I know that The 402u isn't the greatest, but once upon a time I liked the one I had enough to buy a second one.
Now with 2 of them and the death of Zap2it, I can no longer use them with SageTV 2.8 which seemed to me to have the best support for those cards. The 2 worked flawlessly for 3 years, but now I need to move them to a new system, and without a doubt GBPVR is the most capable. I read around enough to learn how to setup one, and everything works fine... Until I setup the second one, and attempt a simultanious recording.
For some reason as soon as the second tuner begins recording, regardless of which one was first, or what format they are recording in, the audio goes crackly and unlistenable.
I can post a sample if it would help, but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Problem is that nearly no one owns two of these things.
So I did a search and read all the posts about enabling "prompt for resume" under the "misc" tab, but still I cannot get an AVI stream to resume from where I pressed the MVP's stop button. Each I time I stopped it and pressed play again it starts all over.
Please somebody enlighten me, how do I do it so that I do not have to wait for the transcode to reach the last point watched and then have to skip all the way forward to that point and then pray that the audio and video is sync'ed!?
I'm using Ver 1.00.16. Much appreciated. Thank you.
My setup was working great but I wanted to change the tuner priorities. When I added the HDHomeRun (HDHR) tuners, for some reason it put one of them at the top of the priority list and the other at the bottom of the list. I wanted to put both HDHR tuners at the bottom of the list because I'm limited on HDD space right now and didn't want to record some of the crap we watch in HD and risk running outta room (for the other junk ).
So I move HDHR 0 down under PVR150MCE (antenna). Click OK to close the config.
After that, I could no longer watch LiveTV. The screen goes blank then returns back to the menu. I can play previous recordings okay but can't watch LiveTV.
I go back into config and the priority is how I intended it, so I go into the map channels menu on HDHR 0 and Config crashes. Go back to Config an try it again on HDHR 1 and it says that the BDA device is not found or in use. I look at the config of HDHR 0 and it is now listed as device #1 ... same as the PVR150MCE (Dish). I change it back to #3 and verify that the other device #s are correct (they were). But still can't watch LiveTV and when I tried map channels menu on either HDHR, it said the BDA device was in use or not found. (BTW, both HDHR tuners work just fine with the VLC player). So i remove both HDHR tuners from the list. I can watch LiveTV thru the antenna tuner but when choosing a channel on the Dish tuner, blank screen then back to the menu. @%*(#)_$.
I'm gonna hazard and guess and say the device mappings are trashed. So if I remove both PVR150MCE tuners, will i have to re-program all my recurring recordings? Is there a way to export the recurring recordings so at the very least, I'd know what dates/times/channels/etc are so i can punch them all back in?
I have never seemed to have very good luck at getting a good picture by connecting my analog TV to my video card. I am really behind the times as far as television sets go. I still have analog sets. I have tried S-Video and Composite Video but the quality is much worse than the native analog signal from the coax.
I am currently using 2 MVPs on my 2 TVs. I am going to purchase an HDHomeRun tuner (dual digital ATSC tuner) and the MVP will not handle these recordings so I want to put a PC (GBPVR Client) on at least one of my TVs.
Am I doing something wrong or do I just need a really high end video card? Any suggestions on a video card that works well for this? What resolution works best?
Besides watching TV, I use my MVP's to listen to music. Since GBPVR gives me so much control, I hardly use my other remotes any more, besides to switch on my TV.
I used to simply use my (old style) haupauge remote for volume control. However, since the upgrade to the new version 1.0.16 the behavure of this feature seems different.
In the new version, audio can be changed fine when watching video recordings, or live TV. However, to change the audio for my music, I would just simply go to the main screen (as of course the music screen will only change menu's if you press left or right). In the new version however this no longer works.
Now I have to start live TV, adjust the sound, go back to my mp3's and hit play every time I want to change the volume level for audio.
My guess is that this may have to do with the possibility of horizontal menus on the main screen?
Is this something I can change somehow? (I'm fine with the default 'blue skin' that does not use a horizontal layout) Does anyone have a suggestion how to change volume levels using the remote (on MVP) on audio?
I am looking for an application that will allow recordings to be made of TV channels. That will allow a script to run at the end of the recording period.
ie record TV1 News from 6-7PM then immediately at the end, on completion take the file and move it to a location on the network based on the filename.
Seen a few threads about getting a hi-visibility skin but have not yet found exactly what I am looking for, so I finally decided to jump in at the deep end and see if I could make one of my own. Wanted something really simple to so as to get the maximum effect with the minimum hacking and maximum compatibility. Here it is...
Installation instructions...
- Copy the complete default blue skin (from gbpvr/skin2) and rename the folder "BigBlue".
- Open the zip folder and over-copy into your new "BigBlue" directory.
- Over-write my new "language.xml" into your main gbpvr installation direcrory.
Limitations...
- Its English only. I hacked the language.xml file to make the main menu text items really short and to take out any low hanging letters (g, p, y etc). Bit of a hack but the simplest way I could find to get really BIG text to fit.
- TV Guide only works with icons. Channel names are gone.
- Have cleaned up most of the text alignment, but have not done it everywhere in all modes.
- Have not done any plugins. Probably the changes to the default text sizes will make a bit of a mess here and there.
- Seems to work Ok on my system but no warranty of merchantability is given, expressed or implied etc etc...
Hope its of some use to someone... Going to run away if it causes any problems though...
I am brand new to gbpvr. I need to record a program using the timer. I need to set it up to start a couple hours after I leave my house. How do I set up the timer function?
thanks
Hello, I'm trying to use my computer to record TV shows, I'm trying to get all programs together before I start, I'm not that tech savvy, I came across a program called cbreak, It looks to be just right for my needs, which is record shows then remove the commercials, then watch the show on a television.
So cbreak will handle the commercial removal, but reading through the site, I don't have the slightest clue as how to get it to work, I downloaded it, there is a .bat file, an .xe file and a .txt file, I clicked on the .exe file nothing happens same with the .bat, here is the link:
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