Hey guys,
My cable co has some digital channels I'm finding it necessary to record. Apparently, Dora The Explorer has become a hot item for my kids.
Anyway, I am looking at picking up a DCT700 Digital box and have some questions.

I currently have a PVR150 Retail package with the cable running straight to the card, using GBPVR to do the scheduling and recording. I need to change this up to a digital set top box.

1) Can I use the IR Blaster I got with my PVR150 with the DCT700? I have heard this will not function properly, or is not supported by the Hauppage software. (I also heard the emitter isn't powerful enough or something like that, but unconfirmed).

2) If I have to, I can pick up a USB-UIRT to function with the DCT700. Do I have to also purchase Girder to make this work, or does the GBPVR software support this natively somehow? And what STBs are supported by this kind of config?

3) What are the pitfalls I could experience by changing out to a digital STB?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

LA.

Hi all,

Quick question around the above. I have tweaked the MCE skin for the UK Cinema plugin as on the main menu there was no icon (task.png) displayed. I took the task.png from the DVD sub folder and pasted a copy in the Uk Cinema subfolder. I now get the icon displayed with drink and popcorn in hand Happy days!!

The only icon that doesn't seem to display correctly is on the weather plugin. This always seems to display the fair.png icon from the weathericons folder under GBPVR\media\. As a test I saved a copy of the fair.png as fair.png.old and pasted in the task.png from the weather subfolder under advisor. Then renamed the file to fair.png and the icon displays on the main menu fine. Only issue now is that whenever I have fair weather forecast I get the menu icon displayed , so changed it back. I also put a copy of the task.png file from advisor\weather subfolder in the advisor\custom subfolder and renamed it to Weather.png just incase, but still no joy.

Is there a way to get this to work as I'm looking for. That is the task.png from the advisor\weather subfolder being displayed on the main menu and the fair.png file from GBPVR\media\weathericons being displayed when the forecast is for fair/clear weather?

Weather Plugin v4.0 Posted 1/11/06, but was same with previous version.
Advisor Skin V2.8
MCE2Blue Original

Many thanks

Hi

I have 0.98.13b installed, using the Access database. All is working well except for the TV Guide. When I select it (either on PC or MVP) I get a window pop up saying "Error: The wait completed due to an abandoned mutex." I have no idea what this means, but, when I press ok it just goes back to the main menu.

On second, and subsequent, pressing of the TV Guide button I get "Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object".

I have looked at both gbpvr.exe.log and gbpvr.exe-native.log (with debug logging enabled) and can find no entry that sheds any light on the problem. Indeed compating the logs immediately before pressing the TV guide button and immediately after, I can confirm that there is no new information written to any log.

Has anyone seen this error, or could anyone suggest where I should start to try to solve the promlem ? I have installed the XGuide plugin and that works perfectly, as does the Enhanced Web Admin TV guide.

Thanks,
Jimmy

I will learn to plugin makes. I have the 2003 of Visual.

The Toturial have i read. I have an error with import the gbpvrpublic.dll you can see at atachment.

Can help me? Thanks

Hello!


Im concidering using powerline ethernet at 85mbit, concidering the overheads with encrption is anyone sucessfully using live tv/video over this technology to the MVP ?


here is an example piece of kit : http://www.scan.co.uk/products/productin...tID=495600

Why, oh why is GB-PVR trying to load background.jpg when I'm using "the new way" to draw a backround for the various screens?

Hi sub, I'm currently experiencing a problem when recording in VCD format. I record an hour show once a week in VCD format so I can put in on a cd. However, the recording gets cut off 40 minutes in leaving out the remaming 20 minutes. Last week it happened as well but I though I might have been doing too much on the pc while recording. Today I was not doing anything on the comptuer and when it finished, i was going to go watch it only to find out that it was missing 20 minutes. Oddly enough, If I record in the same exact quality only change the audo to 48 Khz for archiving on DVD, then I have no problems. I only record in VCD format just to not waste time on rencoding. What is the name of the log file or files so I can upload them to you. Thanks.

I have loved using GBPVR for several months now.

I have had a problem with it scaling my video down. When playing video clips I have noticed significant scaling happening to some of the HDTV encodes I have. These files are XVID encoded for 720p (960x544). GBPVR's video player scales this file thinner which skews the aspect ratio. Is there a way to fix this, or is this a known issue that future versions will fix?

I found my answer (hit F7 until I get the AR I want), but what is the way to map this to my Hauppauge remote? I assume I can map it to any Hauppauge remote button by editing the ini, but what is the string that I use?

xbox 360 was updated 11/1/2006 to allow you to play .wmv files on the xbox 360 even if you do not have MCE but mearly Windows Media Connect.

Unfortunately the current ffmpeg conversion settings (in the config.xml) do not play on the 360.

For anyone who has (or wants to help to) changed the transcode to be xbox 360 supportable [I would appreciate it].
Supported Video Codecs:
Windows Media Video 7 - WMV1
Windows Media Video 8 - WMV2
Windows Media Video 9 - WMV3
Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile - WVC1

http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/default.aspx


Anyone know how to get ffmpeg to convert properly to one of these codecs so xbox will play back my shows?

Before I describe my problem, I want to say that I love GBPVR!!! It is a great program and its background recording service is by far the most reliable I have ever used.

I have two PCs running GBPVR. One has a Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 external tuner, the other (my main media PC) has an internal Hauppauge WinTV 500 dual tuner. They are both running the same version of GBPVR (v0.98.13) and all three tuners are set to recieve listings from zap2it. Both PCs are running Windows XP Pro. The PC with the WinTV500 frequently gets its listings wrong while the PC with the USB2 is, so far as I can tell, nearly always correct.

In the particular instance I ran into tonight, the correct listings as viewed from the zap2it web site and verified with http://www.scifi.com were:
11/3 8:00pm Doctor Who
11/3 9:00pm Battlestar Galactica
11/3 10:00pm Doctor Who
11/3 11:00pm Battlestar Galactica

When I checked the USB2 PC, it was correct. However the WinTV500 PC listed:
11/3 8:00pm Doctor Who
11/3 9:00pm Battlestar Galactica
11/3 10:00pm Battlestar Galactica
11/3 11:00pm Doctor Who

I did an "Empty EPG" and reloaded. then it read:
11/3 8:00pm Doctor Who
11/3 9:00pm Battlestar Galactica
11/3 10:00pm Battlestar Galactica
11/3 11:00pm Battlestar Galactica

I did another "Empty EPG" and reloaded then it was correct.

I verified that both PCs are up to date on the .NET framework.

Here are my two questions:
1) What steps should I follow to find out what is going wrong?
2) Would it be better (more reliable) for me to use xmltv to download a single datafile from zap2it to use in GBPVR?

Thank you very much,
Dennis