I live in Frankfurt Germany and receive cable thru UnityMedia (ex. Iesy). Currently we have a plain normal analog cable connection.
There are some channels that just don't work with DVB-T (Nick for my kids) where adding an analog tuner needs to happen.
I am looking for suggestions and experiences on
1) Analog tuners for use in Germany -- anything to avoid? I'm partial to TerraTec as I've had very good results with my 2400DT to date.
2) Digital tuners with UnityMedia -- do they work? Do I need a CI & Card? Is it worth the trouble?
3) Given the answer to 1 or 2, any suggestions on USB vs PCI? Most of the members here have PCI from what I can tell, but the USB pricing for 2.0-only devices is quite good.
I've got some troubles with 1.1.5 (same with previous release) where the EPG from DVB-T in Germany is not being displayed. The channels in the bouquet are empty. I had downgraded to 0.99.12 but need to stay with the times after nuking my Vista install and upgrading to XP.
A sample .ts file is on my server, pls see my message to you from 18th September.
I had hoped to see this bug go away in the new release, but no luck.
So Santa was nice to me this year, and I got a 40" Samsung LCD. (LA40R81BX)
Now I got a DVI to HDMI cable and connected the TV up to my PVR. This worked fine until I tried to go to the native res of the screen (1360x768) - then I just got "mode not supported"
I can use the same res in VGA. I was trying to keep the signal all digital from PC to TV instead of converting back & forth.
Is the limitation on the set likely to be HDCP getting in the way?
Is there any actual reason to go to the HDMI route, or is there no real difference between that & VGA?
Still working great and thanks again.
I have noticed that I'm getting JIT errors every time I exit the utility though. (I'm no debugger, but looking at the first line, I can say the error happens if pvrx2 is open or not). Current wiki dll's unzipped into plugins\common
regards
Martin
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System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'Boolean WizUtilities.WizInfo.isGbpvrPvrX2Running()'.
at EpisodeTweaker.Form1.Form1_FormClosing(Object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnFormClosing(FormClosingEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmClose(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
This is probably an odd question, because on the surface I assume that XP is a better solution for GBPVR than Win2k3. But, since I have a licensed copy of 2k3 laying around (I won it at a Microsoft event), and since I've had jitter problems with HD that I can't resolve, would there be any benefit to me using my 2k3 (it's 2k3 Enterprise Server) for GBPVR?
As I can see from the class definition, there is only one list in BaseButtonListUiTask. Is there any chance to handle a second list, using this class ? What would be a good starting sample to handle two lists (left and right) ?
My old Philips Widescreen CRT had a really nice feature were it could automatically detect letterbox bars and would switch aspect ratio automatically to remove them.
I'm fairly sure that this is done by looking for a rectangular area of black (or dark grey) in the central half of the screen. It was unaffected by logos overlapping the letterbox area.
Would it be possible to have a plugin which would say scan 1 frame per second and over a rolling window of 5 seconds make adjustments to the aspect ratio (selecting the closest match from those defined in Config.xml).
A major bonus would be to have such a plugin also scan for pillar box bars in the same way. I've seen a number of stupid DVB-T channels ("Virgin 1" for instance) put a 14:9 programme in a 4:3 frame, then put that into a 16:9 frame. The result being that you have the picture in the middle of a big black box.
In summary, my wish is for a plugin which scans the percentage of black border at each side of the screen and then selects the most appropriate aspect ratio.
Ok, I have been living with my new widescreen plasma for about 2 weeks. The biggest dispointment so far has been the constant fiddling with the aspect ratio button on the remote.
I thought all HD signals would fit the screen perfectly - Wrong!
I thought widescreen SD signals would fit the screen perfectly - Wrong!
I thought widescreen DVD's would fit my screen perfectly - Wrong!
Widescreen SD actually has black bars on the sides and the top and bottom. Using 16:9 zoom on these signals still leaves black bars on the top and bottom.
Some of my HD signals are 4:3 and need to be stretched to fit the screen. The stretched HD signals look fine except for text.
It would be nice if my $300.00 HD cable box would allow me to set a screen shape for each individual channel but no dice.
Wide screen DVD's fill a band in the middle of the screen leaving huge black bars at the top and bottom. The black bars on DVD's take up aprox half the screen.
This has all been a big challenge to the WAF.
I'm hoping this is all temporary and everyone will get together to produce content for the soon to be dominant 16:9 screen shape.
