I recently found an old TV tuner that came with my dad's laptop, he never used it so I hooked it up to my computer and it seemed to work.
The only software I could get to make it work was something called Snappysoft. It's moderately decent, allowing me to watch TV atleast, but no recording or anything fancy at all without buying it. Anyways, I've stumbled upon this nice piece of software, and I was hoping someone could inform me on how I could edit the direct.ini to make the tuner work?
Any help would be appreciated, and the only thing I know about it is that it's made by Emuzed, but beyond that I'm clueless.
I am considering buying a USB-UIRT for remote controlling my PC and controlling my set top box from my PC. I had 2 questions for existing owners of this device:
1. How good is the performance of this device? Specifically, given the fact that a lot goes on from the time a button is pressed on the remote (changing channels on the PC and in turn changing channels on the set top box), is the delay caused by all these activities acceptable? Is there a noticable time lag between a button press on the remote and the expected outcome?
2. I was unable to understand how having both the ir receiver and the ir emitter on the front face of the USB-UIRT work. I would expect the IR emitter to be located on the back face of this device since I imagine this device would need to be placed in the front of the set top box in order to change it's channels. If someone could upload a picture of their hook-up or point me to one, it would be very helpful.
Also, I would like to get started quickly with the USB-UIRT, so if someone could please send me their HIP config file for this device, I would highly appreciate it.
Hi sub,
I did a fresh install of 98.8 last even and everything went so smoothly it was hard to believe. Great job!
But the green (sort by date or name) button does not work in the video library, so I canât tell what shows are new.
Sorry if this was already discussed, or if I'm missing something, but I couldn't find anything on this.
Jim
I've had a PVR setup with a PVR150 and a PVR150MCE for nearly two years now, and it's been a very rough time. I've sent both cards back to Hauppauge for replacement at different times. The drivers have never provided quality recordings. There was the timestamp issue which has been thoroughly documented in numberous threads, and I've tried the beta drivers, which made better recordings, but didn't remove the problems. I upgraded a month ago to the new drivers they put out and now I have recordings which freeze, and if I hit pause and then play, they'll start playing again, but only from the last spot I paused the recording. One of the cards is failing again giving me BSOD's and I have to shut the power completely off on the computer in order to get it to boot properly. I've replaced every single component in my computer except for those cards, and I still have various quirky problems.
Bottom line, I'm really fed up with these cards. I'm wary to go with a different Hauppauge card with all of the hardware issues I've dealt with, and the lackluster driver development. So I'm in the market for some new capture cards, and possibly even a hardware decoder.
I'd like some rock solid recommendations on which non-Hauppauge cards people are using without any problems, especially if you've used different cards and can comment on one being better than another.
Sub - you've used all the cards in development, which ones do you use in your main PVR setup?
when I use the green or blue buttons to bring up program info during live TV it would be usefull if it included the start and end time of the program so I can tell how far through the program I am
since upgrading to gbpvr 98.8 I have had the following problems with musiclibrary2
I only ever use musiclibrary2 in random mode on my mvp
I have it set to automatically select 30 mins of audio at a time and when that has run out to continue and select another 30mins
Usually I start the plugin wait for it to select the random music and then move to the playlist screen and leave it there, but since the upgrade it no longer stays on the playlist screen, but jumps back to the library screen.
It also does not start a new random selection when the existing selection has finished
the behaviour is the same with the blue skin and the countourhc skin
Anybody else seen this behaviour or got any suggestions as to its resolution
After a 2 years of using other PVR's (i couldnt get gb-pvr to work...) i gave it another try and WOW...it is really amazing...everything works perfectly now! one thing i really need in my pvr and i cant seem to find here is a way to just open any media file anywhere on my HD and play it internaly (in gbpvr like the normal video files play in my "video" path), is there anything like that within gb-pvr or a plugin that does it?
I've got the client set up and working quite nicely - very cool feature.
In streaming mode, everything works fine.
In File sharing mode, recordings work great, live TV studders badly no matter what settings I use.
Seems overall that VMR7 or overlay manager is the way to go for my setup (Dell D600 laptop with ATI Mobility 9000 card) using the intervideo decoder. If I try VMR9 all sorts of odd things happen no matter what else I do.
Any thoughts on what I can try to fix the studdering issue in liveTV mode for the client? At first I thought it might be a buffering issue, but I can rewind to the beginning of the liveTV stream and the studdering doesn't go away.
I'd like to use file sharing mode if at all possible as the quality seems better, and the controls work much better.
