Several days ago I posted a thread regarding the comcast digital cable interface and now I cannot find a single trace of it. Do the mods or sub know what happened to it?
been running 96 up until yesterday. Upgraded first with the 97.13 and it worked. Tried the database conversion, but I got a "locked database" error.
So I went to 98.13b, Again all working. Does this mean my databse is converted as I think I remember .98 as being SQL only?
On anther note, GBPVR has been working great for a year now with .96 only prob is the the whole PC lockes up if I skip 2-3 time in a converted (xvid) recording. This is the full freeze lockup and only can get out with hard reset of the PC :-(
Hi, is there a way to keep the tv guide listings updated automatically? I'm using I-xmltv utility to downoad the guide data becaue I like all the extra info it provides. Every time the data is about to run out, i have to run update epg from the I-xmltv folder. Is there a way of keeping hte guide data updated without having to go to the folder and double click on update epg to get an update of the listings? Thanks.
I went out and dropped like $900 on a multimedia PC to go along with my Epson Powerlite S1+ projector. The projector looks damn fine, I spent a few months getting everything all perfect (its now perfectly centred on a painted white wall size is about 16ft x 7.2ft, the dark green trim makes nice boundaries for the overscan).
I bought the PC rig largely because of the claims boasted in PowerCinema 4 by Cyberlink, and the software came with my ATI Theatre 550 Pro card. So far PowerCinema has been pretty good with the card but somewhat of a disappointment:
- The EPG promised never worked at all. Only in the past few weeks have they actually added a subscription service for Canada
- The DVD playback option never appeared, after adding a DVD RAM. A request to Cyberlink netted an answer "You may upgrade to the non OEM version for only $79 which includes this feature". (I think the middle finger was raised a few times reading that one).
- With no EPG, setting up the channels was more than painful (manually typing in each channel name). Setting up recording was even worse, buying paper TV Guides and reading the paper, only to find out that they arent always accurate.
- The Background recording service halts, but gives no error. So after all that work figuring out what to record and when on what channel, dropping into the recorded TV section after testing it successfully and finding that it it stopped recording a week ago has been a hair pulling experience. Reboots dont even seem to fix it... it sometimes fixes itself but this one has proven to be a complete mystery, it records when it wants to and doesnt other times.
- The program is a like a territorial dog, leaking all over the place, eventually getting so slow that the PC has to be rebooted. On a fresh boot its kind of snappy, after about 5 days it can take 5 minutes just to load the Live TV feature... Faster to reboot the whole PC.
Something that's ATI's fault, the Theatre 550 Pro has some sort of a problem with volume being too low that ATI seems to have no intention of fixing. There is no way to adjust the ATIStream driver to crank up the gain and its super quiet.
Enough about Cyberlink, other than that led me to find GBPVR.
I saw the screenshots and I was like WOW. So I installed it on a test basis, keeping the Cyberlink in place. I've added the Weather, Web Radio and a bunch of other plugins. Havent tried skins yet but I'll get there.
So the request is for a sticky of how to get the GBPVR to look like the screnshots. Of especial importance is things like those awesome looking channel icons, the onscreen mini-guide, the linear shading in the boxes, etc. Mostly visual effects, and the addition of the thumbnails of the shows.
If I could get this thing working like those screenshots this software would be AWESOME (as I'm sure a bunch of you have already discovered). The key is of course getting there. SQLite? I can install that but I have not seen any settings for that and it says recommended.
Also some bitrate/resolution recommendations for the capture settings. One thing that the PowerCinema was really good at was getting a phenomenal picture out of the ATI 550Pro card. I'm getting 30 minute captures at 5Gb and the picture still doesnt look nearly as good as the Cyberlink software did. Its coming out dark and washed out at 720x520 4500kbps. Obviously has to do with the settings, 5Gb for 30mins is rediculous, even for a HW encoder, thats DVD rates without a second pass.
:-) Liking it so far though. Especially the Weather forecast. Whoever wrote that one is a genius. I just spent 4 hours getting the same deal going on on my IPAQ Today screen. Speaking of my IPaq, what do you guys think the chances of my IPAQ with WM10/IE 320x200 to play using the client/server?
Both gbpvr.exe and config.exe give this error, could this be caused by the fact that my trial period of windvd 7 has expired and that I had this selected as the mpeg2 decoder ? No logs are produced, just the old Microsoft send this error report blah blah blah window.
If so, how can I change this in config.xml somewhere so the config prog will start ?
This used to be a fantastic program that I could reliably use to manage my television watching, but over the past several releases, it has deteriorated to the point where I can't even use it now. It doesn't record properly anymore, the fast forward, rewind and pause buttons completely don't work, and it crashes constantly. What happened? I think too much time is being put into useless "features" such as the PC Client, and not enough time is being spent on testing the product before it's released. Thanks to the well established policy of not hosting older versions, I can't even go back to the .96 series, that at least reliably recorded programs. Because of this program, I spent a lot of money on PVR equipment which is mostly useless without this program.
My complaints summarized:
1) If the recording service isn't restarted at least once a day, it may not record shows, or claim that all of the tuners are in use. The log says something about writing to protected memory. My VCR never caused me to miss my favorite show due to a programmer error.
2) The fast forward/rewind/pause buttons don't do anything on the MVP anymore. They used to work fine. Now, if you try to use them, the whole thing locks up and crashes.
3) Periodically, the program will claim that there are no tuners available, when there clearly are. I have 3 tuners, and there is nothing worth recording at 9 am.
4) The MVP interface seems to crash a lot, and periodically has a very noticeable lag between button press and response.
My setup is: Dedicated GBPVR server with a PVR500 and PVR350, currently GBPVR 98.13, and 2 MVP clients. The server runs nothing else but a VNC server. It is an AMD 1800+ with 512MB RAM.
There was another PVR software that I tried once, and it worked great, I don't remember what it was called, but I do remember that it was unreasonably expensive. It had a great MVP interface, and 0 lag time. I think it was something like $150 though, and that seems a bit much. If I can't find one of the older versions of this program that actually worked around my computer, I might just have to shell out the cash for the superior program.
I have 2 computers with tuners and GBPVR, one connected to the TV, the other not. I transfer the files recorded and compskiped to the computer connected to the TV and sometimes the time code is off. Not on the files themselves, but by the way they are read by GBPVR. Is there a way to figure out what is going on here? I haven't tried it with the new version yet. I will tomorrow though. My usual fix is to open the files with media player clasic or power dvd. Thanks for the help.
Im new to GBPVR (I installed it this week into my new PVR system) and am running in to problems. I have installed the .NET 2 runtime, and am running GB-PVR v0.98.13b with no plugins, and the standard blue skin. I have a Hauppauge PVR-500 card, tried the original supplied drivers, and have ubgraded to the 24108 drivers in an attempt to fix this issue.
When I press skip to fast forward a recording, the program locks up solid. I recorded a 10 minute manual recording tonight, with Comskip installed. One press of the skip on a MCE remote locks the application and yields the attached logs.
I tried the same recording with pressing CTRL+ --> to skip and it too locks up.
Can anyone suggest how a newbie like me can figure out what is wrong here?
Hello, I hope this isn't too stupid of a question
but would the MCE editon of the USB2 Hauppauge PVR (the thing with the built in mpeg2 stuff) work with gbpvr, with only the drivers downloadable from Hauppauge's site? Or would you need Windows MCE?
