I just got a $150 gift certificate to a computer store, and I'm looking to do something with my PVR. Here are my specs--can you suggest what I should be spending my money on?
I currently have 512 MB of Ram--should I upgrade the ram?
or I currently am running GEFORCE 4000 Graphics card, s-video out, should I upgrade with a new/better graphics card?
I am looking to built a MC running on as little power as possible due to heat, and wondering if this will work, if not, what would be the next best option.
Pentium 3/866 or 1GHz
512MB SDRAM PC133
300GB Maxtor on SATA Addon card
GeForce MX4000
2 x KWorld DVB-T-100 PCI
Would the above give reasonable performance ?
Would it run better under 2000 or XP Pro ?
Would it work with onboard graphics like 865/915i etc. ?
If I have to, I could up the mobo/cpu to P4/1.8 or higher in order to get stable and smooth dual tuner performance especially when recording. and GeForce 4200Ti for VGA
But ideally I rather use low power devices if possible.
I'm using the current version of GB-PVR, a PVR-150 with remote/IR Blaster Windows XP Pro SP2 and a Turtle Beach Rivera sound card. Everything seems to be coming along well, but this problem I'm having with controlling the volume. If i dont have GBPVR open my remote moves windows master volume. When GBPVR is open this doesn't work. The thing thats really confusing is that the volume control seems to work when I'm watching TV but not when I'm listening to music or playing a DVD.
I don't know if this been posted before but Theres this option that allows me to "Record Season" But I got a problem I want to cancel all future season recordings.
For example I decided to record all the Becker Episodes on a few channels Because I never seen this shows before.
Well That was a few months ago and now I've pretty much seen them all and I want to cancel all Future recordings. But all I can do is cancel each episode individually. Its kind of hard to do that when you record 2-4 episodes a day, every day of the week.
Another problem I have is I want to modify future recordings like time slot selection and padding or fix the type of recording I want.
AGAIN I have to modify each episode individually. Kind of sucks that you just want it to do it automatically. But it can't because its only going on what was set at the beginning.
Finally I need a some sort of database to stop recording reoccuring shows when I select "Record Season (All episodes on this channel)"
Eithers its a bug or what not I tried to record "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and just select that option. So It record fine but the next day it record the same episode again and on saturday it record IT again. Now I have 3 copies or more depending when it reoccures. Easily deleted but annoying if you don't know about it and takes up space on the disk. OR it cancels out another recording of a show that you really wanted to see.
Just something that annoys me and I don't know how to cancel a whole season. Or if the option doesn't exist.
I'm using v0.96.12 of GB-Pvr
If this has been implemented in a new version then please disregard this.
I just got gbpvr working great with my fta satellite after help from sub and this forum and am trying to use the weather and news feed plugin with the blue mce2 skin, can anyone give me instructions on how i can set this up, i dont know where to find those 2 plugins and how to configure them for use, i like the skin called va panel but am unable to find it for download, any help would be appreciated
Hi.
As a total newcomer to PVR, can anyone let me know if it is possible to buy a machine with a large HDD (160Gb or more), two tuners, and capable of then transferring (burning) any programme from the HDD to DVDs, preferably DVD+R or +RW?
Hi,
I am using v0.96.12 of GBPVR. Live TV,EPG and recording works great. But when I play back my recordings using GBPVR the video is jerky. Jerky being defined as plays for 1 second freezes for 5 seconds and then plays for 1 second.
The same recording when played using Windows Media Player works great.
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