I have just upgraded to latest version after running for over 14 months without a single issue - suffered from the "if it isnt broken" effect... I was doing some machine maintenance and upgraded to new version.
The new version is excellent and I like a lot of the new features. One I spotted was the "Stream Now" in program info. Excellent! I use a mac for main workstation and this works fine using VLC for the asx file from firefox. My query is the quality ... the stream is quite low bitrate. VLC reports an input bitrate of 340kbps and a stream bitrate of around 200kpbs. Playback works fine ... even stops when the program ends on EPG. It is a bit blocky though and as I have 1gbps LAN I was looking to increase the rate.
However I cannot find anywhere to do this! I have looked around the config, config files and searched forums but cannot see how to change it. Can this be done and could anyone point me in the general direction?
Thanks in advance and thanks for a brilliant system! Now using GBPVR for over 2 years and it just gets better and better!
If you are using DynDNS and Windows XP Pro on your "Home Server", SkyPortal might be something for you.
Really great modular APS Portal program that supports MDB and SQL databases. Several Themes to choose from.
I configured and did the setup in one hour with an MDB database.
I know I can play cdg via GBPVR on the PC (using CDG directX plugin for WMP and zipping the CDG and MP3 together) however I use an MVP and would like true CDG support if this is possible with the GBPVR on the PC streaming the mpg or divx to the MVP.
I convert my CDGs to MPG at the moment so I can view on the MPV. This takes around 3/4 of the song's length to convert to MPEG2 SVCD standard.
The problem with this is the space it takes up! 30Mb per track for the MPEG2 compared to only 5Mb for the MP3+CDG.
Thanks in advance.
(PS Love the program but it would be better still with CDG support )
I have a long question on playing songs at random. As I have it now, if I click the 'Red' button while on top of an artist it will then select a few songs at random and queue them up. As far as I can tell it uses the setup in the config to choose a set of songs that fits into the "Default Random Period". At the end of those songs it will do it again if I have the "At the end of a random playlist" -- create new playlist. This is awesome functionality. However, I dont quite understand the "Jukebox mode wait time period" option. I feel as if this option should make the system wake up and start randomly choosing songs for me. I dont think my ML2 is doing that however. And if it were to do that, what set of songs would it choose from? Is it not working because I turned "Random always all/all" off?
I guess what I am looking for is this. Basically if my play list ends I want ML2 to randomly select some new songs for me. If I had previously choosen an artist and hit the red button, I think I would want it to continue choosing that artist to randomize from (which is what it seems like its doing). However, if I have manually selected a few songs and then the playlist runs out I would still like ML2 to randomly select some songs. However, I think I would want it to choose from a subset of my choosing. Possibly have it default to a specified playlist or something. I would want to avoid it randomly selecting from the entire collection. I have some music that is best not heard I never want the music to stop basically!
I apologize for this question if the system already does this but as I said it doesnt seem to be doing it for me.
Can someone please help, i've just purchased, and installed the Hauppauge Nova T-500 Card, but am unable to get GBPVR to recogise it, I know it works with this card, but I badly need help in setting things up.
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