In My Videos I can use the skip fwd and rev to jump up and down a page at a time but this doesn't work in the Recordings list. We record a *LOT* of TV in our household and don't watch anything live anymore thanks to the wonders of skipping ad breaks so it means getting to a recording thats at the end of the alphabet (and hence listing) takes a while with the remote control. Would be nice to be able to go page at a time.
Let me know if its a quirk of my remote (streamzap) - but I suspect not as to my knowledge it looks at the ap you are in and behaves accordingly - it won't be altering the keymaps depending on the menu I'm in.
Is there any solution for selecting a audio stream when an avi or ogm has several? So far i've only encountered a few files which uses this but its pretty irritating to not be able to watch them.
There are a few posts about this problem in a tv environment where sub has suggested specifying audilang in direct.ini. Can't seem to get this to work im afraid so i guess it doesnt apply to this area.
Currently, I have a Hauppage PVR500MCE card installed. My cable service is Cox Cable digital/HD. I've since added a SA 8300HD DVR. I discovered that Cox allows "free" standard cable (channels 2-72) which I was told was as simple as running coax to whatever whatever TVs I wanted to hook up. Cool! I'd like to run coax to the Hauppage. However, the Hauppage only has a coax input for tuner 0, tuner 1 only has an S-Video hookup.
I'm puzzled as to how I can access the 2nd tuner...Can someone lend me a clue?
I'm using GB-PVR mainly for playing back MP3s and my ripped to AVI DVD collection. I love it, but would like to start using the Hauppage to record SD cable.
I have an experimental rig which I have to get right before I can unleash GBPVR on the family on the real thing (probably MVP based). GBPVR is certainly the best around but I cannot solve just one problem.
Files recorded through the recording service do not skip correctly on playback. What happens is that any attempt to do either short or long skips or an absolute reposition results in the hard disk light going full on as the player process just seeks through the entire file and then returns to the GBPVR menu after a few minutes (file is about 35 minutes long).
The set up is a 2GHz processor with 1GB memory. Hauppauge nova-t PCI and the recording is off UK Freeview (BBC1). Reception is perfect and the recording is perfect, at least visually and audibly.
Here are some other variables that I have tried:
1. This same file plays back perfectly in Nero6. It will seek happily both forwards and backwards.
2. It does not play happily in Media Player. It won't seek at all.
3. Nero6 correctly detects that it is 16:9 whilst neither GBPVR nor media player does. At least GBPVR allows you to switch.
4. If I record a file using WINTV2000 then GBPVR will play that and will skip short and long backwards and forwards with ease.
If I also take a file recorded via GBPVR and look at it with VideoRedo, that is able to skip backwards and forwards quite happily, also auto detecting that it is 16:9. If I get VideoRedo to save a new copy of the file, not only is the file about 25% smaller (Note that VideoRedo says that it does not re-encode!!), but the resulting file will play AND skip backwards and forwards in GBPVR.
So - I conclude that whoever is doing the recording in GBPVR is not quite getting it right! But I can't find an option that works. I have only the one bda muxer:
Found: CyberLink MPEG Muxer
FILE: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MpgMux 3.0.07.05.ax
VERSION: 3.0.07.05
Any clues as to what I must tweak please.
If this is fixed then I can fill the house with GBPVR.
I'm still getting overlapping programme information and can't seem to find a way to fix it.
Today, I thought I would clear out the EPG for all 3 tuners and having done this I loaded gbpvr to find that there was still an EPG. I don't understand why?
With multiple identical tuners all capable of receiving the same channels, is it only necessary to update one of them with EPG data and then map the other tuners to the same channels available on the first?
I have the check box set to do a complete EPG reload but it doesn't seem to be working.
So, i finally snapped and swore that i would fix this gaming problem once and for all. Since sub seems unwilling to provide any help in optimizing gbpvr itself i just had to find another solution.
other pvr softwares seemed to be of little help, not a single one sounded as good as gbpvr (this software just rocks, thats the way it is) and most of them had threads about lag in console gaming.
thus, i started experimenting with different setups in order to get rid of the lag in gbpvr.
Now, the LivePreview trick (http://www.cask-of-montillado.com/pvr_reg.html) gets rid of the lag in a way. To be exact it gets rid of the lag in wintv2000 but not gbpvr. I've opened a ticket concerning this with hauppauge.
Is there any information you can provide concerning this which might help me out sub? Like what components gbpvr use to talk to video decoders and tv cards?
Now, until hauppauge or sub sees fit to fix this i'm concerning this way closed, its just too much that can go wrong to just sit on our asses and wait.
At this point it occured to me that wintv works alright and it might have some command arguments to send.
Sure enough there are. In my case my ps2 is hooked up via a tv-converter (costed about $15 or something) so my ps2 is on channel 72.
A few minutes of experimenting later i have a fairly nice way of integrating wintv2000 into gbpvr.
1. Activate LivePreview. previously i had problems with interlacing and general rips in the picture using livepreview, with drivers 2.2 it works just fine though so update that if you're having trouble.
2. Install wintv2000
3. Configure all gaming consoles you want in wintv2000, make sure you put them in the All Channels suite.
4. In gbpvr's config utility, add a new custom plugin. The executable is wintv2k.exe and the arguments are these: -nss -c72 -mtv
5. Done!
Let me explain quickly what we did. By creating a custom plugin we create a menu item that starts wintv2000 with the arguments we specified.
-nss gets rid of the splashscreen, making the software seeming more integrated.
-c72 tells wintv2000 to go to channel 72, if you just have one console you might just as well leave wintv2000 at that channel and it will use it as default when starting. Also, if you are using two consoles you might just as well leave this out since the channel buttons on the remote control will switch channels just as in gbpvr (neat huh?)
-mtv doesnt acutally give you a one year subscription to mtv via a cable provider, it initializes m(ode)tv - or fullscreen to use more common terms.
Now, what problems and advantages does this approach give us? Wintv2000 has a few nice functions we can utilize, not only does it support the remote control in the same way gbpvr does but you can specify a recording directory to the same place that gbpvr uses and recordings of gaming will seem very much like an integrated part of gbpvr. I already noted that you may switch between as many consoles as you wish by using the channel buttons on the remote, thus making it possible to just have a menu item in gbpvr that says Games.
I've encountered a few problems, when in tv mode you have to press power twice for wintv2000 to exit and return to gbpvr, i can live with that. also, depending on your environment you might want to check the "Hide gbpvr..." checkbox in the custom plugin window.
Hopefully this will help someone, it is very dependent on your environment, the usage of both a hauppauge card and a hauppauge remote control for example but i think you're gonna find a way to make it work even if you don't use gbpvr in the same way i do.
The 310i has both dvb-t and analog capabilities as well as FM radio.
But as I use the dvb-t for television, I only get "FM-tuner not found" when I try to use the radio. I have not found any settings fo radio, but is there some other setting I can try to get it to work?
