I have not used my MVP for a while since I changed to Vista.

Does it work now?

I was looking around and alot of people are advising that I have 1 GHz processor to run GBPVR. What if I'm just running a media server, that would only do recording (no viewing), and all the recording is in standard def. Could I make it work with a old P3 500 MHz processor, 256 MB RAM, and running either Windows XP or even Windows 2000? Would I be taxing the machine too hard or would it work fine? I think the hardware encoders for the Hauppauge cards could handle most of the work, but what about everything else?

I do have a spare single core 1.9 GHz processor laying around also and 1 GB of DDR2 Memory that I wanted to put in my current PC to give it 3 GB, but maybe I get a new mobo and put it in that....

Are the Technotrend DVB-C PCI cards able to work with GBPVR?

Cheers.

Is there a way to force an EPG update from the EWA?

Folks...
I'm having what may be a compound plugin issue.

First, Music Library 2, does not show up in my Plugins listing. It did, until I put 7.2 in. Here is my plugins folder


Also, Video Archive, and some other plugins are duplicated in the listing:


Here are some logs:
http://mark.phillk.net/files/PVRX2.pluginIssueLogs.zip

I did try to clean up the Plugins folder, and remove only what I knew I wasn't using.

MY EPG has been working fine until a couple days ago. Now i try to update the EPG i get an error in GBPVR, and when i go to the config to try to update it in there I get an error that says the database is malformed. I have found on another post the Sub suggested copying the Empty.db3 over the gbpvr.db3. i just want to be clear i know what he is saying. do i basically rename the gbpvr.db3 file and then create a copy of the empty.db3 and rename it to gbpvr.db3? just want to be clear before i wreck my install.

thanks

Been testing today and have to say, sub and Martin, you have done wonders.

I have to check my resolution setting as I lost video output to HDMI a couple of times. Will look back on earlier threads to see where I need to modify things. 720P seems like a good res (I think!).

One thing I noticed. For both Music and Video, after pressing the 'Stop' key when playing a file I get back to the list of tracks or videos. Fine, so far. But then when I click the down arrow, it jumps two files down instead of one. Tried it a few times to make sure I wasn't holding the down key.

Really appreciate your work.

I'm not certain how "skip duplicates" works under the covers. When used in the States, getting guide data from Schedules Direct, is the show title/episode name used to determine duplicates, or does it rely upon the show id ("uid") supplied in the EPG data to be unique? (question #1)

I recently had some trouble (as did a friend and my father) with episodes of "Fast Money" (weekday news program on CNBC) not being scheduled via a long-standing recurring recording entry. The show name appeared to be the same (and the one-off scheduled recordings ended up in the usual folder). When I looked at the logs, it appeared that the daily (8:00am) EPG reload was canceling the recordings, unless I had gone into guide the previous evening and selected the one episode to be recorded.

So, is there a difference in how duplicates are handled when scheduling is done recurring versus one-off? (question #2)

sub as part of the general API, is there a popup box with buttons?

I have been trying to estimate the final file size of an output MVP Transcoded MPG.

This is so I can compare the current size to the 'final' size and get a good indication of the progress. It is so that I can also get an idea of how well my computer is performing.

Also, after the progress has passed a level (like 80%) I can assume that the transcode will complete successfully, rather than bail or kak...

ffmpeg and mencoder give me log files that I can parse. VLC doesn't give me anything that I can parse that has position, progress, fps...

I run mplayer on a file, and I get secs, and the frame count.
Supposedly, (vbitrate (kbit) * 1024 + abitrate (kbit) * 1024) * secs = Total Bits /8 to give total bytes...

Apparently this quation is for fixed bit rate, but that is what ZProcess/Transcoder is set for...

And yet, the numbers are quite off track for wmvs.

Is there a better way?