I just want to say that I realize this is probably not GB-PVR's fault, but you guys seem to be very knowledgeable and I'm not exactly sure where to turn...I've contacted Nvidia about this issue but they still haven't responded. If anyone can point me towards a forum more appropriate, I would appreciate it.
Basically, my problem is that enabling VMR along with hardware acceleration causes frequent stuttering. In GB-PVR, I have tried VMR7, VMR9, and VMR9 Custom and the results are the same. I have used both the Nvidia Purevideo Decoder and the Cyberlink Video Decoder and, as long as hardware acceleration is enabled, it's jerky. Once hardware acceleration is off, the problem vanishes. Overlay mode seems fine too.
I would really like to be able to use hardware acceleration with VMR, because the picture looked noticeably better than Overlay or VMR without acceleration (I guess it takes advantage of the Geforce 6 and 7 series hardware deinterlacing?). CPU usage was also greatly reduced (usually hovering at about 10-15%, as opposed to 30-50% without acceleration). I'm just watching standard analogue cable, I would think my graphics card could handle it.
Does anyone else have this problem, and if not, where I should look for help? Searching google yielded me plenty of mentions of hardware acceleration causing problems with VMR9, it's what gave me the idea to turn it off, but I can't seem to find a solution.
Some system info:
Windows XP (with SP2)
Geforce 7800GT (latest 93.71 drivers, though it was present on the last set as well)
Athlon64 3500+
ATI Theater 550 Pro (latest drivers)
2 gigs of ram
Purevideo decoder (latest, though it's seemingly any decoder that can use hardware acceleration)
How about a manual EPG update button on the web admin screen. Sometimes (for some reason or another) my EPG is out of date and I occasionally have to update it. Its no biggie when I'm watchin tv because I just to go "system" and do "update EPG". But, if I'm away and accessing it over the internets and my program guide doesn't show up then I would be a little upset. Besides, it doesn't seem that hard to put a button like that one there.
It seems that when I try to use the auto conversion settings for Xvid, GBpvr acts up really strangely. It's so hard to pinpont what's going on because so many things get affected! First of all, sometimes it won't even load up correctly, it just freezes on the part where it says "loading plugins". If it does open, it won't play shows correctly or maybe won't let me watch live tv. If I try to open the Config to mess with the settings, it takes a few minutes to open the config and when it does, it tells me there is some kind of error relating to the Database.
However, all these problems seem to go away when either turn off the auto transcode or transcode into Divx. (Xvid and Divx are the only ones I've tried, i don't know how it reacts to other settings and frankly I don't want to try it!)
I have noticed a number of times that the Web Admin TV Guide search by genre sometimes misses matching programs. ie. When searching for the genre Movie, it doesn't always find all programs that have Movie in their genre list.
I'm having the following problem with my MVP. I am watching a recording and after some time (could 5 minutes, could be 20....) the sound suddenly disappears. Stopping the recording does not help, neither does powering off (green button) help. If I fully restart the MVP by pulling the electrical plug, I get my sound back. On the PC, in WMP, the recordings play fine.
I checked the logs (attached) but cannot see any error pointing in any direction. (last audio problem was at +- 21.18 in the attached loggings).
I'm doing a re-install of GBPVR and keeping being asked for GBPVR09709.msi while doing the install. Nobody on the forum has marked a link to get that one. Could someone please send it to me? Thanks!
Last night I upgraded my v98.08b install to v98.13b. Had a slight glitch when I first manually updated EPG associated with my PVR-500 Capture Source (got an Unhandled Exception after parse, during DB save) but subsequent global EPG updates from the System plugin worked fine.
I found one issue after I checked last nights recordings: my Custom encoder quality settings for my PVR-500 were reset to default. MPEG2 used to be VBR at an average 4.8Mbps, it is now 6Mbps CBR.
All is fixed after I pulled my own settings from WinTV2K and restored them back to GB-PVR.
Minor quibble only; the .13b upgrade seems good otherwise. I haven't fully explored all the changes.
This morning my gbpvr computer was extremely slow. When I finally got the Windows Task manager to load it indicated that gbpvr was taking up 98% of the cpu processing usage. I did install a number of new plugins last night. They are:
News Feeds
Web Cams
Sports Scores
Theatres
Weather
I also started to use the PlainJane skin.
Which of these items could be causing my problem?
