I encountered some problems with 97.9 leading to some request for future versions.
When one has multiple tuners with different channel lineup there is a problem zapping through LiveTV when one tuner is recording and thus making some channels unavailable. If one comes to an unavailable channel there is no check wether it is available before it is entered. gbpvr will hang with a black screen. From my point of view the best would be to just skip those channels with a little message on the screen about what happened.
Furthermore, if one tuner is capturing and you want to enter LiveTV you will get the "not available" message if the last watched channel is now unavailable. Here, there should be a check if any other channel is available and just go there.
Last not least, there is a problem scheduling recordings if tuners have overlapping channel lineup. Setting up two recordings, the first of a channel that is available on both tuners, the second only on the second tuner in the config lineup will cause a conflict although there is a combination making both recordings possible. Seems like the tuners are reserved by their mere position in the config. In this case it should use the second tuner for the first recording and the first tuner for the second recording though. I know your opinion about letting the user chose the capture device. But maybe this should be added as an expert feature or something.
but still, this is an awesome piece of software!!
(once one managed to set it up)
I modified the TV Guide portion of the default skin, and it works great.
Unfortunately, sometimes when I reboot my computer, GBPVR reverts to the old TV Guide skin? Then I have to restore from a backup to get my modified skin back. It's a real hassle.
How can I get GBPVR to stop restoring the default skin?
I recently installed the latest version of GBPVR (0.97.9) and after deep consultation with this forum have managed to get it working fairly well and iron out most of the issues I was having.
System is as follows:
Win XP SP2
Intel P4 Mobile 1.7Ghz
ATI X700
1 Gb RAM
WinTV Nova-T USB 2 with 45 button remote
Cyberlink Muxer (cant remember which version but will check when I get home, its the one from one of the other threads here)
Power DVD6 Deluxe which I have selected in all the dropdown boxes in Config (video decoder, audio decoder etc)
I have three slightly weird problems that I have not been able to solve (no apparent relation between them so I will go through 1 by 1)
EPG crashes GBPVR
I am using XMLTV GUI to download EPG data from radio times. This seems to work ok and channels appear in the TV guide as expected, I can select them and it will record them correctly. If I press the tv guide button when watching TV it opens the onscreen display showing the grid at the bottom and I can navigate through the listings. When I click on a program the channel changes to that station (as expected) but occasionaly it freezes the computer and the only way to get out is to do a force quit in task manager or in some cases restart the computer. After this, I have to unplug the TV card and reinstall the drivers to get it to work again. It only happens occasionally and only when using the on screen EPG whilst watching TV (i.e it doesnt seem to do it when I select a channel from the main menu). I will try to recreate it this evening and attach logs if that will help.
PowerDVD launches by itself
Sometime when I am flicking channels, the PowerDVD splash screen (the one with the woman in shades that shows when no DVD is loaded) flashes up on screen for a split second in between changing channels. This doesnt bother me particulary but occasionally the PowerDVD application itself launches and completely fills the screen but GBPVR is still running in the background. So I have to close it manually on the computer and GBPVR is visible again (more annoying especially if it involves having to get out of bed to do it ) Again, it seems to happen at random and infrequently but I will try to recreate and post logs.
Audio delay when resuming recording from pause mode
When I watch a recording from the beginning it plays fine. If I pause it and then resume the video continues to play but there is no sound. After about 10 seconds the picture will jerk slightly and the sound will kick in again. This happens every time I pause and then unpause. Doesnt seem to be a problem with the recording because if I watch it all the way through without stopping it's fine. I get a similar problem when wathcing TV in timeshift mode.
Again sorry if I have not described the bugs very well, they are really strange and I have no clue what could be causing them. I will try to and provide more info when I get home, but in the meantime any help would be hugely appreciated - its great software and so close to making it work perfectly.
Cheers
PS Is there any extra information that I should specifically include to help diagnose the problem.
My system sometimes does not want to resume from the built in gbpvr screensaver. Anyone else had this problem? I hit buttons and the screensaver just moves around faster, but won't go back to the menu.
