I am trying to set up HIP so I can control my Dish VIP 211 box from GB-PVR. Problem is, I have the MCE receiver and that sets itself up. It's reading the Dish remote into hip. Every time I try, it says hit any key or click. I set the remote in front of the MCE receiver, and click the mouse, and I get a timeout error. It happens as soon as I click or press a key. I don't even have time to hit a key on the remote. If anyone has a config file for a Dish 211, 301 or 311 I would be grateful. I have all 3 boxes here and they are the same codes.

Thanks
Richard

Recorded a show last night that seems to be exhibiting some strange behaviour after running through comskip (latest v.79.111). Comskip itself seems to be running and finding the ads just fine, but when playing in PVRX2 it skips at the wrong times.

By way of example, the 3rd ad block detected is found at frame 101892, or 67mins 55secs in (its PAL) to the recording if I look at it in the comskip GUI. However, when playing back the file within GB-PVR, the ad is actually appearing around the 64mins mark according to the GB-PVR timeline. The show then keeps playing for another 3mins 55s, then skips as it's reached the 67m55s mark. In other words there is an inconsistency between what GB-PVR thinks is 67m55 of show and what comskip thinks it is.

Any ideas what might have caused this / how it can be fixed?

This is one I've been messing with for a while. I've been having a problem with avi files in the Video Library menu playing with no video. I get sound but just a black screen. It's been intermittent so I've been holding out asking for help until I could pin down some kind of pattern. I figured out the pattern.

If I play a file that I have recorded in the Recordings menu (transcoded avi) before I play an avi file in the Video Library menu (avi Movies) I get a black screen from the file in the Video Library file when I play it. If I play the avi in Vid Lib first everything works fine. I can play files in both Recordings and Vid Lib with no problem.

I thought this was all related to the ATI Mux since it started when I started trying different muxes, but it will repeat for Cyberlink and Intervideo as well. Also doesn't matter if I use -fse or not. Live Preview is enabled.

Not real sure what other information to supply.

Boy do I have questions!! First, my system. I have MCE 2005 for my OS, and the MCE remote (no colored buttons) and a dish VIP 211 settop box. I want to control the box from CB-PVR. I got it set up with MCE but I had to teach MCE the right codes for the VIP 211. I get the feeling I need a program like HIP to control the 211 through the IR Blaster, right? Question is, if I do that will I lose the use of the remote to control MCE?

Second question, I see the guide only displays 2 hours of program at a time. Am I missing a setting or is that it?

Third and last (for now ) I aslo see an option for using 3 digit tuning, but nothing for 4 digit tuning. Can I assume 4 digit is not supported?

Thanks in advance,
Richard

Currently I have a DVR system that is running a ATI Theatre 550 Pro, which is a analog tuner. It works fine, but I am looking at purchasing a Hauppauge 1600 for main use with QAM.

I was just wondering if you thought my specs would be up to par with 720p/1080i.

XP Pro
AMD Athlon XP 3200
1gig pc3200 ram
ATI x700 Pro( i could overclock it, but idk if that would help)

I was just wondering if those specs would be able to:
watch hdtv?
record and playback hdtv?

Thanks for your help, I don't want to buy a roughly $100 card, and just use it as an analog tuner.

I might be swinging a trade for an ATI x700 pro 256 and was wondering if anybody has any experience with this card? I'm wanting to use it mainly for general PC use and for watching ATSC HD.

Any thoughts or comments would be helpful!

Just shouting out to plugin developers, I saw this on a MythTV demo, seems like a cool plugin, being able to get info from Wikipedia anytime.

I am trying to reset the MediaMVP to be in 16x9 as I have a widescreen TV. I believe the only way to do it is via the Hauppauge version of the dongle. I stopped the GBPVR services and manually started the MediaMVP Server, I eventually tried uninstalling GBPVR and reinstalling MediaMVP from scratch, I switched off all the firewalls (Windows and on the router) - I get the Hauppauge server window with Videos Pictures Music Radio and settings boxes, but it doesn't matter which button I press on the remote control, on the PC the server quits "MediaMVP Server GUI has encountered a problem and has to close", the server reboots... and so on and so on... has anyone got any ideas why the server refuses to play ? At my wits end !

Rory

I noticed that my epg seemed to be updating at odd hours. I had scheduled it for 11a.m Eastern Standard Time (-5 from the standard GMT) and last night, it was updating at about 11p.m. I recall that when I first installed a version of gbpvr, there was place where I had to enter "-5" but I can't find that spot on the program in version 1.0.16. My windows clock correctly displays the time. Note that I use a program called automachron to keep the windows clock on time (as set by the standard clock in Ottawa) as the computer clock would otherwise slow down.

It is only a problem for scheduling: my recordings that are scheduled for 8p.m are recorded at 8p.m. etc. I can work around the problem by scheduling the EPG update to be 12 hours out so it isn't an urgent problem. I am just curious as to whether I have missed a setting somewhere.

I am looking at get my remote to control both GBPVR (This part works great - used the GBPVR HIP install instructions) and Windows Media Player which I am launching whenever an audio CD is placed in the DVD Drive.

I have programmed Program 1 to GBPVR and Program 2 to Media Player.

However at the moment Media player launches on CD insert but when I press any remote key GBPVR is brought to the front.

Has anyone done this and/or got any suggestions of what I need to do?