First off, thanks so much Sub for GB PVR, I really love it so far.
I finally got my new system up and running. I have one major issue, and a few minor questions I'm hoping someone can help me with.
First off, my Dedicated PVR system:
AMD Athlon 1.2 CPU
Abit KT-7 Motherboard
640MB Ram
300GB Maxtor 7200rpm HD (bought new)
Hauppauge PVR-150 retail (bought new)
SB Audigy 1 (bought new)
GeForce 4200ti w/128 ram
Realtek 10/100 Network card
Antec case w/350w smart PSU (bought new)
Software:
Win XP Pro sp2
Nvidia PureVideo decoders
No virus scanners or any resident scanner of any kind, Indexing is turned off
Using the latest build of GB-PVR
Currently using Overlay for the video playback settings, tried VMR9 initially and it looked great, but studdered even more
Have video setup with TV as primary and only output at 800x600. I tried 720x480, but it chops off some of the GBPVR menu.
I have this setup on a 20" TV in our computer room for now using Svideo cable, not using a receiver or anything yet, just straight to TV to see how we like it before I hook up to our main TV (32" Sony).
Main issue is with live TV and video playback. Live TV is a little choppy - it's not horrible, but ANY studder is worse than regular TV which means we won't want to use it. Video playback is better, but still not 100% fluid, especially with alot of action on screen (like a basketball game).
Originally, I tried live TV and playback through my monitor only, and it worked much better. It was only after I setup the TV out that my problems really started.
This weekend I going to try several things I read here and elsewhere to tweak the system:
1. Trying different nVidia drivers - gonna try the latest beta ones as well as the NGO Optimized ones. Will try to overclock my video card a tad to increase its performance
2. Did the quartz.dll fix for DX9c mentioned elsewhere
3. Try an older Haup150 driver that people have had good success with, then use the Hauppauge Tweak utility to help performance/quality
4. Use the TVTuner utility to see if any settings changes has a postitive impact
5. Try VMR7 instead of Overlay.
6. Sound I try a different audio decoder than the nVidia one? Nero perhaps?
I have read posts from several people running a successful system with less, but I can't help but look at my hardware as the culprit.
Upgrading the MB/CPU is pretty much out of the question. I'd need to get new ram also. The MB doesn't support a faster CPU. So that leaves me with the Capture, video, and sound cards being the most ideal place to upgrade for my setup.
I already intend to upgrade my sound card to the new Diamond DDL Xtreme7.1 for digital out (only $58!). Would this alone give a performance boost?
I'm considering returning the PVR150 and getting a PVR350 instead ($50 more). It would seem this would have the largest impact, due to the hardware decoder. But it's a bit pricey solution since I will need to also buy an IR blaster (another $50?)... so $100 more for the new card and blaster. I'd gain the FM tuner, but frankly don't care about that too much.
Then, there's the video card. From what I've read I'd really need to get a 6xxx series Nvidia card to have a huge impact. For the $$, I think I'm better off just keeping the video card I have and getting the PVR350.
Other questions:
Using the Overlay setting is the most fluid, but the picture quality isn't very good. It's noticeably blurry/washed out, and skin tone isn't right. I've read this as a common complaint. I'm hoping once I do the software tweaks I mentioned above, I can go back to VMR9 or VMR7 for better quality.
Using netradio in GBPVR, there is a section to display the artist, song, etc. but they are never displayed. Is there anyway to get them to display?
Is there anyway to extend the length of the IR Blaster cable?
Gah, sorry for the long post. Hope you guys have a great holiday weekend. Any comments/suggestions are appreciated.
I am trying to get this setup for the first time and I am having a few problems. I think I am close though, if someone could give me a nudge (kick?) in the right direction.
I just bought a dell dimension 8400, 3.2GHz P4 w/ 1gig RAM. It had a 128 MB PCI-x ATI Radeon x300 SE video card that I plan on using as the video out to the tv. I put in a Hauppauge150 tuner card. I am running XP Home, since that is what came with the system. I am planning on using this setup with a satellite receiver coming in through the S-Video.
