I have an ATI HDTV Wonder card. Whenever I click the Watch Live TV button, GBPVR just quits. If I schedule a recording, I get a file with a size of 0.

Anyone have any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
I've attached a zipped version of my logs directory - I wasn't able to decipher anything from them. (but I don't know what I'm looking for since I've never seen a sucessful log)

I know this is going to be very vague, as I am not at my pvr pc right now, but has a nyone ever experienced the loss of audio on channels that preveiously had it? I lost the audio on an older version of gbpvr and upgraded to the latest version last night - I am running xp pro sp2 and have the latest audio drivers. Can someone please help and let me know what other information I can supply to help you help me? I am using a winnpague pvr150 by the way.

Thanks in advance.

Heres an interesting problem, I recently added a NOVA-T500 DVB-T card to my existing setup which gives me 2 additional DVB tuners, I already had a PVR350 and managed to get the DVB-T tuners above the PVR350 in the capture source list so they took precedence.
When scheduling recordings this works fine.

However, when I choose to watch a program already running from the TV guide (ie. Live TV) it always uses the PVR350 instead of the NOVA-T card for digital channels, despite the fact that all tuners are free at the time.
I would have thought the logic on choosing which tuner to use would be the same in both cases.

Am I missing something?


Any help would be appreciated!

Please help I am truly out of ideas, after running GBPVR successfully for about 18 months (in various versions) I was suffering from trying to do to much on one PC, so decided to build a dedicated media PC.

The PC I built from new and old parts is as below
(old PC spec is in the Signature)

gbpvr version 9905 (also tried 9813)
Windows XP pro
Celeron 2.4G
Mother board Epox 4pda2+ (Intel i865-pe chipset)
memory 512 Meg PC3200 DDR Corsair Value Select
video card inno3d nvidia geforce 6200 256m

System / program disk
40 Gb Western Digital WD400JB Caviar SE, IDE (PATA), 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache,8.9 ms

Video disk
320 Gb Western Digital WD3200KS Caviar SE16, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache,8.9 ms

Hauppauge PVR 150
Twinhann sat 1022A

The problem I have is that recorded programs from satellite drop a couple of frames every 30 seconds like clockwork, from analogue still get glitches but not as pronounced or regular.

The problem seems to be at the recording stage as I can play files recorded on the old PC fine if they are copied to the hard disk of the new PC or over the network, but files recorded on the new PC still glitch when played back from either PC via a MVP

I have tried various drivers/ codec’s/ mux's / moved pci cards about / rebuilt the OS to sp2 and no further updates / no firewall antivirus etc to try and prove the source of trouble, can't see any processor or memory spikes every thing looks completely un stressed.

Is there anything that happens every 30 seconds that could cause this, has anyone else had a similar problem?
Any ideas or experiance truely welcome.

Thanks Marc

I looked through the first few pages and didn't see this request so delete this if it's been requested already.

Swap/cycle tuner feature:

The ability to swap between tuners with a push of a button:

I have this feature on my Comcast DVR and really love it. Since I don't use the live preview feature what I'd love to be able to do is program a button on my remote that "swap" between the tuners.

How it works:

If not recording:

Start Live TV and select first tuner availible with timeshift. If I press swap switch to other tuner and start timeshift.

Then have both timeshifting live tv so I can pause one on a commerical switch to other and watch it for a while then when a commerical on the second tuner starts I can pause and switch back to the first tuner. I love doing this so I can skip forward through commericals.

If I switch a channel on either tuner it just restarts the timeshift like normal

If recording but not on all tuners:

Start live TV and select the first tuner avaible thats not recording and start timeshift. If I press swap then switch to the other tuner and start playing the recording as close to live TV as possible.

If I switch a channel on the tuner that is not recording then just restart the timeshift. If on a tuner that is recording either prevent channel change or warn that if I change the channel it will cancel the recording ( I like the warning but can live with just not being able to change the channel).

If recording on all tuners:

Start live TV and ask which recording I would like to watch but start the recording as close to the live TV as possible. If I hit the swap button then just switch to the other turner and start as close to live TV as possible.

If I switch a channel either pop up a warning or prevent channel change.


I know this is a lot but I think alot of people would like it. For me it make watching live TV a lot better.

Let me know what you think.

Stephen

BTW if I haven't mentioned it enough this program absolutely ROCKS!! (I've also converted my friend from MythTV because he found out that one of the DVB-S cards he was looking at wasn't supported by linux but was supported natively with GBPVR).

I donated at Xmas but will do it again soon! Keep up the fantasic work!

I have the TV setup as a second monitor (S-video)
problem:
a) app freezes when you drag from one screen to the other.
b) time shift mode does not work (when you hit pause) when on the secondary monitor. you hit pause, it will then just sit there. the only way to 'unfreeze' it is to change the channel.

logs are from problem A.

I got them working. I wanted to post to let everyone know that you can get them working together. I'm using the 1.0.6.20 drivers from the avermedia GLOBAL site. I was having problems getting them both to work at first. I was pulling my hair out and scouring the forums trying to find a fix. What got them working was that they COULD NOT be in PCI slots next to each other because they didn't like sharing the resources.

My rig:
P4 1.6
Geforce 5200FX w/S-video (Forceware 71.89)
512Mb ram
160 Gb disk
DVD+RW/CD+RW drive
XP SP2
GBPVR 99.5
2X OEM Avermedia m150 running 1.0.6.20 driver
2X Logitech Coreless Rumblepad 2
Firefly RF remote control


Video Decoder:
GPL MPEG-1/2 Decoder (This decoder is free and out performs the pay decoders out there)

Audio Decoder:
AC3Fliter (free)

Audio Renderer:
Intel intergrated Audio (I couldn't get the audio to work with directsound for some reason)

The only thing that doesn't work is the live preview. IT has video but no audio. I've seen a post on here somewhere that says they were able to get it working but alot of places where it says live preview won't work. I'll keep trying and let you know.

At $40 a card (google seach) this was a very cheap system for me.

Stephen

Sometime my TV card doesn't start up right and it does't let me see any channel, so I have to turn of my PC (or reset it) and try again.
Is there a way to send a software reset command only to the TV card ?
Thank you for any advice.

Ok - keeping this short as possible.
1-Record show in GBPVR, .mpg format, not sure what profile or codec used.
2-using Revue, converts mpg to a compatible format DVArchive can play using VLC. Creates 3 other files, .xlm, ndx, and one other plus the mpeg.
(It calls RTVTools) http://www.planetreplay.com/software/revue/readme.html
3. DVArchive emulates another networked ReplayTV, and can stream video to actual ReplayTV unit. I import the converted file and it plays in DVarchive using VLC.
4. ReplayTV plays streamed file from DVarchive, but pixelated on 1/3 of the screen, blank on the rest.

Somewhere the comverted file isn't compatible with ReplayTV.
What should I be recording it as?

Just wanted to give an FYI that this card works great with GBPVR.
I saw that 550 Pro based cards work, but didn't see this brand in the list.

No driver issues at all, of course I DL'ed and installed the latest and greatest and avoided the included disc totally.

The included remote is so far 100% compatible. IOW I have yet to hit a button that doesn't do what it says it does.
(labeled RC6ir)

Cool! I am finally GBPVR'ing!!!