I just picked up a MAgnavox MWD7006 at walmart for $40.
It has so far played back all of my Xvid files from a DVD-r.
The only thing I noticed was that video files with a width less than 640 pixels showed black lines on either side of the picture.
The player doesn't scale to full screen.
I mainly picked this up because my Brother needed a means to play DVD's & .Avi files on his plasma & didn't want a full PC in his living room.
He's got so many zoom functions I doubt he will have border issues.
I'm now thinking about one of these for the bedroom, however I mainly used AutoGK on my DVD collection & let it pick the video resolution, therefore a good portion of my rips are less than 640 pixels in width.
Bars on either side of a movie will just bother me.
I'd rather put a PC in there than re-encode my DVD's.
Does anyone use a Divx type player & if so which one?
And does it scale up to fill the screen?
When I watch a recording using GB-PVR's playback feature it looks great. I have an ATI 9700 Pro using Catalyst 7.0 drivers, a WinTV-PVR 150 (my ATI Theater is currently unavailable) and the Intervideo drivers from WinDVR3, which compare to the NonCSS version supplied by Hauppaugue. You can get them by installing the demo of WinDVR3.
I'd rather skip past commercials with the IR Remote than wait for my AMD 2400+ to remove, hopefully, all and only the commercials. The problem is I usually get ghosting after skipping, a double image during motion. The ATI driver is set to "auto" and has several different options, and the Intervideo is set to deinterlace (HWMC and DXVA set to 1 in HKLM\SOFTWARE\InterVideo\Common\VideoDec).
I think what's happening is that GB-PVR might be missing the key frame, or the hardware driver and Interlink software are at odds and goof up the video deinterlacing, because sometimes I can reset GB-PVR by skipping back once or clicking pause. Is this a known issue, and can it be fixed?
I'd really like to get this setup working smoothly since I get the best video quality compared to the Intervideo NonCSS and Cyberlink PowerDVD 6 playback.
I have read through numerous posts concerning this. But not one recently. I have 2 Powerline 85 adapters that I woul love to get working with MVP and GB PVR. I have them working but can't seem to get the MVP to boot. It boots fine with a direct attachement (wired cat 5 to my network) but not when I switch it over to my powerline. Bootserver does not seem to work on the mvp side? Any thoughts ? Thanks.
I just got a Hauppauge HVR 1600 and I only use the analog cable tuner. The quality of the picture for many of the channels I recieve is quite poor. It seems that if the picture quality on a certain channel is already good coming in (meaning it would look fine on a stardard cable-ready tv), then there is no issue. However, if the picture quality is poor coming in, the card makes it even worse. Here is what I understand about how the card works in conjunction with the computer:
(analogue cable signal) -> (hardware mpeg2 encoder, a.k.a. the card) -> (sofware mpeg2 decoder, a.k.a. the computer/cpu/graphics card) -> (display)
In my case, the display is simply my computer monitor. I've read that for the Hauppauge PVR 150, there are some apps I can download that will actually allow me to tweak the hardware encoding settings on the card. I've gotten the impression that the 1600 is not yet supported by these apps. Therefore I'm thinking that I have two options to improve the picture quality:
1. Mess with the decoders I have installed on my computer.
Since there are so many TV Wonder 550s being used with the GB-PVR software, surely someone would have created a consolidate settings post or document?
I've just installed the 550 and the GB_PVR software last night and am pretty lost on how to configure my system. There are so many items and most people just don't have time to research the meaning of every single setting.
I got so far as to let the EPG search for channels while connected to my cable but it only found 2 out of a possible 100+. So this ain't gonna be as easy as I thought.
Hey Guys,
For some years now I've been ripping my DVDs to MPG2 and converting the audio from AC3, so I could stream to the MVP. I've noticed that with these videos, the movies play great from beginning to end. However, if I try to do the skip-forward function, the audio nearly always gets out of synch with the video. After skipping back and forth a few times, I can usually get it back in synch. This also happens if I stop the video, and then try to resume it later. The audio is out of synch again.
I thought maybe my transcoding was nerfed, so I decided to play with autoGK and give the XVid path a shot. I converted an episode of The Tick from one of my DVDs to XVid. I followed a popular guide to do the conversion, and it went great. I had to use GBPVR to play the video, as the Hauppage software refused the audio. BUT....same issue as my MPEG2 files.
SO....I dove into the VOB scene with xDVD a few days ago. These play just fine...I can skip around, resume, etcetera, and the audio is just fine. Also....recordings done by my PVR150 play fine too....I can skip forward and back with no loss of audio synch.
Know this is probably a worn subject, but is this strictly an issue with the chip in our MVPs, or is there something I can add into the transcoding sequence that would allow the MVP to track the audio/video synch a little better? It is obviously only affecting my transcoded stuff.
Hello,
I was thinking about what happens when drive space is low. I'm currently using mythtv but there are things I don't like about it and that are really confusing. I'm getting help but I plan on using a separate computer to try a Windows PVR.
Anyway, my problem is not being able to figure out what is going on when old recordings are left on the drive. I can view them but can't figure out how to burn them now.
What does GB-PVR do when recordings are being left on the drive? When you get low on disk space, how does GB-PVR handle it? Does it start to delete shows? If you leave recordings on for a long time (for e.g., 2 mths), can you still burn them on dvd?
I plan on buying a large drive to be used (on the Windows pvr computer) so this issue might be moot but just say, hypothetically speaking, what would happen if you run really low on disk space?
I admit, I didn't search yet for this issue but I'm not really sure what to put in as search terms. I hope it's okay to create a new post for this topic.
I can install GBPVR fine in Vista. It works very well.
My problems start when I attempt to apply your updates from the survival guide. I coppied the new GBPVRRecordingService.exe file into my devnz/gbpvr directory. I then recorded a couple of shows. I could watch the recordings just fine.
Then I tried to delete one of the recordings that I made after the update to the recordingservice.exe. The recording wasn't removed from GBPVR.
I found this in the gbpvr.exe.log:
2007-03-19 10:45:24.033 VERBOSE [1] RecordingFactor.DeleteSheduledRecording()
2007-03-19 10:45:24.517 VERBOSE [1] Removing additional file: C:\Users\Tyler\TV Recordings\What About Brian\What About Brian_20070319_22022300.mpg
2007-03-19 10:45:24.517 VERBOSE [1] Unabled to remove recording file (C:\Users\Tyler\TV Recordings\What About Brian\What About Brian_20070319_22022300.mpg)...leaving recording in place
If I do not attempt to delete the program from within GBPVR I can delete the recording through the Windows Explorer. But, if I have already attempted to delete the recording in GBPVR I can't delete it using the Windows Explorer. The strange thing to me is that the recording I have tried to delete in GBPVR will be removed, at least the .mpg file) once I restart Vista.
For now I just won't update any GBPVR files.
This is most likely a Vista permissions issue, but I thought the good folks here might be able to help me.
I am running the latest version with Hauppage USB2 and its all been working fine for ages.
I recently applied the latest drivers and while everything is still running fine i no longer get the pie chart showing free/used space when i go into the settings menu at the bottom of the main screen menu.
Instead i just have a black space.
All the other options withing settings seems to work ok.
