Sub - can you help ?
I can find ALL of the freeviw channels using winTV, but GBPVR finds nothing. I have an old set of channel mappings which are allowing me to watch TV, but if I rescan I get nothing.
I have recently added another Nova-T board, and nothing is found on this one either.
Is GBPVR 'less sensitive' to channel scanning than winTV, or is there something wrong ? I have attached the logs (this is a fresh set containing details of a scan for each card I have installed).
I have done a full clear and reinstall of the drivers, and I can watch TV using old mappings so I am thinking that there is a bug in the channel scanning code ? Any thoughts ?
My Scientific Atlanta lets me hook up an external SATA drive, and the way it works is it starts recording to the drive with the most free space (internal or external). Once the drives are at the same level, it starts ping ponging between the drives (this recording internal, next recording external) - it never spreads a recording over 2 drives. I think this would be fairly easy to implement. You could add another recordings drive and go from there!
I have been usin SQL to modify the DB content (to edit some info regaring programs) but since GBPVR hsas the Export/import functionality I am thinking of exporting the DB content to an XML file, Edit and re-import it to the DB. Would this create doules in the DB or will the info be replaced?
Another thing. Can I Export on one GBPVR machine (lets say my server) and import the recordings (with paths edited) on another machine (lets say at my parents or in-laws). Would the information merge with what's in the database or would it replace it all together?
I have found no info on how it works even though I have tried to search in the Forum and Wiki.
I have seen a somewhat odd problem that I've not seen or read about here before.
First off, I use GBPVR for OTA (USA) digital/HD receiving/recording with a DVICO ATSC tuner card, and it all works great.
I was using the Cyberlink audio decoder, which worked fine for connecting stereo audio to my TV audio input. However, I was never able to get 5.1 audio out of the optical output of my sound card to connect to my 5.1 receiver using that decoder.
To try to get 5.1 audio, I tried using the AC3filter audio decoder, and was able to get 5.1 audio out of my sound card, with one caveat: When watching live TV, the A/V synchronization is off. The audio runs quite a bit ahead of the video, making it impossible to watch. I messed around with the AC3filter settings, but could never get that fixed.
Then, however, I noticed that if I watched programs that had already been recorded, the A/V sync was perfect! Odd. So, I did the following:
Watch something live. Notice the A/V sync being off. Go to the TV Guide, and start recording that show. Go back to watching live TV, and select that show that is being recorded to watch it as it's being recorded. Magically, A/V sync is perfect! This proves it has nothing to do with the actual content of the show, and has everything to do with whether it's live or recorded. (I think.)
So, for some reason, A/V sync. is perfect for me using that decoder when watching a recorded show, but not a live show.
As a further experiment, I'll watch a show live, then hit 'pause' to put it in time-shift mode, expecting the A/V sync to work since it was now working off a recorded source, but alas, the A/V sync would stay off in this scenario.
This isn't that big a deal, since I only would use the 5.1 audio on occasion, and do most of my watching using the stereo output to my TV using the Cyberlink decoder. If there's something where I'd want to use the 5.1 output to my receiver, like the upcoming Superbowl, I'll just record it and watch it allmost realtime as it's being recorded using the AC3filter, and the AV Sync will be fine.
I'm just confused as to why the AV sync for that decoder works on recorded shows but not when watching live TV?
Sometimes GB-PVR will get an error - "Object something something..." or similar.
In some cases, from that point GB-PVR (GUI) will not work the same, or won't play any more files, etc. The easy way is to "restart" the GUI.
I have that "restart" button on my remote, and the wife knows about it too, just in case.
And I know we should try and solves these one at a time and clean (either the app or our installs/plugins/systems) from those problems.
But I thought, for the long term (trying to make the app more robust, stable, and so), if the app could "recognize" those situation and either restart itself, or clean-up and re-create the relevant objects, or whatever is needed.
I'm not saying to "hide" those errors - still display as it is now, but just restart the relevant objects to be able to continue normally.
I am having an issue that I can see has plagued a few other people on this forum, but alas none of the fixes work for me.
I get awful playback of LiveTV, really jerky in both video and audio, but I have tried all the suggestions to fix it. I can play back recordings perfectly, so I have rounded the issue down to the GBPVRParser.ax file. Here's what I've tried so far:
- LiveTV pre-delay to 4000ms in config
No change.
- Lower filter priority in Radlight to 'do not use'
No change
- Uncheck 'use live preview mode if possible'
No change
- Unregister GBPVRParser.ax
unable to watch TV, error 'Error: playing back file'. Attached is GBPVR.exe-native.log,txt from this attempt. It looks like it doesn't want to think about any other demux.
- Set config buffers in XML
<ClientModeCachedReadSize>65536</ClientModeCachedReadSize>
<ClientModeLiveTVPrePlayDelay>4000</ClientModeLiveTVPrePlayDelay>
no change, settings ignored?
- Wireless network checkup: connect with wires
no change
I think I've done everything I have read up to change, can you suggest anything more? Many thanks in advance.
Hi all,
The most important thing for me to be able to do is stream live tv and recordings to another pc in the house.
I have read a few guides on this through these forums but they are all slightly different. Nothing I have tried has got it working.
I wondered whether it was possible for someone who has got it working to provide an updated guide on how to do it. Thanks muchly.
Out of curiosity is the streaming part of the software being developed to make it more user friendly i.e no more editing config files etc all doen thru the interface...just wondered.
Thanks in advance
Mark
As most likely have, I have a lot of scheduled, reoccurring programs.
The "do not record duplicates" works great for me with Zap2It. Thanks!
However, if I delete an individual recording whose show is on the schedule still, next time it comes up, I'll get it again. So to keep dupes from happening you have to keep the original show on the HD "forever". I would have thought 1.5 terabytes would be enough...
It would be fun if there were an option to add a given recording's ID to a "seen it, ignore it" list so that I could free up HD space and still avoid dupes, without having to have the dupe actually present on the HD.
I think this would only work if it also kept the description etc. in the dbase as well, so you could edit it conveniently later.
I know you want to keep the interface tidy but there might be room for a "disregard episode" button when viewing a show description, and then an "Edit Disregard List" (sorry, the thesaurus didn't help here) button from "Recordings".
