
I have win xp sp3 and HVR 4000 card and PVR 150 MCE both configured and working.
Thanks again for your very valuable time. It is much appreciated
Since things tend to slow down this time of year, how about an on-topic discussion for the HTPC enthusiast.
What are your favorite shows?
Now living here in the the U.S., I know what goes on here, but what about the rest of the world. What programming to you watch? Don't be ashamed, admit your guilty pleasures.
If you don't respond I may have to start a poll!!!!
Here is what me and my family watch...
My son is "in" to "professional wrestling" ECW, WWE, ect. I took him and his friend to a trip to Kalamzoo last weekend to watch an ECW event. (Yea me!)
He also enjoys all forms of football (American college, American NFL, Arena leauge, International (yes what we Yanks call soccer). A general sports nut.
Throw in some High School Musical reruns and figure skating and we'll have a party. (Yes I took the family to High School Musical on Ice, I am man <whipped> enough to admit it.)
I have 2 tuner cards installed, both set as analog, and only an analog cable feed through a splitter to both tuner cards. If I blatantly record two shows at the same time, it works fine, using both tuners.
The problem comes when I have 2 successive shows on different channels. I have the defaults set for 2 minutes pre- and post- padding. If the first show is recording on say channel 10 from 8:00 to 9:00, and the second show is set to record channel 2 from 9:00 to 10:00 invariably the first show cuts off before it ends, and the second show has the tail end of whatever came before it. I've tried setting the padding figures for longer padding, but it doesn't work. I don't know how to "prove" this, but it seems to me that if the second tuner was coming into play, I should be able to see 2 minutes after the first show AND the 2 minutes before the second, i.e. a 4 minute overlap, but I am not seeing that.
Ok -has anyone found anything yet to stream .TS recordings of New Zealand (or Norway's) Freeview HD recordings?
The most hopeful at present sounds like the popcorn hour if they ever get the audio working...
Is there anyway we could stream the recordings out of a pc back to Cable so it could be hooked up to one of the Zinwell Settop boxes - IE stream playback out of a pc over 75ohm antenna cable on a set UHF frequency, just leave the Zinwell locked to the one channel and it'll decode anything played down to it (Then just to workout how to control the lounge pc from the bedroom!)
I'm doing some recordings HD at present and loving the quality but it means we can't watch any of these from the bedroom as we have a MediaMVP - As of Tuesday/Wednesday when my 2nd Nova-T 500 arrives I'll be going full HD so its going to come to a head when my wife can't watch anything in the bedroom!
I haven't tried but I doubt you can playback the HD .TS files with PowerDVD8 on an intel intergrated video chipset on a laptop so thats out - I have a reasonable laptop (2gb ram, Core2Duo T5250 with Intel video) which I could use until LATM support was confirmed for the Popcorn hour......
Anyone playing back HD with anything less than a Gforce 8600GT or similar ATI card - I'd build a nice compact pc but compact and good video rarely go together!
I've been reading up on HDTV, STB's etc and am trying to figure out if I can use GBPVR with a Satelite or Cable receiver and record HDTV.
I have a HVR-1600 with QAM support and currently use it with both Dish-network (the analog tuner) and a roof top Antenna (for the HDTV tuner on the HVR1600).
If I use the HD tuner with a Dish-HD reciever or a TimeWarner HD receiver, will I get HD quality recording? I've read that the Dish and Timewarner may have encrypted the signal on some of the channels so they will not work...
Lately my wife got terribly frustrated by having too many remote control buttons to press when using gbpvr.
I then installed HIP and added the ability to send the required RC commands (on/off/stereo from PC, dolby digital from TV, etc) to my receiver as a side effect when switching GBPVR to its various states using the direct control keys
This however is not fool proof (no pun intended) because when using the menu to maneuver to the music/video playback the receiver remains in the same decoding mode.
I looked at the plugins to see if there was a way to link the sending of RC commands using HIPsend to state changes in GBPVR but that would require events that signal when PVRX2 enters the MusicLibrary, Recorded TV, Live TV and Movie Library and I do not see them.
Of course they do exist and I just did not search enough.
Is there someone who can give me a pointer where to look?
