I noticed in the Haup WinTV app that one of the recording options is mpeg2 12kB/sec(cbr) that is supposedly dvd quality. Can GBPVR capture analog from a pvr-150 card at mpeg2 quality? Is it as simple as setting the bitrate of livetv and medium profiles to 12000 cbr?
Today I finally got the WinTV card I won on eBay. I popped it in, installed gbPVR, and within 30 minutes had it up and running on my MVP. I have to say it was very impressive how smoothly it all went. One tiny snag, though - I also signed up for a Schedules Direct account, and I have found that my guide data is 1 hour early (i.e. the guide shows 9:00 PM for shows that start at 10 PM). I am running on an old P3 / Windows 2000 machine. I double checked the Time Zone setting in the dates and times control panel, and noticed that the computer time didn't change when I toggle the "Daylight Savings Time" checkbox. Any ideas on what I may have done wrong?
I know my name might not be up there with Zed or Martin123, but I post here from time to time and I frequent the forums religiously and maybe you've noticed my name. However, if you haven't seen me here for some time it's because my computer crashed (bad ram) and school kicked my @$$ for so long I couldn't find time to get it up again.
Now, it was time to resurrect my HTPC from the ground up and reinstall everything. I installed GBPVR, then went about on the chore of installing all of the "extra stuff" that it takes to make it nice (comskip, plugins, etc..). Well, I remember getting PVRX2 to run on my second monitor and I tried to track down the patch that let me do that. I found it and quickly copied the patched files to my GBPVR directory.
Now, PVRX2 refuses to start, though GBPVR will run just fine. I think the problem is (and I didn't notice this until after the fact) that the patched PVRX2.exe was for 1.0.8 and I, of course, have 1.0.16. I wonder... can anyone post their PVRX2.exe for 1.0.16 and maybe I could use that one? If anyone has any better ideas on how to fix this, I will gladly listen!!! And, if you read this far, thanks for putting up with the story!
Title basically says it all, program is not responsive if I try to escape/right click/exit from TV mode, DVD viewing or if the screensaver comes on. Makes the program very frustrating to use. I'm running a Hauppauge 350 on a more than adequate machine, which had worked well (except for not playing DVDs) until recently.
Since zap2it went down (jerks), I've signed up for Schedule Direct. I also troubleshot the DVD player functionality (turns out it was a faulty slave CD burner, whoda thunk) and installed xxxx.16.
I did remove all my other attempts at playing DVDs (various codecs and players), and reinstalled VLC (which works fine), and downloaded a free mpeg2 codec which appears to work fine (I can watch DVDs in GB-PVR again). I've tried running regular old GB-PVR, which still shows up in my start menu, and the newer PVRX2, with the same results. I have to three-key the application and restart it every time I want to watch something.
Anyone seen this behavior before? Took me a long time to figure out the DVD issue and I'm kinda tired of fighting with this thing atm.
I was messing with my pc, trying to get it to start up quicker, and disabled a bunch of Windows Services.
I should have been more careful, but I figured it would be simple enough to re-enable the services if there were problems.
Well, now my MediaMVP is not working properly and I can't figure out what services it relies on. If I enable and start GBPVR Recording service and any service that says DCOM or COM, I can get my MVP to start up with GBPVR, but it won't play any videos with the .avi extension anymore. Rather, it won't transcode. I watched my PC as I chose a video from the MVP directory, and what I saw was ZProcess and Hunter flash for a bit and disappear. Then the MVP crashes and restarts.
Though, strangely, it plays most (not all) .avi videos from one of my harddrives but none at all from the other harddrive (I have 3 and only 2 contain the media files I watch on MVP). ZProcess runs fine in those instances.
As far as I know, I made no changes to ZProcess except for tinkering with the aspect ratio for a couple videos (speaking of which, why doesn't ZProcess adjust the aspect ratio automatically anymore, I never had to do it manually before upgrading GBPVR), so I assume it's got something to do with the Windows Services. I got it working fully a few days ago, but I have no idea what I did besides starting up the services I mentioned above.
I'm currently experimenting with skinning and have a question regarding making some screen elements slightly transparent so that the underlying background shows through vaguely.
In skin files the buttons are drawn as rectangles with rounded corners.
In many skin files it is possible to have a rounded rectangle which is one colour when selected and another when unselected. In this way the button can be made to light up etc when it is selected.
I have found parameters which affect general transparency so that all buttons can be slightly transparent but this is not quite the effect I'm looking for.
Is it possible to set the skin so that an unselected button's rectangle is slightly transparent whereas a selected button is completely opaque?
I'm skinning for version 99.12 (if that makes a difference).
Has anybody got a favourite tool to kill processes (WinXP) when they won't go away when trying with Task Manager?
I've tried a command-line tool simply called 'Process' from beyondlogic, I've tried the PsKill utility from PsTools and now I'm getting to the point where this thing probably isn't going to go unless I reboot.
Guess what it is...the Hauppauge WinTV2000 exe. Yick. I knew I shouldn't have started it in the first place. :mad:
possibility to use capturecards in other computers than the main PVR server would be good
- especially if GBPVR could check whether some computer is down and then redirect where to record - including possibility for me to shut down / set a service time for a specific machine - for upgrades etc
One of the items in this thread http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=30803 was the ability to autorecord searched shows. Would going one step further on from autosearch be able to carried out i.e. Autorecord (selected) Autosearched Shows?
I have run the Oct 17th dongle playing music continuously using musiclibrary2 version 6.7, for 9 days now playing over 4000 tunes in the process.
It has survived great abuse of my server whilst I have been messing about with vmware server to host a couple of linux images, at times the music has paused for about 30 secs whilst my server was running at 100% cpu but it has then simply carried on as if nothing had happened.
the only reason it has stopped was due to me having to re-boot my server as XP had decided that all my usb ports had disappeared.
