Well, I'm finally taking the plunge into the world of PVR's. I'll be building it out of my older Dell. Here are the specs:

P4 2.4 Ghz
512 mb ram
60 gig and 20 gig HD (had the spare 20, so I threw it in for the time being, I'll be upgrading to a 100+ gig soon)
Brand new install of Windows XP SP2

Anyways, I think I've decided on a PVR-150. My question is should I get the MCE edition, just go with the regular, or get whichever I find a better deal with?

I wasn't sure what the differences were besides the MCE compatibility.

Thanks for the help!!!!

Another strange one, I am so close to having the perfect setup, I might be able to let the wife use it if i can get this one sorted!! :-)

When I start live TV everything seems fine I can flick through channels no problem but then when I return to some certain channels (BBC2 seems to be a frequent offender) I get a no signal error message. If I then return to main menu and go back the channel will display again! I have tried switching off live preview but the same thing happens (except I don't get a no signal error, the frame just freezes)

Funny thing is that recording from any channel works just fine and pictures show no sign of a poor signal. I have also checked the signal strength and it is almost at 100% !

Is there a way of stopping the signal strength test and just forcing GB-PVR to show the channel?

Any ideas?

TV card - Pinnacle DVB-T PCI
GB-PVR v0.99.12
Logs attached

Is there a plugin for use with my MVP that is as simple to use as the standard video browser but could highlight videos (avis from video camera) that have been played? say by maybe something simple like changing the text colour of videos that hae been played?

cheers

once we go digital, are the current tv tuners like wintv pvr usb2 pretty much useless?

Hi,

I`ve just done a fresh install of XP SP2 and everything is working ok, but
I seem to have noticed GB-PVR taking absolutely ages to load up, when
started using a right click on the tray icon and select 'Start GB-PVR'.

It seems to take ages to get to the main screen and hammers my hard drive
for quite a time.

I`ve included a gbpvr.exe log, to see if anyone can help.

Many thanks for any help,

Regards,

Highlander

Finally got an invite to Joost! Whilst the content isnt much to write home about, the quality is excellent, and im sure (hopefull!) that theres a few devs hoping to have a play...

I have 3 invites if anyone wants one, and i guess they will get three too. So PM me if you want one and i'll get them sent.

Regards

Stu

I'm in the process of switching ovr to Video Archive. Right now, I have all my ripped DVDs in subdirectories: D:\DVD\[Genre]\[Movie]\, containing the VIDEO_TS, AUDIO_TS, and all the files. I understand that I need to convert them into MPG files, and I'm okay with that. I just need to figure out how. I tried the internal DVD -> MPG converter, but it wants to convert from a physical DVD. Am I missing an option to convert from a ripped directory? Is there a different tool I should use? I normally use RipIt4Me to rip my DVDs.

I am having big trouble getting GB-PVR working with my Leadtek DVT1000 T DVB-T TV card. I have altered the bda.ini file to include a reference to the Leadtek card as below, I have run the config program and it did find some channels reported signal strength and quality as 99. But when I tried to end the config program by clicking okay it used 100% CPU time for many minutes and never closed. I had to kill the task to stop it. I ran the main program and went to Live TV and it used 100% CPU time for a couple of minutes and then reported Error: Attempted to divide by zero.

I have attempted to scan the channels again and it now finds no channels. Why am I having so many problems getting this to work? The leadtek software works fine, but it does not report the signal strength/quality except for a few "dots" which is not very usable.

Can anyone help get this working?

Recording source DBA recording plugin
EPG source DVB EPG broadcast
Channel changer No channel changer required


[WinFast DTV1000 T]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=WinFast DTV1000 T BDA DVB-T Tuner/Demod (Thomson DTT7579)
FILTER_CAPTURE=WinFast DTV1000 T BDA Transport Stream Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

I received some test files for specific Australian conditions that require huge postpadding.
As a result I made build 92
Build 92
- Reduced the minimum acceptable logo_fraction before disabling logo detection to accomodate for huge postpadding in australian recordings. New default is logo_fraction=0.40 i.s.o. 0.50
When using the default ini file from the distribuition you better set
cut_on_ar_change=1

I am looking for a program that I can use to burn my DVDs to a computer HD where my Video Library is located for my PVR. I need a program that burns the movies to the correct formate so to play with the PVR. Any body got a sugestion?
I have a 150/500.