i would love to see a surf plugin or command assosiated with a button from within live tv to be able to go to display sucessive channel snapshots in a checkerboard filling motion. You click (or select with directions and OK) on a snapshot, you jump to that channel. That's what gbpvr needs. Id rock. It's totally based off what i remember inside wintv2000, or wintv1945 as I like to think of it.
What's supposed to happen when you've scheduled something to record at say, 8 p.m. And say just prior to that, you're watching Live TV through your MVP. When the clocks strikes 8, what's supposed to happen? I think I've had various things occur. One time it just didn't start recording. Another time, Live TV kinda locked up and kept playing the same 2 second clip over and over and over.
What's supposed to happen? Any settings to better ensure your recordings will get recorded? It seems like there should be a dialog that pops up and says, "GBPVR is about to start recording a show. Would you like to watch it or exit Live TV?"
Well, it would appear in my recent move I have lost my power adaptor for my USB2 device. Looking over the unit itself, I see no power specs.
Anyone have the unit and can read me off what type of power adaptor it needs? Really hate to spend $100 on a brand new one, and Radio Shack, I'm sure will have one.
been getting these in my channel list recently! Since latest version, as you can see its as if channel names corrupted, any ideas? Do have MediaPortal installed but that has been alright with GBPVR lately.
Am I missing something? I'm trying to access gbpvr.com and I'm getting nothing from it. I'm trying to download the newest verison but because it's only on the main page, I can't get it. This is the same from home and from work, and I'm in the US.
I have been trying to get to the main site all day to download the latest version... Is the site down or just that busy? If it is busy, is there a mirror site to download from?
Since I upgraded to 0.97.13 I've seen the following problem for at least two times:
I do the programming of a show via the tv guide
the machine goes down to hibernate
the machine does not wake up to wake the programmed show
if I wake up the machine manually, the gbpvr frontend says that the show will be "soon recording", even when the begin time has already passed
if I try to cancel the programmed (but not recording) show via the tv guide (in order to do the programming once again), an error message occurs "cannot communicate with recording service"
if I look in the system tray, gbpvr's recording service says, all tuners are "sleeping"
if I say "restart recording service" via the system tray icon's menu, the missed recording starts normally (if the show is still on air)
This phenomenon never ever happened with the older version 0.93.10; this version never ever failed doing the recording (without any exception).
Will this problem be gone, when I have updated to the recent version?
Will it help to restart the recording service every time the machine comes from hibernate (at the moment, I only start the frontend in order to make my XCard work)?
Isn't it very strange that the wake-up from hibernate didn't work?
I have seen read some very negative opinions lately of the hauppauge 500 pvr card. It seems that they have recently changed chip sets and that the performance is subpar for many.
I don't have any experience with this card (I currently use the Hauppauge USB2 PVR2), but was looking to buy a PCI tuner/PVR card for my PC.
What are the general suggestions out there now? Does anybody have experience with RECENT versions of the 500 or 150? Should I be concerned about performance? Is there a "better" option?
Thanks for the input on spanning drives, etc. guys.
Now I've concluded that an ide cable plugged into a motherboard won't support three harddrives - even if I found a cable with 4 connectors. I guess I'd need to get another controller card right?
Given that I don't what to go that route, I could drop the small (40 GB) Harddrive and use the two big harddrives only - That would require that I transfer the OS and programs from the small drive to one of the big drives I'd be recording on.
I've heard that it's best to keep these seperate - how big of a deal is it?
512 MB in a really of 1 Ghs computer - playback mainly through an MVP. Thanks!
Maybe I should just get another controller, I hadn't wanted to spend the money on such an old computer, but it looks like another way will be such a pain...
