I switched to v0.97.13 & love it - it's the first GB-PVR to play nicely with my Nvidia card & Athlon X2. There is one thing about it, though. This is so trivial I can't really call it a problem, but it IS different from v0.96...

When I do a manual EPG update via right-click on the system tray icon, a small "Information" window pops up. This will start out displaying text to tell me it's updating the EPG, but with v0.97.13, the window will go blank after a while (see attachment).

I use Zap2It, that may have something to do with it, but this didn't happen with v0.96.

WMP visualizations are nice, however I would prefer Album Art to show when playing music. Album Art displays when playing the WMP, however GBPVR defaults to the visualizations.

Would be nice on MVP's as well...........

I am new to this. Great program, but still figuring it out.

I am using a Powercolor X300SE video card and an MSI Theater 550. Both are using the latest ATI drivers. When I go to view live TV, I get jumbled colours and bars across the screen. The program does not crash, just no video I can make out. The software records programs OK. I am using the Nero MPEG decoder.

Any ideas?

First time trying to make a htpc, so sorry if this is a newbie question

I have 2 PVR150MCE cards. I installed one with these settings (I named it PVR150 Digital):

Capture Card Type: Hauppauge PVR150MCE
Country: USA
Board Number: Capture Device #1
Source: Fixed-Channel, External Tuner
Tuning: Cable
Constant Channel: 3

Not sure if this matters, but it was installed in the lowest pci slot. With just this one card in, everything worked fine, no problems with recording, playback, the ir blaster, etc. Then I put in the second card in the pci slot just above the first one. Running XP Home and both show up under device manager. The second one I named PVR150 Analog to view basic cable channels and it has these settings:

Capture Card Type: Hauppauge PVR150MCE
Country: USA
Board Number: Capture Device #2
Source: Internal Tuner
Tuning: Cable

Ran the DeviceTypeCheck utility, it labeled the cards as #1 and #2. With the 2 cards, I did have to switch the cables going into the tuners and then it worked like it did before (also read in the wiki that it would record from #1 first, then #2). The problem I'm having is that after setting a channel to record, I can't watch a basic cable channel; I get the "No tuners are available" message. This is the log from the DeviceTypeCheck:

12:06:31.625 INFO Log started
12:06:31.625 VERBOSE ECP interface found

12:06:31.625 INFO Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture: model 26582
12:06:31.640 VERBOSE ECP interface found

12:06:31.640 INFO Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture: model 26582
12:06:31.656 VERBOSE FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
12:06:31.656 ERROR Failed to find requested device: Hauppauge PVR150 (instance 3)

I'm guessing (hoping?) that the log means it found 2 devices and the error was caused when it tried to find a third device. I brought out a smaller tv, hooked it up to the cable for the basic cable and it works fine.

So I know the cable signal works, and XP Home shows both tuners with no problems/conflicts with either. Would appreciate any help in getting gbpvr to use the second tuner.

Thanks

I switched my Nvidia 6200 and PVR-350 to an Athlon 2600+ PC. Now I can't play any videos anymore. The CPU goes to 100% and reports Zoomplayer is not responding. When I end task it tells me something about GraphEdt.exe. Since it is a playback issue then the PVR-350 shouldn't have anything to do with it. Especially since I had tried it on the 2600+ before adding the Nvidia 6200. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the 6200 drivers. No change. I can't find graphedt.exe on my computer and supposedly graphedit comes with a an SDK from Microsoft I have never downloaded. What can I do?

They have changed the filter properties so it should now be added in bda.ini to
[Nebula PCI BDA DVB-T (102)]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=Nebula DigiTV PCI BDA Tuner Filter
FILTER_CAPTURE=Nebula DigiTV PCI BDA Capture Filter
PIN_TUNER_IN=Antenna In
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=Input0
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

The difference being the PCI bit has been added

I don't have a usb version of this but as they have released the Beta version for usb I'm guessing they have changed the PCI to USB but someone will have to confirm this.

When I try the change database routine I assume that I need to select the "copy database" option? It churns for a few seconds but then reports "Failure migrating data..........the database is locked". I think I have all GBPVR services stopped. Is that right? Any tips?

Is there a way to specify a placeholder tag instead of a hardcoded filename in the DrawImage element, similar to the way you can do "@TextGoesHere" for the DrawText elements? I want to build a popup window as a Composite Image, and the window will have a jpg image contained within it, but it will not be the same jpg everytime, will depend on the selected item.

I guess I can use a SpecialElement tag to specify the location, but it would be nice to have it all within the Composite Image.

Thanks

Brian

1st I had just the pvr-350 card and all was fine, then I got a Hauppauge pvr-150MCE (not knowing it's kills the pvr-350 remote :mad: ) and installed that card, it looks like it's installed fine in windows and I added it to config.exe in the capture source tab, then I used the DeviceTypeCheck utility and only the pvr-150 was there, and obviously with no luck in gbpvr, so I took the pvr-150 back out in frustration and just used the 350 again, but gbpvr will not see it, I even removed the 350 and used the Hauppauge uninstall utility to remove all the drivers and reinstalled the 350 but still no luck in gbpvr......

any help would be wonderful


thanks

I would like to rip some mp3's off of a video DVD I just purchased (Blue man group) for a road trip I'm taking. Any suggestions, free software? I have tunebite but I don't think that will work.