My XP machine went belly up, and I reinstalled it with Vista. I am unable to play LiveTV or watch TV from the TV Guide. It goes immediately to a black screen for a second and then returns to the menu. I have Hauppauge PVR 150MCE, and it worked well with XP. I tried running the Config and the PVRx2 programs as administrator, and deleting the existing database. Neither helped.
Hi, I upgraded last night and like the new version.
I use HIP for with my remote control and it wouldn't work with the PVRX2 executable in the new version (I went into HIP and selected the location of pvrx2.exe).
To get it to work, I had to fall back on gbpvr.exe which works exactly like the old one, although obviously now that I've seen the new interface, I want it!!
Any ideas? I was wondering if pvrx2.exe is setup to work with HIP in the same way, or if I'm missing some changes that I need to make with the new version.
Any help would be greatly appreciated - has anyone else come across this?
So far, I have only ran across a couple of issues with 1.0.8. I exclusively use 3 MVP's in my house to access the server which sits in a closet in my basement (well ventilated) with 2 capture cards.
First issue is that the function of automatically skipping commercials using the comskip files. This seems to happen to recordings that were made before the upgrade and after. I run comskip during recording. The skipping seems to be just off. It appears that the commercial periods are all shifted forward, so during playback it will skip a portion of the program and start up in the middle of a commercial break.
Second issue is the FF and REW buttons on the remote do not seem to do anything during playback. Skip forward and back work fine though the "Manual Skip timebase" setting is still backwards (Seconds means Minutes and Minutes means Seconds). The buttons are registering, as the light on the MVP blinks when pressing the button and the buttons work correctly in the TV Guide.
Overall, very impressed! I hope we get a solution to the guide issue. What about starting a collaborative site that would allow users to enter data about programming in their area. You could sign up for the service for free as long as when it was your turn, you entered the program data for one channel for a week or something. I'd be game for development on something like this. Think there would be copyright issues if people are re-keying the data from the newspaper or TV Guide or whatever?
I have an HVR1600 and DirecTV. Some of the ATSC channels map to DirecTV channels which I do with "Map digital channels to EPG" button. For the others, I created a channel number that didn't exist and mapped the ATSC ones that didn't map to these custom channels.
Problem 1: these custom channels don't have guide data, therefore I can't tune to them via TV Guide. I could have an app that stuffs them with a single entry in the XML file.
Problem 2: Each time guide is updated, I would have to stuff these channels with a single entry. I could do this by writing a custom app and running it after EPG is updated in UpdateEPG.bat.
Does this sound like a reasonable approach, or does a solution already exist?
Is there any way to prioritize to use one capture card over another? Because right now I have two analogs along with a QAM. And on the channels that are enabled on the QAM, I would like GBPVR to prioritize recordings to the QAM (BDA) device when it is available.
No matter which way I setup the configuration utility, it seems like it choose the recording device somewhat at random.
Is there anyway to do this?
ie. First recording choice = BDA (HVR-1600 QAM)
Second choice = HVR-1600 analog
Third choice = ATI Theatre 550 analog
Just an FYI for anyone encountering issues running on Vista. I could not get to Live TV nor any TV Guide listings until I ran as administrator. It now works.
I mention this with great humility so please forgive my cheek.
The parameters align and valign appear repeatedly in skin xml files. Would it simplify matters if align and valign could be added to textstyles?
I'm thinking of something like:
GeneralTextStyle as is.
GeneralTextStyleLC as above plus align="Left" and valign="Center"
GeneralTextStyleRC as above plus align="Right" and valign="Center"
Etcetera
etPlaybackRate(1.000000)