Hi,

I'm trying to build a HTPC for my daughter to archive all her DVD's and really like the looks of the GBPVR with the Revisor skin..

Is there a way for me to disable the recording service and TV Guide updates from the system ? This PC has no Tuner card and its sole purpose is to hold media .. ISO files / MP3's and JPG's

Also is there a good photo plugin in which i can customize the folder icon that will be displayed for a JPG folder ?

Thanks for making a great app.

Hi,

I have Gbpvr installed on my laptop and it runs flawlessly

So, i decided to install it on my Desktop PC but I get some kind of SQLite error:



I tried reinstalling the dotnet framework, and gbpvr but I get the same error....

log files are attached

PC specs : Athlon 64 3700, 1gig Crucial Ballistix ram, X1800XT 512mb, DFI lanparty SLI-d, 74gig raptor, 160gig Samsung spinpoint, 250gig Hitachi deskstar

Thanks for the help

Hi All,

was wondering if the HP media PCs are compatible with GBPVR? Anyone what TV tuner cards are in there and what interface the remote control uses? Does it use Girder? Can it be controlled by HIP?

Thanks,
Jam.z

WindowsXP Pro
GBPVR 09813
AMD AthlonXP 2000+
ASRock K7VT2 AGP 4X
768MB DDR SDRAM
ATI (Sapphire) 9600 128MB
Hauppauge HVR1300 (only using DVB side)
60GB HDD
300GB HDD

I have (literally) tried everything to get rid of continuous stuttering in live TV which occurs using every combination of video renderer and decoders, and with the recommended versions of quartz.dll and THMpgMux.ax. I've trawled the forums looking for a solution to this and nothing has made the slightest difference. Is my PC just not up to the job? Can anyone see any obvious problem with this (admittedly aging) setup that would explain why I get such choppy live tv while being able to record and playback perfectly?

CPU usage with VMR9 is below 70% (Less and with smoother playback when OSD is showing)

Thanks
Tom

I guess some might regard this as sacrilegious but I use MCE to run most of my Media Centre applications and use GBPVR to watch Freeview.

Anyhow, if anyone else here does the same, they might find this utility useful:

www.SeeITA.com/StartGBPVR.shtml

It allows you to switch backwards and forwards between GBPVR and MCE with only your remote control.

Andy Henderson

Before I start, I just want to say that GBPVR is awesome! Keep up the great work!

Now to my problems...
I've scoured the forums and found several posts about DVD playback, none of which totally describe the general weirdness happening when I try to play DVDs on my GBPVR box. This wouldn't be a big issue for me but my main DVD player died recently, and rather than replace it (or worse, pay to repair it!) I would like to use my PVR as an all-in-one box.

So, here are some of the issues that I've seen so far:

#1: DVD menus that don't appear.
Most of the time, I insert a DVD, watch the FBI warnings etc., and then I get a nice black screen. I can hear the music for the menu playing, but no menu actually appears. If it's a disc that I'm familiar with, I can press the navigation buttons and start playing the movie, but it's very difficult if not impossible to navigate a disc I've never played before.

#2: DVD menus appear, but the navigation icons don't.
I actually got a menu once, on one disc, but couldn't see the navigation icons (i.e. nothing would light up when I hit the various buttons on the remote). By guessing, I was able to figure out how to select the right menu item, but still, I shouldn't have to guess, should I?

#3: Aspect ratio is screwy (1:2 or something?)
I can't confirm this happens on all discs, and I'd have to confirm the actual aspect ratio of the disc where I noticed it, but should this not be auto-detected?

#4: Disc navigation
I know there's another thread about this, but I would like to see the buttons behave as expected when watching a DVD, to avoid confusing houseguests etc. FWIW, some of the navigation workarounds (blue button / esc to return to disc menu) don't work for me at all.

What else can I do to help resolve these issues? Unfortunately I don't have easy access to my log files right now, but I can try duplicating the problems above and attach them later.

My setup:
Hauppage WinPVR 250 with 34-button remote
NVidia GeForce 4 with s-video out
GBPVR version 0.98.13
Intervideo "XPack" DVD decoders
I have tried both the "Intervideo navigation" and the generic "DVD navigation" options in the config. No difference.

Any help is much appreciated!

I live in Southern England and get my Freeview signal from Crystal Palace with a good signal that my TV tunes with no problem. Previous versions of GB-PVR worked OK, as does Pinnacle MediaCenter (it's still awful software though so I'm sticking with GB-PVR!) Here's what happens:
New capture source - BDA plugin - DVB EPG - No Channel Changer. Set the Device type to Pinnacle DBV-T 200e BDA, Southern England, Crystal Palace. Click Map Digital Channels to EPG Channels, start a scan. The channels found Are mostly TV, with many radio channels (e.g. BBC Radio 1,2,3 and 4) all missing when the scan ends. There are a lot of duplicates (e.g. "BBC ONE" and "BBC ONE(1) #2"; the duplicates have picture but no sound.) I tick all the boxes for the channels I want (getting depressed that so many are missing), and click OK. Answer "yes" to the EPG question, and wait. Once it's done and I go back to the "Edit Recording Source" dialogue, the channels are listed , ticked as enabled, but not all of them have the "Tuning Request" details. Also, since applying the patches Sub published on other threads for gappy DVB EPGs, the list in this dialogue now contains the names of all the Freeview channels the scan didn't find! No "Tuning Request" data of course. Finish config, start GB-PVR and there's no telling how much EPG data will be present - it's better since applying the patches, but not perfect. Updating the EPG helps (not from right clicking the tray icon - it freezes after a few seconds - I do it via config) but it's never full and I'm still missing loads of channels.

Any ideas? Logs zipped and attached.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

Hi Guys

I have used GB-PVR for a Loooong time and would like to go back to the default settings when recording but I cant remember what they are:

High:
Medium:
Low:

Could somebody help me out?

Cheers
Casperse

I have the AverTV Purity 3D MCE 250 card that has a FM radio tuner. I noticed in the direct.ini file that there is no "SUPPORTS_FM_RADIO=1" under the cards info. I added this line to see if it would work and no luck.

I then opened graphedit and in the "WDN Streaming TV Tuner Devices" it shows my card and after inserting this filter and looking at the properties, in the "Tuning mode" pull down menu, you can select TV or FM radio (TV was selected). If I select FM radio, when I open GBPVR I can scan for channels and it does reconize my FM tunner and find some channels, but after adding them I can't get anything to play.

I really don't know what I'm doing in graphedit and don't want to screw anything up so I am setting the filter back to the default TV mode instead of FM.

Any help?

P.S. When using graphedit, I found a couple filters that allowed me to change my video settings like shapness, color, brightness. I boosted the sharpness and like the results on my monitor, but am wondering if I should be playing with these settings or best to leave them at default?

Vmr9 custom render works fine on my main monitor but when i use the option to start on second monitor the playback is choppy.

My system specs.
AMD 3500+
1g ram
ATI x800xl pci xpress video card. used for video out to my tv
Hauppauge pvr-150 MCE