I'm setting up a media center, after reading bunch of reviews, narrowed down to PVR150 series, but I'm not sure which. I would like a remote, but there is no model that has both FM radio and remote. How does FM radio work? What do I plug in to it? Is it possible to buy one of those with FM radio then buy a seperate remote? And would 3rd party remote be better than the one that comes with?
Here is my rough setup:
nMEDIAPC HTPC Black Slim
VIA EPIA 1GHz Mini ITX
Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-150
Do any NZ/Aus Posters have any or all of NZ/Argentina, Oz/Ireland and France/SA this last w/e?
I scheduled two of these to record and neither recorded and there are no repeats :-( . For some reason the USBUIRT channel changer went whacko on me and I recorded 2 hrs of "please press enter" (a message from my STB). Rather annoying to say the least. I have changed the USBUIRT setting to a 3 digit expected response now and I hope that works for all furture recordings.
I'm not sure what I'm missing, but I have comskip in my gbpvr dir, it runs, it generates the .log, .logo.txt, and also an empty .txt file for all the show I've recorded. In the past (previous install) the program easily skipped the commercials, but today's did not.
I understand comskip didn't find the commercials, but would you have any idea why?
I'm not sure what I'm missing, but I have comskip in my gbpvr dir, it runs, it generates the .log, .logo.txt, and also an empty .txt file for all the show I've recorded. In the past (previous install) the program easily skipped the commercials, but today's did not. My question is:
1) Is this because the .txt file is empty, and
2) Why would the .txt file be empty?
I'm trying to get gbpvr up and running. I have a win2k system, sp4, mdac, .net 2.0 (no sp), and wmp 9.
I've read through as many posts as I could find related to my problem. Almost all of them seem to have been solved by an upgrade of WMP. I've already done that, though, and the software still won't run. Any ideas?
Whenever config tries to start, the following error is generated:
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
at Config.xfd6951461fe46d87.x1f0684532099dac8(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.
This will be my first post but I have been reading various boards about PVRs for a while. Now that I dont have a TV and my desktop blew up ive decided to finally build the PVR ive been thinking about (building a new desktop in august, damn intel and the march of technology).
I thought I would post my current parts list and what I have learned about some components to perhaps make a quick reference list of accepted, reliable, functional parts for a basic SDTV PVR.
More relevant to GBPVR, here is the partial parts list I have come up with:
TV Tuner: Hauppage WinTV PVR150, (Same as 250 but audio and video are now on one chip, dont get the 350, the hardware decode is crap, the 150 is the workhorse of quality and support)
Me: Hauppage WinTV PVR 350 ($130) (learn from my mistake!) will trade to PVR150 ($90) soon
Video Card: DirectX9 capable, 128 bit memory interface or better, preferably fanless (its not a gaming box, you dont need an overclocked 7900GTX). From what I gather, in theory Nvidia cards (6 and 7) are the best bet due to full implementation of VM9 and PureVideo decoders (though PureVideo decoders will be mostly accelerated by any DX9 card). ATI owners and fans may take that hard and I know every system is different, but I said theory. I hear the new X1X ATI cards are just as capable even in theory, but I suspect a 6200 is cheaper than an X1X.
Me: Onboard Geforce 6150 ($0)
CPU: Since the PVR150 has hardware encode and the DX9 video card should accelerate the decode, the CPU doesnt need to be that powerful other than to load the GBPVR menus and such (anybody else tried a Sempron?)
Me: Athlon 64 3000+ Venice (939) ($89)
HDD: Any modern 7200 RPM drive with 8MB cache or larger should be fine. Get as large as you need and as many as you need (possibly RAID 5?).
Me: Western Digital 320GB FDB ($112), the new Fluid Bearing drives are said to be very quiet and have excellent performance
Motherboard: Something that will basically hold a graphics card, a PCI tv tuner and perhaps a PCI sound card should be fine. I prefer uATX because id like to put it in a particularly small case (havent chosen that yet either, but that is just personal preference). I hear that VIA EPIA boards (onboard CPU and MPEG2 decoder) are just on the edge of feasible and may be more trouble than theyre worth. A shame, the design is perfect for a PVR.
Me: MSI K8NGM2-FID ($82), Socket 939 (easy upgrade if necessary) Onboard Geforce 6150 (SD and HD PureVideo acceleration with ability to output to Svideo, composite, component and DVI) OnBoard HD Audio with ability to pass SPDIF
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RAM: High quality DDR/DDR2, as long as its a lifetime warranty and its not utter crap it should be stable enough. Get 1 GB, Windows XP likes 512MB on its own and RAM is cheap, suck it up.
Me: 2 x 512MB Corsair Value Select DDR400 ($82.5)
I think that covers it. Ill take recommendations on specific models. Also point out any general stupidity or nonsense. It seems to me that the computer above should be only a few hundred dollars ($455.5)
I previously tried to install version 97.9, but there seemed to be some glitches with it when run on the MVP. This forced me to go back to 96.12. I really wanted to take advantage of the latest version so I tried to do the upgrade again today. When applying the upgrade I also ran the utility to change to SQLLite. I could run gbpvr on the local machine and even view the TV Guide and such. It took a long time for the MVP to load the app, and then it could never locate the server. When the MVP was trying to locate the server, I noticed that the GBPVR.exe process was maxing out my processor. Now I am running an old Pentium 3 machine, but even with my 3 tuners it chugs along ok with the old version of GBPVR. I guess I'm wondering if I need a beefier machine to run the new version?
