I am, of course, attempting the impossible, but I'm beta testing a dual tuner card. SHS supplied a bda.ini and a direct.ini file that we hoped would work. The ATSC tuner does work and I can record with it. (using GB-PVR) The Cyberlink muxer (once I found out what it was and why I needed it) is OK for SD ATSC (480p) but does a terrible job on 720p and 1080i.

The card has a Conexant CX23418 so it is supposed to use hardware encoding for the analog tuner, unlike the HVR-950 and other hybrid cards. When I use the GB-PVR "Tuning Assistant" I can select the "Hauppauge HVR 1600 (analog)" and it will tune channels but Configuration does not detect the tuner and attempting manual selection and recording results in an error because GB-PVR could not find the crossbar filter. (but filtercheck does show it)

The native application works OK with the tuner (WinTV2000)

I've zipped the bda.ini, direct.ini, filtercheck.log, and GB....native.log from a failed the recording, and the inf for the card's installation.

Any help would be appreciated. I realize that this could be really hard and possibly fruitless.

Hi All. Love this PVR software but have been having issues with it. I'm running v.98.13b and I'm constantly getting a .NET Runtime Exception. This happens at least every 3 - 4 days, sometimes multiple times per day. I'm using my Media MVP to communicate with the recording service. Any help is much appreciated!

The log file shows this exception:

12/15/2006 9:18:24 PM.294 ERROR [10] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xf9d81bb81f7c2ff0()
12/15/2006 9:18:25 PM.294 VERBOSE [10] StopLiveTV()
12/15/2006 9:18:25 PM.591 ERROR [10] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION:: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer)
at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.SetActiveVideoPlayer(IVideoPlayer videoPlayer)
at GBPVR.xbe83d16b02243330.x9d0357308a26468a(Boolean x34c7e6ccfb82bbba)
at GBPVR.xbe83d16b02243330.stop()
at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xf9d81bb81f7c2ff0()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

Hi,

Does anyone know why some .mpg program recordings that play back without any problems in VLC do not seem to have any audio whilst being played back via the GB-PVR interface/application?.

All of the programs that seem to have no audio have been recorded from Five US (Pimp my ride) however, both audio and video playback without any problems in VLC.

Confusing .

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Best Regards.

It would be great to have a mini lite webbased statusscreen! So I can logon to my gbpvr with the webbrowser of my mobilephone to have a look on what goin on on gbpvr.

I notice that with the hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T, there's a delay, like 1sec between video and sound track.

Is there some parameters in GB-PVR to correct this problem ?

Is there some tools to correct this problem ?

Hi,

I just installed the latest version of GBPVR and I have the MCE 2005 ver 1 remote. I am able to navigate and click enter, but that is all. I cannot pause, FF, RW any divx files, etc. Any ideas? Thanks.

Jack

Here's the deal-- i'm at my house in louisville for a month, and I brought my pvr. So I want to ask, what's the easiest way to change my tv guide settings without messing anything up? I've noticed that if I simply change the zap2it settings, all the channels are out of order, and sometimes I have other problems.

First, GBPVR is awesome. Thanks so much for creating this, and to everyone else who develops and supports it.

I just installed a PVR150 in my wife's PC last night. Everything went great. First I installed all the Hauppauge stuff, just to make sure it worked (WinTV, scheduler, guide, etc)
Then I downloaded the .net framework and GBPVR. Got it all installed (no reboots) and seemed to be working, except the remote. (Forget that I had to click Fix remote. Did that, but haven't tried it again yet).
Setup my MediaMVP out in the living room and everything works. I knew I didn't need any of its software, so the CD stayed in the sleeve.
However, the tray icons for GBPVR and the Hauppauge IR blaster are not in the tray. GBPVR still works, and the MVP still boots and lets me do everything, but the tray icons are gone on the PC. A few of my other icons are gone too. It took a good 5 minutes for my AVG icon to show up, and the 'remove hardware' icon is gone too.
I thought maybe I couldn't have WinTV installed as well as GBPVR, so uninstalled that, but no difference. They did show up after one reboot last night, but not this morning again.
I tried a search and couldn't find anything. It'll be my luck that something similar is right here on the first page though. I thought I remember seeing something about it. It may have been over at BYO though.
Once again, everything still works. Recording, guide, etc. I can open GBPVR from the start menu, and do the same if I need to go into config. Which I did about 20 times messing with MVP screen positioning.

Any ideas?

I've done bit more testing with GB-PVR and the NVidia Decoder to figure out why playback uses so much CPU and is generally unfavorable. When I opened a MPG file in WMP or GraphEdt (letting it create a default graph) playback was good and had very low CPU usage, and I wanted the same within GB-PVR.

The conclusion? NVidia PureVideo decoders perform terrible with VMR enabled and supposed harware accelleration, worse than the Nero decoders w/o hardware accelleration. The good performance I was seeing in WMP and GraphEdt were due to Overlay mode (which has Pros and Cons) - VMR mode stinks.

Results might be different for you with your hardware.

My System:
AMD 2500
768 Meg RAM
NVidia 6200 w/ 256 Meg
NVidia 93.71 Forceware Drivers
Latest PureVideo Decoders (as of today - 12/15)

Testing: I tested by selecting my video mode and decoder in GB-PVR's config, playing the same segment of a video each time. Within GB-PVR I would play the video briefly, stop it and then open LastGraph.grf in the GB-PVR directory with GraphEdt. This allowed me to see the filters present, check their options and play the file for a couple minutes, watching CPU usage. The Overlay mode graph I couldn't open with GraphEdt (I got an unregistered filter error) so instead I did playback in GB-PVR and graphed it's CPU usage.

In VMR mode I did some tests removing GB-PVR specific filters from the graphs (GB-PVR Flow Status and GB-PVR Parser) to see what impact there was. As sub predicted, there was no impact whatsoever. The GB-PVR filters are not introducing performance penalties.

The only area that I have some uncertainty about is Overlay mode. GB-PVR's use of the NVidia Decoders doesn't perform as well as GraphEdt or WMP in Overlay mode - the difference is significant. I can't tell what's going on because I can't open the Overlay mode graph. I have a little more to investigate that might shed some light on it, but at this point I've proven GB-PVR isn't at fault for the VMR mode problems anyway.

Take a look at the graphs below:

Is there anybody who has experience with this card ?

Can it be used without the PVR-software (only the drivers) ?

I have been told that an unlock code is required to make the card
fully operational, and that the software (crappy, many 100megabytes)
is needed plus that you have to pay for it.

Also their EPG has a monthly fee.

should we avoid Pinnacle ?