I am running a PVR150 and a HvR1600 with an AMD dual core 5200 with built in ATI1200 video and 2g of ram. I have everything set up right with the hardware and the Guide (what a pain!). My problem is that the HD looks like analog, I've flipped around the settings quite a bit, without success. ONly the Pillar Box look right, Auto looks stretched out.

BTW, I am using the latest ATI AVIVO package for a MUX. I am not using the live preview/deinterlacing as it wreaks havoc with the picture. Also, the picture looks like HD should (except for a little mosaicing, due to the cheap integrated video) in WinTV32 2000.

Any ideas or success stories?

First a bit of history. I have been using DirecTivo for ages now, have a slightly modified version that is networked. I have also used MCE for a few months, then tried MythTV and finally settled on MediaPortal and used it for about a year for just movies, music and pictures. I still cant get MP to use my TV Tuner card so I came over here to check out GBPVR. I have 2 500gb drives raided almost full of videos and a 250gb drive about 1/2 full of music. All of our files are sorted hierarchically so I like file browser views in gbpvr.

Having slunk around the forums for a few days, tried every epg grabber there is and a half a dozen or so other plugins, I am quite impressed overall and left with just a few questions.

On to my questions:
For Music
1. If I chose a m3u playlist it doesn't show the items in the list.
2. Also once playing there is no pause button.

For videos
3. I can't find a suitable Vidoes capability that matches MP. Let me explain what MP does. MP's default view is file browser view (Just like Video Library). Perfect! If I highlight a movie and press the "info" button on my remote it pops up a menu of 5 options (delete, ..., ..., IMDB) if I select IMDB I get a screen that shows all the imdb info. If there is none, it searches IMDB and presents me with a list of possible matches, once I select the one I want it dl's all the information. I've looked at Movie Wizard and it's really nice, but there is no file/directory view, only sorts by genres. Is there a plugin that will do this, or any ideas on how to do this?

TV.
4. I just cant seem to understand the inter dependencies of the channels. Under Capture Sources I have a Hauppauge HVR-1600 and the two tuners are listed, but the same channels show up under analog and digital (ATSC under analog, and analog under ATSC, and now I also have a whole 2nd and 3rd set of channels that appeared after I imported the guide). This seems to be the most difficult part of gbpvr. BTW, I believe it's even worse in MP, but MCE makes this a snap. I dont know if it is possible to make this part easier or not, but it's still smacking me around.

5. In using the MceEpg tool, after updating the EPG I have all kinds of duplicate chanells, and no show data. Is there something off in the xml file? I wasn't sure whether this was a MceEpg tool problem or gbpvr problem so that's why I posted it here. Here is one channel description

I seem to be lost in a mire of my own posts.

I know others are more up to snuff on the leatest with MEncoder and FFMpeg (and maybe even VLC)

Aside from the public release sites, would ayone know of the sites that have the latest stable releases, (beta or otherwise)

I'm looking at newer features for video and audi format transcoding including 264, mkv and dvr-ms ac3, aac etc..

Seems like a good price for the analog only version.

http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/ma...m=CES11688

I just got an HDHomeRun yesterday and thanks to sub & whurlston, I have it working. Unfortunately, I can't get my HD recordings to my HDTV.

I had planned to stream them to my PS3, but first ran into problems with the dvr-ms format. Next I tried the Cyberlink mux to record to mpeg, but WMP 11 won't even list my HD recordings in it's shared library on the PS3. I tried SimpleCenter & TVersity, and they show up, but when I try to play them on the PS3, it says the file is corrupted.

I can play them on the computer using PVRX2 & VLC (even WMP), but not on the playstation. This is a Gb ethernet connection, so I don't think bandwidth is an issue.

Any ideas?

I apologize in advance if this painfully obvious....

I use comskip as the show is recording, then comcut to remove commercials, then the show is renamed (ie Family.Guy-S04E09-Breaking.Out.Is.Hard.to.Do.) the show is then transcoded early in the morning so I am left with a commercial free .avi. At this point I move the file into a different folder on my computer. Can I do this and point the GBPVR database to the new location? Or must it stay in the original folder for it to be played in GBPVR?

