i just got a pvr 500 mce w/ dual tuner and realized it doesnt have an ir blaster:mad: . consequently, i really need to get one for my set top box. what should i get?
I'd like to input the video through my PVR150, but that would result in a MPEG.
As I understand it, it is desirable to edit video with AVI source files, rather than MPEG editing - including transitions and titles, would involve a lot of processor intensive encoding. (and from what I've read a lot of quality loss)
Does anyone know how to use a PVR150 as a capture device, but save as AVIs?
Like the title says, it's in the May edition of PC Plus. Doesn't seem to be any editorial in the mag, but it's included with other PVR apps like Media Portal and BTV. Maybe there'll be a sudden influx of Brits on these boards??
I've got a DVB-T card and a PVR250 in my machine and am using the latest version of GB-PVR.
I am experimenting with a batch file and a program called "WebEPG" to gather the EPG data for the (~30) analogue channels. The batch file calls "WebEPG" to write an XML file. It then starts GB-PVR with an "-OnlyEmptyEPG", closes it and starts it again with an "-OnlyUpdateEPG".
Updating the EPG can sometimes take a long time (especially the ~18 DVB-T channels).
Is there a switch which I can add to the "-OnlyUpdateEPG" or also "-OnlyEmptyEPG" which would only empty or update the EPG for one of the cards?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the config app, when I have a card selected and click on "Update EPG", it only does it for the selected card.
Would "/PVR250" or "/DVB-T" (the names of the cards) work?
Starting about two weeks ago, all the shows have been listed an hour early in the guide - though they are fine in the XML file before it is imported. I use XMLTV to get the EPG files, but I run it manually on a separate computer, and copy the EPG file over to my PVR when I need to update it (if I were to hook my PVR up to the school network to get internet access, I would have to change a number of setting to abide by their policies, and I'd rather not).
Around the time this first happened, I searched the forums to see if anyone had had something like that happen to them, with the times being an hour off. I found a few people who had, and set about trying the remedies people suggested to them. First, I emptied the EPG, deleted the capture sources, set the capture sources up again, and re-imported the EPG. That did not work. After that, I tried uninstalling GBPVR, and reinstalling (while I was at it, reinstalling to the latest version. I don't recall which release I had before, but it was only one or two behind, I think. It was from last September, anyway.) That did not work. I checked the clock settings in Windows (I am using Windows 98, by the way), and it seems to be correct. I tried playing around with whether Windows was set to automatically update for daylight savings time, and that also made no difference. I also tried offsetting the EPG when importing (after having cleared it, deleted the capture sources, and re-creating them) but it had no effect. That last one I find a little odd, since it apparently ignored the offset setting altogether there.
The time that GBPVR shows is correct, it is just that the listings are an hour earlier than they should be, so I suspect the problem must be when I import the listings. I have XMLTV configured to get the times in UTC. There was one post I read that mentioned an XML cleaner that would switch UTC to GMT, but I didn't think that it would be necessary since it worked fine with UTC before, and I could find no mention of UTC vs GMT in the wiki.
The only thing left I can think of to check is the BIOS clock, though I thought that GBPVR converts times based on the Windows clock, so that shouldn't make any difference. Since this error started occurring for me, the only way I have been able to get correct listings is to edit the gbpvr.mdb file to manually shift the times back by an hour (though that has been an educational experience in itself, examining the different tables in there). If anyone can think of something else I should check the settings on, I would appreciate it. Thank you.
I am not getting any picture, either live TV or recordings. I know its working, if I play live TV or a recording through my MPV, it all works great. But, when I try to watch live tv, I get sound but no picture, if I try to play a recording, I get sound of the recording but the last image that was on the screen stays. I've tried all the playback settings.
My HW is a Expox EP-EX5300S Barebones (Intel video chipset), Hauppauge PVR-250, DirecTV satellite, Actisys IR Controller.
As I said, recordings seem to work just fine. I also updated the Video driver. I don't get snow or a choppy picture, just no picture at all, a black screen. But, when I record it does record a picture.
I'm running the latest version of GBPVR, and tried downgrading, same result.
First time using FM radio since installing newest version of GBPVR. After finishing listening to FM radio I went to LiveTV and the volume was EXTREMELY low. After rebooting still had problem. Next I deleted the Lastvolume key in the registry and this corrected the volume level (I thought this bug had been fixed) Anyway, now my Hauppauge 45 button remote will NOT adjust the volume. It had worked fine before the above discussed situation occured.
Any ideas how to get remote volume control working again?
