I'm not sure if this is the right place for this or not, but whatever.
I know a lot of people have suggestions about the Sleeptimer and whether it should hibernate, sleep, close GBPVR, or completely shut down... but how about if it just stopped whatever you were watching (i.e. Live TV, Recording, Video, etc.)?
That way GBPVR could still run and do its thing and when you wake up you still have it on your screen, but you don't have to listen to TV all night if you left it on. And... your power management can still take over after a while too when everything has stopped so your computer can eventuall shutdown (or whatever) if you want it to (wow, thats too big of a run-on to even correct!). See, it makes everyone happy!
Everytime I play a recording and it reaches the end of the program, the video stops on the last 2 frames and kinda jumps between them. It doesn't go back to the menu at the end of playing. It only does this on my recorded programs that are still in MPEG form. It's not really frozen because I can still navigate the menu's and just play the next recording; it's just paused.
It's a problem because if I try to play my recording back to back it will just pause at the end of the first show and won't auto skip to the next one. It doesn't do it on Divx files even while using comskip files.
Could this be related to the same problem with timeshifting? It seems to be the same exact thing. Reaches the end of a program and refuses to move on.
I have always been somewhat disapointed by the playback quality on my tv which was very "vhs like".
I attributed the quality issues to either my Dollar Store cables, my substandard rig or the fact that I was using the coax input to the pvr-150.
Over the weekend I decided to attack the problem. I invested in some nice THX certified cables from monster and switched to the S-Video PVR-150 input. No change.
I then did a lot of reading in the forums and wiki about tweaking playback perofrmance and decided that my problem must be with my decoder. Purchased the Invidia decoder online and installed it. No change.
While typing a support post I described the video I was getting on my TV as looking "kind of like a computer monitor set to 16 bit color". At this point a tiny 15 watt bulb appeared over my head and began to glow dimly.
Before pressing "submit new thread" I had a quick look at my invidia software and discovered I had been watching many hours of tv a week for over a year in 16 bit color.
My playback performance is now nearly indistinguishable from the output of my STB.
First of all forgive me because I feel the solution to this must be straight forward...
I have just upgraded my two PVR250 analog cards to a WinTv-Nova-T-500 digital TV card, I searched the forum and found the necessary bit to go in the BDA.INI file. All installed fine and worked!
But I'm confussed by the format of the recorded files, the Hauppauge utility records in mpeg2 but GBPVR is producing dvr-ms files (which my MVP doesn't like much). Trawling various threads I believe that I need a mux setting up but I'm not sure where to get it or why the Hauppauge installation hasn't already added it for me (after all it's saving in mpeg format).
Any help for this digital newbie would be well received...
Any plans to add support for DVBT radio?
It's great having all the radio stations on the settop box, but it would be better still to have the capability to use GBPVR to record radio shows - in fact, it would be more useful than recording TV shows!!
(as anybody who listens to Radio4 or BBc World Service I'm sure will confirm ...)
And the Radio Scotland Take the Floor dance music show is just the best - that and the Organ Music on Radio 2 every Tuesday.
If I could automatically record these even as MPEG (since they have slowy chaging screens) I'd be as happy as a bunch of bananas
I have a Twinhan Ter (D+A) TV tuner card which I was using to receive DVB-T signals till recently using the BDA driver in GBPVR.
Recently I got Sky installed but I still want to use the GBPVR for recording my selected shows. Hence I am connecting the Scart output from my Sky box to the composite intput of my TV Tuner.
In my device manager, I can see a device named "DTV-DVB 3054 analog video capture" and under SageTv or Dscaler, I can see this device and the capture works flawlessly. My problem is that under GB-PVR the analog capture device is never recognised if I use the BDA recording option and I don't see my card under Direct Recording so I can't use it. Is there anyway I can use GBPVR to do an analog capture with my card?
Does anyone know if xrecord is still being supported and developed? Because
it seems there were some problems with it (that can be fixed if you search the forum) but nothing has changed on the wiki for some time. Also jorm has not been posting to the forum for some months now....
Because it enables me to record a complete series by scheduling recordings by name etc. I think it is an essential plugin for gbpvr. (any other plugins that do this?)
So anyone know what's up with xrecord?
