Sorry for this stupid question.
How can I check if, in a multi PVR150 setup, if each of the PVR150's is configured correctly?
I assume the first one is used by live TV, that goes quick.
When I start a recording without live TV active, will that allocate the first PVR150, so when I then start Live TV the second tuner will be used?
All of my other posters are displayed, but for some reason the poster for America's Next Top Model won't display. My noposter.jpg is displayed, meaning it can't find "America's Next Top Model.jpg". Is it because the show has an ' in the name? None of my other shows do, and their posters are displayed.
I had some problems with ML and my mce remote (here).
now the FF (>>) button do work and jumps a couple of seconds at the time, but skip (>|) still won't work.
I found another issue with ML that I would like to change: ML reads the id3 tags when the songs in a folder is listed (I have the listview) but the songs are always sorted alphabetically. I wold prefer to have them sorted by track number primary and alphabetically secondary. Example: I have a album where song 2 (track #) is called "Home" and the name of song 13 is "Home (Acoustic)" Same song different versions. Rather boring to have them together. OK I use shuffle as a workaround.
Last but not least (and the reason for why I put this in the support area).
Can I edit the skin to add the song info that is placed on the main menu?
I have found the code on the main menu but not which skin.xml to edit (and how). Either in the heading or on the bottom of the page (and shorten the list panel).
Well, I've been scheming this build for about two months now... skimming the forums here and a few other communities late at night. I just ordered all the parts for my new HTPC and I plan on using gbpvr to run it. I thought I'd post the build in the hopes of getting some feedback from the community. I plan on posting my results, good or bad, and hopefully give something back to the community if I can. Thanks to all of you whos posts I've learnt from in the last few months, I was able to save myself a lot of time and money because of your efforts.
In short, I'm planning on a dual HD/SD tuner set up for a single HD-TV via DVI output. Future plans include 5.1 surround sound system and possible a second TV via MediaMVP or something similar. For now it will be very basic, I'm only buying one tuner card and I plan on using the remote that comes with the tuner card for now (I imagine HIP will be useful). Once I get the basic system running I'll probably be adding another tuner card right away.
If you have any pointers or comments, please post.
The motherboard was a great find for me because it supports the Core2Duo as well as the Pentium D and DDR/DDR2 memory. To start with I'll be using a Pentium D processor and a gig stick of DDR400 that I have laying around but down the road I could give it a boost by getting a Core2Duo processor and/or DDR2 memory. Downside was that it's only a microATX board (just 2 PCI slots) and it only has 5.1 audio with not SPDF/coaxial output - just the stereo jacks I think.
I'm not sure about the KWorld tuner card but it got good reviews on newegg and I figured it would be worth a shot, although it doesn't have a hardware encoder for SD tuning, I think my machine is beefy enough to handle it. If anybody has specific experience with that card I'd appreciate the info.
- Control the display names of channes (I mentined this in the support thread)
- Have a thumbnail view, or otherwise allow more items to dispay (we're sitting close to a very big TV, we can view more than 4 items on the screen...)
- If viewing TV from EasyView, do not allow changing channes. or, possibly, change channels to only ones that are in the EasyView
- When viewing from EasyView, block other keys (e.g. Info shows the main menu with the video inset)
- Altogether, maybe have the EasyView, not only a screen, but rather a "mode" GB-PVR is started in, and blocks all access to content that is not part of the EasyView lists.
99.12 implemented dvd chapter skip as an option but once you enable it, you lose all of the other skip functions.
It would be nice if another two remote keys could be assigned to +- chapter skip and leave all the other skip functions intact. One user suggested the +- channel buttons which seemed like a good idea.
The gbpvr tray app doesn't indicate if the recording service is running or not. It would be nice if the tray app would monitor the service periodically and change the icon color to red if the service is currently stopped.
I ask this because somehow my recording service failed to restart yesterday and there is no easy way to tell.
I had the first recording done today with the new version.
When we came to watch it, the first problem i saw was that the time-bar at the top showed
00:00 ========= 00:00
However, the recording played fine.
Then, I noticed that if I stoped and came back to it, it didn't suggest to "resume".
Also, there was no com-skiping.
And to top it, at 33:20 it stopped playing the file (got stuck with the last frame on the screen).
I was scared the recording didn't finish (not nice to watch half episde of a suspense show).
I checked the actual MPG file. The previous episode was 2.9GB, but the new one was 1.8.
However, playing it with another software worked fine throughout.
Hello All- I have a possibly unique situation here and I'm hoping someone can help. A few of the issues I'm having are GBPVR related, but I'm posting under the MVP section because that's where the majority of the problems lie.
Background: A friend of mine gave me a dead pc for parts which had a Windows MCE '05 license. I decided to use this license on my HTPC in my living room instead of GB-PVR and it's working great. I left GB-PVR installed (0.99.5) so I could use an MVP in another room.
1.) I have had no success whatsoever getting the MVP to boot GB-PVR. Basically, the MVP would hang at "Loading Application".
2.) After spending considerable time in the forums and using every suggestion I could come across, one work around finally got GB-PVR running on the MVP. I installed the Hauppauge software and that booted up instantly. Then I powered off the MVP, disabled the Hauppauge services, restarted GB-PVR, and turned the MVP back on. The main GB-PVR screen came up, but video did not play smoothly and I got a Hauppauge status bar every time I tried to do anything.
3.) I started live tv on the MVP and it came up (still stuttering) on FOX Channel 9. Who cares right? Well my WAF for this project is already very low. It wasn't until my wife sat down to watch the MCE recording of Friday Night Lights on NBC Channel 11 that I realized GB-PVR changed the channel on the tuner that MCE was using. She was not happy that halfway through Friday Night Lights the channel changed to American Idol. I'm using a PVR-500 dual tuner from Hauppauge, and GB-PVR reported neither tuner was in use when one was actually recording.
I'm lost as to what steps to take in order to 1.) get GB-PVR to boot the MVP without the help of the Hauppauge software; and 2.) set GB-PVR to recognize when one or both tuners are in use and not override the program using the tuners.
