I have a PVR-350 for my tuner card and had been using it for output as well, but now want to expand the capability of my PVR to do more than TV.. ie: DVD, perhaps MAME, etc.
The onboard graphics doesn't have TV-out, and I only have PCI for expansion slots.. what would people reccomend for a decent card to try and find that supports S-Video and looks good.
I saw a reccomendation for the Appollo 5200 since it cools without a fan and has good S-Video out.. any other reccomendations?
Hope this hasn't been spotted already and I can't find the thread.
After upgrading to 96.12 I decided to try the Conversion feature to convert all my recordings to DivX. (I did read the warning about conversion being experimental, so this isn't any kind of complaint, more of an information post)
Set it to auto convert every night between 1 and 4 am. Conversions all worked great, but having the feature enabled has stopped my machine from going into standby automatically.
It is set to standby after five minutes of inactivity using the Windows XP Power Management tools, and this does not happen when conversion is enabled, at any time of day. Turn off conversion, and auto standby works ok. So something is happening when conversion is enabled that makes the machine think it is still busy, so it won't standby. Its important to note that the machine will standby when I tell it to, either through the Start Menu or the power button.
The same thing happens if I use hibernate instead of standby.
Hope this helps someone, for now I've turned off conversion until its less experimental.
I am looking at buying a third card,and have found some dont have the tin box tuners, now I dont care how they tune without tuners, but I am wondering do they receive as well as a real tin tuner based card?
I guess the small usb dongles tune the same way, so would expect a tuner-less pci card and a tuner-less dongle to receive about the same, so maybe a 'is pci better than small usb' answer the same answer....
Has anyone got a two card setup where both cards are connexant 88x with real tuners? (ie have a tin box that the aerial goes into)
I have been fighting with my aldi tevion based cards for days now, and all I have managed to do is get one card working and one almost, and trashed my 200gb drive so that its filetype is raw and the mft has taken a bus ride...
I have a media MVP and have got it working pretty well with GBPVR using advice and suggestions from these forums. However there is one problem I haven't been able to resolve, where when transcoding Divx/xvid videos using ffmpeg and streaming them to the MVP, the MVP will stop playing about 5 - 10 seconds before the end of the file. This is not generally a problem when the file has the credits included but most tv shows downloaded from the net dont include the credits so it cuts off the end of the show.
Its not a huge problem more of an annoyance and I know 5 - 10 seconds does n't sound like much but its sometimes hard to tell if it is actually the end of the program or if the transcoding has stopped for whatever reason (happens very occasionally).
Is there any way to tell ffmpeg to pad the end of the file with a few seconds of blank video so it will continue streaming past the end of the file? Will reducing or decreasing the MVP Transcode pre-play delay help any?
I'm running version 0.96.12 of GBPVR and I'm not using the gbpvr.bin.
I currently have GB-PVR on the MVP on my TV, all fine and been loving it. I am in the process of getting an Xbox360, which is HD compatible. What I really wanna know is would GB-PVR and the Xbox360 actually look good on a projector or is it worth forking out for a HD TV?
Any model suggestions would help too, I know little about projectors and not much more about HD Tvs. I also hear you can get HD Projectors what are they like?
Any help would be good. I'm willing to spend a decent amount of money if it makes a lot of difference on the picture quality. Thanks in advance all!
