At some point soon we're gong to go HD, and I'll need a new system for that. The only thing I don't know about it how well watching HD files over the network will do.
I am thinking about xvid files I'll start compressing at higher rates and sizes, but I suppose watching HD on a MVP would be much more intensive than that (or watching a DVD over the lan).
I I have a 10/100 wired LAN, and I wondering if this is going to be enough, or if I need to go for 100/1000. I just did a freshdiagnose becnhmark, and I was getting 8Mb read and 10Mb write.
I have the nagging issue of white lines at the top of the screen on some channels(including some HD channels). SInce I have the nVidia driver problem with a 7600GS I have to go to VRM9 FSE instead of just VRM9. What are my options to get rid of the white lines at the top of the screen? As I understand it overscan settings won't work in VRM9 FSE.
I have been looking at these forums for a while, but recently decided to take the plunge and try out GBPVR, being sick and tired of trying to get MythTV to function properly.
However, I have been having some trouble with my Hauppauge Nova T 500, specifically getting it to tune. I have been getting BSOD, "Page fault in non paged area" in NV4_MINI.SYS" (the graphics driver I believe) every time I try to tune. This was occurring with both the included WinTV software and GBPVR. Last night, I tried changing the Hauppauge "Primary" program to use overlay rather than VMR (my graphics card is rather old, and I guess it doesn't support VMR), and this solved the problem! Everything tuned in fine win WinTV2000. Wonderful I thought, here we go!
However, when I tried to tune in GBPVR I still get the blue screen. I have set GBPVR to use overlay rather than VMR, I have the latest drivers from Nvidia for my graphics card, and I have the latest drivers from Hauppauge also. The following is the spec of my system:
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
MSI Motherboard
1Gb RAM
120 GB HDD
Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 420
Creative Audigy 2
Hauppauge WinTV Nova T 500
I just tried recording two shows back to backl. The first episode worked fine, but the second one did not work (it was only a 6kb file). I am using a Vbox 150 and there didn't see to be any errors that popped up. This happens every time I try to record two shows back to back. Your help is appreciated.
I am looking to here from anyone who is using 4 or more of these in a PC and would care to comment on the results with all 4 or more recording at once. I am getting a lot of stream errors which don't occur with 2 or less recording and would like to know some solutions.
Been trying like mad to get gbpvr to work but it says it doesn't find a compatible BDA driver. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Also can I use this program for s-video as well?
This was brought up tangentially in a separate thread as I thought is was an upgrade issue, but since that time I did a clean install of Vista and decided it was worth getting it's own.
I'm unable to get GB-PVR to tune/find ATSC HD channels. The same rig worked flawlessly under XP, but with Vista I can only get Analog stations will GB-PVR. I can use Windows Media Center to find and display HD (ATSC) without issue, however, so it must be (:confused something with GB-PVR?
In any case, I'm just seeking some insight from those that have a similar setup and if they got HD working within GB-PVR, using the HVR-1600 under Vista.
My Gear:
- 3.0 Ghz, 1MB RAM
- ATI AIW x800 (listed as ATI x800 XT in Vista, using Vista driver)
- Hauppauge HRV-1600
Everthing else is pretty much out of the box. No problem with HD using Windows Media Center. Anyone have this working? Please provide some detail if you do! Thanks!
I've got a Twinhan 1025 DVB PCI card for sale.. I've used it in GBPVR and it worked just fine.. I'll throw in a CD with all the BDA drivers and whatnot you would need in GBPVR along with other helpful software goodies.
Ive looked and looked at cases and these are the two that i like the most. Just wondering if anyone has any experience that they would like to share on either?
Judging by the tag lines in signatures, and posts, it appears this skin is has turned out well and many users use it daily.
I wish I had more time to put into it so the Widescreen version. I want to add support for all plugins that are capable of 1280x720 resolution, it just may take some time.
Sub mentioned there are significant changes coming up in the next release of 'Blue', and I am anxious for the test releases to see what new bits he has added.
Depending on the scope of changes, the CommunitySkin(s) may be best suited to follow more code examples in that version.
The current structure of the baseskin.xml files are somewhat bloated, and maybe there can be improvements.
The code talk is not really the user's concern, it is for those that help develop and support this skin.
What I am asking, however, is that users and developers that use this skin...
What do you like about it?
What do you hate?
What would you like to see added or removed?
Is an "all-in-one" install (like it is now) ideal?
Would you prefer a more "modular" install process where you have to download the specific plugin's skin file separately?
Wish there were more themes? (Help needed for this!)
What?
What?
What?
Keep in mind, some of the features of the skin are related to the SkinPlugin (developed by McBainUK). There are some items on the todo list for that plugin, but any additional comments are welcome here as well.
More technical talk about the nuts and bolts changes will be in the developer's threads, I just wanted to get an idea of what people really think about the skin.
something with GB-PVR?
