I've just bought a ASUS K8N-VM motherboard for a new test machine. Its am nforce4 motherboard, with PCI-Express, and onboard nvidia 6150 video. I've put it in an Antec Sonata case with a few spares I had laying around - a Seagate 80GB HDD, AMD 3000+ 64bit CPU, cheap 512MB A-Data DDR400 RAM, ATI 650 Pro PCI-E capture device and a Ricoh DVD+R/RW drive.
Unfortunately I'm having real problems with it. It seem to be only able to get a short way into the XP install before it locks up. Sometimes it dies while copying the file during the install. Sometimes it doesnt even get that far.
The motherboard is new, but all the other components were working fine last time they were used.
I'm wondering if maybe the motherboard and memory dont like each other?
To post you have to sign up, during the sign up process you have to do the image verification thing and presumably activate your account from the email you receive confirming your registration
Now I guess if the spammers could be arsed they could write a bot that can check for the email (or at least predict the activation link), what I don't get is how the sneaky buggers are getting past the image stuff?
So, any ideas on how this is being done, or even better ways to stop them doing it without making the sign up process so long winded that newbies don't bother...
I have been running GBPVR for about a week. It has so far been performing well. However I noticed my MVP the remote control for it was lagging big time or not working. Using GBPVR on my pc was no problem. Using my PC after my MVP was failing with the remote caused a locking problem with a file associated with the remote (something .bin, don't remember off hand the exact error). So if I get rid of the PC foreground instance of GBPVR and use my MVP it works quite well. I believe there is some sharing / locking going on with the MS USB IR blaster. Has anyone else experienced this or have an idea on how to make both PC and MVP happy?
Thanks,
Tim
System
Athlon 3400 RAM 1GB
pvr-150
MCE remote with IR Blaster
Just a question: I thought i read somewhere, that the overlapping of EPG Data were fixed and gone away.
I am sorry to say, but i cannot confirm this. On my machine it's the same as ever; overlapped EPG Informations, even the data will be daily updated in the morning via TaskSheduler of WinXP and GB-PVR.
I am receiving my EPG Data from TV-Movie.de with the Tool "TVM2XML" and convert it automatically into the .xml format which will be readed every morning by GB-PVR EPG Update.
I am having an internittent problem with recordings, some record fine, then others end up as a 0kb file size. It seems that once one has failed I must restart the rcording service before recodings will be succesful.
I found this in GBPVRRecordingservice-2.log relating to some failed recordings....
8/9/2006 11:29:00 PM.191 INFO [5] Found new programme requiring recording: Family Guy
8/9/2006 11:29:00 PM.191 VERBOSE [5] Changing to channel (GBPVR.Backend.Common.NullTunerController): 52
8/9/2006 11:29:00 PM.191 VERBOSE [5] Requesting IRecordingSource to start recording: E:\MyVideos\Family Guy\Family Guy_20060809_23300000.mpg
8/9/2006 11:29:00 PM.201 VERBOSE [5] DirectRecordingSource about to start recording oid:1 channel:52
8/9/2006 11:29:01 PM.412 VERBOSE [5] recording started
8/9/2006 11:29:01 PM.412 VERBOSE [5] Programme is now recording
8/9/2006 11:29:01 PM.412 VERBOSE [5] RecordingFactory.save()
8/9/2006 11:29:01 PM.603 VERBOSE [5] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
8/9/2006 11:29:01 PM.603 VERBOSE [5] Adding E:\MyVideos\Family Guy\Family Guy_20060809_23300000.mpg to parallel processing queue
8/9/2006 11:29:01 PM.603 VERBOSE [5] RecordingFactory.getExtrasForGroup(6)
8/9/2006 11:29:08 PM.733 VERBOSE [3] File does not yet exist (may fail): E:\MyVideos\Family Guy\Family Guy_20060809_23300000.mpg
8/9/2006 11:29:26 PM.478 INFO [5] Recording file cant be found. Giving second chance: E:\MyVideos\Family Guy\Family Guy_20060809_23300000.mpg
8/9/2006 11:29:26 PM.478 VERBOSE [5] Stopping recording
8/9/2006 11:29:26 PM.478 VERBOSE [5] Stopping recording oid:1
8/9/2006 11:29:27 PM.089 VERBOSE [5] Restarting recording
Any ideas what is causing this? I am running 97.13 using SQL, and have the weather / slimmgbpvrtray / mvpicon plugins.
It seems that I am having more failed recordings on 97.13 than on the previous release.
today I tryed to play an h264 AVC 720p file in gbpvr but it is jerky and very slow. Taking the lastgraph.grp and playing it with graphedit, I get a smooth playback. It seems that GBPVR is preventing Nero Video Decoder from multithreading the decoding (as I looked at the cpu usage while playing the video). Is this a bug? Is there a workaround?
Excuse the verboseness of this post, but I've had a number of issues which have been annoying me for a while. Thought it best to post them in one, rather than spam the heck out of the board with seperate problems.
On a fresh install of XP (SP2), and the latest GBPVR - I'm experiencing a lot of issues with live TV, DVD and recording.
Live TV - Mainly fine for the most part, but changing to E4+1 and a few other channels, shows a black screen (with audio), and then it follows suit for any channel selected afterwards. This only seems to be cured by jumping back to the TV guide.
Recording - Works with 50/50% success rate. sometimes shows record without issues, sometimes the selected recording does not even start when "play" is selected from the context menu.
DVD - Disks play as usual, when they hit the root menu, they bug out, black screen, PVR stops responding and has to be killed via task manager.
TV signal is good in both strength and quality, and I have tired a multitude of DVD software decoders, BDA muxes and MPEG options, the same issues are apparent regardless.
I'm running an AMD64 3000+, 6200 64meg card, 512meg of RAM, Hauppauge Nova-T PCI & Club 3D Zap TV2200-- can't attach logs now as at work, but shall try to later today- just wondered if anybody had any ideas regarding these issues beforehand.
v Hi, can i use the gbpvr program with my Mercury 7130 TV card which has a Phillips 7134 chipset ? I use WinXP also. Or can I get other software to detect my card, & how do i achieve that ? The scheduling software that came with it is sub-standard. Note: i also use Ubuntu (Linux OS) but haven't tried to get software (MythTV i think) working for it yet, i believe it is cumbersome...
Is it possible to pass TV channel number as a parameter to GBPVR as part of its startup parameters so that using the 'Live TV' parameter would go directly to the channel I want
(Why ask this - as I am thinking of trying to setup the EPG guide on my NetRemote enabled Remote Control)
You can see that the same show is listed twice. This presents the tv guide within GBPVR with a bit of a problem: it actually draws the show twice in the same spot. The problem worsens when there is two shows apparently on at the same time on the same channel (due to bogus data) that have different names. The screen draws the data over the top of each other, leaving you with an unreadable mess. Stepping through the shows with the remote or the keyboard actually steps to itself, and you can manage to record a show that you then can't click on again, because another show's name is drawn over the top, preventing you from clicking on the cell.
I've attached an example xml file if anyone's interested in seeing this for themselves.
My wish is that the EPG Update could have some rules such as "Use first/last show in timeslot", so that even if the source data was a bit mucked up, it would try to get over it and not have shows on top of each other.
Of course, my solution at the moment will be to fix the xml file and the downloader.
