I just got me MVP in and installed all the software for it and it worked just fine.

The defualt user interface sucked and was extremely clunky... So I downloaded and installed GB-PVR

much better looking interface.

Once it was installed i could browse all files but whenever I hit "play" on one of my media files nothing happens and then the its says "reestablishing connection"

it didn't do this on the Hauppauge default software...

any ideas?

Thanks!

I have a fairly crappy PCI video card that has an RCA-composite-video-out that I connect to my NTSC television to get video on the television. It displays at 800x600. I was wondering if used the below card, would playback be better? I think this new card has onboard MPEG2 decoding, so I wonder if that will make any difference under GBPVR.

Jaton NVIDIA GEFORCE 6200 256MB DDR AGP 8X/LP VGA DVI TV-OUT

Thanks.

Thanks to all for putting this great package together.

I have a Hauppage HVR 1600, and have used various combinations of search keywords on this forum to find a solution before posting. Since nothing I found worked, here i am. :|

I have the coax-out from my settop box going to the analog coax input on my HVR-1600. I am not using ATSC at all. I have installed the Hauppage 34c driver set and analog TV displays fine, using the settop box remote to change channels.

In GBPVR config, my card was detected as either an "MCE1500 Analog" or "HVR 1600 Analog" so I chose HVR 1600, capture device #1, Fixed Channel, external tuner, tuning:cable, constant channel 4, no quality profile chosen.
In the channels table I have "Channel 4" set for Source Channel 4.

The actual display only shows static. I have tried various combinations of antenna/cable and channels, but still I get static with a heavily ghosted picture, it's like I am using an antenna TV and not getting any reception.

What did I miss?

Thanks.

Hello Sub

When comes the new version online?

Greatings

Georg

Hi

Have seen lots of fine skins on the wiki.

I'm looking to put together a hi resolution skin so as to allow 1:1 pixel mapping onto my plasma.

This has a 1365 x 768 pixel res.

Most skins on the wiki seem to have a much lower res than this.

Given I am artisticly challenged then rather than try to produce my own skin I am looking to modify existing skins.

I have looked at the skin definition text files and these seem to have two types of coordinate references which dictate where primatives are placed on the skin.

I am thinking that if I write a simple script which grabs the skin files and parses them for "loc" and "size" coordinate pairs then I ought to be able to rescale the skins from the current size to any size.

I simply need to work out what the scale factors X and Y need to be and change the coordinates after the "loc" and "size" by multiplying by the required scale factor and turning result into an integer.

I might also need to change the size of fonts (presumably have font height multiplied by Y scale factor.)


Before I spend time writing this, is there milage in this approach or are there hidden problems?



Kev

Hi,

I have recently built a HT PC running WinXP/SP2 and GB-PVR, and with a Hauppauge PVR-150MCE (with the MCE-like USB remote). I've just downloaded and installed the latest MusicLibrary2 plugin. Great plugin, by the way, thanks!

I'm a bit of a newbie to MusicLibrary2, so there' may be a simple answer to the problems I'm having, that I hope someone can help with.

Now most functions work fine, except when I try to use the colour buttons on the remote. If I press the Green button, it briefly displays the Playlist screen but immediately flicks back to the main ML2 screen. If I press it often enough, eventually it may go to the Playlist screen, but the currently playing track starts playing at double speed (same pitch though). Then the problem is reversed and I can't get back to the main screen.

If I use Gtrl-G from the keyboard, it works fine, both directions.

Also, in ML and ML2, the Skip buttons don't do what I expect them to - forward jumps to the end of the list and backwards jdoesn't seem to do anything. Ctrl -> and Ctrl <- seem to work fine.

I'm thinking that the remote is causing the equivalent of multiple presses of the key rather than just a single one, or something like that.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jon.

Time Warner cable offers a boatload of "on demand" content, and I really miss it since my move to a PVR from their DVR.

Has anybody been able to be able to use on demand using a IR Blaster?

Well there is nothing like making my first post the most common and annoying one but I have been going over this for the past two days with no luck. I am hoping for a pair of fresh eyes to tell me what I am missing so I can get back to watching tv.

I am a recent convert from Windows MCE. My hard drive took a crap on me so it was time to try out other options like MythTV and so forth. I settled on GBpvr since it is totally easier to use and feature rich. This software is really a undiscovered gem. I can't praise it enough really.
Anyhow, I used MCE with my Haup PVR-150 card with its IR blaster and remote to change channels on my Time Warner cable box. All was well. I see that GBpvr doesnt handle the cable box so well without some addons.
The Wiki, (which has been invaluable to me) has shown me that I need to use HIP or Girder to bridge the gap between.

Well I have tried HIP and the others and was a bit taken about at the complexity. I muddled through a few tutorials only to be stopped here and there by issues.

My first one, and seemingly the biggest one is I cannot install the mcelr driver. I follow the instructions to the letter and attempt to upgrade the eHome infared trans under USB in the device manager but it errors out with "the location does not contain information about your hardware"
Sounds like the wrong driver to me.

SO, my MCE remote controls the basics, but can't change my digi box channels or do the advanced stuff.

I'm stuck and not sure how to advance.

Sub or anyone

I'm having trouble finding the recording confilct popup screen, the one within the standard recordings plugin. Can anyone point me to what xml file that is found?

Got a notice from zap2it that my subscription was expiring so logged in to renew it and found this on their login page:

"For several years we have offered a free TV listings service to hobbyists for their own personal, noncommercial use. In October of 2004 we posted here an open letter saying the future of Zap2it Labs was at risk because of certain growing misuses of the Zap2it Labs data. Unfortunately this misuse has continued and grown. These misuses, combined with other business factors have led to the decision to discontinue Zap2it Labs effective September 1, 2007. ..."

Bummer...another example of a few ass-holes ruining things for everyone.

Any suggestions for alternatives?