I have migrated from a very unreliable ATI setup which used Gemstar as the
schedule provider. In Gemstar a screen would come up and display a grid of about 10 channels over about 4 hours to give me an instant overview of what is on this evening. I could scroll up or down the grid with ease and when I clicked on a show, there was a small TV window that instantly displayed the show if it was presently airing.
I discovered GBPVR and bought a Hauppage card and it seems to be quite stable which is nice but I miss a few things that the old setup provided.
I have downloaded and installed "community skin" hoping that it had a better schedule interface but I get the impression that there has to be more stuff installed.
I would like to
a) see a larger channel station grid,
B) see a live TV window,
C) be able to mark my favorite shows with some kind of icon so they stand out,
D) easily schedule record from the grid display,
E) Be warned if I am about to turn my computer off when something is recording,
F) be able to search for programs by name
G) Be able to skip from one day of the week to another without scrolling through them all.
If someone could direct me to plugins or other methods to get at least the first few of these features I would much appreciate it.
I had this happen yesterday and now again today. Yesterday were back-to-back Simpsons on Fox. The first recorded fine, the second stuttered and played at half speed or slower. Unchecking the audio box (16 bit?) in AC3 filter, which turned off the audio, I guess, let the video play smoothly. But no audio.
I checked the file, and it showed no first audio stream but did show a stereo stream as a second. I played the file in VLC, switched to second audio stream and stereo output, and it played fine.
Thought it'd be a one time thing until today when three more shows did it, and all on different channels, so I doubt it's the broadcast itself. I don't know if the (one-month-old) tuner cards could be causing it, or if there's a GBPVR config setting that would only record the second audio stream or what. It must be something recording related because the recorded file itself has no audio stream 1, and the 2nd stream isn't even in 5.1 so it's not like the stream is just in the wrong spot.
I've been using the system I built my GBPVR on for ripping and burning DVD's. Now it appears that after GVPVR or the GBPVR Recording Service has started, I can't access the DVD drive - the software reports that it's locked. I can't just stop GBPVR and the Recording service - I have to reboot the system and then RIP a DVD BEFORE I start GBPVR, then I have no probs. I've gone through the GBPVR Config and removed all references to DVD plugins, playing back DVDs, etc. - but somehow running GBPVR still locks the DVD drive. Has anyone else seen this, or know how to fix it?
I have used all of the PCI slots available to me on the motherboard and I need to add an analogue TV Tuner with AV input to my system. So a PCI card is out of the question. Does anyone have any view/expereince on the best TV Tuner option available to me (in NZ) using USB?
I have been reviewing the LeadTek Winfast TV USB2 Delux which appears to have hardware encoding and the Hauppauge options. Is there any others I should look at.
I recently obtained a wireless MVP to use with gbPVR so I can view movies and pictures on my TV. Everything is working except the MVP does not display the media (movies & pictures) I have stored on NAS device.
Here's my configuration:
- NAS Device has a share with all movies and pictures
- Windows XP Professional desktop connected to share on NAS (drive Mapping)
- Configured gbpvr for Video and Photo pointing to the mapped network drive tot he NAS
- Configured 1 MVP servers
- Disable Windows XP Firewall (no other firewall active)
When I run PVRX2 on the desktop I can see all media with the gbpvr system. From the MVP it connects to gbpvr and displays the chosen skin. I can navigate the menu but when I go to Video or Photo it just shows the name of the library and not the actual media (using PVRX2 or GBPVR it works fine when running on the desktop).
I copied a movie file from the NAS device to the local drive where GBPVR is running. I added that directory and I'm able to view the specific media on the local drive without any issues on the MVP. I can also play the movie.
My question is, are there any issues with MVP and a NAS device? From an OS standpoint this is just another drive on my system so it should see it as such. I appreciate any feedback on this as I have all my media stored on the NAS device and would like to continue running gbpvr on the desktop to stream the media to the TV using MVP.
I have noticed this once or twice before since using pvrx2 in 1.0.16. I have a prv150 with one tuner card and I currently show "good news: no conflicts" . However if I look at my pending recordings, I have
Starter Wife: Hour 6 Pending 8/10/2007 10:00 pm-11:00 pm on 6 chro ; and
Journeyman: Game 3 Pending 8/10/2007 10:01 pm- 11:00 pm pm 3 CIIOT
When I look at the TV Guide, only Starter Wife shows as scheduled to record (thus explaining the no conflict message). I have also installed the tv listings plugin but I wouldn't think that would cause the pendings screen to display the two programs when only one can be recorded.
Any ideas on what could be causing this? It is not causing me a lot of concern as I can manually check for conflicts but if there is something I can do to fix it, I would like to.
The original ZProcess will play my AVI files perfectly, but will not adjust the aspect ratio of my x.264 MP4 files. ZProcess2 will convert my MP4s perfectly, but will not play some of the AVI files that ZProcess1 will. After a delay, the MVP goes back to the video library screen. I've adjusted the pre-play delay; I've split large files; I've re-encoded files; I've tried switching the transcoder (I can't tell if that does anything), they still won't play using ZP2. I've looked through them, but can't find anything that they all share in common that isn't also shared by the files that work. All of these files play perfectly using VLC on my computer, they all load up just fine in Virtualdub, and they all play through GBPVR on my MVP using ZProcess 1015. All of the AVIs that won't play are PAL videos (actually I have one MP4 that won't play either), but many of the PAL videos in my collection play just fine (they're all tennis videos that I've downloaded). I haven't had any problems with NTSC AVIs. I'm in the U.S. by the way.
Anyway, hope you can help when you have time. Thanks for all of your hard work. ZProcess has saved me somuch hastle.
I wonder if it would be possible to add a little more info from double clicking the tray icon? I'm thinking of something like the red additions to the tuner status. It would be useful (for me) as the current gbpvr server won't run pvrx2 and it would be handy to know is any pending recordings are coming up if/when any maintainance is due.
Did only a few tests sofar.
I took a 1 hr mpg file and cut out about 8 segments, then saved it to mpg again. It played fine, showed the right lenghth in wmp and it didn't seem to have sync problems.
Anyone knows this one? The comments on videohelp.com are very positive.
It has some nice possibillities
Hi, I'm new to the forums and I have to say gb-pvr is a very slick program. Overall, everything was setup very quickly and all my recordings look very good (and sound excellent). However, I've been having problems with two shows: Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. When these two programs are being post-processed (I just run them through comskip and comclean4 all all default settings) comclean4 always fails to make a "cleaned" version of these two shows. All my other shows get cleaned just fine, but these two don't. I noticed that comclean4 creates new folders for the demuxed video and sound files called "Law Order" and "Law Order Criminal Intent". I'm thinking that there's some sort of issue with the "&" character. Is there any way to have gb-pvr remove that before post-processing, or is there any other method that can get comclean4 to work with these two shows?
