Apparently S-Video has a better output/picture than composite for TV-out on a video card.
Unfortunatly my GBPVR system forces me to use composite (not enough inputs into my receiver)..........yes even my DVD players are composite.
I would like to buy a video card with S-Video out and use a S-Video too composite adapter. (Someday I may upgrade my receiver to S-Video switching). Config: NTSC, SDTV.
Thanks to all that have helped so far. I think the config pages are starting to look good. But there are a few more items that I'd like some concise documentation style answers for...
Use short skip instead of FW/RW
Is there a difference?
Show closed captions (Intervideo/VMR7/VMR9)
What is the significance having this option?
Enable Teletext
Capture subtitles to SRT file (requires Teletext)
Enable internal SRT viewer
I'm in Canada. I haven't the foggiest what Teletext is, or SRT...
BDA Multiplexor
What is it / What is it for?
Why would we want DVR-MS instead of the native Mpeg2?
Wake Machine
"If the computer is asleep when itâs time to update the EPG, it will wake it up."
Really? How does it do this, through the BIOS, what special consideration should one make when using this feature?
Sometimes I need to stop the GBPVR service so that I can use the computer for other things. Like its my only computer with a DVD burner. So I stop it so my dvd's burn correctly. So I will use the stop service in the start menu to stop it, and then use the restart service to get it going again. But if I do it this way. It will not record a show. I have to acually reboot my computer to get it back to normal. If i just use the restart service in the start menu, It will say that it is sleeping in the tray. So I am wondering if there is a actual way to see if the service is running. Because the tray icon running doesn't acually mean the service is running. I have missed many shows because I forgot to reboot it, But did use the restart service. Thanks.
Just wondering if I can use this card with gbpvr? It is supose to be based on a new twinhan chipset the 103g. In gbpvr if I try the check for "only list card..." in capture set up it dose not see my card. The card works and is running in my theater and lists as a conexant. In windows hardware the card shows like this
conexant 23880 video capture
conexant 2388x av stream crossbar
conexant 2388x transport stream capture
conexant dba dvb-s tuner/demon
During the weekend I got gbpvr running on a windows 2000 box with an MVP and a 500mce. I was amazed at how smoothly most everything went. I was also very pleased because I didn't have any trouble with the audio or video - my small amount of experience with codecs in the past was bad... I thought I was just in tweaking mode...
I had been using dongle.bin with it set to autostart one server. I had occasional disconnects so I installed the MVP related patch. I noticed on playback through the MVP I'd have the occasional video glitch - multi colored boxes. I decided to try gbpvr.bin to see if it would improve performance. Things went very bad. Video and audio stuttered. The really disturbing thing is this started happeneing, both at the compter and through the MVP. I went back to dongle.bin - the video got better but the sound continued to stutter. I unplugged the MVP and set the autostart back to zero. Sound still stutters at the computer and I have no idea how to fix it. This was working perfectly before I tried gbpvr.bin. Recordings that used to play fine now sound terrible. There is a stutter in the sound with faint static. The video still appears good.
The only things I'm using beyond the base software is the ContourHC skin and comskip.
In the config application I have played around in the playback tab, changing the Audio Decoder, Video Decoder, and Audio Renderer. I've tried several different combinations, and none of them seem to make any difference. The combination the worked originally was everything set to default.
I don't even know where to start to fix this. I have uninstalled and reinstalled gbpvr to no avail. I have uninstalled and reinstalled PowerDVD. When I try to play one of my recorded files in Windows Media Player I get an error that says "One or more the the codecs requred to open this content could not be found" - and then it plays jsut like it does in gbpvr. The video looks good, the audio stutters.
I know this is more a general question than a GBPVR-specific one but I'm hoping for some help here....
I'm automatically transferring my recorded show files over to my Linux fileserver and attempting to encode them with mencoder (which works) but is creating larger files (which baffles me).
I'm using the xvid codec - here's how I run mencoder
mencoder <original filename> -o <new filename>
and here's the contents of my ~/.mplayer/mencoder file:
In theory this should be fairly low quality sound and video, but all of my shows are coming out as a bigger filesize than the originals, which obviously defeats the purpose.
I'm using a Hauppage PVR500 and my default recording quality setting is "medium" and I don't believe I've ever fiddled with GBPVR's defaults in this regard.
