What version of GBPVR are you running? - see the note at the top of the RenameRecording WIKI page

AddEpisode should work with sqlite

HTH

EDIT: Eh? - How did I manage to get my post above yours?

Hi,

i dont know why the selection in my tv guide skin looks such ugly, when set rounded="true" in the skin.xml file ...

if i set rounded="false" the colorslide is ok ...

anybody an idea ?

greetz
cc

Hiya! I recently purchased a WinTV-PVR150. and I'm trying to get the best possible quality out of TV viewing/console games as I can. I'm using my pc monitor, an LCD 19inch widescreen.

I've been reading around quite often and have done extensive trial and error tests.

Here's my rig:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2.01) GHz
1.25GB DDR RAM
Geforce 6800xt 256mb/256bit PCI-E
Cheap SoundsBlaster Live! LS sound card
WinTV-PVR 150
180GB HDD (Have two installed -140GB & 40GB)

GB-PVR Settings:

Hardware decoder device: None - use software decoder
Software MPEG-2 Playback: Video Decoder: Nvidia Video Decoder
Audio: Nvidia Audio Decoder
Audio Renderer: SB Live! Audio [E880]
VMR9

Video Decoder Settings: Dispaly type: Content Default
Hardware acceleration checked
De-interlace Control: Automatic
Decoder Format reads: DirectX VA model A (idct) & Video Mixing
De-interlace Mode: Best available
Enhanced nView support: Prefer VMR9

So basically these are the setting I've come acrossed that seem to give the best quality. I'm a little fuzzy on hardware decoder device though, I've only got two options to choose from (Hauppauge PVR350 and Sigma Designs Xcard). Now for some questions!

Should my 6800xt be showing as a hardware decoder device? (I understand that my card supports hardware decoding, correct?)
Am I able to enable 480p for console games that support it?
Under the "Live preview mode" in the Misc section of the GB-PVR Config, I have my de-interlacing set to Ffdshow Raw Video filter. Does this setting directly affect my LiveTV quality?
Am I just being a perfectionist? (This is so addicting!)

Whew, sorry for the long post. That's basically it, but let me know if I left anything out that would be of use to you! Oh, and please excuse my ignorance towards some of the questions. I'm still learning!

Thanks for sharing some time,
Alex

Hi - I have a problem installing the drivers for this product.

The card was working ok two years ago the main problem was the poor picture from the set top antenna.

I remember I had quite a time getting it to work in the first place but then I fitted a new hard drive and reinstalled XP with service pack 2 and all the automatic downloads. For 12 months I didnt bother to re-install the card until I bought a new external roof TV antenna which receives digital signals.

So now when I have downloaded the new software and drivers I cannot get it to load the drivers. I get the message The KWorld DVB-T 100 BDA Driver Installation Failed.

I tried the old drivers from the original disk using the normal installation and again it failed.

If I look on Device Manager I have two yellow disks and a (!) on the following:
*Multimedia Controller
*Multimedia Video Controller

The Properties - General tab says = The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) - To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.

If I remove the hardware the device manager goes back to normal and the Multimedia Video Controller dissapear along with the yellow alert icons. So they are the correct items for the hardware.

The Chip on the card is a CONEXANT CX23883-19

Then I try installing from Device Manager again it gets half way and then says Cannot Install this Hardware there was a problem installing this hardware - Mulitiedia Video Controller - An error occurred during installation of the device - The Data is invalid - Click finish -

If I delete the multimedia video controllers in Device Manager and the PC boots up, the PC finds the card, so its not a hardware issue.

I try installing the drivers in the Non Plug and Play section and get the driver as Conexant DVBT 2388x Video Capture which is the name in the chip in the PCI card. I click have disk and it finds AUTORUN.INF

Several times I have completely uninstalled all software re booted and fresh install and I keep getting the same results.

Is there any way to put the driver in place other than the software, maybe regedit can be tweeked to add the driver?

I would appreciate any help you can give as it is obviously a software problem as it did work before the new installation of XP.

Thanks Tim

Be careful with deleting and re-adding capture sources to change the order. I did this and found that recordings were getting lost.

Reason was that when I originally installed the capture sources, I had numbers 1 and 2, the table that holds the recordings was referencing 1 and 2 but then when I removed and re-added, the tuner OID's became 5 and 6 (I did it a couple of times).

The result was that gbpvr would then try to use tuner 1 or 2 and it didn't exist.

Solution for me was simply to go through the pending recordings in the database manually and nudge the values but if you have a load of pending recordings it's something to be aware of.

(Maybe later versions don't do this behaviour but check first before going out for a Saturday night to return and find that nothing got recorded!)

David.

