I have not been particulary excited about the whole Blu Ray thing as yet. I have been waiting for the format war to sort itself and for prices to go down.
When I was in Circuit City the other they were playing one of the "Pirates of the Carribean" movies from a Blu Ray DVD on a 60" Sony XBR Plasma. It completely blew me away. The picture was so real that it made the movie look fake. You could tell from what direction all the stage lighting was coming. You could see the makeup on the actors faces. It really made the scene look like a movie set.
Wal-Mart and Best Buy in the US have run a couple of $99.00 specials on Blu Ray players. I may be in line next time they do this.
Has anybody got qam working with the VistaView DA-1N1-I? If so, how did you configure it? Did it work without tweaking gbpvr? I haven't tried yet. I have a small form factor pc so the hvr1600 is not feasible and I want to keep things internal - so no hdhomerun. Thanks
I used the Hip guide to control GB-PVR and it works great.
I want to configure Hip in order to control other applications such as PDVD
I tried to do that by listing PDVD at row 2 at the Hip main window.
When PDVD is working, I can see it is the application in control (it appears in bold letters while GB-PVR is in regular font on the Hip symbol at the taskbar) but every key I hit would start GB-PVR instead of doing its function on PDVD.
So far in my setting up I have 2 Nova-T cards and they work fine. Now I am adding a Satellite card.
It's a Compro VideoMate S350 - I've added it to the BDA file and I've got it as a capture source.
I've picked up my existing EPG as I know my sat is pointing to Astra and it has BBC channels which are also in my EPG - I can fix the EPG later but I expect to get something.
Now when I do a scan for mapping the channels I get a load of "Unknown" and they don't play in the little preview window.
I guess I am missing some vital step, but what is it. Is there are file that gives the channel names?
Just to make sure its not the card itself I can use the program that came with it to view channels (although it is a bit stuttery).
What controls the number of entries that are displayed in the recordings screen. See the attached two pictures for an example what I mean. On my PVR only four entries are shown, and on my network client seven are shown?
I cannot remember having touched the skin or config settings, so in principle they should be identical?!
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Hmm, after looking at both screenshots at the same time this looks like it's related to the aspect ratio. The server has a 4:3 monitor (1280x1024) and the client is widescreen (1280x800). But even changing both displays to 800x600 keep the 4 entries on the server and 7 entries on the client. A font issue maybe?
I have a funny problem here. I am transcoding letterboxed recordings so that they are only cropped and not scaled (they still need to be scaled from the player so that they are displayed with the right aspect ratio). See here for a few seconds of such a transcoded recording.
I am using a slightly changed version of stattik's script to do this and everything plays well on the recording machine. The transcoded avis are played as recordings in the recordings tab of GBPVR and PVRX2.
On my network client this is not working, the recordings are displayed, but after hitting the play button the program just goes back to the previous screen. (Find the zipped log directory attached.) The client is set to file sharing mode.
This only happens with my letterboxed avis, my transcoded 4:3 avis play well on the network machine. Is this just a missing something on my client, or something else?
Volker
EDIT: I forgot to mention, if I copy the letterboxed avi to the video library directory of the client, it plays in GBPVR, but the soft aspect ratio is not corrected.
EDIT2: It also plays in the video library directory from PVRX2 and the aspect ratio is correct.
I have very specific uses that I want to use PVR software for. All I want to do is run a composite cable from a DVD player to the capture card (HD Stick Pro) and then I want to timeshift back about 10 seconds and then be able to record what is in the buffer or the video 10 seconds behind the DVD player.
Is it possible to timeshift back live TV and then record the point at which you rewinded too? I want recording to start from within a timeshift buffer.
I have not been able to get a Live Stream to work with this software yet. So I have not had the ability to test it myself.
I currently own a Pinnacle HD Stick Pro. I will buy another card in a heart beat if this software can record whats being reviewed in the buffer. It's a super rare feature on all PVR software.
I have a bunch of recordings I want to archive. After this initial batch is done I want to start archiving shows that are 1 day old, so basically all of my shows get copied to another drive. How do I schedule this to happen? I have the age parameter set for autoarchiving. How do I trigger the archive for all of my recordings that are currently at least 1 day old?
when i browse my music folders in music library it looks like the file are being sorted alphabetically using the tags. I think this plays the tracks out of order for albums and i do not have playlists for every album. is there a way to sort by track number or even file name instead of tag. my files are all named artist - year - album - track - title.mp3 but they show up sorted alphabetically by title.
it looks like after using the patch for the problem where it would only play one song then stop my problem is gone.
