I started to look at making a PVR as a friend of mine was giving it a try and it sparked my interest. I spent a bit of money to buy an AVerMEDIA MCE A180 ATSC tuner card. I didn't know much about what is the best so I bought this one.
I am looking to get some better performance from my hardware, and was wondering what would give me the best bang for my buck.
Right now I have an old P4 2.53mhz (no hyperthread) and an ATI All-in-Wonder 9800pro video card.
I don't have the slightest idea if the MPEG decoder that ATI provided even does anything. I do have an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor left over from an upgrade I did. I also have the PureVideo drivers but my Nvidea card fried.
Would it be better to get a new motherboard with the 6100 nvidea card built in to use my PureVideo drivers, and take advantage of the faster processor. With this i would give up being able to connect the PVR to my TV unless I get an PCIe video card with TV outs
I could keep my P4 system and replace the ATI card with a Nvidea 6200a card for about the same price at the above and have TV connector but not the faster CPU. This is also non upgradeable as they don't make faster CPU's for this socket anymore.
I also want to get a second ATSC card. I was looking at the Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1600 - ATSC / analog receiver that fits in the PCI slot. I could get an AVerTV Combo TV/Digital-Tuner that is PCIe (but only if I get the new MotherBoard).
Is there another better choise out there to look for?
I would like to get some good advise so I don't spend myself into a corner and then wish I had gotten something better.
Calling all closed-caption users. We need to get some money together to send sub an NTSC vcr and vcr tapes with closed-captioning embedded in the video. Wait, we can do that with an NTSC DVD player and DVD's with CC. So what do you say we find a way to pool a little bit of money and send this stuff to him? Is the DVD player a lot more expensive than a vcr? I could just record shows to DVD with CC. My time at home is limited though. Which DVD players playback raw mpegs? Do they playback the CC?
I have a computer with gbpvr 99.12 and a Hauppauge PVR-350 using it for TV outs. I was wondering whenever I try to play Divx or Xdiv file out of My Videos the screen just goes black. Is it because I'm using the PVR-350 and need to use a different output or an I missing a file of some sort. Thanks for the help.
1) Is GB-PVR v0.99.12 a later version than GB-PVR v0.99.5???
2) What version number began using SQL?
3) What version number extended the database table, "RECORDING_SCHEDULE" to add the columns "priority" and "coversion_profile"?
First of all, hi. Hope you can help, I don't really understand the problem I'm having...
I really like the look of this software, nice and simple with recording and all that. Perfect for what I want. But as you can see the problem is that I can't change the damn channels! Set-up is XP, Hauppage PVR-150 and of course GB-PVR. Got a standard coax aerial going into the card, works fiiine on other software like WinTV. I can pick up 4 BBC 1, 2, ITV and Channel 4 (no 5, we live in a valley!). Fine. Watching + manually scheduling programs is all good and proper but I want an EPG! I've tried a few and settled on GBPVR. Looks good, I can record, EPG is easy to navigate and all that.
Anyway, have set it up, EPG and all that. Click 'Live TV' and lo and behold, TV! I can record it manually and it is fine! However, clicking the plus/minus symbols at the bottom, whilst changing what the EPG description says, and logically, therefore the channel, it doesn't. It just sticks with whatever channel is currently there!
Weirdly, if I go onto DScaler or WinTV and change the channel (which works fine on both), then go back to GBPVR and click Live TV, it is the last channel I've seen in whichever bit of software. Kinda like GBPVR has lost the ability to change channel...
Dunno if that's relevant but I guess that's where I'm going wrong- I'm not very good at this kinda thing though to be honest...
Oh, and I got those channel numbers from DScaler, which scanned and assigned those numbers. They're the same as WinTV2000, so I guess out of the 60 or so available, each channel has a number... though if this is wrong please say!
I haven't used this software in quite some time, for one particular reason...when I try to watch tv, it gave me an error about active refusal. I seen you had an updated version, so I installed it. Only to realize that you distributed the same garbage as last time.
If you find this log file useful in fixing this problem, go ahead, I'm all ears on this one.
"Creeps" come from one end of the screen and try to pass thru to the other in waves of about 20 (plus bosses), you set up a guantlet of weapons to kill them before they get across (you can set up a guantlet or force them through your maze). You can let as many as 20 through before the game ends. You get money from killing them to buy new stationary weapons or upgrade your old ones.
The leaderboard can also be grouped, so you can enter gbpvr and compare your scores with other users. You can also click on someone else's username and see what formation their using.
If you start on easy, you only have one wave of ten coming from left to right. Once you're on normal you have waves coming from both the left and the top.
Hi, I think I may have found a bug in your new version (may be in the old version also, not sure, I just started using).
It occurs if there are no DVD's on disk and you select the show dvd item. I pointed the DVD directory in config to a directory that holds most of my archived movie images (same as my archive directory). I don't have any converted DVDs at the moment.
Seems the program goes into a loop. The UI shows a hour glass any plugin function selected return a message "Please wait for initialization to complete".
The log indicates a loop:
04/14/07 10:40:53:880 PM[1] Render: ContainerAndParentCount is zero for ; started thread to fill file list. 04/14/07 10:40:54:786 PM[1] ActiveDisplayList DVD List indicates that we need rendering 04/14/07 10:40:54:896 PM[5] DVD List: In FillDirectoryTree 04/14/07 10:40:54:896 PM[5] DVD List: Filling directory list cache 04/14/07 10:40:54:896 PM[5] DVD List: Done filling directory list cache; count is 0 04/14/07 10:40:54:896 PM[5] DVD List: Reviewing directory list to see which entries should be added to UI list 04/14/07 10:40:54:896 PM[5] DVD List: Done reviewing directory list; added 0 directories to the UI. 04/14/07 10:40:54:896 PM[5] DVD List: Leaving FillDirList 04/14/07 10:40:54:896 PM[1] Render: ContainerAndParentCount is zero for ; started thread to fill file list. 04/14/07 10:40:55:786 PM[1] ActiveDisplayList DVD List indicates that we need rendering 04/14/07 10:40:55:864 PM[13] DVD List: In FillDirectoryTree 04/14/07 10:40:55:880 PM[13] DVD List: Filling directory list cache 04/14/07 10:40:55:880 PM[13] DVD List: Done filling directory list cache; count is 0 04/14/07 10:40:55:880 PM[13] DVD List: Reviewing directory list to see which entries should be added to UI list 04/14/07 10:40:55:880 PM[13] DVD List: Done reviewing directory list; added 0 directories to the UI. 04/14/07 10:40:55:880 PM[13] DVD List: Leaving FillDirList 04/14/07 10:40:55:880 PM[1] Render: ContainerAndParentCount is zero for ; started thread to fill file list. 04/14/07 10:40:56:521 PM[13] DVD List: In FillDirectoryTree
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