Hi,
I've notice while trying to watch live TV that the picture will be
a little grainy and every now and then during fast action small lines
will appear on the screen and then disappear.
Is it that I don't have a fast enough computer for live TV?
Is there anything I can do to help out my picture?

Extra Note:
I am using Version GB-PVR 0.98.13b

Computer Specifications:
OS: Windows XP Pro ( Service Pack 2 ) ( All Patched )
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+
Mobo: ASUS A7V600 - X
RAM: 1024 Gigs DDR Ram
Video: Geforce FX 5200 ( 128 DDR )
TV Tuner: SAPPHIRE ATI Theater 550 Pro
Sound: Intergrated SoundMax Audio
Magnetic: ( Two ) 40 Gig ATA HD

Everything's working great apart from live TV. I can record and play back just fine, but when I try and watch live TV I get a blank screen with some broken up audio. Where should I start to look for what the problem could be? I don't want to break everything else so am scared to start changing things in my config.

What's else is happening in Live TV mode over playing a file back that could be causing this problem? I'd have thought the PC was beefy enough, it's a 2.4Ghz P4. Any help appreciated!

Jon.

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Its looks and works like the Singstar PS2 program, but for PC.
It can use both MP3 and videos. Music files can be found via Google.
Download Ultrastar at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultrastar/


My kids loved it and we had great fun singing "karaoke" yesterday.
I just had to skin it like Blue MCE2. The original theme looks like the PS2 original.

You can download the skin from my wiki.
http://www.hyperlinkx.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.....Ultrastar

Hi,

I've been scouring these forums for a few days now looking for answers. So far I've found a lot of answers and have got my system up and running pretty well. It's a great community. Now I have a question that I haven't found an answer to. If someone knows where to point me or has an answer, I'd appreciate it mightily!

The computer I'm using for GBPVR is an Athlon 2400+ with 768MB RAM. The HD TV card I'm using is the Vbox Cat's Eye 150. The graphics card is a GeForce Ti4600. I have GBPVR installed on the C: drive, which has about 5GB out of 80GB remaining. I have the recording set up on my H: drive which is the second partition of a 250GB drive and has about 100GB available. My page file is set to use between 768 and 1536MB on C:.

Here's my problem:

I can watch live TV just fine on the HD channels if the HD isn't really HD. That uses about 40% processor power. But if I tune to an NBC or PBS or other real HD show in 1080i or 720p, the live TV playback gets very choppy, stuttering like others have described. My processing power goes up to 90-100%.

If I record these HD shows, however, I can then watch the recording in Windows Media Player (10 I think) just fine, with no choppiness at all (except for one channel, which is a little bit jumpy from time to time, mysteriously). I can live with the recording working and having to watch it back in WMP, but am just wondering why in the world GBPVR can't deal with the live or recorded stream. I've tried a few different video codecs. the default Windows one seems to work best, followed by Intervideo. The Microsoft mux works best for recording. The Intervideo one seems ok, but the Cyberlink only records audio for some reason. My processor is only using like 4-5% when recording the show, btw... very nice!

I've heard of lesser computers on this board dealing with with HD just fine for playback, so I wonder what else could be the problem. Maybe I should install GBPVR on a hard drive with more space?


Anyway, thanks for reading! And thanks in advance for any ideas.

Hi,

I'm in the process building my first HTPC. I have the spec pretty much sorted (planning to use gbpvr obviously ) the only thing i'm not sure about is the tuner(s).

Living in the UK digital tuners would be the best choice but I also want to record satellite TV from my STB. As I understand it to record from the STB I need to use an analogue card (i.e a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150)?? but I would rather not be limitted to just analogue. So I was thinking of adding a dual digital tuner (i.e Hauppauge WinTV NovaT 500). Would this setup work under gbpvr?? Would it be possible to setup the software to record digital channels and also use a IR blaster to change the channel of the STB for recording through the STB where needed?

Thanks in advance for any help

What version of sqlite is the gbpvr.db3 file created with for v0.99.5?

(i can open it w/sqlite 3.3.12 on windows, but not w/sqlite 3.0.8 on linux -- wondering where in the middle it falls...)

thanks,
--david

Hi,

My PVR-500 works perfectly with GBPVR on both devices - but not at all with the WinTV2000 software Hauppauge themselves supplied!

It simply will not display the composite or S-Video input to the card. Maybe it is selecting device 1 instead of device 0?

Any ideas?

Cheers,
JohnO

Playing AVI files
Some time ago I was able to play movies through GB-PVR. But after updating the system I am no longer able to play them I get a black screen. I am using pvr-350 with the tuner out, the files play fine with windows media player. I am sure it is something simple but I can not figure it out. I have attached my log file if this helps.

UPGRADE DAY!

I'm going from a 1ghz P3 to a p4 2.6ghz
Downgrading my host drive to 8.4GB upgrading my storage drive to 120GB.

Ok need some advice on backing up GB-PVR, I need a complete back-up of my personal data. For example I want it like I never wipe and reload windows. I want it so I can go to recording and still watch my recorded programs in gb-pvr.
What about my configuration, do I need to make a new one?
All that stuff What do I need to back up?

Can anyone recommend a good kids learning remote? I'm ideally looking for some thing with just a few basic keys up/down/left/right/ok and maybe two or three other keys?

I'd been looking at the Weemote dV which looks pretty good, but I cant seem to find anywhere that'll ship it to New Zealand.