Andrew

Hi all

i hope to stop posting these annoyances, hopefully this is the last one

but i have GBPVR running just dandily with a single MediaMVP (for now) live Tv working well, but the EPG is not

im in the UK so am using the DVB broadcast to get my EPG, which it does appear to be getting, sadly all the listings are going into the wrong place
in my channel list, i have all the normal channels, but also most (if not all) of them again, called, for instance, ITV3 (audio #2)
all the audio #2's seem to be where the EPG is putting the listings, which is not very helpful, as these arent in fact channels that can be watched ad dont want to be flicking all the way to the top of the list to see wha tis on, then back down again to pick the channel i want - also makes it a bi hard to do recordings.

it does have some EPG items in the right place, sadly just things like QVC - to which there dont seem to be any of these audio #2 channels in my list

i tried removing all these 'dupes', but to no avail, - they didnt seem to go away - i took them off the channel tab, and also went into the capture sources and tried to remove them from there also. clearly as usual i am missing something simple - had also not particularly wanted to set up the XML EPG - which i sort of tried, but am a chump so didnt have any luck there

have had a read of the EPG bit in the wiki, but most of that seemed to revolve around the XML listings

any help much appreciated

thanks

Hi,

I'm setting up a Compro Videomate s350 DVB-S, which does not have an entry in the BDA.ini.

I see that the other BDA cards have diseqc section- I will need to use diseqc. What is the significance of the number after SUPPORTS_BDA_DISEQC??

Daniel

Hi all!

First of all I just wanted to express my gratitude for gbpvr. Where Media Portal failed in every department trying to get ISO files to work, gbpvr worked right off the bat; that is, on my computer at work where I first tested it. At work I am running;

gbpvr 1.29
daemon tools 4.09
External USB HD directly hooked up to my comp

By just setting the three Daemon Tools options in gbpvr, it worked right away and mounted the ISOs fine. At home I had the following setup;

gbpvr 1.29
daemon tools 4.12.2
USB HD on secondary comp, mapped up as Network Drive on my gbpvr PC

Here, no matter how I set the options, it will not mount the discs. I also had some problems actually setting the options correct. If I for example set Daemon Tools to be drive D, set number of devices to 1, and THEN selected the program path, only the program path would be saved when I hit the OK button, and devices and drive letter where reset to default. I could fix this by opening up options and changing only those two values though, and saving the changes. Anyways, here are my symptoms;

* No disc mounted in daemon tools; start up gbpvr; open up video library and selecing a video; error message saying "no disc in drive".
* Mounted a random ISO from the network drive using daemon tools; started up gbpvr; open up video library and selecing a random video; the mounted ISO starts, no matter what I chose in the Video Library

I am sooooo close to getting this to work, and I would be gratefull if anyone had a tip on how I can resolve this issue.

Also, a quick feature request; I currently have 3 terrabyte spread across 5 disks, and I'll probarbly end up with 2-3 terrabyte more when I'm done ripping all my DVDs (I got a BIG collection) to ISO. Are there some way that I can make gbpvr browse all disks as one disk? I can't imagine it being that hard to load off the file lists from all disks, then the images, and then displaying them in one huge list?

Oh, and a feature that could be turned on in the config, that caches that file list and all the images to a local file, that can be accessed for quick browsing, instead of having to load all the files when you browse. This would make the list static, but there could be a "refresh my list" or "update my list" button if you wanted to get the changes.

I have an Asus m2n sli deluxe with SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio. The tuner I have is tv wonder 650. about 3 minutes into the live tv program I get pops in the audio and gaps and it get worse until there is no sound. then if I change channels the sound is back and is fine for a little bit. I can get rid of this problem by selecting for the audio renderer "cyberlink audio renderer (PDVD7.x)" and this helps until I change a channel then the lips are out of sync with the audio... any ideas? Thanks