You can actually buy these things of Ebay for < $100 (for the older ones - the PCI card version)
Drop a heat pipe on the CPU and a low DB fan in the power supply and it's really quiet!
You could probably even record with it, just record it over the network to another PC that's hidden away!
Hello all, this is my first post/thread. I am a n00b as far as PVR software/hardware goes (tomorrow evening will be my first foray) but I am pretty familiar with computers/technology so hopefully you can talk at a fairly high level in explaining this terminology.
In reading as much as I can about GB-PVR I have come across people speaking of graphs frequently, however in my searches (google, gb-pvr wiki, forums) I have yet to come across a good definition for exactly what a graph refers to.
so what is a graph in this context? is it just a video stream?
After using GB-PVR and getting my head around how it worked I must say its a very good application. However I came across a slight problem when running a scan on 28.2 (Eurobird1, Astra 2A/2B/2C/2D) as you probably know there are quite a number of channels and when it comes to mapping them to your EPG it can take some time. As the scan brings the channels down in no particular order it can be a time consuming task mapping each channel you want. To make things easier I decided to see how I could get the channels in alphabetical order.
So this is how I went about it
1. Fire up Excel
2. Click File>Open>Browse to C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\BDA (ensure you have all files selected under "Files Of Type") double click SCAN-1.cache file.
3. The text import wizard should now have started choose "Delimited" and click Next. Under Delimiters ensure you untick "Tab".
4. Put a tick in "Other" and enter ">" (without quotes) in the blank box. Click Next to continue and then Finish
5. You should now have two columns one with the frequencies in and the other with the channel names.
6. It might be worth formatting the cells to autofit so you can see things more clearly to do this click the tab to the left of "A" column to highlight the whole sheet. Click Format>Column>AutoFit Selection.
7. You should now have the columns setup nicely, we now need to sort the text into alphabetical order to do this highlight the whole sheet (click the tab next to "A" again, it could still be highlighted too). Click Data>Sort>Select the "No header row" option. Under "Sort by" drop the box to "Column B" and ensure "Ascending" is selected. Click "OK". The text should now be sorted in alphabetical order.
8. Ok now we need to get the information in the right format to put back into the cache file. So highlight "Column B" (click the "B" letter to highlight the lot) Click Insert>Column. Type ">" (without quotes) in the first cell in Column B. On the bottom right hand corner of the cell you should see a little bold arrow click and and drag down to all the cells.
9. Right now select the first cell in Column D type the following formula =CONCATENATE(A1,B1,C1) and press enter. You should now see all the text joined into one. At this point its best to autofit the text again you can does this by double click the divider between the column letters "D" & "E". Drag this formula down to all the cells using the bold arrow again. Right click and "Copy".
10. Click the first cell of Column E and right click "Paste Special" under "Paste" click "Values" and press "OK".
11. Highlight all the text in Column E, right click and "Copy"
12. Open up notepad and click "Paste".
13. Click File>Save As, type SCAN-1.cache (ensure "Save As Type" is set to "All Files"). Then Browse to C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\BDA and save the file.
14. Open up GB-PVR config and check the channel list it should not be in alphabetical order.
Please note you can use this on any number of cache files if yours isnt SCAN-1 just choose the next number.
I hope this helps some people out I apologize if something similar has already been posted.
After much tinkering, I think I have GB-PVR working, but I want a "clean" start. After running uninstall, and searching for and deleting all the files I can find, and then searching for and deleting all the registry keys I can find, there seems to be some channel information left, and possible other remnants.
How do I get ALL the files and registry information off?
Hi, I'm running XP SP2 and attempting to get GBPVR running with a PVR150MCE. I also have a HVR4000 installed in the system but I am not trying to use that at this stage.
I have added my PVR150 using the config application, but I am unable to get GBPVR to start because the following message appears and the program closes.
"No available PVR 350 was detected in the system"
Brilliant deduction! I'm not trying to configure a PVR350, nor do I have one. Where is GBPVR getting the idea I want to configure a PVR350, and why does it care that one isn't available when I want to use my PVR150?
Ok. Here's my question does anyone know which hotfix added DVR-MS recording to XP Professional machine??
My problem, In order to get my new Nova 500 T working with the new hauppauge drivers(4.0) I've updated my machine via windows update.
Yes - I know I should have not bothered...
Anyway now all my recordings are being written in DVR-MS format rather than MPEG. This now means I'm not able to play on my laptop (i know I can add a fix but it's a pain) and it will not play on my Networked DVD player....
Latest it's a real pain for converting to DVD etc....
So I want to stop it but I'm not sure how I got it in the first place.... does anyone know ??
I searched the forums on this term and found most people are facing the opposite i.e. waking up from sleep. Surely this is a known problem. I thought I cured it by restoring my computer to an earlier date. My computer will hibernate normally after the set time in windows. Recording service is running as normal. However after a recording it will just stay awake again. Something in post processing maybe ? or after an epg update in the night ? It bugs me to no ends seeing the darn thing with power lights on every morning. I really don't want to resort to 'artificial' means such as hibernator etc. Surely this is a common problem with a simple solution? Anyone know of common things GBPVR does after a recording... Any patch out there? Nothing is coming down from the net to keep this thing awake as I turn off the modem.
Are there any free programs which can monitor CPU/Disk Usage, Network Availability and create a graph.
It appears my system occasionally locks for a second then continues quite happily, I'd like something that I can use to monitor over an extended period.
In case it's of use to others with an old PC, I'm finding GBPVR 1.1.5 much better than 1.0.16 with regard to MVP use. Both "Live TV" and playback of recordings are pretty well OK now. I can occasionally see a small area of blockiness but it's very short and gone in a flash. Has something changed in the way the MVP is handled? Could be it's the reinstall which has changed something.
I still can't change channels when watching "live" TV via the MVP. The MVP either crashes or goes back to the main menu screen. (This is not a big deal for me as I'm currently only using GBPVR as a PVR for the channels that I don't get via the cable/TiVo system.)
