Clone Recording Source option - Great for adding multiple dual tuner devices..

Hi,

Can anyone offer any suggestions as to why programs that are scheduled for recording don't always seem to successfully record programs without having to restart the recording service please?.

This seems to be happening repeatedly and I don't know why .

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you .

Using the latest release (Beta 5) of the HDHomeRun Software.. I have two capture sources setup, channels mapped (both tuners working in GBPVR's Config) and verified my bda.ini settings for the HDHomeRun.

I started a recording on one channel, tried to watch another (Live TV) and get the No Tuner available message. I also started a recording and tried to start a second recording on another channel - I got a similar message (asking to cancel the first recording)...

"Did you add both capture sources, or just one?"

Yes - two capture sources added, one pointing to tuner0 and one pointing to tuner1.

Should this be working in the current HDHomeRun software version?

Do we need the new HDHomeRun Manager running at all times (after we use it to 'Install All')?

I've attached my LOGS

Hello,

I am looking for advice on a system I have laying around that I would like to use as a PVR. I have an old Dell Dimension Pentium III collecting dust that I would like to upgrade to use solely as a PVR. It only has an onboard video card and 128MB RAM so this would have to be upgraded correct?

Since it is only a PCI board what video card(s) are recommended? Do I need a video card to encode and decode or will one card suffice? I would like to hook this up to a 40" LCD via component or HDMI/DVI if at all possible - do they even make a vanilla PCI card that will handle this?

I plan on bulking the memory up to 512 (it's max), will this be sufficient?

Also, while my knowledge of gbpvr is very limited, does it have the same type of network back end/front end capablities of MythTV? Where can I find more info on this?

Any and all info would be appreciated.

Thanks.

I'm a bit behind on things and just upgraded to v0.99.5 last week. I also changed over to SQLite. I then noticed that while trying to Pause a previously recorded video on my MVPs (happens on both of them), I get kicked back to the video folder and the only key on the remote that works is the Power Button. This wasn't a problem on v0.98.13. I searched the forum for this issue and even tried the "VMR9 Custom renderer" issue patch, but it didn't help (pausing on the PC is no problem). This appears to be reproducable every time. I looked at the log files that updated when I reproduced the error, but nothing jumped out at me. They are attached.

Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-Brad

Hi Sub, Quick question for you:

I know that when the recording service is restarted, or the comp rebooted during a recording, that a '(2)' is appended to the mpeg thats produced after. An extremely useful feature!

Ive seen mention before that GBPVR has some logic that means when that show is selected from 'recordings' it plays part 1, then part 2 and so on to give the complete file, is this true?

If thats the case its not working here!! :confused:

If not, could it be a feature?

I started an earlier thread because some of my recordings have a screwed up timeline. this is indicated by the timeline showing that the video recorded is shorter thatn it usually is (some 2 hr movies are indicated to be 15 minutes long), an the skip function is very erratic and useless. Pressing the skip forward button might casue a skip of up to 16 minutes, and in either direction.

I have changed my register to the recommended settings. Since I am uncertain that I did it correctly, I am attaching a print screen of the registry editor. To enter the lines, I had to enter them as 'Strings". Hopefully that is correct. I rebooted the machine

However, I downloaded two videos since and I have the same problem. The movie is indicated to be shorter than it is and the skip is erratic.

Any suggestions?

Sub, would it be possible to have a function built into the gui to switch to windowed mode from there? (rather than from the config app).

Not sure if this is a HDHomeRun or gvpvr? But I thought I would start here.

Just upgraded to the latest version of the BDA driver with dual tuner support. Configured both tuners in gbpvr and I can watch live tv with no problems. When I try to record a show, I can see the hdhomerun light up, but I only end up with a 2k file.

Been using GB-PVR as a High-def PVR for a couple months, and it's been great. The one thing I really missed from my TIVO series 2 that I used to use, however, was the little red light that would go on to indicate that a recording was taking place. I really like being able to verify with a quick glance (without turning on my TV, or something like that) that something was getting recorded when I thought it was getting recorded.

So, I started looking for a solution. I saw the "blinky" plugin (http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/Blinky), which seems cool, except for I have the keyboard hidden away behind everything, and I didn't want to have to bring it out just for that purpose.

So, I started thinking about other ways to do this, so I thought of using an LCD device, which could not only tell me if something was recording, but also could give me more feedback on the LCD display. Anyway, I didn't do a whole lot of research, but after about 5 minutes I found this LCD device: http://pertelian.com/index.php?option=co...&Itemid=48 There may be others available for cheaper, I don't know. (Like I said, I didn't do a ton of research, and this looked quick and easy to setup.) It's a 4 row by 20 column display, and it has a backlight that can be turned on or off, which would seem like a good way for me to indicate if recording is happening or not. By reading their forum and their documentation, it has an API for .NET or C++, so I went ahead and ordered it. I didn't use the included software they use to be able to stream stuff to their device, as that was too specific, but rather wrote my own code to control it using their API.

Of course, I started out looking for a simple recording status indicator, which I got with the controllable backlight, but I also got a 4 line LCD display, so I had to figure out what to use that for.

What I ended up doing was this:

On line one of the LCD, I put the system time, updated every second. (Not really needed, but what the heck.)
On line two, I rotate weather information that I grab from some XML feed from the National Weather service. Stuff like temperature, wind, windchill, heat index, etc. (My wife likes that stuff.)
On line three, I rotate system stats, like free space on my harddrive and system uptime. (Will probably add current CPU usage percentage, and CPU temp.)
On line four, I put either the name of the show that's currently being recorded, or, if nothing is being recorded, I'll put a rotating list of the eight most recently recorded shows.
When something is recording, I turn the backlight on, and if nothing is recording I turn the backlight off. A very good and easy to see recording indicator. (The main reason I got this thing in the first place.)

I put it in a cozy spot near my A/V equipment, and voila! I have my recording status indicator, along with a few other status-type things.

I didn't make this using the GB-PVR plugin architecture, since I wanted to get something quick and dirty programmed, so it's a standalone console app running in the background. (I use parallelProcessing.bat to run a utility to tell my application that something is recording, and postprocessing.bat to run a utility to tell my application that it's done recording.)

Another thing I've thought of implementing would be a "warning mode", which would flash the backlight on and off in one second intervals, if something bad happens, like the hard-drives almost fills up, or if the GB-PVR recording service stops, or something like that, that would be an easy indicator of a problem to investigate.

Anyway, just thought I'd post this to see if anyone is doing anything similar, or had other ideas of what to do with something like this with GB-PVR.

If, for some reason, other folks out there had this LCD device, or planned on getting one, I would consider turning this into an actual GB-PVR plugin, so it's more tightly integrated. (I've never looked at the plugin architecture, but I assume you can get events indicating when recording starts and stops so I could ditch using the processing batch files that I have to use now.)