I am building a HTPC PVR system with GB PVR and have come to the realization that I probably need to replace my old Pinnacle PCTV card with either a MPEG2 hardware-encoding Hauppage internal card or an external USB-based tuner. I intend to stream LiveTV to a upstairs MediaMVP equipped TV over in-home ethernet, as well as watch it in my den downstairs from the HTPC. Any advice on whether I should go with an internal or external tuner? Hauppauge 150 v. 250?
The rest of the old system I am adapting to be my HTPC is an AMD Athlon MP 1400+ (palomino) running at 1.1Ghz, 1Gb 266MhZ DDR memory, an ECS M841LR mobo with SIS 740 chipset, onboard video, a usb2/firewire PCI card and Windows XP Pro. I'll be adding a TV-out video card and turning off the onboard video. Plenty of HD space available. Any comments on whether you think this will be an adequate setup for GB PVR would be appreciated.
On a side note, I did get GB PVR with the PCTV to display LiveTV using the software recorder plugin. (It does not record/timeshift, but then I haven't tried downloading a compatible MPEG2 encoder as per the NormanR instructions). However, one peculiarity of watching LiveTV on the PCTV card is that each time I reboot I must start and quit PCTV Vision or I get no video, only audio. (This applies to the old Pinnacle PCTV tuner card wo/FM stereo.)
Thanks to all who have posted their trials and tribulations here. Made my newbie experience go a little more smoothly.
Posted by: King Mob - 2006-03-15, 10:18 PM - Forum: Wishlist
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I don't know how difficult this would be to implement, but I see that Fandango also has information on upcoming movies on their site, so how about a Coming Attractions button on Theater Listings? The list would be sorted either by Release Date or by Name, and would show a movie synopsis, the poster, a preview and the trailer if one is found. I think it's also a great way to browse all the other trailers downloaded by getallmovies, as opposed to just browsing the trailer folder.
What are people using to archive ATSC HD streams to DVD. I've been using GPVR to record Survivor for my friend stationed in Iraq. I've got about 5 episodes to send him. The recorded streams are huge (4 to 7 GB) so i know there will be some sort of transcoding to do. I looked at the My Movie plugin but it obviously doesn't transcode that file type as it shows the file is 160% the capacity of DVD - too large.
What kind of options are there being put to use? Ideally, I would like to fit 2 or 3 episodes on a DVD. For the record, the recordings are from ATSC digital format and are saved in .dvr-ms format. I've been using a Dvico Fusion 5 to record the streams.
I have a wintv-150 when I record something and play it back later I get sound. I just don't get sound from liveTV and from DVD's. Is there a setting some where that will take care of this problem? I also have WinTV2000 installed and that app. gives me sound from liveTV. Sound works from DVD from other app.s like VLC.
Is anyone working on or know if a search plugin that can do genre? I know the advanced web admin plugin will do search for movies. Is there a plugin for the onscreen search that can find movies, or whatever other genre? The movies is mainly what I want, but other genre searching would be cool too.
Is there anyway to set a Video to repeat play over and over again? In the original MVP, if you clicked Play All, it would continue to play whatever was in that directory over and over again. I'm looking for similar functionality with GBPVR on MVP. My daughter likes to watch the same videos over and over again. Thanks.
I'm interested in recommendations on what card to buy, and wanted to get some opinions.
I have an old 1.2 Ghz machine with 256MB RAM in it that I'd like to turn into a pvr. I would also like to be able to play divx/xvid from a network share if possible.
I want to buy a card that has mpeg2 hardware encoding, along with a video out to the T.V. This machine will not have a monitor hooked up to it. I also would like to have a remote to control it.
I've read up on the board about the MediaMVP/pvr 350 won't play divx. Is there a single card solution out there that will allow me to do this with GBPVR?
