the DVR s/w that came with it was ok but I'm having lots of trouble with the mpeg2 that it records, so I want to switch to gb-pvr on the basis of better EPG support and that it can automatically convert recordings to divx.
can gb-pvr work with a usb tuner, or am I pushing stuff uphill? I've installed all the OEM drivers and the device works fine with the packaged viewing s/w, eg - I can watch digital channels fine with it.
I have been looking for and wide to get some good PVR software for my ATSC tuner card.
Right now I have an AVerMEDIA A180 tuner card inside a P4 2.6ghz processor, ASUS P4PE motherboard with an ATI All-in-Wonder 9800pro video.
I have setup the tuner with all the correct channel mappings that I need, and it most of the time records what I want from the TV guide.
The problem is with sound. It is intermittant on what is recorded, and doesn't play at all on the live TV. I don't know if it has anything to do with the AC3 sound settings from the channels that I have.
For example, I recently recorded American Test Kitchen off the PBS channel 43.2. The software is set to give 1 minute padding on the front, and 2 at the end of the show. The first minute of the recorded show is completely silent. About 7 seconds after the show I want has started, the sound suddenly comes on, but will dissapear for the last 2 minutes of the recording.
I had Plane & Fancy cooking show also getting recorded fromt he same channel (43.2), and this show recorded absolutely no sound at all. No settings were changed between the two recordings, and it is the same channel within an hour of each other.
If I go to live TV, then I will get no sound most of the time, but have gotten it once or twice in the past 3 days. If I select to quick record, and play the DVR-MS file generated in Media Player 11, then you get sound. So it is being recieved, just not playing.
I don't know where to start in trying to diagnose this. I don't know if it has to do with the A180 card that I have. I was looking to get an Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1600 card so it is supported by direct drivers and can write in MPEG2 files to disk.
I can put in an SoundBlaster PCI64 (CT4810) card to see if the onboard SoundMAX card is causing the issue.
Any help would be appreciated. This has me baffled.
I've been trying the test version and i have to say it's a big improvement over past versions. I have a couple of questions if you don't mind.
In the setup for VA you set directories for recordings, archives, DVDs some if not all of these directories would be repeated with the config for GBPVR itself. Should they all be? Should some be? None?
The reason i ask is I'm having trouble getting some things listed in VA that do just fine in the standard Video Library.
Recordings seem OK, where it gets weird sometimes is mostly the DVD directory.
Within the DVD directories. I keep one directory on the machine that GBpvr is on and that directory is just fine. When i point VA to a different machine it gets weird on me.
On the PC i can see, play etc any of the video files on those drives and they are merged into VA like they were all on the same directory, what i would have expected.
On the MVP it's a far different story, sometimes they show, other times they only show until i try to play one, then they all disappear like they were never there.
Most times though they never show up at all.
Am i doing something wrong here or is VA not quite ready to pull videos from other machines yet? Just so you know this isn't a new thing, the old version pretty much did the same thing.
Oh and by the way, time for VA and weather to have their own folders on here?
sub Wrote:GB-PVR doesnt do any playback of video itself. Instead it just asks Microsoft directshow to do the playback (then steps out of the way).
So my question is how do I test these decoders outside of gbpvr.
Reason I ask is that all my channels display fine except channel 2 (yes I posted about this before thinking it was interference but come to find out it's not).
Also, are there other decoders that are much better ? I don't want to load everything in the world but if I am missing one that is a "must have" then I'd like to know.
Hi Sub,
Was wondering if you could add the ability to have GBPVR look at shortcuts as if they were an mpg file. What would be nice is to shutdown the recording service, move files to another drive, create shortcuts in the recordings directory to the files on the other drive, then start the service back up (or reload the xml dump instead of stopping/starting the service). The shortcuts have the same name as the files, though they are obviously shortcuts and GBPVR will not allow that.
What would it take to do that? I think it would be REALLY a neat feature and enable us folks with several drives to keep all of our recordings in the "RECORDINGS" menu. I think that with USB enclosures and drives becoming so cheap that a lot of users will start using them and this feature will go great with that. That also provides a solution to the age-old question people have always asked here about having more than one "recordings" directory. The "video library" is ok but as you know it doesn't keep all the metadata which is a bummer.
I posted a request in the hardware section a few days age about my old nova-t, and got a very helpfull responce, thanks for that.
I managed to get the DBA drivers in as suggested and even managed to get the egp xml file done using (XMLTVGUI) and mapping the xml file in gbpvr.
TV works and recording and playback seems fine too as far as I have tested it.
at least it does in gbpvr interface but when I try live TV on the MVP the screen goes black and then the MVP just reboots, same when trying to play back a recorded TV event.
I read in the Forum that I need a muxer? I did run the mux tester in gbprv and apparently none was in my system, I had a version of showshifter so I registered the mux from that but still the same problem.
I also read from the forum that cyberlink mux is the one to use for the old nova-t but not sure where to get that one or if its only the one file I need to register.
Do you think that the problem is due to not having the cyberlink mux installed in my system? the MVP is a wireless one but I am not using the wireless yet so it cant be bandwidth as its on a 100 meg ethernet switch.
Any suggestions to solving the problem would be great
Regards
Ian
Would this be possible at all? If so, can somebody point me in the right direction to get started.
The Plan:
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To have a scondary PC in the study do all the transcoding / commercial removal work - thereby leaving my HTPC (with GBPVR) running unhindered and always available.
So what I would like to do is do the recordings on the Server, then upon completing the recording, pass the next processing responsibilities over to a secondary server. I figured I may be able to use PostProcessing.Bat to achieve this.
My initial plan was to use Girder with GBPVR. SO have PostProcessing.Bat issue a girder event that activates the Other Server Machine.
However PostProcessing.Bat will then complete and I can't see a way to update GBPVR with the new file name.
which tuner card is the best, i already have a hauppauge pvr 250, and am happy with it, and i am going to purchase another card, my question is, do i stick with 250, or is there a better one, and can the mvp play hd, if i buy and hd card??
If some of you wouldn't mind trying this version out I'd love to hear the results.
Please back up you working version of ZProcess before trying this test for me...
The big thing I'm working on is the pause that ZProcess waits when checking dimensions and fps for a video file.
Till now, you had to set the pause time in tenths of seconds. It's a dropdown on the Transcode section, 'more' section.
I have written a routine that will help isolate the pause specific to your own computer. It learns. That way, ZProcess will only wait exactly the amount of time it needs...
Now, beside the pause dropdown is a checkbox that is the lock. That means that after you're sure you have the pause time just about right, you should lock it off. That way, if there's a one off, that needs much much more time, it won't skew the results.
Some of this might not make sense but, what I'd like you to try is
start ZProcess.
Make sure the pause time is 0.01.
On the file tab, double- click a video file. You will notice the mplayer window flashing at least once per file. If it flashes twice or three times, ZProcess knows that the pause isn't fast enough and is adjusting the pause time
Double click another file, and another, and another. You may flip back to the transcode tab and notice that the pause time is incrementing.
When you have tried a bunch, you may want to lock it. Then I'd like you to try and see if regular use is good and stable.
