There is a a thin line of "distortion" at the top of the screen when viewing Live TV or Recorded TV. It's there in full screen and windowed mode. It isn't there on my regular TV, just my computer. It is like the top edge of the picture is ridged or rippling. That's the best I can describe it.

I am using a WINTV-PVR-USB2.

Any input is appreciated - Thanks!

First of all - a thank you to all who responded to my earlier thread (a couple months ago, now happily buried).

In the interim, I have purchased a shiny new computer dedicated to gbpvr, wrote a baby plugin, and have enjoyed much commercial skipping. While I still have video tweaking to do, my most immediate concern is audio.

Specifically, 5.1 audio.

Which is to say - is it even possible for me to get it, given the capture card that I am using (the Sapphire Theatrix 550 mentioned above).

My knowledge of 5.1 encoding is pretty close to zero, and my Googling so far has done little to improve it.

So, my question to those that know better: Is 5.1 audio a possibility for me, given my current hardware? Or does the 550 capture stereo only, and I should just give up on the 5.1 and move on?

If it is a matter of getting the decoding right, I'll keep working at it. But I don't see much point in spending a whole lot of time trying to decode an audio stream that isn't there in the first place.

As always, thank you for any light you can shed!

I installed the newest drivers for the Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 (version 2.2.73_24023), and GBPVR config now shows two devices installed in the "configure recording device" screen. I was able to figure out which one to use, but I would like to remove the extra one to avoid confusion in the future. (given a fifty/fifty chance, I pick the wrong one every time)

I was referred to this site from another site because I was not able to get my ATI TV Wonder Elite to record MPEG2 files directly. I am using MCE and the recorded TV programs all came out as DVR-MS files. So will installing GBPVR allow me to record my TV programs directly in MPEG2 files?

What do I need to do to install GBPVR? Just download and install? Anything else I need to do?

Once I install it, does it work like Media Center?

Thanks for your help!

I am thinking about moving from myth to gbpvr but I have some questions before I make the move. I keep having lockup issues on myth and in lots of reading, no the only person. I have a P2.8 with 1 gig of ram and a seagate 200 gig hard drive ATA. The video card is a nvidia 5200 with 128 MB of RAM. It has a single haugpage PVR 250 that I use that remote for. I have Directv and currently have this IR blaster to change the channels on my external reciever.

_http://www.irblaster.info/

My main ? is can I still use this to change channels or do I need something else to control the directv reciever? Anyone else using directv that can direct me to the easiest way to get the haugpage remote to work with directv?

Thanks in advance

I was not sure if I can do comskip while in timeshift, is that possible? If yes what setting enables that? If not, it would be a nice feature to add.

Ok. I just hooked up my Hauppauge PVR-150 card and attempted to use GB-PVR. One problem. Whenever I try to watch TV, there is a big green bar that flashes at the bottom. This also cuts off about the bottom 1/3 of the viewing area. The show isn't really "cut", just pushed to the top of the screen. But, if I record, the green bar isn't there although the program is still pushed to the top of the screen with the bottom 1/3 blank. Any ideas? Oh, I am using a satellite feed via coax. Thanks.

Hi!

I've been looking at GBPVR for several years but I haven't been able to build myself a media system until now. I'm about start assembling my system in a week or two. Therefore I thought it would be a good idea to sign up. I'll be using an AMD Athlon 64 processor with single or dual core and Windows XP Prof. 64-bit edition. Do you know of any compatibility issues between the 64-bit XP edition and GBPVR? Is there anything else a newbie like me should consider when building and setting up the system? All tips and hints are welcome.

My system will look like this:
AMD Athlon64 3700+ or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
4GB DDR400
2x500GB HDD
iMon VFD display and remote
FloppyDTV DVT-T tuner with CI/CAM
DVD-RW

It will be connected to my 40" HD-ready LCD TV through either D-Sub or DVI-D and hopefully the TV will accept a 1:1 resolution (1366x768)

It may be a bit overkill but I guess I can be fairly certain that the system will not have any performance issues when it comes to HD material. :p

I may be a newbie when it comes to media system frontends but I've been working with computers and software engineering for about a decade so I'm looking forward to start looking at skin and plugin APIs and sooner or later I'll probably start experimenting with my own stuff. I'm sure I'll be needing support during that process.

I would like the ability to go from window mode to full screen (without the window bar at the top) while in GB-PVR.

The only way I see to do it is via the GB-PVR config under the general tab. The biggest problem with that is the "start on second monitor" option doesn't work with my laptop and second LCD monitor set-up. I want it to be full screen on my second monitor, but it alway starts on my laptop monitor.

Making the secondary monitor my primary monitor does not work well at all.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

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