I recently installed the latest version of GBPVR having updated my OS to Windows XP. What I can do is:

1. record all programmes and view them via my MVP
   
2. watch Live TV on the MVP
   
3. view the programme guide and schedule recordings on both the PC and the MVP
   

1. Watch live TV on the PC although I can listen to the sound on all channels!
   
2. Watch any of my recordings on the PC (just reverts back to the name of the recording.)
   

Hi Sub,

The OSD position is made for a 4:3 screen size. While viewing a 16:9 recording, the OSD disappears outside the screen (cause the TV adjust the screen to 16:9; of course, I can change this, but I don't want to). I already changed the skin.xml to lower the timeline, but it doesn't look nice on a 4:3 broadcast.
I'm wondering if it is possible to detect the screen size of the recording and autoadjust the OSD display to it?

Morning All,

Having successfully used PVR (plug and play as I am no computer boff), my win2 k machine stopped playing ball and refused to scan for channels (Nova T USB2) even though WinTV was working fine. Given drivers as a cause I have dual booted the PC with XP too. So having installed everything on a new partition I am struggling to get GBPVR working as it was before...

Havingjust installed everything I guess I could be missing all sorted of DivX or stuff like that (this is where your help is needed).

I am having a problem playing anything! I can see files, those recorder or ripped but it fails to play. The MVP crashed and has to reconnect. The same happens for Live TV too. Having got 2 x Nova T now, I would be keen to get this working, and working well.

(Log files attached)

Any advice? Please note I am not going to understand tech stuff so Janet and John help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Nick

I was looking at the Vista View and ATI 650 Pro PCI tuners, and there is a lot of sketchy documentation surrounding them. Some places say they support QAM, some say they don't. Some people on assorted forums even say that QAM with internal tuners doesn't work at all in Windows. I guess HDhomerun devices work because they send the signal in a different way.

Do any of you guys really have QAM + GBPVR + vista view / ati / hauppauge PCI internal tuner working? I am confused!!!

I am trying to program an IRTRANS remote so that it works with GBPVR.
The approach I am using is to configure the apps.cfg file so that key presses on the remote map to keyboard functions when in application PVRX2.

ie VOL+ [KEY]\RIGHT maps volume increase button to right arrow.

However I can't get it to work for twin key combinations like ALT-H and CTRL-Q, has anyone any ideas what I need to enter into the apps.cfg file for this.

The reason I am using this is I also use the remote to control others apps and the apps.cfg seems to be the best way.


Cheers.

I just signed up for SchedulesDirect and have 2 capture sources. I defined each to use SchedulesDirect, input my userid and password, clicked "Empty EPG", and clicked Remove until all channels were gone. I then clicked "Update EPG" and got the channels I have selected in SchedulesDirect in the list box.

The problem: some of the channels have the channel number before the name, and some don't. It looks like only the broadcast stations have the <fccChannelNumber> tag present, but this doesn't line up with what the config app shows. Config app shows "# name" for the following channelS: 2 KATU, 3 KRCW, 8 KGW, 12 KPTV, 13 KPDX, 35 ESPN, 43 ANIMAL, 57 SPIKEP, 60 COMEDYP, 62 VH1P, 64 TVLANDP.

forum software isn't letting me upload my zap2it.xml file (compressed to zip).

screenshot of my SchedulesDirect lineup for Comcast Tualatin Valley Regional (97124)

Someone told me to post the logs here.

Ok, I have a lan. And plenty of computers on it. Plenty.
The PC is a fresh installed XP pro box.
It can see and use all the shares on all the machines on my lan.
I can browse, copy, move, delete, create, etc....
My lan is a mix of M$, Linux and Mac OS X. Many terrabytes worth.

I can do anything I want with my lan from the PC in question.

However when I bring up gb-pvr, lan operation is flakey at best.
Sometimes I can browse and use the lan shares but mostly not.
When I try to enter a share on say for instance my Mac, the first time it worked fine, I leave and go play a video on another drive/machine then go back to the Mac. Now it won't go there anymore.
When I press the remote button (or use the mouse) to enter that directory on the lan, it just sends me back to the top level menu of gb-pvr.

Does that make sense?

Also, the remote control which is a genuine M$ MCE remote and remote receiver sort of works when it feels like. When I'm playing a video, sometimes I can FF, RW and skip or abort out and sometimes I can't.
Sometimes I start a video and can't get out of it at all unless I get up and use the mouse. What gives with that??

So I put the logs up like they told me. (Oh yes, and I know the date is wrong. The battery is dead in the PC and everytime I turn it off it resets everything. )
I hope someone can tell me what the heck the problem is.

Thank you.. :confused:

Any idea would help.

setup: PVR (Laptop, IBM T42) connected to a plasma via DVI->HDMI connection.

The problem: when I switch the TV on and switch to the right input, I have a black screen. If I put the laptop to sleep (can do from the MS Keyboard) and then wake it (must get up and press something on the damn laptop), screen comes back to life.

In XP, screen saver is disabled, and so is the "switch off monitor" in the Power Options.

A while back, when this started, I created a small batch file that uses nircmdc.exe (http://www.nirsoft.net) to switch monitor off and on. It used to solve it.

For some reason it doesn't work anymore (the "off" part works, the "on" I guess doesn't).

Any idea? it's a real PITA.

I have an Aver M780 dual (hybrid) tuner, digital and analog. I set up two sources, and point to separate EPG's. However, the local channel names are the same, so only one copy shows up in the EPG.

When I enter live TV, there are several channels that are supported by both cards. I prefer digital picture. If I flip from a digital-only channel to a dual channel, it will display in digital. If a flip from an analog only channel to a dual channel, it will display in analog. For example, 2 is digital, 5 is analog, 4 is both. Switching from 5 to 4 gives analog, from 2 to 4 gives digital.

I want to keep the channels on the analog tuner so that if a channel is recording in digital, live TV can still be had on analog.

How can I force, first that digital would be used for a recording, and barring a current recording, that Live TV will use digital instead of analog?

BTW, the EPG does have some higher number channels that are "for" the digital, such as FOXhd, but shows no program listings. Therefore, I put the clear QAM Fox HD tuning parameters on the regular fox slot, thus the sharing situation. But, I think it is good that it shares, so the user is not faced with a blank screen due to the digital tuner in use for something else.

Even a manual method to switch on the fly to the digital tuner would help, but automated would be better.

Perhaps there is some existing setup to facilitate this, but I have not found it yet.

Thanks
Chuck

Hope it's ok to post this here but if not, mods feel free to move or remove.
sub asked for help and although I usually just give once a year and planned to increase my payment a bit, I decided why wait. My company has a website and although it doesn't get the traffic GBPVR does, I know how those little amounts add up each month.
So, as 1 user to other users, even if you've given before, please consider giving again. I gave about the time v1 came out and got a bargain with 1.016 and I'm sure only good things are coming in the near future.
Again, thanks sub for your hard work!