After more or less giving up that I'd ever get remote TV viewing working, without doing anything different, my living room PC will happily act as a server to the five other PCs I've been trying to get to act as servers! Why?
GB-PVR v1.0.8 works fine on all six PCs with a USB DVB-T tuner plugged in, but only the living room PC lets the other PCs view live TV or recordings remotely. I shared the necessary drives, turned off all firewalls, etc. but remote streaming still didn't work, except on the living room PC. Most of the PCs are on a 1Gbit Ethernet, the remainder are connected to 100Mbit.
What I've obversed when remote viewing doesn't work is that the client can view the TV guide or list of recorded programmes, but when I select a programme to watch the screen clears, there's a brief period of disk activity, the OSD display shows information about the current programme but then I just see a black screen with no sound. On the server, a tuner is allocated and it starts recording the programme the client was trying to view into a file and continues until the client stops trying to watch the programme. However, sometimes the client and/or server locks up and have to be killed using the task manager.
Even on the working living room PC, the process isn't perfect and the picture occasionally freezes for a few frames or skips. I'm hoping to be able to fix this my increasing buffer sizes.
I have a big problem since 1.0.16 (perhaps since 1.0.08, i am not sure). I am not able to get both tuners running with GB-PVR.
1. I tried an "update" installation, no errors, but no simultanous usage of the tuners.
2. I tried a complete new installation with the old config.xml and gbpvr.db3, but no simultanous usage of the tuners.
3. I fully removed the drivers of the PVR-500, restarted, installed them again, restartet, but no simultanous usage of the tuners.
4. I removed everything (GB-PVR, Tuner), installed them clean again, but no simultanous usage of the tuners.
I CAN use Tuner 1. I CAN use Tuner 2. But i CAN'T get Tuner 1 and Tuner 2 get run simultaneous. What has changed with the logic for selecting the required tuner?
I'll give you my logfiles. I could the, that the second tuner suddenly couldn't built a "graph filter" and thus couldn't connect... :-?
A new developer on the mpvmc project uploaded a patch to mvpmc that provides a more colourful look and feel, and I would be happy to hear your opinions on this, since it sits in your living rooms.
No I don't have any idea what Scotts' image for Emulation Mode is. If any of you want to propose an alternate image email me it to me. It must be 200x200 public domain png image.
2 Weather option
He also submitted a patch to provide basic access to the Yahoo! RSS Weather feed. I modified it a bit to allow Celsius. To enable the new option the command line option is
--weather-location citycode_c
--weather-location citycode for those who still need Fahrenheit
I have a SAA7130HLPCI TV Tuner/capture card. I've been unable to configure it to work with GBPVR. The program by default is unable to find the card. I tried using the the graphedit utility but was unsuccessful. Is there any advice and/ or step-by-step documentation on how this can work? Any help would be very appreciated.
Thanks !
I have just managed to upgrade to 1.0.16 and the Community skin. None of my previous Plugins appear in the configurator so I downloaded two (GMAIL and Homeseer) just to test a fresh installation but they don't show up either. Is there some "secret handshake" required to get the Plugins to be listed in the new config?
Here's my problem. The Search "plug in" isn't working for me in the PVRx2. It isn't working in the 1.0.16 and it did not work in the previous version (1.0.08)
What i mean is that it does not show up on the menu. I checked that it was checked in config to be shown and it is. I tried moving it around, un checking and restarting and then rechecking and restarting. I can't seem to get it to work (or even show) with pvrx2. However every change does effect the old gbpvr interface, as well as search works there as well. Just a side note is that on the TV Guide page if i click Find More it does nothing and stays on the same menu.
I tried searching for any info on this and couldn't find anything. I don't remember seeing anything in release notes but it wouldn't be the first time i missed something if this feature was disabled. But it is annoying using gbpvr.exe just to set up my recordings and then switching to pvrx2 (i like pvrx2 better so i'd prefer to use that) If you need log files I'll zip those but i didn't see anything useful there (not that i honestly know what i'm looking at)
and sorry if i just missed a post or something about this problem of mine
I read some previous posts indicating that there might be an "add to queue" feature for Video Playback. I downloaded the current release but i don't see this functionality. Was I mistaken?
It would be nice to be able to set a specific tuner to "LiveTV only" and perhaps have the option of runing in a no-EPG mode where the user can
just enter the channel names and numbers into the database.
Searched around a bit, couldn't find anything in the support forum. Find it hard to believe I'm the only one encountering this!
I'm using a Hauppauge MCE remote with HIP, and HIPSend to drive my satellite receiver. Changing channels from within PVRX2 works fine so the links to HIPSend are still OK. But I can't drive PVRX2 with my remote so input is broken.
I configured everything a long time ago according to these instructions on the Wiki.
I added PVRX2.exe to my Hip configuration (in the Program 2 slot). I copied all my existing GBPVR.exe remote command values from the Program 1 slot to the Program 2 slot. I also tried setting Hip's Application Properties for PVRX2 to tie into the appropriate Window Class by running PVRX2.exe and selecting each available class via Hip's "Show Classes" function. GBPVR.exe still accepts R/C while PVRX2.exe does not.
Instead of trying to debug my attempts, what have other people done to get their remotes working with the new UI?
