I have setup a windows 2003 server for my GBPVR system, XP was just to finniky for me, 2003 seems way more stable.
Everything is working great except for my IR remote. It is the one that came with the PVR150MCE, it's USB attached, and it is a MCE remote, even has the big green Windows button on it. This used to work fine under XP, but under 2003, it dosn't want to function. Funny thing is, the drivers and software are all installed and appear to be working, I even downloaded the latest version from the Hauppage site, but to no avail.
Has anyone had any experience with this? or can even point me in the riht direction?
The ir.exe program that Hauppage provides, along with the tray icon are of little help, I wish it had some diagnostics bult into it, or could at least tell me if it is receiving anything when I push a button.
I have tried telling the program to run as XP for compatability mode, but still no go... Other then this little issue, my GBPVR system is excellent and working great.
I'm using GB-PVR on my main PC with a Pinnacle PCTV 200e DVB-T card and it's great, especially now I have the remote working. Now I want to build a new system to go in the lounge with the TV. I'm in the UK - I have NTL digital cable with a Pace STB and a Freeview aerial signal. I'd like to put a DVB-T tuner and a MPEG capture device such as the Hauppauge PVR-150 in the new machine so I can control and record NTL as well as Freeview, independently of each other. I may also want to use a wireless MVP later on. Scouring these forums I think I know how to proceed, but can I ask:
1. What do I do about EPGs for 2 cards? How does GB-PVR handle this scenario? Can I use the DVB-T EPG as well as XMLTV (say) for NTL? Are they independent or all mixed up?
2. What's the best way to get an EPG for NTL? XMLTV?
3. Will any old display card with a TV out socket do or is there a "best buy" for a PC like this?
4. Is the Hauppauge PVR-150 the best thing for this setup?
5. What's the current feeling on the best IR blaster to control an NTL Pace STB?
6. Can I get a third party remote that will control both tuner cards or will I have to resign myself to the 2 remotes that come with the cards?
7. Any wisdom on small mobo's for PCs like this?
8. How powerful should the processor be? This machine will only do 2 things - run GB-PVR and browse the internet (via wireless G), nothing else.
Haven't had an issue with the PVR in a few weeks. This morning turned it on to find LiveTV was like watching a slideshow. Alt-tabbed to TaskMan and GBPVR.exe was at 99% utilization. Exited GBPVR and saw msg that gbpvrrecording service had crashed but msg had been suppressed till now (see screenshot in zip file). Zipped up my logs at that point. Restarted recording service and all is fine for now. Thanks!
Edit: something I just noticed now is that the GBPVR screenshot shows the recordingservice crashed back on the 5th of Dec! That might explain why it missed recording the show "Heroes" on the 5th. No failed recording msg or anything within the application which I thought was strange but I believe I restarted the recording service the next day for good measure and hadn't had an issue with it till today.
I have gbpvr 0.98.13 running (fresh install), autostarting 1 mvp server. When I fire up my MediaMVP, it shows teh status screen for contacting server, then goes to a black screen, and then back to the contacting server screen. This repeats endlessly. On my PC I have the attached MediaMVP GUI Server has encountered a problem error popup. Any ideas?
I have the feeling that postprocessing with the PostProcessing.bat file works fine as long as the filenames do not include a space character.
So MadMax12342343.dvr-ms is fine but Mad Max12342343.dvr-ms is not as only the first word would be regarded as the filename in the batch file.
Can I change the naming conventions of GBPVR to not include space characters? Or can I change the way the filename is passed to the batch file by GBPVR in a way that it works?
I just wanted to know if their is a way to change from viewing on the PC monitor to my TV. It works on both but i have to go into the GB-PVR config to switch between the two. Or can i view on both at the same time.
Thanks
When I have a recording start, the scroll light does not come on, and a blinky.rec file is not created. There is the following lines inthe gbpvr.log
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9/12/2006 9:07:03 p.m..437 VERBOSE [6] Blinky Configuration Setting /Config/writefilename :blinky.rec
9/12/2006 9:07:03 p.m..437 VERBOSE [6] System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid Boolean.
at System.Boolean.Parse(String value)
at Blinky.Blinker.LoadConfig()
I have recently bought a KWorld PVR-TV 300U USB 2.0 TV Tuner Dongle. I have searched the forums in hopes of figuring out how to make it work with gbpvr, but it only appeared in one thread, and those answers were inconclusive. I'd appreciate it if somebody could inform me as to how to make the PVR-TV 300 Dongle (not to be confused with the DVBT 300U Tuner Box) compatible with gbpvr, because the native "PVR Plus" software that comes with the device is not working correctly. If the problem remains unsolved and worst comes to worst, I'd also appreciate it if you could tell me some other alternative tv-tuner/pvr software that would most probably work with this dongle. Thanks and Regards.
I've just recently installed GB-PVR (v0.98.13b) on a Windows 2000 Pro (Pentium 4 1.8 gHz box) and I am having problems getting the DVD Button to come up so I can watch DVDs. I can record and watch TV shows just fine with my Hauppauge PVR350, but no luck on the DVDs. I thought maybe it was dependent upon my dvd decoder so I tried both WinDVD 2000 and PowerDVD 5 and neither worked for me. I could play the DVD through those programs, but I couldn't get the DVD button to come up in GB-PVR. Any ideas?
I'm transcoding all successful recordings to ipod format, and so far it's working great.
I was wondering though if there was a way I could modify the the IPOD transcoding settings. I'd like to try and increase the quality a bit, as I'm not to worried about conserving drive space on the video ipod.
