I've been very happy with almost all aspects of GB-PVR, except the 45 button remote that comes with the wireless MVP (which I use wired) doesn't do half of the expected navigational stuff. For example, fast forward doesn't and skip goes backward.

I'm not interfacing with my PVR-350 or trying to do anything fancy at this point. I just want to get the pictures, music and DivX videos on my computer to display on my TV.

I've experimented with the current Hauppauge 3.2.24125b software and found that everything works perfectly, except that I don't like many things about HOW it works; the video is off-center on the screen, the videos are thumbnails rather than a list, etc.

I'm very new to all of this, but I wonder if I can use the dongle that was installed with the Hauppauge software with GB-PVR? Then I'd have the best of both worlds.

I would just do it and see for myself, but I'm afraid of screwing up the MVP and I suspect that there's more making this work than just that.

I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks, Mark

When I select a program to watch from the TVGuide (or elsewhere), I get "Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object". Logs are attached. Thanks for any suggestions! Wilf.

Finally took the time to format the HD and do a clean install, been using GBPVR for a couple years and love it! I have a PVR-150, PVR-350, X-Card, and an older MX440 with TV-Out all in a P4 3.0 machine with a Gig of RAM. For the life of me I cannot get anything to display using the X-Card or the PVR-350 TV out and if I use the MX-440, I can see the TV Guide (pretty fuzzy), but as soon as I try to watch live tv I get nothing, blank screen. I know the thing is recording because I get the livetv.mpg file that I can play back with the Hauppage software. Did I miss something? :confused:

I'm using a Nova-s card successfully with Progdvb. I wiped out the channels in Progdvb and rescanned to verify my findings below...


When I scan through GB-PVR not all the channel show up. of the channels that do show up only about 1/2 work.

The 1/2 that don't work comw up with a message saying "no signal detected. Check that the...." and the quality meter is on 0 while the strength meter is on 100.

Please advise on these 2 issues.

Sub,
Ever since the upgrade to GBPVR 1.00.08 I can no longer record
live TV on the fly. I can pause live tv and it works just as before
but I can't record. As I play live TV and hit record the Record
or Cancel screen pops up. I choose Record and it stops live
tv and then goes back to the main screen.

Any ideas.

I am running 1.0.16 and have applied the .msi patch as well as replaced the BackendCommon.dll file. I am running the SchedulesDirect EPG and have it pointing to my username, not email.

When I launch the config and try to connect to the EPG server, it still tries to hit the zap2it server and returns the same error I got with the old service. I thought the .dll file mentioned above fixed this?

I have stopped the service and started the config again, same error.

Alright so I hooked up a VCR to the same connection that used to go to my ATI550pro which was getting tons of interference. The VCR is then connected to my monitor with a coaxial connection. My question is will I see increased quality if I go to a component connection or if I go to a higher quality VCR. The VCR has component out and I know that I can't get a hi-def signal out of a regular one but would I see an increase in quality with a component cable? I've read some stuff to imply yes but i'm unsure. I'm using the 24inch Gateway HD display. Secondly, it's a cheap VCR. would I be likely to see a higher quality picture with a nicer VCR?

For all of you who were helping me with my interference issue, we now know that the interference is related to the card and not the signal. Clearly something in the case is interfering with the signal, probably the PSU. I've heard the ATI cards are poorly shielded.

Finally, would it be easy to set up an IR connection to my pc along with an svideo input into my ATI card and, assuming the interference doesn't show up, set up GBPVR to work with it?

Also, would I be better off getting a cable box? Would any cable box be able to perform the same function as the VCR? Are there VCR's with digital tuners?

I could use a little bit of help here with 1.0.16. I am having an issue with my two ATI 550's and not getting any picture on the second tuner.

Here is my setup:

Asus M2NPV-VM
(3) 1 GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2
(2) ATI 550 TV Wonder (PCI)

I am using onboard video and audio right now. When I record one show and go to watch live tv, I do not get a picture from the second tuner. I have removed each tuner and get both audio and video when they only one is installed. When both are installed I only get output from the first one. I just installed the latest ATI driver 6.14.10.256 dated 8/21/07. Hopefully I provided enough information to get some help.

Thanks.

My local ATSC provider used to offer a SD simulcast on their .2 subchannel. I recorded all native SD programs from this channel since the HD stream used 4x the disk space for exactly the same program quality.

They replaced SD simulcast with some goofy Retro Television Network (aka "All Hasslehoff, All The Time").

Now I have to record the HD stream, but I'd like to convert the programs to MPEG-2 more fitting to SD content. I hope that the version of FFMPEG supplied with GB-PVR can do this odd conversion.

I plan to crop out the pillar bars and transcode the ~12Mbps stream down to something more manageable like 4Mbps.

Has anybody set up custom transcodes in GB-PVR? Any warnings before I start editing config.xml?

Can gbpvr/Third Party/FFmpeg/ffmpeg.exe accept any list of parameters I Google?

Is there a halfway decent Windows GUI front end for ffmpeg.exe that I could use for experimentation first?

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

I've set up my SD account, installed the necessary GBPVR patch and configured the EPG Source ... checked and double-checked each step. But I can't download or update from SchedulesDirect. When I try to update I get the enclosed incomprehensible (to me) note.
Help! What is the problem and how can I correct it? Many thanks.

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Your EPG source does not appear to be configured correctly. Please check the EPG Source
Settings and try again. System.Net.WebException: The remote name could not be resolved:
‘webservices.prod.schedulesdirect.tmsdatadirect.com’
at System.Net.WebClient.UploadDataInternal(Uri address, String method, Byte[] data,
WebRequest& request)
at System Net.WebClient.UploadData(Uri address, String method, Byte[] data)
at System.Net.WebClient.UploadData(String address, String method, Byte[] data)
at
GBPVR.Backend.Common.Zap2itEpgReader.x7174d5399cba81ee(IepgUpdateProgressCallback
x421ce789b9741187, DateTime xdc88f59e43b65f7f, DateTime x33db96d2cea26583)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.Zap2itEpgReader.LoadChannels(IepgUpdateProgressCallback
callback)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.xbdfb880686f2538b.x52e8ddd0b9bc8c68(xda34526142ca690b
x347261624b519e9a, IepgUpdateProgressCallback x421ce789b9741187)
at Config.xca74b9c9b310df0b.xcba1f05fb5a46d5f()