So I just got my IR blaster (MCE Remote, black beanbag) to work with my STB (Scientific Atlanta 2100) but the blaster is transmitting the numbers too fast. Is there a way to slow it down so that the STB can get all of the numbers? Thanks.

Ok, I'm still quite green with this gbpvr so plz bear patience.
I have the Hauppauge 500PVR card with FM radio. I got it a newegg and it only came with drivers.

Under hardware decoder it gives me 3 options:
none, use software
Hauppauge PVR350
Sigma Designs Xcard

Those are my only options. Seeing how i dont see the PVR500 i set it to Sigma and i records fine. Does this seem correct?

Now under video decoder my only option is System Default. Since my card didnt come with any software (mpeg 2 decoders) I installed the K-lite codec pack which has it. How come it doesnt give me to option to set that under video decoder. I still get the playback error basically saying there's no codec, but i can play the mpeg in windows media player.

thanks guys

I checked the Forum and found several postings related to this problem, but nothing very specific, or that seemed to offer a real solution. I am therefore Posting this as a new Thread.

This error message started about a week ago while I was trying to play back a recorded video using GB-PVR. I was still running 97.13. at the time. The symptoms are as follows:

Version 97.13

• I had been using this version of GB-PVR for about 6 months with no real problems.
  
• The only hardware change I have made is to drop back 2Gb Ram to 1Gb Ram (one paired DIMM failed and I removed it) This happened about two weeks ago, and I am pretty sure that I played back videos with GBPVR after this change.
  
• I Can no longer play any GBPV Recorded video file or Video Library File with GBPVR
  
• Fails with one of those “OK” boxes with the following message ““Error: Failure Playing Back File”
  
• This included previously recorded files that played fine within the last few days.
  
• I used VLC and WMP11 to play about 5-6 these files (played with no problems)
  
• New TV programs were still successfully recorded by GBPVR. Play Back attempts resulted in the same error message from GBPVR These same shows, however, could be played back successfully with the other applications.

• I decided to do a pristine install of Version 98.08, since I had been planning to go to a new set of Skins and Plugin’s - i.e. complete new profile
  
• I deleted Version 97.13 completely from my system (including all folders, files, profiles, shortcuts, etc.), except for the recorded video files.
  
• I downloaded and installed Version 98.08 in the basic version and did a complete new configuration setup
  
• I was able to a record show as a test with GBPVR (Kidnap). It recorded fine and I could play it back with GBPVR.
  
• I also tried playing back files from the Video library and they worked.
  
• Seemed like the problem was solved
  
• Yesterday I downloaded and set up the Plain Jane Skin with it’s associated Plug-ins. If I remember correctly I could still play recorded videos with GBPVR. I note this change for completness, not because I think it caused the problem to reappear.
  
• Today I recorded a new show (Doctor Who – Season 2-Episode 1). Successfully recorded.
  
• The problem described above for 97.13 has re-appeared. I cannot play back this show, or any other Video from GBPVR (same error message) but all play back fine with VLC or WMP11

With DVDs already on the hard drive (Audio & Video folders, and they appear in the Recordings list) is there anyway to convert (is this called transcode) these to mpeg?
I've tried the DVD to MPEG button (I get a "access to the path C:\system volume information denied" but there was no disc in the DVD player. Also, I turned Indexing off but that didn't help with the error.
I also pressed Transcode in the Recordings section but nothing happened.

Thanks,
Dave

I'm using a FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital tuner in the UK with the latest 0.98 build of GBPVR. I've tried running OS builds of MCE2005 and XP Pro SP2, but the following problem occurs in both:

I install GBPVR and then set up the first tuner (eg.the pci part of the dual tuner card.) I can scan for channels fine with this first tuner.

I then try to add the USB part of the dual tuner as a second tuner. As for the first, pci part of the tuner, I setup channel listings for the usb tuner, but when I try to scan for channels with the usb tuner, I get:

"GB-PVR was unable to start the device you configured... Reason: failed to locate configured BDA capture device."

Now the weird thing is that if I start over with a fresh install of GBPVR and setup the USB part of the dual tuner card first, the USB tuner works! But then the pci card doesn't work as a 2nd tuner!

Each time I set up a tuner, I ensure it's numbered 1 or 2 in the setup. I've used GraphEdit, and the tuner names appear to be correct in bda.ini. The dual tuners work fine in Dvico's own TV app and also perfectly in Media Center in MCE2005.

I'm really keen to get GBPVR working with both pci and usb parts of the dual tuner card, so I'm grateful for any help you can offer. Please find logs attached from an initial install of GBPVR and from tuning attempts with first the pci tuner (successfully,) then the usb tuner (unsuccessfully.)

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