Hi, I just switched from BeyondTV to give gb-pvr a try. When I try to start the GUI I get an error message immediately stating,"gbpvr.exe has encounted a problem and needs to close..."
After using gbpvr to record a show, I ran comskip and comclean2 (which uses cuttermaran) to get rid of the commercials. It worked, but there was no audio on the new video!!
I recently got my MediaMVP working and immediately noticed how much better live picture quality is than my HTPC. The MVP picture quality rivals my raw cable (analog) ...in fact I think it is better. My HTPC live picture quality has never come close to the original analog cable source quality.
I am using a Hauppauge 500MCE tuner, Gigabyte 6200 PCIe graphics (component out but 30 ft long cables), and nvidia video decoders in overlay mode. (I do not use VMR9 because I can not get video to pass the scrolling text test but with overlay there are no issues - video is 100% stutter free).
So both my mediaMVP and HTPC use the same video source (my analog cable), and the same tuner card (hauppauge 500MCE), but picture quality (sharpness, brightness, noise, blurring, etc) is MUCH better on the mvp. My obvious question is why?:confused:
At this point I am thinking it must be either the video decoder and/or its settings (pass-thru,overlay,etc) or the physical component cable connection to my 36" JVC CRT TV? I have previously tried different decoders and settings and settled on the nvidia purevideo decoder in overlay mode as the best I can do for picture quality.
I would appreciate anyones thoughts on this little mystery... Thanks
I have 97.13 installed. Originally the MVP server would work without having to run the above file but lately it stopped working and I couldn't connect. After playing around I realized that if I manually start GB MVP server file (in the program menu) it works. Unfortunately, I'm left with small GB MVP server window open.
any ideas on how I get it to work without manually having to run this file. And - yes I have selected no. of MVP servers = 1 in the config file.
I got some minor problems, but it would be great if someone could help me.
1. When I watch a recording, there is a small time gap between video and audio. It seems that there is no Problem when I burn a DVD and watch it on my standalone DVD-Player. Is it possible to "close" that time gap in GBPVR?
2. I still have the problem that the viewer of the picture library shows the pictures with a wrong aspect ratio on the TV-Out of my PVR350. I Know that its possible to correct it because I found a way by editing the config.xml, but I don't know how I did that and after I installed the PC I'm not able to do it again.
3. When I watch Live TV and change the Changels, GBPVR exits to the main menu, sometimes at the first channel change, sometimes after some more, but it always happens after I try to change the channel.
Is it possible to change the Nvidia Purevideo deinterlace options from within GB-PVR during captured liveTV playback?
The reason I ask is because when watching One World of Motorsport there must be different video formats (ie. I can watch the Indy League at Nvidia deinterlace default setting but need to adjust to VMR vertical stretch when watching the V8 supercars)
With Zoomplayer I can access the decoder from right-click context menus. (One reason why it would be great if ZP was integrated into GB-PVR as a playback option).
comskip doesn't always get it right. I'd like to see a tool or plugin that allowed on-screen manual marking of ads in a broadcast, and the ability to also specify which skipped blocks are incorrectly skipped.
The ability to map these commands to buttons on the remote would also be excellent. E.g. my haupphage remote has 4 colour buttons. I could map these to "punch in", "punch out", "remove block", "commit block".
The software would update the comskip text files and then software could re-jig the streams to discard those sections.
I tried installing GB-PVR on my computer, but during the installation an error popped up about "GBPVRwriter.ax"
I also installed GB-PVR on another machine and it worked fine. The machine it didn't work on is running XP media center edition, the one it did work on is running XP pro.
Is there any off hand reason why it shouldn't work on one computer, but it does on my other comp?
First of all, thanks for the opportunity to use this free shareware and for having all of these useful forums.
My problem is that when I click on Live TV or click to watch a program on the schedule, GBPVR freezes up and I have to use the program manager to end the app.
I have restarted the recording service. The batch window states the recording has been stopped successfully then states that the recording service is being restarted. I never see a started successfully message (don't know if this is as designed). Next I show the recording status and it states that my tuner card is sleeping. Next, I click on the Live TV button or watch button on a program. The app freezes but the recording status now says Live TV (LivePreview Mode).
I'm using v 0.97.13. I have a 2 Ghz P4 PC with 512Mb RAM, 50G free disk space, Hauppauge PVR150 card, NVIDIA Purevideo decoder, the latest drivers for the PVR150 and for my ATI Radeon 9550 GPU, and .NET 2.0 installed.
I've tried selecting VM7, VM9, Overlay, and FFDSHOW.
I have successfully setup my analog cable channel lineup with Zap2it and can navigate in the GBPVR menus.
I have reregistered the filters.
I was able to view the channels using the tuning assistant.
I can listen to .mp3s, play video files, and listen to net radio.
I also loaded WinTV200 to make sure my tuner card was working. Using that App I can view Live TV and record.
I've tried to put down everything I've tried. I tried to attached my logs, but I kept getting a timeout. One zipped file is 8 Meg and the other is 3 Meg. If there are a few specific logs that might help let me know.
I'm having a couple of minor issues with GBPVR (v95.16).
1) after a recording my memory useage in Task Manager shows 1.5Gb in use. If I go to the GBPVR button on the taskbar and restart recording service it drops down to 0.5 Gb (normal on my system).
2) after a reboot, if I go to the 'Show Status' it shows about 8 devices not ready (no recorings will work, no live TV will work) , if I do a restart recording service everything goes back to normal.
What did I do/check/uncheck that has created these issues? :confused:
Thanks
