Sorry if this information is already available somewhere. I came up empty after searching for quite a while on the wiki and the forums.
I'd like to change the bitrate streamed to a laptop client PC from my desktop where I have a Sapphire ATI 550 card installed. The desktop is honkin, but the laptop just doesn't have enough juice to output stutter-free video in this configuration.
I've tried many combinations of codec/renderer configurations and also made the quartz.dll fix on the laptop, to no avail. The laptop CPU is pegged and it just doesn't have enough gas.
I am convinced the solution is to reduce the bitrate of data being streamed from the server to client. I've tried changing the settings in the <capture sources> tab at the server, but it seems like they are ignored in the context of live TV. I always get a streaming bitrate of approx. 5Mb and could easily do with half that rate for this particular application.
Is there a way to configure the streaming bitrate for live TV with the ATI 550? Is there a way to configure it in general for other capture sources?
Thanks for all info... GBPVR is a fabulous piece of technology...
I'm running GBPVR 99.12 and have just figured out the scenario to a problem I have been having.
I will sometimes stop the GBPVR UI (recording service still running) and perform some maintenance on the computer. It seems that if I start the UI while a show is recording the CPU utilization goes to 100% after initialization. the remote is very slow to respond (20 sec) and playback of files is juttery at best and wholly unwatchable. I am unable to stop the current recording, nor can I remove any future recordings. The only solution is to wait until all recordings have finished and reboot. After that it is fine.
If the UI is already running during a recording, then no problems seem to occur.
This ocurred prior to the setup of SearchWiz, I'm going to install the missing files tonight. So the problem is not related to those errors.
Basically I have a PC with a Hauppage USB PVR USB2 tuner and a ASUS PCI tuner with an external sound blaster live 5.1 sound card (USB).
I just got the asus tuner card and configured GBPVR last night. I'm now recording two shows at the same time, works great! I can watch either recording show with no issues at all. If I want to watch a previously recorded show while two shows are also recording I have no sound. However I can minimize GBPVR and play the movie and have sound. Windows is configured not to use any other sound device for playback so I'm not sure if the default is changing within GBPVR or if it is something else all together.
I have been using GBPVR 99.12 for a week or so, and for the most part I love it. The software that came with my Hauppauge HVR-950 wouldn't do background recordings. I can only get GBPVR to work with digital channels, not analog, but that's fine (at least for now).
Anyhow, the problem I'm having is with arrow keys, mainly, but other keys may also be involved. When I want to set up a recording using the TV Guide, if I scroll along using the right arrow it will kick out to the Main Menu after maybe 10-20 keystrokes.
Similarly, if I do Recordings/Manual Rec, then go to, say Start Time, and press the right or left arrow to set the time, it will kick out after several keystrokes. In that particular case, my workaround is to click the little arrows with the mouse.
It seems like if I press the keys very slowly and methodically it goes a bit longer before jumping out, but I could be wrong.
As you can imagine, it makes it pretty tough to set up a recording.
I have just started using comskip on atsc tv recorded as dvr-ms files.
When looking at the timeline when playing a file, it appears that comskip thinks the recording is half the length that it really is. I.e. all the skipping is shown only during the first half of the show, no matter how long the show is and the length of the commercial segments shown by comskip are half the length they should be. Any ideas?
Anyone else experiencing problems with there scheduling being way off and half the links on there site not working?
It has has everything for the next 2 weeks not only off on some shows by half a hour but with shows that no longer are showing.. and missing the new shows that are out.
Is it thinking its a diffrent time like because of previous DST changes or something?
I'm looking for a plugin to play DVDs. Transcoding, which is processing on the fly, might be the answer and is probably already done, I believe in Video Archive plugin. Dumb question alert: is transcoding what applications like PowerDVD do to play a DVD on a PC? My understanding of the term transcoding might not be accurate enough, because you can process things on the fly, but the term process can mean a lot of things, and not necessarily "read DVD MPEG2 data, convert data into something the computer can display, and then display it, all in real-time".
Right now I use AutoGK to convert a DVD to an AVI then play that in the Video Library. Probably a dumb/ignorant/difficult way to play a DVD
I see xDVD plugin, but it says for the MVP. I've seen that term before, but don't know what it refers to. I have a PC with GB-PVR on it. MVP sounds like it's a closed system with GB-PVR on it, much like an Xbox is a closed system PC.
I recently updated my windows media player to version 9. Over the past year or so, each time I have upgraded media player, GBPVR seems to get less reliable during playback. Currently, I am running a P3 933 chip, so I already am pushing it and need to upgrade. But until then, is there an older version of Media player I can use to help remedy this?
Whenever I transcode files recorded in 16:9 aspect the resulting file is distorted into 4:3. I don't mean blank bars are added at the top and bottom of the picture, I mean the 16:9 image is stretched upwards if you like to 4:3. This never used to happen, it's a sudden thing. I've tried unistalling GBPVR, removing any files left, and starting afresh but the same thing happens.
Can I configure the FFMPEG or are there settings within GBPVR which will keep the aspect ratio?