Below is the native log
22:29:51.286 INFO Log started
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(ShowClosedCaptions)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(UseFFDSHOW)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(TvShape)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(EnableTeleText)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(ForcedGraphTeardown)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(HorizontalZoom)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE Horizontal Zoom: 1.050000
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(VerticalZoom)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE Vertical Zoom: 1.030000
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(HorizontalOffset)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE Horizontal Offset: 0
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(VerticalOffset)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE Vertical Offset: 0
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(LiveTVPrePlayDelay)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE MinimumFilePlaySize=200000
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerVMR7() initialising...
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
22:30:05.827 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playVideoFile(\\Gabe\Media_Storage\Recorded_video\Overhaulin\Overhaulin_20060829_20002100.mpg)
22:30:05.887 VERBOSE Creating new graph
22:30:05.887 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer)
22:30:05.917 VERBOSE audio renderer filter: DirectSound: SigmaTel Audio
22:30:05.927 VERBOSE getSetting(TvShape)
22:30:05.927 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRPreferYUVMixing)
22:30:05.927 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRWindowedMode)
22:30:05.967 VERBOSE detected FPS as 29.970000
22:30:05.967 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioDecoder)
22:30:05.977 VERBOSE audio decoder filter: InterVideo Audio Decoder
22:30:05.977 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredDecoder)
22:30:05.987 VERBOSE video decoder filter: InterVideo Video Decoder
22:30:05.987 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredMpegPlaybackDemux)
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - DirectSound: SigmaTel Audio
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - InterVideo Video Decoder
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - InterVideo Audio Decoder
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Flow Status
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - \\Gabe\Media_Storage\Recorded_video\Overhaulin\Overhaulin_20060829_20002100.mpg
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
22:30:07.089 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playFile() done
22:30:07.109 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:etPlaybackRate(1.000000)
22:30:07.109 VERBOSE Restoring audio
22:30:37.392 VERBOSE NativeUtilities::MediaHelper:top()
22:30:37.402 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top
22:30:37.402 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@2 (skipping window positioning)
22:30:37.402 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@3
22:30:37.542 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@4
22:30:37.542 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@5
22:30:37.542 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@6
22:30:37.542 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@7
22:30:37.542 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@8
22:30:37.552 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top finished
22:31:03.980 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playVideoFile(\\Gabe\Media_Storage\LiveTV\Weird Weapons_3_20060915_22002300.mpg)
22:31:04.992 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:05.993 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:06.995 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:08.006 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:09.008 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:10.019 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:11.020 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:12.022 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:13.033 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:14.035 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:14.045 VERBOSE waited: 0 (0 - 1158377474) filesize: 0
22:31:14.055 VERBOSE Creating new graph
22:31:14.055 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer)
22:31:14.065 VERBOSE audio renderer filter: DirectSound: SigmaTel Audio
22:31:14.075 VERBOSE getSetting(TvShape)
22:31:14.075 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRPreferYUVMixing)
22:31:14.075 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRWindowedMode)
22:31:14.095 VERBOSE detected FPS as 29.970000
22:31:14.095 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioDecoder)
22:31:14.115 VERBOSE audio decoder filter: InterVideo Audio Decoder
22:31:14.115 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredDecoder)
22:31:14.375 VERBOSE video decoder filter: InterVideo Video Decoder
22:31:14.475 VERBOSE Using GB-PVR Parser
22:31:14.536 VERBOSE Rendering graph
22:31:17.380 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
22:31:17.380 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - DirectSound: SigmaTel Audio
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - InterVideo Video Decoder
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - InterVideo Audio Decoder
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Flow Status
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Parser
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - SOURCE
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
22:31:17.520 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playFile() done
22:31:25.521 VERBOSE NativeUtilities::MediaHelper:top()
22:31:25.521 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top
22:31:25.521 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@2 (skipping window positioning)
22:31:25.521 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@3
22:31:25.551 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@4
22:31:25.561 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@5
22:31:25.561 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@6
22:31:25.561 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@7
22:31:25.561 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@8
22:31:25.561 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top finished
22:31:29.577 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top
22:31:29.577 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top finished
I just had to restore my windows installation. I used Drive XML for the image then I copied a backed-up directory of GBPVR that was a month old which included VA. Now VA doesn't catch all the directories in my recordings directory.
Anyway to refresh?
Thanks,
Jam.z
PS. I now know to back up regularily and everyone else should do so as well. Twenty minutes and I was back in business.
I am very happy with the way the client works.
I was afraid there would be a delay in just about everything, but everything seems to respond as if it was still all one unit.
but I did notice it no longer gives me the resume options.
if I see the begining of a show on the server (like I did for testing purposes) then it will ask if I want to resume no matter where I try to see it again.
but if I watch it on the client, it wont prompt for resume.
etPlaybackRate(1.000000)