Just to test the hardware, I installed the WinTV that came with the tuner card. I can get the antenna and the S-Video inputs to be displayed on the computer. I can get the windows screen to be displayed on the TV, but for some reason I don't actually see the tv part of the WinTV. Oh well, I want GBPVR anyway so never mind that detail.
I downloaded the latest GBPVR (97.7) and followed the wiki on the initial setup. I installed .NET 2.0 and had directx 9.0b already. I setup my capture source and it saw the card just fine. I left the audio and video renderings options alone, at the system default, for the playback. Setup and got the EPG info, so I am getting there.
When I fire it up and try to watch LiveTV, I get the error message: "Error: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other menory is corrupt." I have dinked around a little bit with some of the settings, but I always get this message. I did a search here and found someone else with the same problem
(http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=16457)
The exact solution for him wasn't exactly clear, but it involved removing a dll called MyPictures.dll. I did a quick search and didn't find that file. I did go in the Config program and disabled the plugin. Same problem.
I also tried playing a dvd through GBPVR this morning, and the audio and video were all chopped up and disjointed. I again tried to play with some of the playback settings as far as the decoding goes, but no luck. The powerDVD program that came with the PC seems to work just fine, so I believe the hardware is up to snuff.
Sorry for the long-winded post, but I figured I might as well post everything I have done up to this point. I am not sure what to try next?
I've been recording Lost season 2 recently on Channel4 and I've noticed that whenever the lost graphic comes up (usually after a commercial break), the MVP seems to get its video stuck on that point while the sound continues - very annoying I can tell you. I've been working around this by restarting playback and trying to short skip just past the logo which seems to be working although it means I do miss a little bit of the show each time....
Just wondered if anyone else out there had a similar issue?
Hi Guys
I just took delibery of a shiny new hd-ready lcd tv with a DVI input. Until now I've been using an MVP to playback my recordings to my old CRT which is great but its not quite been up to the job for watching live tv (UK DVB-T via NOVA-T).
My question is this: Now I've got a tv that will take a DVI input and a gbpvr machine with a DVI output (radeon 7000 64mb), can I hook the two together and what would I need to do get it working? (other than a DVI cable - I guess what I mean is how will the mpg be decoded for the tv...)
Also, if this can work, does anyone know if live DVB tv could be possible without the slowness of the MVP? I'd love to be able to use GBPVR for watching tv as well as recordings. I've tried a couple of freeview boxes but theyhave all been pants - not a patch on the guide etc in GBPVR.
For some reason the image on all channels are shifted down (by about 15mm on 1280x1024 resolution). So I have a black bar at the top and missing part at the bottom. There's also some encoding problems with the bottom 10-20% of what is shown (lots of artifacts, black boxes etc). Files recorded from the TV and recorded onto DVD show the same when played back on an ordinary DVD so I assume it's an input / decoder problem rather than anything to do with the graphics card.
Brief specs:
Decoders (cyberlink & Nero) the problem occurs with both
ATI 550 card
XP pro SP2
Hi just installed been using Mediaportal(gonebad). Have set up my dvico card no problems did a channel scan and it found 51 of the same channel, now it wont pick up any channels on the scan, now for the good new Brisbane Australia, I take it I cant get this program to work without and XML EPG?? Help:eek:
Hi
I was wondering if anybody had any news on the MVP software client that was being developed. This is something I would REALLY want to use if it were ready, but it seems to have stalled when it was getting realy close.
I have looked back through the thread and got lost trying to follow where its at. Can someone give a summary, is it OK to try, and what is still to fix and what versions of what components are needed to run it.
I just swapped my video HDD out for 10 minutes (had a 2nd disk to get something off) but when I plugged it back in GBPVR didn't have the recorded shows in the list. I did an mpegimport to bring them back in, so I guess GBPVR saw that the normal recording area wasn't there and tried to do something?
The issue I have is that the settings for the TV channels seem to maybe have got altered, as when I go to watch live TV on some channels this didn't work.
Could my GBPVR settings been changed? should I go back and re-scan etc?
