I have been using GBPVR for about a month now and it is working great. Thanks SUB for providing such a great program. My question has to do with security software. When I installed GBPVR on my computer, I did a clean install of my entire system. My computer is solely dedicated to GBPVR. I do not use the computer for surfing the internet (except for windows updates and ZAP2IT updates). I have a netgear router with a firewall and I have service pack 2 which also includes a mediocre firewall. Do I need to install any other security software?

Thanks

Have been using arcsoft totalmedia to watch freeview through my k-world usb reciever. Started having a bit of aggro with it so had a look on google and came agross gb-pvr. Have read the quickstart wiki guide, updated my EPG through the config menu, but whenever i click on live tv it gives the "no channels ahve been setup please use the configuration utiulity and setup the EPG source..... which i have done.

Any ideas?

I recently installed Vista Buisness on my computer.

My main drive is a 250GB Sata 2 drive that was running XP SP2 and GBPVR.
I'm using a Hauppauge PVR150 card on US Cable TV.

I shrunk the 250 drive to 150GB and installed Vista Business on the last 100GB of the drive.

After that, somehow my XP tv-tuner drivers got botched and I haven't been able to get that fixed. I've uninstalled everything, software, drivers and GBPVR with no luck. So i decided to try my luck with Vista.

I installed GBPVR on Vista with no problems. I configured the settings, updated the EPG and launched. The program seems to run fine, but when I want to watch Live TV I get audio but no video and the screen shows the last menu I was on. So if i go from tv guide and pick a show then pick watch, that whole menu stays on the screen. If i go straight to LiveTV the screen freezes as is.

I can right click and GBPVR handles it properly, it goes back to the main menu which is navigateable and i can load videos from YouTube and the video library without issues and they play fine.

Where should I start hunting this problem down? Drivers? Logs?

Need more information?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I was reading one of my rarely visited bookmarked sites and came across this article: Satellite Pay Channels on Your Computer For Free (if you have a DVB card)

Now I've seen DVB mentioned on this site a lot, but always thought it was a European thing because you never hear about DVB in the US (which is where I am).

Then, from that article, I came across www.lyngsat.com and saw a section called Free TV from United States. At first I thought there was nothing worth watching on this list, but upon further investigation I found I was wrong.

From searching the forums, I've found that there are 3 types of DVB: DVB-T, DVB-S, and DVB-C. I'm guessing that DVB-T is more like our ATSC which is digital channels coming from antennas from local stations. I think I'm more interested in DVB-S which are channels that come from satellite.

So here goes my questions....
1. Where can I find more information about utilizing DVB in the US?
2. How well does DVB work with GB-PVR in the US?
3. How easy is it to get DVB channels in the US and how many are easily available?
4. Are there any threads about this? I couldn't find anything that explained DVB to me and how it is in the US.

I think all questions can be summed up by question 1. Anyways, any help is appreciated, thanks.

I want to use SQLite for the DB as I don't have access on my machine. How/where do you install this DB?

Thanks

On System screeen:
- Show "EPG Last updated on XX/XX/XXXX"
OR
- Show "You have EPG Data up to YY/YY/YYYY" (like EWA)

Also, during update, maybe a progress? something that shows it's working? %-wise would be even better, or something that shows the current action.

Thanks.

I know I must purchase additional hardware, but my question is how much?

My current setup:

Pvr-150 running on P4 2.4 Ghz 1 Gig Ram blah blah blah...

My PC sits in a computer room away from the Set Top Box. I have "DirecTV", with a Sony Receiver. ( no serial cable support )

I have a "Firefly" remote, but that will only allow me to control GB-PVR, and what I really desire is to have GB-PVR change channels on my Set Top Box. The PC and TV share a common wall that I have cables running through, so I could place an "IR-Blaster" type of device in the same room as the Set Top Box.

Can anyone recommend the cheapest / easiest route to for me to head in?

I'm really only interested in transmitting to the STB. I don't mind so much if I can't use a "remote" to change channels from the PC room. My main objective it to have GB-PVR be able to change the channels when a recording is scheduled.

Any help would be appreciated. Are there any other options then the $50.00 USB-UIRT?


Thanks.

I just wanted to say "Thanks" to sub for the time and effort he has put into GBPVR.

As anybody who has the WAF (or HAF) to deal with, you have made this software easy to use and very reliable. My wife the other day just mentioned how great the HTPC is and how easy it is to use with the menus and all from GBPVR.

Thanks again sub, paypal is on it's way to help you with GBPVR!

Hi all,

Question: KWorld ATSC 110 has an analog tuner (aside from the digital tuner). Is there anyway to use this inside GBPVR? The Digital tuner on this card is listed and works beautifully. But so far only Beyond TV seems to see the analog part this... I don't particularly like BTV...

Thanks for the help

Yiran

Hi all,

I'm having some strange issues with switching from live tv mode to timeshifting mode. First of all, if I disable the live tv mode, GB starts in time shift mode with no issue (this is with both DVRMs muxing and MPEG muxing). But if I allow live tv mode, and then click the pause thing to go to time shifting, I run into the message "object reference not set an referenced object" or something of that nature. What's going on?

I'm using a Kworld atsc 110 card/ ATI 1600 Pro/ cyberlink Video/SP decoder (PDVD7)/ ffdshow audio decoder.

Other than the problem stated, I have no issues whatsoever.

Thanks for the help

Yiran