I'd like to transcode HD mpeg2 into .264/AAC into an .mp4 container. Zprocess has mpeg4 as an option, but I'm guessing that's the older mpeg4-2 and not mpeg4-10 (h.264). Correct? If so, is a .264 option hard to add?

I've been using gbpvr for a day or two...coming from DigiTV, and here are my thoughts on how I'd like navigation (keyboard or remote) to work.


1) DVD playback needs a dedicated Menu button that only ever takes you back to the DVD's menu. The current functionality uses ESC to first take you to the DVD menu, and a further press drops you back to gbpvr - this is no good for tools like anydvd where you often press the menu button many times in succession to quickly skip annoying adverts/trailers etc.

2) When watching TV, pressing F1 brings up the miniguide, and you can then use ESC to exit from it. But if you being up info (Ctrl+b), pressing ESC quits the TV module, rather than hiding the info.

3) ESC doesn't always take you back up levels if you've configured submenus for the plugins (this could always be a bug with my setup).

4) When you press Enter for further details in the TV Guide, I believe Watch should be the first highlighted option.


My preferred solution for 1) and 2) would be for two separate buttons to control this - Menu and Exit (the former probably some variation on the current "Home" functionality, the latter ESC).

When playing a DVD, pressing Menu only ever takes you to the DVD's menu. Pressing Exit returns to gbpvr. Similarly, when watching TV, Menu should be used to return to gbpvr, with Exit being used to hide popups etc. For any other video types, either button could be used to return to gbpvr.

Feel free to disagree...I'd be interested to know why the current system was chosen.

ok i am a little confused with all the HD talk going around on this board...

I have a HVR-1600 and I very much enjoy all of the nice clear channels i get with a roof mounted antenna. I am able to tune into about 12 QAM channels. Some of these channels seem the be pretty much the same quality as the other SD channels i get.

However about 4 of these channels are VERY sharp and clear on my monitor with a res of 1440X900. The sharp channels are the QAM stations that advertise HD broadcast.

I have found when i record these nice sharp channels and go to play them back it plays back as a black screen, (live TV plays fine with little or no skipping)

So am i getting real HD channels? if so is this 780p or 1080i? Is it copy protection that stops me from being able to record and play back these 4 "HD" channels?

Hi. I've been playing with GBPVR for a few days now, but there's one huge issue I can't seem to solve. The TV Guide seems to display the channels in a random order. I tried both with the Schedules Direct EPG and the XMLTV one, but no go.

Basically, my XMLTV file is correct. All the channels have the proper display name and number assigned to them. The EPG programme info is also correct. Let's say I choose CFJP (channel 5), it indeed switches to the right channel. My problem is that my TV Guide looks like this:

5 CFJP
8 CIVM
2 CABSYS
11 CFCF
15 TV5

The display order seems completely random. I even checked if maybe they were ordered by their XML channel ID (like I10089.labs.zap2it.com) but no, not even that. WTH is going on there? I just wasted time making a perl script to manually re-order and re-id every channel in the XML file, but even using creative names & id it seems to give completely random results. What am I missing here? The channel name & position always match, I just can't figure how to tell the stupid TV Guide to display them by channel order.

Sub,

I posed a question in the XSuite forum about whether there is a fix for "blocky fonts". Kevl thinks this only occurs when using PVRX2 and he suggested that I ask you if you have any ideas about a fix for it.

I brought this up in the following thread http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=33118

This problem seems to be in PVRX2, it works fine in GBPVR.
Version: 1.1.5

Unlike REW and REPLAY *AKA PREV SKIP* They both work independently.

Ctrl+D = REW = 10 seconds
Ctrl+Left Arrow = REPLAY = 30 seconds as it is in playback tab.

Ctrl+F = FF = 10
Ctrl+Right Arrow = Forward Skip = 1 minute

But FF and Forward Skip are the same. They both jump 1 minute ahead. FF seldomly jumps 10 seconds but I have seen it do it once in awhile. They seem to be obeying the set skip time in playback. I've changed it to 10 seconds and both jump 10 seconds.

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

i miss the ability to "not" use the aspect ratio.
as I can recall, we could make the "frame" as we liked, but now we can't
is this just me or is this a new feature?

From this post

sub Wrote:Sorry, no 'IsPaused' equivalent, but maybe in a later release.

I noticed one of my recordings looked considerably better than the usual recordings. The file size is about 2.3GB for an approximately 30 min recording. The usual recordings are about 1.4GB for a 30 min recording. I looked at the files with GSpot and it reported that the 2.3GB file was 11250 kb/sec while the 1.4GB file was 10406 kb/sec VBR. I have normally had Medium quality in direct.ini set to the High quality bit rate (5500 variable, 9000 peak) so Quick Record records at High quality. I was doing some experimenting with this, but can't remember what the setting might have been for the 2.3GB file.

So, is there a way to translate from the GSpot values to GBPVR direct.ini values, or is there another way to determine the GBPVR bit rate used for a recording?

Thanks.

Hi, just wondering if anyone can help?

I am using the latest version 1.1.5 and running PVRX2

When I am playing ISO files and VOB directories from the hard drive PVRX2 often crashes. I have not experienced this problem playing any AVI's as yet.

I have PowerDVD V6 installed on the same box (installed it after the problem occured) and it played the same files without a problem. Tried PVRX2 after the install and it still crashed.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could make it crash or what I can check?

I am assuming someone is going to ask if it does the same in GBPVR? Good question, I dont know, will try it when I can get the wife off the TV.

Many thanks for any suggestions made.