I've just finished off building a new media computer and have installed everything from scratch including GB-PVR v0.98.13b, but I'm having problems with certain DVB channels showing only a blank screen.
I've had to go with Windows 2000 for the moment (can't find my XP cds...), and so I'm using the overlay manager. Whenever there is additional on-screen display I don't get the television picture (I guess something to do with the overlay manager and the on-board graphics card I'm using) - this isn't normally a problem, I can live wih a couple of seconds of no picture when I change channels!
However, for some channels (BBC 1 is a good example) I can't ever get a picture when viewing live TV within GB-PVR. From what I can tell this is something to do with subtitles attempting to be overlayed and causing the blank screen issue I mention above. I can see all the channels in the config system's digital channel mapping dialogue. I've read a few threads on the forums about subtitle issues and have set BDAEnableDvbSubtitles, UseTeletextSubtitlesInLivePreview, CaptureSubtitles, InternalSRTDisplay and InternalDvbSubDisplay all to false but this doesn't seem to make any difference. Is there anything else I should be checking?
I've attached my logs - I cleared gbpvr.exe.log out and did a test: opened GB-PVR, watched BBC 1 for a couple of seconds, then turned over to CITV (a kids channel which I guess doesn't supply subtitles and works for me), turned back to BBC 1 and watched in timeshift mode (which also works without a problem).
I have another graphics card which I'll try in my machine in a few moments and I'll get my hands on an XP CD from work tomorrow, but I just wondered if there was anything I was missing or if anyone had any thoughts.
I'll happily provide any other information anyone wants - thanks in advance.
My music collection contains many records of music of the same composer or artist. I dowloaded most of the tags from freedb.org. The problem I face is that spelling of names is quite different. I would like to harmonize that.
I am looking for a tool that could do a global replace of tags in my music directories. For example change all occurences of 'JS Bach' into 'Bach JS'.
Many tools suggest this function in their description, but the ones I tried did not work as I expected. If anybody out there has experience with a tool that could do this I would appreciate to have a pointer to it.
The Netgear EVA700 is the first Renderer I've seen that supports RemoteUI.
This means that if GBPVR supported the UPnP/AV Stack including RemoteUI, this device could be used with a skinable UI just like on the MVP. There is also another method for a gui that this device supports through a simple web interface. (sourceforge project wizd uses this method)
First the basic facts:
Based in UK
Using Nova T (PCI) (90002 version and I've downloaded the latest drivers)
MVP
V0.98.13b of GBPVR - no plug ins or skins
Wired network
Problem:
I'm having problems viewing recordings made on GBPVR on my TV via my MVP (they work fine on my PC). Everything else works OK on my MVP (playback of music, photos and other video files).
My understanding is that the default recording format when you capture from a BDA is .dvr-ms and the MVP doesn't work with that format. <Which confuses me because I thought that digital TV (i.e. freeview) was broadcast in mpeg (so why is it not saved in mpeg? - just an aside question)>
Anyway, how do I either (a) get my MVP to read .dvr-ms files
or
(b) save my recordings in mpeg format?
I did tried to botch it my selecting a direct recording source and the wrong card. Whilst it did save recordings in mpeg format, the quality was unsatisfactory (audio and visual out of sync, kept cutting out etc).
I've probably missed something really basic, but I just can't see it.
I'm fairly new to gb-pvr. I've got it working with Kworld 110 with no issues. My other card for OTA is a fusion hdtv 5 RT lite card, using the latest driver 3.50.01.
GB version is 98.13
My problem is that whenever I try to map digital channels to epg, it doesn't find any channels. If I try to veiw livetv through the fusion, it is just a blank black screen. At first I thought it could be my signal strength. I'm using a directional antenna in my attic, with the feed split 3 ways, 1 into kworld, 1 into the tuner in my tv and 1 into the fusion. But the divco software works fine and gets 100% signal strength on all channels. The kworld works fine and the tuner in the tv works fine. So I don't believe it is my signal strength. I've even switched the cables around, using the Kworld feed into the fusion, and the same thing happens.
If I try to input the freqenices manually, the same thing happens. I get a blank black screen. I'm not sure what else to try, I haven't found a solution searching the forums. Any help would be appreicated.
Its an analog tuner with a hardware MPEG-2 convertor, and has a BDA driver.
I've got a fair idea about how to try and build a BDA entry for a DVB-T device, but I'm not sure if it's even possible to support this device in GB-PVR.
I have dual Hauppauge PVR 150's in my PC. One is the from the MCE kit and the other has the build in FM tuner. When I go to the FM Tuner pluggin, configure a few stations, it does not play any station. I first thought I had installed the capture source incorrectly, so I even tried switching it from PRV-150 MCE to PVR-150 and if I do that I do get audio but it seems like it is the audio from the tv tuner not the radio. I had it working before I reformatted my PC, so I know its possible. I am able to record 2 items at the same time, or watch and record another channel, so I think they are installed correctly. Any suggestions on how to get this going? Thanks in advance..
Just installed my new HD card. After rampy's suggestion to change to overlay (from VMR9), I'm getting decent HD picture now (not as sharp as VMR9, but less stutter). BUT NO AUDIO AT ALL!! Anyone got any ideas as to what might be wrong? I don't know what else to try!! Would I have a decent picture but no audio if signal strength was the issue?
FWIW, my plasma TV has "shared" audio inputs (RCA) for VGA & HDMI. My sound card output on computer is running to those inputs. Works fine for analog channels (PVR-150) using the HDMI cable, so my HD audio stream must be getting lost somewhere when using my VBox Cat's Eye 150 (right?).
Thanks!
Kevin T.
Specs:
Celeron 3Ghz, 512MB DDR2, two 160GB hard drives
NVidia GeForce 6200 (128MB/64-bit, vga/svideo/dvi out), NVidia PureVideo Decoder
Hauppauge PVR-150
VBox Cat's Eye 150 (DTA-150)
GBPVR
Akai 42" HD-capable (1080i) plasma tv (no internal tuners) -- connected via DVI->HDMI cable to my GeForce card
If I run my mini walker in the live preview mode, the motion is so slow. So I run it in the time-shifting mode, everything is fine, but when I change the TV channel, it doesn't work, it just only shift to the head of the video, but doesn't change the channel.
Could you tell me why? and how to fix it?
I have two failed recordings, the failure was due to the PC being off.
The recordings tab shows these as existing but failed. There are no corresponding entries in the recordings folder.
I cannot delete these recordings and neither can I find any instance of them on the PC.
Now it doesn't really matter as I can ignore them forever, but I am tidy sort of bloke and don't like loose ends, so if anyone can tell me where to find these references and delete them I would be grateful.
Thanks