I am a newbe and I tried to find an answer on this forims and diverse docs, but so far, no luck.
I am in France and are suscribed to Free.fr which is an internet provider that also provides the TV channels in an offer called "Multiposte". It means that all the TV channels are streamed and can be read very easily viewed with a viewer such as VLC. I'd very much like to use your soft as a PVR.
I am wondering if it is possible to use these input streams as being the input of the GB-PVR? With possibility of zapping and recording thru the streams?
Sorry in advance if this was a stupid question. If so, because it is addressed somewhere obvious that I missed, please be kind enough to redirect me to the appropriate information.
before I upgrade to the latest version - what are the steps one needs to take to preserve the current configuration?
At a minimum, I would not want to do all the channel mapping all over again. How can I make sure these are preserved?
Secondly, what is the recommended way to upgrade to .net 2.0, when you have .net 1.1 installed already? De-install the old .net first, or install 2.0 over the old version?
Hi all, sorry for the newbie question.
I've recently setup gbpvr on a freeview tuner card and am quite impressed so far.
I understand there are a couple of options for filling the EPG data.
1. From the freeview broadcast
2. From bleb
3. From xmltv
I've tried the freeview broadcast but this appears to be slow, intermittant and sometimes misses entire channels out (could be my signal strenth).
I've also tried bleb, but found that I cant populate all the channels.
I haven't trued xmltv yet and am not sure fully how to do this, but it seems so far that I dont have a perfect way to populate all the EPG data for my freeview channels.
Has anyone posted a guide on how to get the best data into their EPG ?
Looking at replacing my ATI card as it is not supported by GB-PVR. At this point I am not worried about dual tuners and I already have a remote for my pvr. My question is this, can I buy the PVR-150 that does not include a remote to save the $$$? It looks like the same card the as PVR-150MCE, with out a remote included.
WAF would be raised considerably ( ) by the $67 card -vs- the $90. Not to mention the fact that my pvr will be 100% funtional! (live tv works but currenty, I can't get timeshift or recordings to work) Will I lose any features by not getting the remote with it?
I know on the wiki under capture cards it says both will work and both are supported natively, and that the non-MCE is the most popular. Is one better than the other or is it just preferance?
I also have to add a thank you to Sub. He has been helping me try and get my unsupported ATI card working with the software recorder. Not only has Sub been great this entire forum is awesome! I like GB-PVR and this forum enough to replace my tuner card rather than go with a different front end.
So Thank you to Sub and everyone else who has helped me!
I wanna recommend a new feature in GBPVR.
In lots of European countries there are Pay-TV channels with multiple Audiostreams. There is also the possibility of making AVIs or MPEGs with more than just one Audio-Stream. For example a movie with the English and the German or the French Audio-Stream.
With lots of external Players (Zoom Player, VLC, MPlayer) you can switch between these Audiostreams, but not with the internal player of GBPVR.
So I wanna recommend a feature to switch between different Audiostreams.
If that would work, the next step would be for Alibert (creator of the d-box Plugin) to implement a feature to record multiple audio streams.
I know this has been brought up before, and it's no fun, but it has to be said that GBPRV sometimes does a shocking job at allocating tuners.
Amongst other problems, I've had situations where it'll choose to use the same tuner to record two consecutive programs that are on different channels, even though the other tuner is free during that period. It seems to have something to do with the order that programs are set to record, because it works fine if you set them in chronological order.
I propose three additions to help combat this problem:
1) Do a reshuffle of tuner allocations (to find the optimum configuration) after each program is set to record
2) Display the tuner scheduled to be used on the TV Guide (small digit on top right corner of program) for manual confirmation - and to help debug problems in the scheduling logic
3) Add an option in the Guide's recording options to manually swap (or otherwise change) the tuner assigned
What do you think?
PS: I'm still using 92.12. Have this been improved in the recent version?
) Again, it seems to happen at random and infrequently but I will try to recreate and post logs.
) by the $67 card -vs- the $90. Not to mention the fact that my pvr will be 100% funtional! (live tv works but currenty, I can't get timeshift or recordings to work) Will I lose any features by not getting the remote with it?