I just started using GB PVR and so far I am pleased with its recording performance. I am looking for a software where I can have one PC with all my tuner cards, and then watch and schedule recordings from other PCs. I am hoping that GB PVR can be this software with its Web Admin and Server/Client configurations.
Ultimately I want to implement both of these features, but I think that it would be easier if a started with the client/server config.
I began messing around with this over the weekend, and I am able to play my recordings without a problem when it is set to File Sharing, but I cannot schedule recordings from my other PC. When I select a program from the guide and select quick record, nothing happens and it eventually tells me that the connection timed out. I did a quick search through the forums and I found that in Windows Firewall Exceptions settings I might need to set the following on all my PCs that will be running GB PVR:
Is this true for filesharing? Will this solve my problem with the connection timing out? (I can't try it out right now, I am at work)
If this solves my problem I will next try to get the Web Admin working. Is there a more detailed guide than the information given in the Wiki? Especially the port settings in my router and PCs?
P.S. I am getting the stuttering playback on both my PCs. I do not get this if I play the file through MediaPortal. Any suggestions?
I watched it for the first time last night and laughed all the way through (I enjoy stupid comedy). It's sort of like "Kids in the Hall" with more music and less crossdressing.
Quote from the show:
An exchange between a racist fruit vendor and two New Zealanders...
"New Zealanders are all a bunch of cockey A-holes descended from criminals and retarded monkeys!"
does anyone know a good HTML editor including a tag-wysiwyg view (like nvu does or HoTMetaL did)?
most editors i found while searching do not come with a "site manager" having a feature like e.g. updating links from and to a file when it is moved.
since the middle ages (==1998 and later) i use HotMetaL pro and love it... sadly the last version of it came in 2001 (or was it 2002)?
altough i am still pretty happy with HoTMetaL pro 6, i need something for my father to maintain the homepage of his shooting society club... and as my father's knowledge of the english language is somewhat... limited, he asked me for a tool in german...
nvu/kompozer come pretty close except it lacks that site-manager feature my father sees as a must...
I am considering trying out GB-PVR and I was wondering if it supported the new Vista EVR renderer. I've heard good things about it. If not, is there any support forthcoming?
I've been happily using GB-PVR with my Haupage Nova T USB stick for about a month now. Overall, it works pretty well.
I have a question though, and as I am very new to the whole PVR scene, it might be a very noobish question.
From what I understand, when you are using a BDA driver, which I am with my Nova T USB stick, you can't vary the bitrate of the MPG file that GB-PVR produces, since it just saves the MPG stream directly from the Digital transmission.
I was wondering if there was another method I could use to record Digital Terrestrial channels (Freeview - which I guess is DVB-T) here in the UK, but that allows me to reduce the bitrate? Do PCI cards that allow you to view UK's Freeview channels also use BDA drivers, or are BDA drivers limited to USB products only?
The main reason I ask is that I wanna reduce the file size of the recorded files, and transcoding the files afterwards fails - since they often result in an audio/video loss of sync (which I gather is due to a fault in the mpg file, which i gather is inherent when recording Digital Terrestrial channels).
Hope this all makes sense.
Basically, to watch DVB-T transmissions, can you only use cards that have BDA drivers, or are there alternatives?
I realize there are multiple threads, discussing all sorts of possibilities for a method of getting tv guide data, but that's where the confusion sets in.
I've read all the threads, including the (now) 28 page one, and I'm no closer to a solution.
There is no one building a simple, easy to install and use, tv guide like zap2it.
Everyone talks about xmltv, yet each option seems to require multiple installs of various programs, and users entering obscure strings of jibberish, in an attempt to get something that looks like the tv guide we're used to seeing.
Please, someone make something simple like zap2it, that doesn't require any programming knowledge, or digging through databases to find tuner parameters.
Surely there's a better way, and I fear my days of gbpvr may be comming to an end if not.
I don't have/want MCE, nor Vista, and this can't be that difficult, given the amount of talent perusing these threads on a daily basis.
schedulesdirect.org Wrote:Greetings from the newly-formed team at Easy TV Data,
This organization was formed by members of various software projects in response to the announcement from Zap2it Labs that they will be discontinuing the free TV listings service that they have been providing to the non-commercial free and open source communities for the last 3+ years.
We know that many of you are waiting on the edge of your seats to find out what's going on behind the scenes here, and we're just as excited to tell you, but we can't give you many details while we are still involved in negotiations. We can, however, let you know that we are actively working on a solution that will provide what we hope will be a smooth transition away from Zap2it Labs by the September 1 deadline. We will release more details as soon as we are able to do so, so please keep an eye on http://schedulesdirect.org/ for updates.
Thanks for sticking with us,
The Easy TV Data Board:
Isaac Richards, Chairman (MythTV)
Robert Eden (XMLTV)
Daniel Kristjansson (MythTV)
Kevin Odorczyk (MacProgGuide)
Chris Petersen (Mythtv)
Doesn't say anything about fees/pay based service. I hope that they can get it off the ground, and that is something that will work for all PVR users.
Quote:"GetDVDInfo.exe fetches description, genre, movie name, and a movie poster image for recordings in your DVD folders from the Internet "
Jeff, I don't have many movies on DVD, but I have lots recorded from the TV. Would it be possible to allow GetDVDInfo.exe to fetch description, genre, movie name, and a movie poster image for recordings in your RECORDINGS folders from the Internet ?
I'm sure this has been mentioned before but I would really like to get the visualisation working in the built in music player.
Ive got superb picture quality on all my sources (including my software RGB aquisition card using Software recorder) and have setup ffdshow image postprocessing and selective deinterlace on analogue in etc.
The only remaining issue for me is the visualisation issue in the music player.
If the function was not there I would probably not worry - but it is there in a small window. Its pretty cloudy patterns taunt me. I try to ignore them but they sit in the corner of the screen tempting me to attempt fix. This is significantly degrading the quality of my life. :-)
I have tried to get external vis apps working but cant quite manage integration into GBPVR.
I would be grateful, plead, grovel, if you could arrange music vis to work. On my PC the visualisation starts full screen only after a 2min delay, then there is full screen clouds and lightning storms, full blown acid trip etc, then the track ends and the gbpvr screen saver kicks in. Only way to clear it is to hit back and then there is another 2 min delay before visualisation returns full screen.
Fix would be to add a button on the music app to switch to full screen visualisation and leave it running until all tracks have been played.
Cant use ML2 as it needs tagged music files (which mine are not)
