In the home page of gbpvr(.com), second paragraph it reads:

Quote:GB-PVR also supports specialist hardware decoders including Sigma Designs XCard...

Does anyone have this? I'm trying to use the IR transeiver that came with my PVR-150, but none of the codes seem to work, even when the WinTV software polls them all. Thanks

I recently set up a dual-tuner GBPVR (v995) system (PVR-150 & HVR-1600) using the latest drivers for the capture cards. I am using a Geforce 7300 GS to output the results to my SD television using s-video. I'm using the latest version of the NVidia PureVideo decoder with all the recommended settings. I'm running Windows XP MCE SP2 as my OS.

I'm really happy with the program and the resulting files... one issue I'm having is that the picture in both live-tv and recordings doesn't exactly fit the television. So what happens is that the edges of the picture are kind of "wavy" and slightly distorted. I'd like to be able to adjust the picture and crop it, so that these distorted edges are not showing up.

I tried to adjust the overscan in the NVidia driver setup, by shifting the picture over and zooming in to crop the outer edges. These changes help with the display of Windows on the television, but seem to have no effect on GBPVR television output.

Help! =)

Ok I decided to move my main pc in to my media box.
On doing so the CPU decided to die. When looking to see what my motherboard could handle in its place I find that there is no available CPU that it can handle!
Was an AMD XP 1900
I decided to upg the motherboard to allow for a newer cpu which now I find means that it is nearly impossible to get a motherboard that supports AGP!
So the upshot of this I have decided to get the following:
CPU
Motherboard
Graphics card
Ram

I have about £300 to play with and it was wondering what to go for.
AMD OR INTEL
Dual or single core
DDR or DDR2

As I have not had to buy a new system for a few years things seem to have changed a lot and I appear to be a bit out of touch.

I have a client set up and can watch both liveTV and recordings. However, the quality seems to be very poor. I have attached a screen shot. I have tried different muxes, streaming, file sharing etc and still get the poor quality. Any idea why ?

I now seem to have GBPVR running on the desktop but for the MVP I had to disable Vista's firewall and GBPVR will only action three or so remote commands before it stops reacting. It usually goes to locating servers after a short while and the cycle continues. Logs attached. N.B. I have no operative sound card as vista doesn't want to know about my old aureal card! (I destroyed the mobo one!).

Sure is a learning curve this vista! I have most of the important apps going but it seems like playing Russian Roulette!

sub, I fully understand if you don't want to know about vista problems. But maybe someone has got it figured out.
TIA.

I thought that I had this solved when I found that I had not unchecked the Force minimal OSDS box in the MVP tab of the config.app but I have not. I again am having trouble changing channels. When I press the keys to change channel on the remote, I am just as likely to go to the menu page, as to change channels. I have changed the numbers for the MVp Live pre-play as Sub has suggested, and making the number larger or smaller just makes the problem worse
On a hunch that the problem may be on the Play Back tab, I have been decreasing the numbers for the Live TV pre-play delay on the PB tab. The smaller I make the number, it seems the less likely to go to the Menu page. I started with this number at 1800 as shown on the WIKI. Could this be a solution? I don't know why the number on the WIKI is 1800!
Any other suggestions? What about a hardware problem? I did drop the remote once, but only about 2 feet. Everything works well from the keyboard.

When I do press the numbers to change channels, one of the picture frames is frozen for some time. Then it either changes or goes to the menu.

Also, when MVP looses contact with GBPV, it takes a long time to get re-established. Sometimes, I have to turn everything off and start over.

Thanks

Hey Jeff,
Maybe I'm missing something, but ever since I upgraded to the latest version of Video Archive, when I start the app it defaults to an entry labled "Up to Main List", and I can't arrow off of it. I can page up or down, and then navigate normally, but I can't seem to do anything while sitting on this entry. At the risk of sounding stupid, what's it there for? It used to default to What's New, which I really liked. Now I have to fight to get there.

What's up?

Thanks,
Kevin

P.S. I really love Video Archive, I just don't get this latest change.:confused:

Anyone who has the remote below, Hauppauge MCE Bundle(1062), I have some good news.



This remote acutally has 7 hidden or unused buttons, which are found below the clear and enter buttons You will have to open your remote however to view these buttons and you will have to sorta rig it with new contacts from another remote. The buttons are:

Yellow
Green
Red
Blue
Teletext
Opt1
Opt2

I was able to get the Opt1 & 2, Yellow and Blue buttons to work, but couldn't get the others to work. I think that Hauppauge messed up something with this remote therefore leaving 3 buttons useless.

I programmed my buttons as follows:
Opt1(Button all the way to the left) - Red
Yellow - Green
Blue - Yellow
Opt2 - Blue

It would have been awesome to get all the buttons working, but 4 more buttons are better than none.

Besides these buttons, I have everything but one working in my setup. I am currently configured with the ehome driver and HIP. I am using HIP in conjunction with the ehome driver.

Hate to take the short cut here but.. Is there a skin that will work with everything? I've tried different skins but have found that some things do not work well.... I'm using the Movie, Weather and sports plugins and had problems with some skins.

I'm sure they're skins that just seem to work okay...

Thanks
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