I just keep seeming to have Standby issues. Whenever I use the menu item to Standby under the System category it restarts my computer. I have my front power button set to standby and it functions correctly so the computer is capabile of going into Standby. Any ideas why this would restart the computer?
Using a Streamzap remote with the streamzap drivers I'm finding sometimes (maybe 20 percent of the times I pause a recording) either when I hit pause or when I continue playback the GBPVR "Window" (I'm running fullscreen) loses focus and shift down and to the right. I use a mouse, right click GBPVR on the Task Bar and select "Maximise Window" and it goes back to normal.
The streamzap driver hasn't changed so I don't suspect that - and its ONLY when I'm using Pause on the remote so I don't believe its anything else taking focus. I've turned off "Hide when inactive" for systray incase if the streamzap icon was hidden and I used the remote XP un-hiding the icon was causing the loss of focus but thats made no difference.
I had a failed record when I had a SATA HDD cable issue; the programme recorded from hibernate but did not shut down correctly, leaving me with a failed record within GB-PVR. I cannot workout how to manually remove the tagging box for the programme within the record section of GB-PVR, as the delete function will not work?
I read somewhere in the search section GB-PVR was supposed to remove it if it did not link to the file but it does not appear to function.
I tried to use the MegaChannel Logos file but when I copied them into the channellogo folder, they were out of order with the guide so I deleted them. Now when I go into TVGUIDE in GBPVR, the channels are out of numerical order. They are, however, in order the configuration panel for the EPG. Any idea how to get them back in the right order in the TVGUIDE?
Performance seems to suffer after coming out of standby. I've noticed sync issues and video stuttering with both LiveTV and Video Playback after resuming from S3 state. What would cause this slow down?
Posted this in main section as it relates to GBPVR on PC as well as on MVP
On the MVP, when I stop a recording then go back to live TV, I get a loop of the one or two seconds before I stopped the recording. The only way to get out of this is to go into the guide and change channel (even doing this sometimes doesn;t work, still get the same loop.)
The recordings themselves seem fine, and if I load GBPVR on my PC, it is no longer looping.
I do though get almost the same on the PC, except I get a blank screen when I watch Live TV after cancelling a recording (Or a scheduled recording ending for that matter). Have to keep trying another channel until I get it back
I also get the same kind of thing happen on the MVP when I change channel, eg, from The HITS to TMF. I get a loop of about one second of the channel that I changed from.
I think it may be something to do with the Live TV buffer and the Recording - I've tried setting them on differnt drives and the same drive - doesn't make any differnce.
Posted this in main section as it relates to GBPVR on PC as well as on MVP
On the MVP, when I stop a recording then go back to live TV, I get a loop of the one or two seconds before I stopped the recording. The only way to get out of this is to go into the guide and change channel (even doing this sometimes doesn;t work, still get the same loop.)
The recordings themselves seem fine, and if I load GBPVR on my PC, it is no longer looping.
I do though get almost the same on the PC, except I get a blank screen when I watch Live TV after cancelling a recording (Or a scheduled recording ending for that matter). Have to keep trying another channel until I get it back
I also get the same kind of thing happen on the MVP when I change channel, eg, from The HITS to TMF. I get a loop of about one second of the channel that I changed from.
I think it may be something to do with the Live TV buffer and the Recording - I've tried setting them on differnt drives and the same drive - doesn't make any differnce.
A little history...
I'm fairly new (7 months) to media center PCs, PC based PVRs and recently streaming media to my TV. A few weeks ago, after weeks of study on the subject of streaming media (audio, pictures and recorded TV) to my TV from my PC, I purchased a D-Link DSM-320. At the time it was cheaper than the MediaMVP and it was wireless... cool.
I'd already done a couple weeks of homework before the purchase and found from reading around that the included D-Link media server PC application was not the best choice and even prior to the DSM-320 arrival, I'd already experimented with a number of PC side media server applications and settled on TVersity as my media server of choice. They pretty much all worked the same but there were slight nuances that made TVersity my final choice. Note, GB-PVR was one media server I read about and eliminated without even trying because it seemed to be overkill for a simple media server and it needed a MediaMVP to truly shine.
When the DSM-320 arrived, I basically hooked it up, plugged it in and it configured itself and found the TVersity server and we were quickly listening to music and viewing family pictures from my PC hard drive and everything worked generally well.
When it came to viewing recorded video, my wife was at first amazed and thinking it was really cool to be able to watch video recorded by my PC PVR on the TV with no VCR to setup and tapes to juggle. However it wasn't long before she said how do 'I record a TV show with your new toy?'
Well you guessed it... I tried to explain the DSM-320 was a 'simple viewing device only device' and that the PVR application that recorded the shows was running on the PC and to record a show, she had to learn to use the PC application to set up recordings... bla bla bla... which is all she heard I'm sure.
At that point I was back to the drawing board researching PC based PVR software that was easy to use. Bottom line, none were really easy to use and none could be 'ran from the living room' where the TV and DSM-320 were at. After a week, I was beginning to think another media center PC in the living room was the only option...
That's when I (re)discovered GB-PVR. It along with a MediaMVP seemed to promise the complete (two way) interactive experience from the TV.
After downloading and trying GB-PVR for a few hours, the very next day I sent the DSM-320 back and ordered a MediaMVP.
Now to my question.
I've read a ton of useful and a bit disconcerting info on this forum and I want to try and avoid the dongle.bin issue and any other gotchas from the get go. Since I've not had the MediaMVP hardware in house yet but I do have GB-PVR installed and working on the PC with my PVR-150, what would be the proper approach to having the best success with the total setup?
What a great tool and wonderful community this is and thanks in advance for any advice.
