Hi have been running this gbpvr for a few days now it is awsome...
I am outputing my picture to 68CM Standard TV. When a show is widescreen everything is great but when watching a non widescreen show it only has a box about 70% of the screen size I would like it to fill the TV> if I cycle through aspect ratio's non will stretch it fully is there anyway to do this, Not sure if its the decoder if it is which would be the best for me. I have intervideo latest (not working) and cyberlink, and nero.
Unlike the other threads I am not getting garbage or problems just a smaller screen in the middle of the TV, I am using an FX5700 Graphics Card.
Ok, so this is an odd problem that I cannot seem to figure out. I have an Archos AV500 (video player). It only plays MPEG4s (Avi w/ xvid), and I was hoping to watch some of my tv shows I've recorded on it (while working out, driving, etc.). It comes with a utility that converts MPEGs to MPEG4. However, when I try to convert MPEGs made by GBPVR, I get the error message:
MPEG Import Filter: invalid pack at position 3: marker bit not set; possibly MPEG-2 stream.
It uses a program called VirtualDub, so I tried an updated version of that program, and I receive the same error.
I have also tried using the AVI conversion built into GBPVR, but it tends to go funky. First, the quality tends to be poor. Second, I get random video errors where it is jumpy, the video and audio lose sync, etc. However, the MPEG that it was made from works just fine.
Is this something that only I am having problems with? I have reformatted the computer and reinstalled and run into the same problem, so I don't think its an OS problem. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
PS: Thanks to all who have done work on GBPVR, it has been a wonderful blessing, and I do greatly appreciate your work.
Hey all, I've been using GBPVR for some time, recording everything on medium, and I've found space to be an issue. There are a few shows that I like to keep and rewatch, and I've been wanting to compress the episodes to Xvid. I searched the boards and tried AutoGK and Stattik's tool ("Automated Cutting and Transcoding Guide Using Mencoder") and I was wondering if people could share their experiences.
I like the contribution from the community a lot here, but I'm not as good as I'd like to be with tweaking settings (which is why I'm looking for a do-everything solution). The episodes I have are half-hour sitcoms, with commercials stripped (although there are some stragglers I'd like to get rid of). I would like to compress them to about 175 MB and maintain fluidity and quality as much as possible. I tried one episode with AutoGK, and one with the Mencoder tool. At first glance, the quality came out better with the AutoGK epi so I'm enclined to keep using that. Problem is, I have 80+ episodes to process. It's also possible that I wasn't sure how to configure bitrate/codec settings in the Mencoder tool. So if anyone would like to share their experiences (with example settings), I would be very grateful. Thanks!
So, I started playign that game with google earth and all, you know, the one on the banner on the main page of the forums?, (very bored) and got stuck on the 4th clue. the videos arent loading for me, so im going strictly by the hints, and this one is "Since War and Peace, angelic voices have been heard here". I think its somewhere in St. Petersburg, but i dunno, anyone else who has een as bored as me?
PS- (the War and Peace thing, it refers to the book)
Hi,
I have the Twinhan Hybrid DTV 3054 card running on an XP machine.
I have downloaded the latest Twinhan build 2.62 which has (I believe) BDA drivers.
However, when I try to "Map digital channels... I get:
"Get GB-PVR was unable to start the BDA device you have configured. Check the device is configured properly, and not already in use"
(Follwed by a .Net exception).
I have added a BDA.ini entry as:
[Twinhan DVB-T 3054 (PCI BDA Tuner Driver)]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=DTV-DVB 3054 Digital Tuner/Demod
FILTER_CAPTURE=DTV-DVB 3054 Digital TS Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=Output1
and this seems to be confirmed by GraphEdit and that "Only show devices detected..." finds it.
I did have this working on a Win2K box but now I've moved it to XP I can't get it going again.
Does anyone have any ideas how to diagnose the problem?
im certain i know what the issue is, and i have no idea how to fix it...
i have hip running with a MCE remote, everything is working fine, except that when i press up once when running gbpvr in the tv guide, the program selection cursor thingy moves up 2 spaces, im almost certain this is because im running HIP and the fact that the remote is PnP in XP, and controls things within the OS itself... so what i need is a way to disable the remotes influence over windows and have it accessed only through HIP
This happened again to me. Setup a recurring recording from the EPG. But for some reason, epg data for that channel wasn't available the next time the show was screened. So gbpvr didnt record it. Not a big hassle but it was my wife's show and she's pretty upset :-( Says the VCR was more reliable!
Just to confirm. For a regularly scheduled program does gbpvr check the EPG before recording even though the show has been marked as record each week, same time? Is the only way out of this to manually schedule the repeated recording?
I need a way to explain why her show didn't get recorded!
We have created a slide show which we woud like to import into GBPVR and play on our 2 MVP'S. The slide show are normally burnt to DVD, however in this case I have created an MPEG2 version to show on the MVP's.
I realize there is a utility "MPEGIMPORT" however it requires the latest .net2,
(shame on us) we are still using an older version of GBPVR which uses .net1.
Is there any way to import this slide show into GBPVR?? It would probably be imported into the recordings directory. Tried copying into the GBPVR didn't see it.
My original goal was to simply be able to watch video files from a networked Tivo (Series 1).
I have a Plextor TV-402U usb capture device, along with a Twinhan 102G satellite card on an xp box with an ATI Radeon VE video card (TV out).
Now, things have spiralled out of control, and I hope to have a PC based PVR that can record from the Satellite card and from the Plextor. I see that Hauppauge came out with a wireless MediaMVP, which seems like the perfect playbackdevice...
However, can the MediaMVP control the GBPVR xp box directly from the network? Also, Ive been reading about the MediaMVP Media Center (mvpmc)... how does this compare?
