When I use the VMR9 overlay mode, all my videos have a color tint and the tint will change from blueish/yellowish/greenish as the video changes from scene to scene. If I switch to overlay manager in the config app, I don't have the issue.
I'm assuming it has something to do with my video cards ability to do the transparency overlays(though the color tint appears whether or not overlays are present. My video card is a radeon 8500 and I'm using the Svideo output. I tried all the vmr9 options in config as well as vmr7 with the same issue.
Any ideas on a way around this? I'm fine just living without the transparencies, but it would be nice if they worked for me.
In the last couple of weeks I've noticed that the Data Direct listings no longer reflect any program updates from the networks. However, the interesting thing to note is that the data on the main zap2it site is updated and correct.
Examples:
Andy Barker, P.I and My Name Is Earl on 4/5 have no episode info and wrong start times.
Another problem is that a lot of shows starting 4/5 have no episode info.
Are other people seeing this?
Please note that I'm *not* a GBPVR user, but I get listing data from zap2it. I wanted to ask my question here to bring this to people's attention. This problem pretty much makes any PVR using Data Direct unreliable.
I finally have GBPVR setup the way I wanted, Thanks to all who have posted their problems and solutions, made my life a whole lot easier!
Anyway, I am having problems getting GB to play DVDs. I have set the correct drive letter in the config, and it will actually now blank the screen. However, in the background, I am getting an error that the system is looking for an "eHome" dll file in in c:\windows.
My system is a p4 2.4, with 512Mb, and a HVR-1600.
Why would I be getting this error? I don't see anything else on my system that is eHome.
Here is another feature request. Can you add the ability to page up and page down through the artist list on the left? The ability to jump to the letter using the key pad is great but after I get to the 'm''s let say I also then need to ability to quickly page through all of the 'm's. On a previous plugin I used the yellow button as page down and the red button as page up. I know that you have reserved these buttons for "queue" and "random" but maybe if you implement the "customizable buttons" enhancement we could have the best of both worlds.
So i'm thinking about picking up a small tube tv (probably 27") for <$300. Many of the recent ones have atsc tuners (usa) and display 480i. So w/ such a tuner, I'd be able to pick up hdtv signals right? Would a 16:9 signal just have two bars on the top and bottom of screen? Does atsc signal on a standard definition tube tv look better than an ntsc signal? I guess I could spend twice that amount and pick up a cheap 32" lcd hdtv...
When I go to Recordings > Ready and select a show, if a show name is too long, most or all of the episode names are cut off. I'd much rather just see the episode names in this listing, since the show name is the same for all of them. You could always put something like "Episodes of [showname]" at the top of the page.
Hi,
Just installed the 'test' version of Videoarchive on a clean install of GBPVR. One the problems I'm facing is that I can't always see my DVD Movies listing.
This is what happens.
I convert a DVD and everything works fine. As soon as I restart the gbpvr recordingservice, I can no longer view the DVD list. Tells me to please wait.
So then I convert another DVD. As soon as it is finished, I see 2 movies under the DVD list. If I restart again, can't see it. Seems that that only way I can view the DVD list is if I rip a DVD every time I restart the gbpvr recording service. :confused:
I seem to be getting multiple .dvr-ms files when I record something. One of them is the right one ( it is very large ) and it has a -1 after the filename. I also get another file that is 4kb in size. When I try to play the files through the recordings interface nothing happens. I can play the file through the Video interface ( only after it is done recording ). This is with a HVR-1600 ATSC broadcast, overlay mode.
From looking at the logs it looks like it fails to do something, retries and succeeds but then doesn't update the database to point to the new file. But that is pretty wild guessing about what is going on.
I have two programs that are messed up. I set them up to record for an hour (with a little padding) and ended up with the video (especially at the start) jumping from one scene to the next, with a few pieces of the show completely clipped out. I ended up with several minutes missing - the show was to record for ~1 hour but ended up with ~55 minutes.
So I looked at the log and noticed there were errors... the same errors on each show - but only those two shows - others recorded just fine. I'm wondering if this has to do with comskip. I don't use it, but I noticed that it was checked in config so I unchecked it. Or perhaps it has to do with coming out of standby - both shows were the first to record after coming out of standby. Or perhaps I had some other program trying to update (like AVG virus scan?) when the PC came out of standby. So I shut AVG update off and will update manually. But I really have no idea, so I'm hoping someone can tell me how to fix it.
I attached the log entries that occurred around the time of Grey's Anatomy (one of the two that were messed up). These were the lines describing the errors:
2007-03-29 07:58:19.015 VERBOSE [5] Programme is now recording
2007-03-29 07:58:19.077 VERBOSE [5] RecordingFactory.save()
2007-03-29 07:58:56.686 ERROR [5] Unabled to save ScheduledRecording: The database file is locked database is locked
2007-03-29 07:58:56.686 ERROR [5] at System.Data.SQLite.SQLite3.Reset(SQLiteStatement stmt)
at System.Data.SQLite.SQLite3.Step(SQLiteStatement stmt)
at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.x396614b3dae3b1da.xc979432fcc5a510a(ScheduledRecording xe41d2b9d98dc1269)
