bgowland Wrote:Firstly, thanks to those who have tested the alpha and beta candidate versions of this software - your help and feedback has been very useful.
Now on to business...
This is a Beta release and has been designed/tested specifically with UK Freeview channels - it may or may not work for people outside of the UK. In general, it works and seems to be stable. There are known problems and probably a few bugs - I know where most of them are and will fix them as and when I get the time.
I've moved downloads and instructions over to the wiki...
I have upgraded my system. I now run with an AMD2+ 5600(i think) on a Gigabyte board (GA-MA69GM-S2H) 2 gigRAM. WinXP Pro. It has on board video Radion ATI 1200+.
I used to run with Nvidia. I cant seem to get the ATI up to snuff like with my old 5200 Nvidia?
Any suggestions? Using FFdshow gives me some messed up video, or no video at all.
I am using the latest ATI drivers and tried many mpeg encoders.
I Guess what it boils down is, that I am not familiar with ATI.
After I resume from hibernation, GBPVR won't start. Or, more accurately, it is already running as a process, but does not appear in the taskbar and the window just never appears. This is a new thing. Using GBPVR interface, version 1.2.9. Can anyone help?
I'm a relative newbie to GBPVR but have been using it for a couple of months and I really am amazed at the functionality. I'm even using EWA. In general no major complaints, however I have on occasion missed some recordings. I figured this was just because my "leftover, off-lease computer" was under-powered and sometimes wasn't up to the task. This post is about some missed recordings Thursday night. This time I was even on the computer and confirmed it was recording "30 Rock" during the broadcast, so I was surprised when I looked for it afterward and couldn't find it. Could someone let me know which logs to post that may let someone decipher the problem? I've looked at a few and they do reference the recording starting. I'd like to know why it didn't get saved.
My configuration is
PIII 850 Mhz PC
Windows XP SP2
Haupauge HVR-1600
Haupauge MediaMVP
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Grits
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Config: gbpvr 1.2.9, remote receiver usb-uirt. Running pvrx2
When I play a movie, everything works fine, and then sometimes the remote
fails to control the movie (stop/pause/ff/rew etc.). The task manager shows
gbpvr not responding. ffdshow movie playback continues.
I've been having some problems recently with recordings and Live tv. first some background info.
My Media center (Dedicated to runnning GBPVr and occasionally Slim server (although this tends top cause more problems thatn its worth So i tend to only activate it when i need it)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
2.5GB RAM
MSI K8NMG2-FID with the nvidia 6150 graphics chipset running my TV (SonyCRT) through S-Video connection
2 x Nova T tuners (connected to roof top Digital Aerial)
180Gb HDD partitioned for windows, swap file and picture/music storage
2x250Gb HDD in RAID 0 for video recordings, storage
Running windows XP SP2
GBPVR 1.2.9
PureVideo Decoder
AC3 Filter
DVRMS
IF theres anything else i've missed let me know and I'll add it in.
Now the Problem.
I've had somewhat of a knightmare with the whole playback issue from day one. with GBPVR I was using Overlay which was the only playback mode that didn't give me tha mosaic type pattern where you get the live picture overlaid with a checker pattern of one of the previous frames.
With the switch to PVRx2 I managed to get one of the VMR9 modes working to a point. the picture was fine but tended to jump, so the sound would continue normally but the picture would freeze for a second then catchup with the sound.
With the upgrade to 1.2.9 this became worse for some reason with even the sound jumping as if sections of the file were missing. So i switched to Overlay thinking that my problems would be solved. Unfortunately something else has cropped up.
I'm still sometimes getting the jumping sound/picture thing (although not as bad as with VMR9 FSE) but now something else also.
This is where it gets a bit difficult as it is difficult to force to happen. If recording two or 3 things around the same time for example two things at once and then a 3rd program afterwards. Often I get a zero length recording or the recording of one or two of the programs is cut short considerably. after this has happened it is not possible to watch Live TV. I typically get up in the morning (after setting things to record the previous evening) and find that when I watch Live TV I get a blank screen with no sound and then a No signal graphic (top bar full, bottom bar empty). This is the same for every channel and the only way to fix it is to reboot. Restarting the recording service doesn't help neither does restarting PVRx2. I've checked the event viewer for driver crashes but can't find anything.
This morning it happened actually whilst watching Live TV. (several times) The no signal bar came up and then PVRX2 stopped responding and I had to end the process. The recording service still thought it was watching Live TV so I had to restart that too. This happened several times and I have attached the logs.
I'll try and recreate the recording problem and attach logs for that as well as unfortunately the logs i've attached don't go back far enough. I thought it might be a signal problem but I don't think this can be right as we live less than 6 miles for crystal palace and there is very little in the way (I can pretty much see the tower) and the fact that you can fix it by rebooting doesn't seem right. I guess maybe it is a Haupauge Driver thing but it is odd that it has just started.
Has anyone any ideas.
Sorry for the long rambly post. If anyone needs more info let me know
I have two Haouppauge 250 cards and want to use both of them with GBPVR. Is that possible? I have tried, but it seems like the program only is using one of them.
would it be useful if Comskip could decode TS VBI/CC data?
It could be used to improve the commercial detection (when used with a library of "unwanted" words) or to generate .srt or .bin files.
What I am investigating is to integrate ccextractorwin functionality into Comskip
