Hello,
I recently bought a TV LEADTEK/EXPERT TV2000XP TV/FM R - Retail to add to my system which is a P3 1ghz 512mb ram. After testing the card I realized that the software that comes with my card is awful and it doesnt record properly. I can't run gbpvr because it is not compatible.
If I returned my leadtek card and bought a pvr 150 I could then run gbpvr, but I dont want to waste the money if my system will still be too slow. I've read on newegg that the requirements for the pvr 150 are 733mhz and 150mg ram.
Will my system work better with the PVR 150? Or is my computer already too slow?
The above sounds a bit odd but I was having stability problems with the dongle from 98.08, mainly when stopping video playback, screen would just go black and stay black - no response.
Windowed TV doesn't quite work right as you would expect using an old dongle but not too bothered about that. The good news is that this setup has just fixed two long standing problems that I've been experiencing! These are...
1. Audio glitches when playing wma files though my MVP.
2. Play back of video that I'm currently recording exiting when I accidentally advanced too far forwards. (Can't use LiveTV you see due to my setup - please see signature)
I'm having some trouble getting GBPVR to run. It installed without raising an error, but when I try and start it, it crashes. The dialog is the standard application crash "Send / Don't Send" one.
The error detail is absolutely huge, containing (amongst other things) a dump of each memory range gbpvr had allocated. It also doesn't seem to be cut'n'pasteable.
When I try and run the config program, I'm getting an "unhandled exception". The message states:
Code:
Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click
Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.
If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.
The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E).
In 'Details' it states quite a bit about how to turn on JIT debugging, and some potentially useful information in the form of:
Code:
************** Exception Text **************
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
at Config.xfd6951461fe46d87.x1f0684532099dac8(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
It then goes on to detail the versions of all the dlls and so on that are loaded - but that list is long, so I haven't pasted it here to try and keep this already long post to a length where maybe one or two people will read it... If there's something important to check in there, I'll paste it in another message.
If I click 'continue', the config program does then load, but there's nothing in the majority of the listboxes. Attempting to make any change brings up another unhandled exception, probably with much the same detail.
The target machine is an Athlon (Thunderbird core) / ABIT KT7 / GeForce FX5600 / Creative Labs AWE32 / Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T (early version - the one based on IIRC the SAA7146 chip), running a fairly clean install of Win2000, with very little software installed. I've installed SP4, the SRP, IE6SP1, DX9, the .NET framework v2.0, MDAC 2.8sp1, MSXML 6, and all the patches windows update could find. The drivers and application that came with the card works - well, up to a point, anyway. The app throws errors when I do certain things in the interface (like right clicking on most of the controls!), and has deigned not to show certain channels - generally the more useful ones - but it's not a total failure. I've managed to get a decent rendition of (for example) BBC4, channel five, sky three, E4+1, and a whole host of more useless channels - so I think it's just a crappy piece of software, rather than an actual fault with the install. It certainly gives off that general air of crappyness that's made me come looking for a proper application. Which is why I'm here. Sadly, I haven't got GBPVR running yet. People keep recommending MythTV to me, but that requires more of a change than I was planning to make to the system...
"File not found" (though irritatingly without saying *which* file in a way I've noticed) would suggest I've missed installing something. I did a search, and decided it could be a mux - and lo, there was a useful tool to check these out called MuxChecker. I ran it, and it said I have no muxes installed.
The original app does show me a whole load of channels, including several from each multiplex it's detected. I had a poke around and couldn't see any obvious .ax file to register, so I guess the original app is doing something wierd and internal to get a channel out of the multiplex. Following a link from a post in this thread I got hold of a copy of the CyberLink Mux - and MuxChecker now shows this as installed. This didn't fix the problems running GBPVR or the config program though.
I'm now out of ideas - I haven't seen anything obvious in searching. (I'm beginning to wonder if this works on Win2K at all, despite the website clearly stating it does.) Ideas anyone?
Just a quicky - can I select between multiple language tracks in an avi file played from the video library?
If not whats the quickest way of stripping the surplace (foreign) language track from the file permenantly.
Just got HTPC up and going and love GBPVR. Got it going with a Dish 301.
I currently power on the PC and have to use wireless keyboard/mouse in order to get gbpvr up and going. Is there a way to bypass this.....say once I turn the PC on to have gbpvr auto start and run where all I have to do is use the remote?
The problem seems to be that the second stick uses the following filters
"Nova-T Stick DVB-T Tuner (Dev2 Path0) "
and
"Nova-T Stick DVB-T Capture (Dev2 Path0) "
Note Dev2 not Dev1.
Adding this...
[Hauppauge Nova-T-Stick Dev2]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="Nova-T Stick DVB-T Tuner (Dev2 Path0) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="Nova-T Stick DVB-T Capture (Dev2 Path0) "
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
allows the device to be set up as a capture source but the device will not tune when the "Dev1" stick is in use. I'd guess it's trying to use the first devices tuner.
As the second device uses different filter names GBPVR can't set it as a second device in the bda settings as, I assume, it does with other types of dvb-t devices.
I used the ScanChannelsBDA_UK.exe utility to check and both devices are able to tune.
