At my work place we have an internal network behind the company firewall and a network with no firewall.
On the network with no firewall I can login to GBPVR with no problems.
On the network with the firewall I can get no further than the GBPVR login screen.
If I set GBPVR for auto-login they both work fine.
Therefore the login has problems with the company firewall.
I have several other programs that require a login (such as a server a wireless router a router and my web page) and they all work fine with our firewall.
Why does GBPVR not work in this respect?
I have noticed several other threads mentioning the same problem but with no resolution.
I think it would be useful to many to solve this one.
Steve
I'll start from the beginning since I've done a lot of my own troubleshooting so far.
I installed GBPVR about a year ago, but I've mainly used it for watching live TV over the net. I'm not in the habit of watching TV on my PC when I'm at home.
A few days ago, I decided to buy a couple of Wireless MVPs so that I could use GBPVR on a daily basis.
I installed the latest version of GBPVR (1.0.8). I set up my new MVPs and configured them to connect to my 802.11g network...no problems. I configured GBPVR with all of my EPG, the MVP servers, etc. In the mean time, I saw the note about the dongle not working with Vista, so I downloaded the mcmvp dongle.
This is where the trouble started. I went out to the tv and booted up the mvp. Every couple of button pushes on the remote and it would hang. Sometimes, it would hang so bad that I would have to reboot the mvp. This also happened about every 30 seconds of watching any kind of video.
My first thought was that every time I went back to my PC, the screen saver was on. For some reason, the pictures screen saver in Vista really takes a lot of resources, so I disabled it. No change.
Next, I reinstalled GBPVR completely...completely deleting the directory after install to ensure a clean reinstall. I tried both the default dongle and the mcmvp dongle...no change on either of them.
Next, I completely uninstalled GBPVR again, this time installing version 0.95. After setting all of the configurations again, I went out to the TV. The problems were much less frequent. However, after certain amounts of time, the mvp would reboot. It appeared that maybe it was losing connection to the wireless network. So, I ran some cables. Now they are connected at 100Mbps.
This is where I am at now. There is no more rebooting. If I don't press buttons too fast (eg. scrolling quickly through the guide) then it won't freeze. If I do and it freezes, it is only for a few seconds...no big deal. However, about every minute or two while watching live tv, the video freezes for about 30 seconds. It almost seems like when you are watching a video online and it has to rebuffer. I increased the live tv buffer to 5500, but there was no change. I'm not positive yet whether this happens with pre-recorded shows. I tried recording the show and starting to watch it about 10 minutes later (10 minutes of buffer, right?), but that didn't help.
Some PC info:
Dell XPS 410
Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz 4M cache (E6700)
4GB Ram
320MB 7200Rpm 3GBps SATA HDD
128MB nVidia GForce 8300GS
PVR-150 x 2
Windows Vista Home Premium
I switch between the default Blue and Community Skin 3. Although I'm leaning towards Blue for my HTPC machine as the number of images used in the Community Skin seem to knock my (already rather strained hardware), over the edge.
I recently added a Sapphire 550pro capture card to my HTPC that was already using a PVR150 nicely.
However, it seems that when using the 550Pro to watch liveTV, I don't get any sound. Picture is fine. I'm using the Intervideo non-CSS Hauppauge audio decoder.
I wouldn't think this decoder would be hardware specific (hauppauge only) is it?
When I switched to AC3 decoder, the 550pro works - but now my new MVP sound doesn't work. lol.
I've tried every option in my GBPVR config: Intervideo non-CSS, Nvidia, AC3, Nero, and MPG Audio Decoder (no idea what this is). I have Cyberlink decoders installed, but they aren't listed.
Any suggested audio decoder that will work with everything?
Hi, I'm a longtime MythTV user that got a little tired of problems (ran great with a few minor annoyances on 0.16 for a long time... finally recently upgraded to the latest version and it is causing nothing but headaches on my two client machines, although the server is still rock solid) and I decided to try GB-PVR instead.
Server "under the stairs" with dual PVR-250s, runs great. No issues here. When I plug in a monitor I can view live TV fine, change channels, etc. Looks great.
My living room client machine was an XBox. I will consider a Media MVP or something else later.
I also have a bedroom client machine (P3-933 MHz, 256 megs RAM, 20 gb hard drive, intel 810 chipset) which I know is supposed to be underpowered for GB-PVR (it is fine for MythTV), but I decided to try anyway.
