I seem to run into trouble ever since I moved my TV tuner/GB-PVR installation from a test PC to another machine (Win2k, .Net 1.1/.Net 2.0, DX9c, WMP 9.0). I posted previously to sort out some troubles with the GB-PVR installation, which is running fine now.

But my Diamond PVR-600 seems to give me some trouble now. It has a status light in the front, that was green on the old machine (live TV and recording was working). On the new machine this status light changes from green to red as soon as the driver for the PVR-600 is loaded. I can now watch live TV, but recording shows is not working. BTW: in the device manager the PVR-600 shows up as "working without problems".

So I assume, that the status light indicates, if the device is ready for recording or not (does anybody know for sure?). There must be something missing on the software side. A codec maybe (although - it has hardware encoding, shouldn't require one for recording)? Why is it not recoding? I'd really appreciate any hints.

Thanks!

Here they are: http://www.station-drivers.com/page/atidriv.htm

Download the Catalyst 6.4 beta at the top of the page. Extract the file with winrar, and the drivers are under the WDM_ALL --> RIO directory.

These are for the Theater 550 Pro and Theater 650 Pro - v 6.14.10.145

Basically I appear to have broken my infrared receiver that worked with my media center remote.

Does anyone have any idea where to purchase a new one cheap if possible (checked ebay and no luck) usb receiver so I can use the remote again? I don't really want to shell out £30 on a full kit + remote as I already have 2 remotes.

Thanks everyone :o

I am setting up GBPVR on a newish low-end machine with a celeron 2.4GB processor and on-board video. Things went pretty well, including the pvr150 install. Probably my biggest concern is the on-board vid but I am hoping!

However, there is one strange effect. In Livetv, on the computer screen, there is no OSD of the channel change/exit feature. Instead, the screen goes light milky white. I have cross checked against my machine's settings and I can't see any difference. The only vid decoder setting that will work is vmr9.

Any ideas appreciated.

After a few days of frustration with Mediaportal I stumbled onto gbpvr, installed and was working in 20 mins, I was impressed !!

Using the PC as a scaler for a 42" plasma panel (not a tv so no internal scaler)
Using sky+ in the UK so don't need the pvr functions of media centres.
Initally tried MCE but it has a 3 second lag with pvr-150 tv card so no use for changing channels etc.
No lag in mediaportal but hard on system resources and couldn't get rid of black bars on sides of tv picture.

So after installing gb-pvr, started up live TV and have a nice picture, no lag for channel surfing.

I set gbpvr to start automatically at windows startup, this works fine but when I press "LiveTV" on the mce remote it also started up windows media centre LiveTV ans well as gbpvr livetv. Am I missing something obvious here, is there a way to prevent mce from starting when gbpvr is running. I noticed that if I started Mediaportal then mce would no longer start, so an inital work around is to start mediaportal in the background minimised to stop mce starting.

It was late and I'd been pulling my hair out for hours with mediaportal, maybe I missed something obvious in gbpvr. Obviously i could go back to win xp sp2 and that would cure the problem

hey guys, i figured it's best if i keep my q's in one running thread, instead of putting it in lots of different threads.

So here are my system specs:

P4 1.9ghz
512mb ram
120gb hdd
DNTV Live Pro - bda drivers etc.
ATI Radeon 9250 Sapphire

Now, i'm using GB-PVR, as i like the interface and looks and it seems to have really good support.

My questions atm:

atm, all i have in terms of media, are a couple of music video clips, which are in avi format, and then some movies, which are divx, and a couple of episodes of "the oc". The music video clips work fine. The Movies and The episodes of 'the o.c' are not working properly

When i plug it into the monitor, it works fine. But when i plug it into the TV, the audio begins to play, but the video is stuck on the selector screen.

Secondly, I couldn't get the FM tuner set up on the thing either. Where do i find the settings for it?

At this point in time, that's all i can think off, but if it's ok with the mods, can i keep this as a running thread for a couple of days till i get this working nicely?

I have gbpvr installed to c:\Prog... but my recordings get saved to d:\gbpvr. I upgraded to a new d drive to get more space. I recreated the files and directory structure exactly, but gbpvr does not see any of my previous recordings although it will create new ones correctly. I don't think the entries are in the database. I am thinking that at one point I had the computer powered on (i.e. service running) with the path temporarily not valid. Maybe the service thought the files were deleted so it could remove the entries from the database? Is there an easy way to recreate them? I have about 20 or 30 saved. Thanks for any advice.

Hi,
Could I trouble some for alittle bit of advice. I currently have a WinTV PVR150 as the capture card and FX5200 as the TV out card via a dedicated PC. My intention is to replace the old VCR. In the VCR world, my cable signal RF coax cable went straight into the VCR then from the VCR coax out to the TV coax. This way, I can still tune into the stations with the VCR off. My old TV only has one input and that's the RF coax. With my current setup, I have to leave the PC on otherwise there's no signal getting to the TV. Cable coax to PVR150. Then output via FX5200 S-Video cable to S-video input of RF modulator. RF Modulator coax out to TV.

Questions
1) is there a way to allow signals to be transmitted to the TV without needing the PC on?

2) what is the best setting for viewing LiveTV? All my channels have a bit of loss to details (i.e. grass blades or hair details look smudged when compared to direct connection to TV). It's as if I recorded someone's recorded copy from a VHS tape. Probably due to the genereation loss from RF modulator conversion.

3) With high, low, LiveTV settings, what bitrate are people using? I see it maxes out at 12,000 but the high is set around 9000. Also, what's the difference between constant and variable?

4) I'm going to do a trial of Nvidias True Color Codec. Any thoughts on this over the Intervideo? Just like to be aware of peoples experience between the two.

5) When I flip through the channels, sometimes, the audio will be out of sync with the video or there will be a lot of stuttering for about a minute or two until it smooths out again. Any thoughts or setting changes I can do?

6) When recording a show, I can't watch any other channel. Is there away around this with only one capture card?

Sorry to throw so many questions out. I did do a search but maybe the words I used didn't bring the best results.

Sub, nice program. Once I get the bugs worked out, I'll throw some donations your way ;-)

Athlon 2100XP, 512mb ram, WinDVD (I assume the codec is then intervideo), 60gb harddrive, Win XP pro SP2, MediaPlayer 10.

PLAYBACK: video decoder = intervideo, audio decoder and audio renderer = system default, VMR( enabled

MISC: live preview mode checked, return from timeshift mode enabled with pass through enabled, DBA multiplexer = microsoft DVR-MS

Hi there,

For some reason I have noticed that channels 25 and above are full of static w/o sound even with default settings (what I usually use).

I have tried removing the settings for my video card and resetting it up but that did not fix it.

Lastly, I loaded WinTV2000 (came with my card) and noticed that this problem does not occur with WinTV.

Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated.

RGDS

Curtis M.

When I hold my cursor over the tray icon for SlimmGB-PVR, it will list 3 shows. Usually, the first 2 are shown in 24 hour time mode but the third show is shown in the regular time. This is no big deal but just annoying and I don't know anyway to change it.