Pentium 3,1 gig ram....will be upgrading hard drive
I am trying to make my own "freevo" and I have a few questions.

I also dont have a microsoft windows media edition pc(I hope that doesent make a difference!)
The tuner I was looking at was the hauppage (sp*) PVR 150 I can get this card at my local frys electronics.

Basically once I buy this card and I install it into my extra pci slot plug the cable, how do I or what....

1.) hook up my tv to the computer
2.) will the card effect me from watching regular tv.....
3.) are there any drivers I will need to install once I get this for a non windows media pc.
4.) How do I get this wonderful program gbpvr to work with the card
5.) any issues with quality, if so what other card would you suggest...

Thanks again for all of your help so far!! I really appreciate it!

Just found this.....

http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecifica...mID=347497

Great price:-)

I was wondering if there is any way to adjust GBPVR to the TV? Mine is a bit off the screen, and some portions of the main menu are not shown. Thanks for your help.

I'm having a small problem with my client: it won't start in client mode. Whenever I try to start the client, it will show the splash screen for a little bit (2-3 seconds the first time I try; a split-second thereafter), and it just quits.

I've tried it in both streaming and file-sharing mode, I tried turning off the firewall on the server, and I've tried stopping the recording service on the client. None of it worked.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I'm nearly at my wits end here.

Im using hip and Im pretty certain it working correctly. Im able to control GBPVR with my MCE remote but my remote wont control my STB. While watching LIVE tv and I try to change the channel I can see the OSD channels #'s changing but the STB box does not respond. I've gone through the tutorials to set up HIP and Im fairly certain i did it correctly. When i change the channels on my MCE remote the Blaster lights up like it's suppose to. Any suggestions or recommendations?

I don't really know where to start and whom to ask. I maybe also violates some forum rules by asking a non GB-PVR related question, but I give it a shot.

The problem is that when I enable Dolby Digital and SPDIF in my AC3Filter setup I get great sound out of my soundcard which is driven by the latest Realtek AC97 drivers. Unfortunately, approximately 2 seconds after I stop the movie the whole computer just freezes and a hard reboot is needed.

I have no idea where to start troubleshooting, mostly because my knowledge in digital audio is very low. Some of you might recall my request for another AC3 decoder a couple of days ago, have put probably 20 hours on this problem now.

Any help, hint, cheerful thoughts, links, bans, spams are more than welcome.

Thanks in advance,
Joche

PS. I am gonna crosspost this to the AC3Forum aswell, but it's not as active as this. DS

If anyones interested i have a wired PAL Media MVP for sale - its only about 4 months old - its an overseas model so i have an adaptor for the power plug which i will come with the unit - $150 ono - cant get one in NZ cheaper than that (as far as im aware)...

...would be nice. Can you fix that, sub? A storm bent my rooftop, so it now points towards the Moon. Obviously the moon hasn't gone digital yet, cause I ain't getting no reception

Sorry for the bad post. Tired and frustrated. Please delete thread at will...

Just re-did my HTPC to go from GBPVR 0.90.10 (2004) to latest 0.99.50 (2007)
As Borat would have said: Great Success.

I re-installed everything (WinXP, SP2, NET 2, PVR250 drivers, ATI codecs, Audio driver, Girder 3.3, USB-UIRT drivers, config files).

Works great, but was a lot of settings and installations and messing around.

I wish if there was a Master Installer, I am sure more people would use HTPC more.
The way it is, you really need to know exactly what are u doing, otherwise it is trouble land.

Anyway, will try to see what is new (YouTube looks good ) and hopefully no new problems.

I've found an interesting bug I can reproduce on demand.

I've got a Win2k box, 3.2Ghz CeleronD, 512MB, PVR150, GeForceFX5200.

When it is time to perform a scheduled recording, as soon as GBPVR addresses the card to start the recording, the machine bluescreens and reboots. Usually after the reboot the recording starts and works just fine. Going to live TV through GBPVR works fine.

I've got the latest Hauppauge drivers from their website installed, and I've moved the card around in the PCI slots in case it was weird PCI resource voodoo that was the problem... and nothing changes the behavior. I can bring it on by going to the guide and pressing the record button on a show that is currently on air.

Anybody else run into this? Any suggestions for getting it to stop? It seems like a driver issue, but I don't have any alternates to try.