Hope you can help me with a couple of possibly obvious questions, but both have eluded me so far.
1. On Aspect Ratio. I have a Viewsonic widescreen monitor which has a 16:10 aspect ratio. When I have gbpvr in full screen mode, the 'auto' aspect mode (changed using F7) enlarges the video to fill my screen, which stretches the picture vertically a small amount (I receive a 16:9 digital signal through UK Freeview, and any recordings made played in Power DVD display in 16:9) Whilst this isn't a major issue by any means, I wondered if there was an option in gbpvr to force the original aspect ratio.
2. Adding new channels. In my source details of the config, a number of channels are listed without tuning details - which obviously I cannot receive. While most of these are junk, i'd quite like to add one of the channels to GBPVR (abc1), and wonder if that's possible? Win TV picks up the channel no problem.
Has anyone tried this inline networking product call Sling Link? Thinking about trying to replace my wireless with this. Might it be more reliable for video that wireless??
This is my situation. I have a mvp working on my family room tv and networked wirelessly (Linksys 54G gameport adapter) to my media server in another room via a Linksys 54g access point. Wireless network has excellant signal strength. MVP connects with no problem and I am able to go through the GB-PVR menu with no problems too. The problem is when I try to play a recorded show. When I try connecting to it, the MVP freezes and I get a blank screen. Any suggestions. Music plays fine though. Thanks.
Living on the East Coast USA, we are prone to quit a few power outages, glitches, brown-outs etc.... (at least in the mid-atlantic region).
Anyway I bought an UPS for the main GBPVR server, it works and it should save some wear and tear on the box.
We have two MVP'S which are left off when not in use. When power is restored following an outage both MVP's are on (red light is on) and unable to connect to the server.
This forces me to turn off the GBPVR recording service, restart the Hauppauge MVP service, boot up the MVP's, shut down the Hauppauge service and restart GBPVR.
Lottsa time running up and down three flights of stairs, frankly not a big deal.
Anyone having similar problems?? Anyway of solving this??
PS I could buy a generator - nope, I could get two additional UPS's for the MVP's - nope, I could power the MVP's with 12v batteries - hmmmmmmm.
I'm pretty new to the PVR stuff, but I have some spare PCs and a lot of time on my hands, so I thought this would be a cool project to try (especially since I want a tivo but can't justify the monthly cost... seems silly if I can do it for free)
I was hoping I could get some advice from you guys and maybe some verification that the platform I've chosen is ok and whether or not it will work with GBPVR.
The spare machine I want to use is a Gateway Essentials 800 bookshelf PC (800mhz celeron). It's a mini atx (that's what the case says) case, just big enough for the motherboard, hard drive, cdrom, floppy, and 2 low profile pci slots. The motherboard has an Intel video card built on and a sound blaster compatible sound card built on as well. There are 7 or 8 USB ports, 1 parallel port, 1 vga port, sound ports, and 1 modem port. I have a pci nic in there and was planning on filling the last slot with a PVR150 MCE low profile edition. The hard drive is currently 40gb, but drives are cheap if I need.
I was thinking of adding a USB IR receiver and blaster, since i'm using comcast digital cable and need to change channels at the cable box (the cable box has a serial port, but my pc does not... a usb to serial adapter could be used, but i'd rather use a USB blaster unless there's a reason not to?). Then I'd just need to pick up a media center remote, I suppose.
Is this setup ok to run GBPVR? I was going to put XP on the machine and then put GBPVR over that.
What else would I need? VGA->TV converter? Should I swap the NIC out for a USB NIC and use the pci slot for something else (it would have to be low profile, whatever it was). This is PC not a good choice?
I have some recordings that show up as failed. I think it happened when I upgraded to 97.13. The files are not on the hard drive so I want to remove them from GBPVR. Could someone tell me where to delete the database entries from. I am using SQL.
I haven't had any issues with GBPVR (and still don't despite this error), but thought I would ask. See the attached screenshot. I was logged in via Terminal Services and doing some performance monitoring to see how things were going on the system.
I suddenly got a popup that said something about an error that didn't get reported immediately, and asked for permission to send it to Microsoft. I declined, but scavenged a screenshot of the Application Log entry for it. GBPVR didn't terminate or anything, and its still running just fine. Just not sure what to make of this error and wanted to throw it out there for reference. Currently running GBPVR 97.13.
new to gbpvr but really like it
i have two DVB-T "sticks" hauppauge Nova T and a freecom. Under XP the freecom doesnt have reliable BDA drivers and using vgear, yakumo etc tend to make my pc unstable so im using the nova t.
only problem is the nova t seems to not get complete EPG data from DVB broadcasts whilst the freecom was much better at getting this EPG info.
Seems like a new problem introduced with 97.13....
I have a bunch of shows set to record "Reoccurring". The problem is that, when the times for these shows gets changed in Zap2it's online listings, the changes are *not* reflected in GB-PVR's scheduled recording times.
http://www.Zap2it.com 's online web schedule shows the correct (revised) program times (so Zap2it does indeed have the correct data).
But, even if I force a manual update on GB-PVR, GB-PVR's listings (for scheduled reoccurring shows) do not reflect the new times.
However, if I force GB-PVR to Delete all its listings (via Config | Capture), then force a manual update again, the GB-PVR listings will show a *gap* (i.e. no show at all) during the revised time slot (?!).
If I unschedule the recordings, Delete the listings, and then do a manual update, all is well.
????
I've missed a *bunch* of shows (4 so far this week) because of this problem.
It appears to have only started happening since I upgraded from 97.07 to 97.13.
