I've been running a WinTV PVR USB2 device (it's the one that comes marketed as the MCE version) on both GBPVR and Windows MCE 2005 for over a year and it's been terrific in both. I configured HIP to work with both GBPVR and MCE and it changes channels just fine in each. I liked it so much that I got a second WinTV PVR USB2 (it's an MCE version identical to the first one I got) and I now have both USB tuners working very well in MCE, along with an ATI HDTV Wonder.
But alas, I have been unable to get GBPVR to recognize the second WinTV PVR USB2. I've tried setting up the second tuner in the config as device #2, and also tried it as device #1. But GBPVR will still only see the one tuner.
Has anyone gotten two of these babies to work together in GBPVR? Or does anyone have any ideas I might be able to try?
The output from GBPVR has some stuttering problems but only when I start an MVP server. The stuttering occurs without playing anything on the MVP just letting it sit idle.
The MVP output has no issues.
I have 512M of memory in my system which is probably too little.
Does anyone else see this, or have any ideas what else could be going on?
I am also having an error when I am trying to pause tv.
GBPVR says "Starting Timeshift Mode" then blinks for a sec. and I get the following errror.
"Error playing back the file"
This happens with the remote and the keyboard CNTR+Q.
Everything else seems to work fine. I'm able to record and watch the movies.
Anyone want to try to decypher these logs?
I'm new to the PVR sceen but not to online forums so this question does not come without first doing a search and reviewing answers to other people's ATI questions. My problem is I don't understand filters and stuff like that so the responses I've read have only confused me more.
I have an "old PC" 1.14Ghz, 512MB ram running windows XP with an ATI all in wonder pro 9600 series card. That's about it. I know I could do with more RAM but it's just going to be a PVR, nothing more.
I've tried two things, but again I don't know what I'm doing. I added this stuff into my direct.ini file
[ATI All in Wonder 9600 Series ]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
RECEIVER_ONLY_MODE=1
FILTER_RECEIVER=ATI MPEG Multiplexer
PIN_RECEIVER_IN=Antenna In Pin
PIN_RECEIVER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
I ran the filter check thing, see attached.
I can't view any live TV through the software and while it says it's recording something it's not. I've read about some unsupported plugin's people are using but haven't tried them. I thought I should stop before I do anything else and ask.
I'm really impressed by the support and response time on these forums so I'm hoping after a few weeks an answer might be in sight.
Since I upgraded to 99.12, I have been having the following problem. When viewing a narrow-screen show, the picture fills the screen top to bottom, and there is about a 2" black area on each side. Aspect ration is good, fine picture.
BUT when viewing a wide-screen recording, the picture shrinks down so there is a 2" black border all around the screen. The image has the right aspect ratio, it just doesn't fill the screen. The exception to this is the annoying little "preview" thingies some networks show at the bottom of the screen. Those are rendered correctly at the bottom, in the above-mentioned black area.
I'm using VMR9 Custom, and have tried all of the Display Type settings, nothing seems to have any effect.
For some reason, a program group for gbpvr wasn't created after i deleted an admin account in vista and created a new admin account. now i don't see the mvp server being launched at startup even though i put the number to 1 in config. how do i manually start it?
- AMD Athlon 64 3700+ CPU with a thermaltake fanless cooler
- Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI
- 2GB DDR400 RAM
- 2 x 200GB SATA drives
- Thermaltake W0032RAD, Silent Purepower 410W
- Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro (256MB)
- Windows XP Pro SP2 or Windows XP MCE 2005
- A DVDRAM/DVDRW Drive
- A Dlink UBS wifi (so i dont have to use up a PCI slot)
- TV: A flat screen sony 29" CRT. Currently looking at a 42" Toshiba LCD unit.
- Got all the other SRS equipment, speakers, AMP etc. And a DVD player.
A few questions i have from here are:
- The mobo has Realtek ALC850 onboard but i also have a SoundBlaster Audigy4 PCI card available. (FYI: but only 2 PCI slots and one PCI-X slot available). Should i use the SB card?
- What do i need to make this into a HTPC in terms of PCI cards etc? I would like to be able to connect the standard UHF arial and also my sky dish so that i can get freeview NZ. (BTW:I dont have sky). Also what else do i need beyond this?
- Case: I know that this is more personal, but i was looking at something like a Accent HT-400 case in black. Any good tips for what i should be looking for here?
- Logitech Harmony 785 Universal Remote was what i was going to get. This seems like a good suggestion?
- What OS do i install?? XP or MCE?
Any suggestions/tips on any of the above would be really fantastic!!!
I am very frustrated with all this to the point of giving up.
Here my situation.
I have a TV in the bedroom
Computer is in the office. both are on the second floor.
I have a computer in the basement by my entertainment center to act as a pvr.
In the bedroom I have a Wireless MVP streaming from my office pc.
I'm using gbpvr which works ok for this part which is basically to watch recorded TV in the bedroom.
I'd also like to listen to my music but all the music players I've downloaded are very cumbersome and they don't read ID3 tags for album art which was very disappointing since I have my entire collection tagged.
In the basement I can't get video to my 48 projection tv. I did get S-video to work but I can't get DVI to work with a decent resolution. Obviously this has nothing to do with gbpvr but frustrating none the less. I got a different video card and now I get no color on my s-video connection and DVI still doesn't work. Also I can never get gbpvr to go full screen for live TV. I always see the bars across the top. This has to be something simple I missing. My MVP doesn't have this problem.
