I have had an issue with playlists for some time and last night decided to work on it to see what is happening. First, I upgraded PVRX2 to 1.1.5.

My music files are stored on a NAS drive and the drive is available by name and mapped (\\NASdrive and X.

In my playlist the music files are something like:
\\NASdrive\music\christmas\various artists\Holly and the Ivy.mp3

If I navigate to the folder in the Music Library, PVRX2 will play the song with no problem.

If I attempt to play the playlist, I get nothing.

I don't have the log file handy, but I noticed a few things in the log file that looked interesting.

1. It appears that the playlist is parsed without error. I has a message about adding the songs to some internal list. The filenames in the list are labelled something like: \\\\NASdrive\\music\\christmas...... Is the extra "\" an escape for the parser? Is this normal?

2. Once the list is parsed, the log file has an entry for each song in the list with a message that the song is complete and it is moving to the next song.

Any ideas on how to make playlists work? I don't think that I have had them work since a couple of revs ago.

Thanks,
Mike

Ok,

it was recommended that I'll need to upgrade a couple of days ago, so I tried last night, with little success. I upgraded to the latest version from 99.12 (??) and ran GBPVR.EXE (not PVRX2) but I didn't get any of my old plugins showing nor any of the old skins. Is there a flag in the config to use GBPVR configuration?

I feel that I have to move some files over somewhere, but I have no idea what to do.

Thanks,
Jam.z

P.S. I really appreciate the fact that I can just copy my old GBPVR directory over and have everything back to where it was...makes experimenting a lot easier.

Super set of tools Skiptool and BurndvdX2. I however have one issue: every keypress I make moving forward or backwards trough a video file ups the memory use by about 10 KB. After processing 3 or 4 files PVRX2 runs out of memory and skiptool simply exits. Restarting PVRX2 is the only way to get back to normal.

I just saw this article ...
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Article...+ofcom.htm

It looks like all the mpeg2 channels will get shuffled around to free up a mux that will be used for mpeg4 HD broadcasts, but not until 2010.

Set top boxes will have to be replaced if you want the HD, but IIRC somebody here was able to recieve the, London only, test transmissions with a Haup NovaT and an Mpeg4 codec.

Well, our two local FTA stations have gone DVB-T (I hope that's the correct flavour) starting 1st Dec 2007. (Small Yippee...)

Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) has chosen the middleware of MHEG-5 for its interactive services as this middleware is widely used in one of the world's most successful DTTV markets, the United Kingdom, and will soon be adopted in New Zealand and possibly Singapore.

Apparently they will transmit HD FTA from 31st December 2007.

Local shops currently only have one STB, labelled "Olevia ZMT-620FTA" "Digital Terrestrial Receiver". The Box has MHEG5, DVB compliant decoders MPEG2/MPEG4/AVC, DOLBY 5.1, EPG, HDMI, S-Video, Component, Composite, 16:9, 4:3, DMB-T Modulation, 576p/720p/1080i blah blah blah.

I'd just like to get HD FTA into my HDTV (preferably via HDMI) and record it/play it. I'd like to use GBPVR (of course). Right, now to the Q's:

• Is there a PCI card (or USB Stick?), single or Dual Tuner, which will do the same as this "Box", that I can stick in my PC, and use my USB-UIRT to change channels and record programs sent via DVB-T FTA in SD AND HD?
  
• Any recommended cards? The WinTV-NOVA-TD Diversity Stick seems like a USB Candidate, but doesn't seem to do MPEG4/AVC?
  
• Similarly, the WinTV-NOVA-T-500 seems like a possible card, but also doesn't seem to do MPEG4/AVC?
  
• Any advantage of cards over USB or vice-versa? That wee stick doesn't seem to have as much in it as the cards :-)
  
• Even if I could find a device that "did" MPEG4/AVC would GBPVR support it?
  
• Do I really need this MHEG5 thingy? Apparently this in the UK and eNZed?

Hi everyone!

I've a new problem that's driving me crazy!

A number of channels, about one third, are now showing a fuzzy picture with no sound. I'm using old fashioned cable TV here. The source is split several times to serve various TV's throughout the house. None of the TV's have shown this problem; all are receiving a clear signal.

Of course, my two most watched channels are among those affected. :mad:

I'm using a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 on XP with SPII.

Any ideas?

Thanks, as always.

Johnny

Last week newegg.com had a special on the Encore ENUTV-DAT. For those who were able to get this ATSC USB tuner for $15, here's the BDA.INI entry needed to make GBPVR recognize it.

[Encore ENUTV-DAT]
TUNING_TYPE=ATSC
FILTER_TUNER=BDA 2870 TVTuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=BDA 2870 TVTuner
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

Sub, I've attached the filtercheck.log to make sure things are correct.

I did some quick recordings and scanned for stations and it found them all.

I upgraded to the latest version yesterday.

I thought at first I was going crazy, but now I know it is doing this.

several shows wont record.
in the guide it is red just 5 mins before the start time.
go back and look after the start time and it is no longer red.
latest show was "the colbert report"
during the day was a few episodes of "two and a half men"
last night was "south park"

at first I thought it was a problem with the channel, because they were all on the same channel, but "the colbert report" is on a different channel.

any ideas??

logs are here

What I currently have:

WinXP pro
Celeron D 2.4 Ghz
motherboard w/ intel chipset
512 ram
AGP 4x/8x slot
some available PCI slots
160 GB SATA Seagate
a case and adequate power supply
42" 1080p plasma
6.1 surround sound

I want to build a basic HDTV PVR. Only one tuner for now but with the option of upgrading to two later. QAM would be nice but is not required. I don't have cable and will only be PVRing the stuff I get OTA. Based on this, I think I need:

ATSC tuner card
sound card w/ SPDF out
video card w/ DVI out, and sufficient resolution ( >1080 )

The hardware I've been looking at is:

HVR-1600
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme
EVGA GeForce FX 5500 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP 8X

Now, I'm not so sure about the HVR-1600 because it has poor reviews on newegg. Should this concern me?

The Sound Blaster specs say SPDF out but I don't see it in the photo?

Will this EVGA card handle 1080i?

I know this is a long post... I tend to get a little long winded sometimes. I would really appreciate some help though. The more I read about this stuff, the more I get confused.

Thanks in advance.

It seems natural to want to play an entire album in Music Library. And the Wiki discussion for Music Library ays: Files can be played individually by clicking on the “Play” button, or the whole album/collection played by clicking the “Play All” button.

But I don't see any reference to "Play All" in Music.xml, or the Keyboard Reference on the Wiki, and none of the keys on my 34-button Hauppauge remote cause it to 'play all' when I have an entire album selected.

How is playing an entire album accomplished in Music Library?

Thanks .... Bob