I did all the XP-tweak tricks I found on this forum and then some (the machine shares video memory with main memory, so I'm only using 800x600 and 16 bit color to lower memory usage), and actually GB-PVR runs great! Even the menus are snappy (v 1.0.8, but the old GUI, not the new one). LiveTV works fine (I lowered the bitrate and resolution in the server config, I'm using streaming instead of the filesystem, and I'm using the MPV decoder and OM) - it's quite smooth. Believe it or not, it's even wireless (802.11g) between server and client.
Sub, I salute you! GBPVR is a very easy program to configure and use, and it performs beautifully. I'm impressed with the large number of plugins and will explore them soon.
Here's the problem: changing channels on this client machine. As soon as I try to change channels during LiveTV, it shows the new channel for a second or two, then freezes up and I need to kill the process in the task manager (which I can only get to via ctrl-alt-del).
I have another desktop not hooked up to a TV (it is used as a work machine) and when I try the client there, no such problems. It's a much more powerful machine and has a different mpeg decoder (it has a PVR-150 in it, currently not being used for anything, but it has whatever decoder was provided by Hauppauge). I can view LiveTV and change channels with no problems. Another difference between this client and the bedroom one is that this one is wired, not wireless, to the server. Also, I think it is set up for VMR9 instead of OM (I'd have to check) and it has an ATI Radeon (I have DX9c installed, but I rolled back quartz.dll on this machine to DX9b while testing/configuring to get smooth playback, but I'm not sure if it was absolutely required). All machines have XP Home. So the main differences are: video card, resolution and bit depth, cpu, memory, mpeg decoder, connection... I guess it could be anything!
Anyone encounter this before? Should I attach logs? Which ones?
I've tried a cyberlink codec (from the K-Lite codec pack), as well as the MPV one. The cyberlink one doesn't look as nice as MPV on my machine, and they both have the same lockup problem when changing channels.
I installed the upgrade, I was able to configure everything, but now when I run PVRX2 I see the menu selections, but when I click on a selection, it appears for a moment and then goes back to the menu. If I try to goto Live TV it says I do not have any tuner cards setup, but they were there when I went through the config. I am unsure of what to do. I tried uninstalling everything and reinstalling but it still has the same problem. I am using an ATI Theater 550 Pro running Windows XP Professional.
When I go to recording staus I just get the bar nothing below it.
When I run the config utility it takes a very long time to save the file and exit once I press OK. When I go back in it is like I never configured it. I can see that it is writing the file config.xml each time I run the config utility.
If I connect my pvr directly to a PC monitor (CRT/LCD) do I need deinterlacing. I dont understand this fully. I've googled and searched the forum.
I understand that standard tv displays video interlaced, or am I wrong,
I'm using purevideo decoder and am thinking of buying a 37 inch LCD with a vga port connector at the back. Or is it better just to use dvi to hdmi. Thanks
I´m using PVRX2 with Graphrecorder and everything seens to be working, but...
When watching timshift, after the program I´m watching finishes the osd don´t update to show the name of the actual program. It´s still showing the program where timeshifting started until I change the channel.
I can see that Recording service created a new file and stopped writing to the old file, and PVXR2 begin to play the new file.
I haven´t seen any report about this error, maybe it´s caused by the Softwarerecorder plugin.
I have changed from PVR150 to HVR1600, and got all the channels working using WinTV. I have setup both tuners within GBPVR and configured the channels using Zap2It. The first tuner is cable analog tuner, and that configuration continues to work fine. I just don't know how to change to the second tuner or use the second tuner's channels.
I just got my winTV and installed the original software on my Vista and find that it works - I get all the channels but the quality and ease of use is not good.
I found GBPVR and installed it on my Fast dual core pc with 2g ram and Vista Ultimate Nvidia Gforce 7300 GT
It comes up saying that there is a third party software missing? ##"GB-PVR will not function correctly unless you have WinXP SP1 or higher, which has a built-in DVR-MS mux filter."
Furthermore trying to watch it says that No channels have been setup - please run Config Utility
I tried but So many options to choose
In Recording source, I set it to Hauppauge Nova T 500 DVB-t (1)
EPG source : dont know what to put in the choice of 4 I did DVB EPG Broadcast that sounded right
Channel Changer: Have no idea what to put :confused:
Generally there are so many selections to make that I must have selected a few of them wrong.
Wondering how others managed to set this up. Is there a install document somewhere?
Sorry to ask so many questions, but any answer to any of the questions is very much appreciated
