I've been having a bugger of a time trying to find a combo of codecs and overlay settings to play recorded HD content.
Most everything simply studders and plays back the v-v-v-i-i-d-d-d-e-e-o-o very slowly. Cyberlink decoders (from V5 disk I have) play back almost normally, but the longer I watch, the longer the audio is ahead of video - easily goes to 5 seconds off in 15 minutes.
My hardware:
IBM T40 Laptop - has ATI Mobility radeon 7500 card - 1.6 gig processor + 512 megs of ram. The 7500 product page on ati's website mentions hardware acceleration for HDTV playback... I don't think I've found anything to utilize that yet.
Nvidia has the Purevideo decoders to utilize hardware decoding... does ATI have somthign similar and/or is there a 3rd party codec that seems to work better than another with ATI hardware?
Am I asking too much from my humble laptop to play this content??
I do not understand where all the info for a show is stored and how the filename of the recording and the database play into it all. Maybe someone can help me understand. It may help if you know what it is I'd like to do...
First thing I'd like is a way to quickly change the filename of the file, manually (while sitting at the PC...no MVP requirement), to something more meaningful to me...but have it still work with GBPVR. My worry is if I change the filename it will be lost...the db will no longer know where it is or what its called...is this true or not?
Second...in case I need help with determining a new name for the file I'd like to "view show info" to remember a bit about the episode...then I can rename it.
I am fine with doing this all through windows explorer for now, but ultimately through GBPVR would be great...or through something like Slim's tray utility...that would be really sweet!!
I am taking the plunge and buying an MVP. Question is.....which one? I always had in my mind that I was going wired as I believe(d) wireless cannot be as good. My router is a Dlink DI-524. From reading some posts though it seems that the wireless may be ok after all. The wired MVP is cheaper but by the time you buy cable, it would be around the same price as buying a wireless mvp. Running the cable is not too much of a PITA for me, but wireless would definitely be easier!
So, the question is, if running cable wasn't a problem, would you go wired or wireless MVP from a audio/video quality and cost perspective.
things are never as simple as they should be........
just got another tuner card taking me to 3 + the sound card but now the PC wont boot into windows (BIOS is OK).
Ive tried different slot combinations, but it just doesnt like a 4th card, ie 3 x tuners is OK, 2 + soundcard is OK, just not 4 of anything.
I've tried greater PCI latency settings and underclocking the whole rig - all with no sucsess.
any ideas????:confused:
PS all the onboard ports except LAN are disabled, so it shouldnt be an IRQ problem...
Hi zehd,
I am trying to understand zProcess better. I read through the document on wiki and it seems zProcess supports conversion to avi. I do not have MVP and I will be using GB PVR to play the converted AVI . currently after running comskip and comcelan via post processing batch file when I play the file via GB PVR I have the episode information attached to the file. Dose using this tool will keep that Information attached to Compressed avi file?
I have just recently completed a clean install of windows xp due to hard drive issues, and have successfully set up and tested gbpvr. I have a pvr150 for basic cable and an avermedia a180 for OTA HD.
I tested both cards and have managed to record / watch live tv using both.
I have just started to see the recording service crash with a psiparser error shown in event viewer when trying to record HD. I have not as yet tested this on all OTA HD channels. Any ideas as to what is causing the error?
Seeing as I have not checked this problem on all channels, could this be related to signal strength??
recording service logs and event viewer jpg attached
Machine spec is an AMD Atlon 64 3400+ with 1 gb RAM twin 500gb WD drives
Ok with me new TV Card (DVB-T) i got cyberlink PowerCinema, which works fine and picks up around 30 channels. Was wondering if this Program can record in Xvid, and not just MPG? (and why does it pick BBC3 up as CBBC Channel)
Also, why is it that MCE cannot pick up any channels, (or services as they call them) Even though PowerCinema can? :confused:
Have reset all the MCE settings, using a nice little tool, and started from scratch setting it up, but still MCE cannot pick up any channels for me :confused:
Ok I wanted to start off by saying that this may or may not be specifically GBPVR related.
I recently bought myself a wii which is great but leaves me with a lack of component inputs on my TV. I only have 2 inputs on my TV. I have my GBPVR in the svid input, my cable box hooked up with the coaxial, and my dvd player/surround sound combo hooked up to the component. To hook up my wii I have to disconnect the dvd player or install a video switch (which I dont want to do.)
The first thing I tried was connecting my wii to the component in on my PVR 150. But due to the way the remote sensor works and where my computer is located, it has to be connected to the TV. The second method I tried was connecting the video out of the DVDplayer/Surround sound system to the component in on the PVR. I ended up with the audio out of sync with the video when watching live tv in GBPVR. Is this a latency issue due to the time it takes for the card to process the information and send it to the TV? Or is the problem with GBPVR processing the image?
My other option is to use the dvd player on my gbpvr computer but the sound is throughouly screwed up. Voices are very quite, but the music and explosions (etc) is really loud. It also seems like the surround sound does not work properly. Using the DVD player on my GBPVR would be a fine solution if I could get the surround sound to work. Does anyone have any suggestions? hints?
It’s been great 1 week of using GBpvr. Wiki and forum is wealth of information but it’s getting overwhelming reading through all the information so I decided to ask for support.
I gave beyond media and Sage TV a chance. Beyond TV went out of the door as it dose not have media center. Sage TV is good but after process is complicated and took me lot of time to figure out which codec plug-in and utility to use foe cleaning and re-encoding shows in avi format while keeping them showing up with full info and in recorded show profile.
Here is my setup
Core: Core™2 Duo Processor E6300 @ 1.86GHz, 1066MHz FSB | Chipset Intel® P965 (Viiv™
Memory: 2GB dual-channel DDR2 (2 x 1024MB), 533Mhz (PC4200)
Video: NVIDIA® GeForce® 7300LE with TurboCache 256 MB | Sharp aquos 37”
Tuner: PVR 150 (recording basic analog cable) |plan to add 2 PVR 500 MCE
Storage: 320GB SATA II (7200rpm, 8MB cache)
Audio: Creative Audigy 2 ZS | Logitech Z-5500
OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 with Sp2 roll up
GB Pvr v0.99.5, with comskip, comcut; Media themes from Tipstr
[COLOR="Purple"]Here is the question
1) After installing comcutt I get mpeg file which replaces my original recording with commercial clean mpeg file. When played in GB Pvr on TV it displays the Episode information. Now I want to compact this file to high compression avi while keeping the episode information intact. Is there any way to do that? And is it automated like comcutt.
2) What is zProcess will it do what I want or it’s only for MVP[/COLOR]
Thanks in advance. and sorry for long thread i just want to put as much information as i can
