I get choppy playback, but only when recording or watching live TV. Here is my hardware configuration:
GB-PVR version: 1.1.5
Processor: AMD Athlon 1.68 GHz
Ram: 512 MB
Video card: NVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 with latest drivers
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
HauppaugeWinTV-PVR 500 MCE
Using gbpvr.exe
I have tried increasing the ram to 1.5 gigs. I have tried an ATI 9600 video card. I am using the 1.87MB 6.05.01.0902 quartz.dll file. I am using no plugins. I have tried VMR7, VMR9 and Overlay. I've tried both InterVideo and Cyberlink decoders. I've uninstalled AC3Filter. None of these seems to make a difference.
Hopefully, I've provided the information necessary to determine what I'm doing wrong, but if not, let me know what else I need to post. Thanks for your help.
I am new to these forums, and I have been reading the for a while on and off. I read about GBPVR sometime ago, I was inpressed by the support given by the community as well as the actual program, and thought at some point in the future, I would like to build a PC and record TV inputs and then use GBPVR on the familys PC's / Laptops and look at the single source of recording, as clients.
If possible, I am looking for some advice, please excuse this post, I am a bit of a n00b on the recording, but PC wise, I am okay.
My ultimate aim is to record Analogue and Digital TV, maybe have 2 x duel Cards to record up to 4 channels at once, however, starting with a single.
The PC I am building is quite a decent spec, as below
1) Can GBPVR be used as a client, ie, install andrecord at one source, and then installed on multiple machines and point to the recording directory to view recorded TV and / or other media on the network ?
2) Is there support presently, or possibly in the future for watching something you are currently recording ?
3) Has anyone ever tried to get SKY into their PC, maybe by using the Scart out on their Sky Digital decoder and changing it into a normal ariel input, or does anyone have any tricks / suggestions on that one.
5) Any advice on a Good Duel Channel card, I have had a look around, but not totally sure, I would prefer two inputs (physical inputs) on each card, and preferably PCI-e x 1
6) I think the answer is no, however, I will ask nevertheless. Can GBPVR playback Blu-Ray or HD-DVD ? .. I have other software for that, Nero, just asking the question
Any help, advice gratefully recieved, and keep up the good work
I just finished a fresh build of this machine. I am running Windows XP2 Pro with all current updates. I grabbed the latest UltraXMLTV zip file from the server and unpacked it into its own directory. I installed the VB6-SP6 run-times, and the ztools support programs.
When I push the wizard button on the UltraXMLTV Manager screen I get:
I am a bit of a newb at HTPC work, and mainly relied on everyone's advice before rather than starting/developing something from scratch. As such I have run into issues when setting up the AVerMedia A180 card for tuning QAM.
Based on what I have read on the forums and elsewhere, it is a bit hit or miss doing the tuning, but I have run into problems starting the tuning itself.
I have set the bda.ini file to Tuning Special of = 2, (type 2 drivers). Also I have added Whurlston's qam.ini file of 320 frequencies to search by. Using this qam.ini , I get an error from GBPVR saying "Unable to tune BDA device....."
Immediately after I get a .Net/Windows error stating Incorrect String formet entered and the Config program crashes. I have attached the config files.
However if I use the bundled 133 channel qam.ini that came with GBPVR, the system does not cause any issues, but it doesnt find any channels either. Any suggestions, comments or help is greatly appreciated. I am being driven nuts by trying to get 2 analog, 1 firewire, 1 S-video, and 1 QAM tuner working all at the same time :-)
I'm stuck with the gbpvr.exe version of gb-pvr due to the tv-out support for the pvr-350 from hauppauge.
Now i would like to use the MusicLibrary2 functionality. I did the install, and the configuration. I scanned the music dir's and enabled the plug in.
But when i start GBPVR i can't see the MusicLibrary2 button.
Can this version of MusicLibrary2 work with the old GBPVR, or should i use and older version of ML2?
Or is there an other problem?
I keep getting an error on installation of version 1.2.9: "Error 1335. The cabinet file 'Cabs.w1.cab' required for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used. This could indicate a network error, an error reading from the CD-ROM or a problem with this package." I've downloaded the file a few times from multiple computers and continue to get the error.
On searching the forums, I see that others have had this problem in the past with previous versions and that uploading a new version or restarting the server has fixed the issue.