Just about to build my media pc and will be installing latest xp pro with all service packs. Have downloaded gbpvr and have seen someone recommend other bits I might need? ffdshow and also the codec pack from http://www.cccp-project.net/
is there anything else I need? I just want to use gbpvr to record and also watch all my existing divx etc
Has anyone had any luck with configuring ATSC digital with this card? I was able to get analog cable working but configuring for ATSC digital still escapes me. I have an HD antenna and I was able to get ATSC working with a trial version of BeyondTV, but I am not able to configure correctly the preferences in the GB-PVR configuration utility. Any help would be appreciated!
Anyone else seen this -
if I use colouring of programs in the guide - ie by genre -
the current program selection in the guide is no longer highlighted -
makes it damn difficult to tell where you are !!
works fine with the default blue skin - can have colours and highlighting.
upgraded to 0.11 sassari and its 99.12 gbpvr
On Sunday morning, 3/4, I set the date on my computer to 3/12 to see if daylight savings time kicked in properly and it did. I stupidly left the date on 3/12 till late afternoon before I realized I'd left it set wrong and then I set it back to 3/4.
Now when I look at all my scheduled recordings in the GBPVR TV Guide or on EWA through 3/11 every scheduled show says failed to record but starting on 3/12 everything looks good again.
I've recently purchased a new MediaMVP for use upstairs to complement the one downstairs. Unfortunately, upstairs is wireless and only 802.11b so there's no use connecting this MVP to the server downstairs. However, what I am instead doing is directly connecting it to my laptop and running GBPVR on there, and using VLC to stream from the downstairs computer to upstairs, and then play that file with the MVP. The main network connection is 192.168.0.4 on a USB wireless adapter, with the MVP network connection a crossover ethernet cable with the laptop on 192.168.2.1 and the MVP ideally 192.168.2.2
When I first set it up yesterday, I managed to get it working after much hassle, and even then it seemed to be luck. My combinatoin for getting it working was to shutdown the hauppauge services, start up tftpd32 and dish out DHCP on 192.168.2.*, with the laptop was 192.168.2.1. The MediaMVP got the 192.168.2.2 address, and then I started up GBPVR MediaMVP Service and all was well.
Now today, I just don't seem to be able to recreate this stroke of luck. No matter what I do, I am always told the MVP is unable to obtain and IP address - even if tftpd32 shows it getting an IP address!
I have tried starting the MVP up with the hauppauge services (which supposedly includes DHCP), with tftpd32, with gbpvr, and various combinations to no avail.
More annoyingly, once it decides there is no IP address, it searches for a server and fails, and there seems to be no way to get it to retry to find an IP address or even turn it off - (it says back to exit but that doesn't work). The only thing I can do is to power cycle it, which is getting rather frequent with my desperate attempts to get it working.
If anyone has any ideas at all, I would really be very greatful
I've been seeing this problem for a while I saw a thread about it a bit ago but can't seem to find it again. Apologies for this.
Some times whilst recording on some channels the picture freezes and the audio continues. If I fast forward then the progress bar moves across and the last displayed frame stays visible, when I stop fast forwarding the audio will continue from the point the picture froze. Does that make sense?
This used to happen when Lost was shown on Channel 4 and would happen pretty much always in the same place just after the ad break marker (black screen with Lost floating on it and the weird sound) I used to get around it by recording it on E4 as well just in case.
Some times the video will come back at some point throught the file but this is rare.
My PVR has been out of action for some time and I've just put it back together with 99.05 installed and i'm getting the problem again so far it has occured on
Desperate housewives (channel 4) wednesdays episode
Skins (E4) Thusdays episode
and something else also on Channel 4 (must remember to take notes)
I'm using Nova-T tuners (2)
not using comskip
dvr-ms
can't think of anything else relevant.
I'm not sure I'll have any logs as it was a bit ago but i'll try and dig them out.
Just d/l 1.0.987. I've re-run and repurged this several times, but I can't get around this error. I'm on the 1st step of installing Zprocess (selecting locations of GB-PVR.exe and comskip.exe), and I get:
"String From Text is EMPTY because this Function wasn't told when to stop. Check strEndPhrase... maybe vbTab or spaces", followed by a
"This is the strBuff: |live_tv=0|"
Similar errors occur after each set of questions, like it's having problems writing the stored vars. Funny enough, it seems to have filled in the correct fields under the "directories" tab of the program.
Thinking it may be the lack of VB6 on my system (Win2k sp4) as mentioned in the "Zprocess-readme.txt", I googled up "VB6 Service Pack Runtime files" (no link in the readme.txt as mentioned, FYI...) and installed a pack from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...layLang=en
Still no effect. I still get a bunch of these errors during the install, which I conclude is what is making it bork on me.
I try to load and run a MVP transcode "1 minute" sample as per the FAQ/wiki, but nothing seems to happen other than 14 seconds "processing time" which shows Zprocess tanking the CPU. But no file....
Hints? Am I dealing with a possessed system?
BTW, killer weekend weather we had here in Calgary this weekend, eh?
Edit:
Hold on... found the log file. May be an error with the FFMPeg installation.... More coming as the story unfolds...
when I hit '4 Go' to show the weather video plugin.
I see a red X cover the entire screen.
I think I may need to add something to the ContourHC skin.
has anyone seen this before?
Is there any way to change the way that GB names recordings? I would like the episode name in the title, is there any way to possibly do that?
2. What video types are supported officially by the Video Library? what sort of backend does it use? normally i use VLC or MPlayer to play back video files so i never have playback issues, but a lot of my videos i am finding out are in strange or unsupported formats. is there anyway to use a different backend for the video library?
