For the past month I have been getting Zero Size errors in TV Guide. Is there anything that I can do to eliminate these? It causes the TV Guide to close and will not reopen until I close GBPVR and reopen it.
The error repeats at the same channel and time in the guide, so I guess it has something to do with the data from zap2it.
sub with the latest version my EPG times are often out by a minute or two.
eg from xmltv file
Code:
<programme start="200603152000" stop="200603152030" channel="02">
<title lang="en">Joey</title>
<desc lang="en">Joey meets a beautiful woman who is taking a class in English as a second language. To court her, he also enrolls in the class.</desc>
<category>Comedy</category>
</programme>
and in the epg it shows that show starting at "7:58" and ending at "8:29".
this isnt with every show, but its with a lot of them. anyway to fix this, i assume its caused by the american show times "fixed' you just added.
I know the non-MCE version of the Happauge WinTV PVR USB2 is supposed to be supported by GB-PVR, but as far as I can tell, the MCE version is not.
This is really suprising to me, as the device looks identical on the outside (no markings saying MCE support only or anything like that). However, there is clearly a difference, as only the MCE drivers from Hauppauge detect the card: http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_mce.html
Trying to use the non-MCE drivers for the normal WinTV PVR USB2 fails; it says that compatible hardware could not be found. I have tried the device on a couple of Windows XP (non MCE computers) and have been able to install the MCE drivers fine, but GB-PVR does not detect the card.
I finally managed to hook it up to my desktop with MCE and it works fine (this is a computer with a PVR500). The Microsoft MCE software detects it fine and tunes it fine. However, when running the DeviceTypeCheck utility, it only lists my PVR500 tuners.
I assume that the hardware is pretty much the same, and that it should be a minimal amount of work to get working (I hope). Unfortunately, I just spent a lot of time installing MCE on the fiancee's laptop only to find that her cruddy integrated Intel graphics chipset is not officially supported by MCE (my hope is that GB-PVR will be able to function with it).
The drivers that work on the card are at the URL I mentioned (the http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/...d_v31b.zip package). The drivers that it utilizes are within the "WinTV-PVR-USB2_24xxx_2.2.73.24023 (WHQL)" directory of that ZIP.
I told her to go ahead and order the MCE version because it looked exactly the same and figured it would be better in the long run...feeling a little boneheaded right now. Any help would be appreciated.
Since I upgraded to last version, the slow menu problem has been solved.
But since this version, I got a new problem:
The recording service or tray task stop to run properly and many shows I tried to record wasn't.
I succeded to record some, but at some point, the service appears to froze and did not perform anymore recordings. The tray icon also stopped to show the menu.
I tried to perform a clean install (not an upgrade) but this problem is still occuring. It's a very annoying problem, because I can't rely anymore on my computer to record shows and I'll need to re-install my VHS in order to not loose my TV shows.
I just noticed my EPG wasn't right (only sowing partial listings for 3 out of 15 channels). I did a complete empty of the EPG and now I can't get it to import any data at all and I have no listings in the TV Guide.
I've tried -onlyupdateepg from the command line and also the Update EPG button on the capture sources (in this case it says it's reading the XML file for about a split second and that's it).
All cap. sources point at the same XMLTV data file which is up to date.
i decided to upgrade my desktop to make it an amazing gaming rig, and seeing as im going to have alot of spare parts, i thought it might be a good idea to build a dvr/pvr.. so heres what i have, and misc. questions, any help is greatly appreciated
biostar m7vig mobo
AMD duron 1.2Ghrz processor
40GB Western Digital Hdd
AOpen Cobra AW-850 Deluxe 5.1 Channel PCI Sound Card
eVGA GeForce MX 4000 / 64MB DDR / AGP 8X / VGA / TV Out / Video Card
Leadtek WinFast PVR2000 TV Tuner
questions:
with the leadtec pvr2000, there is a remote included, is it compatable with gbpvr or do i need to get somthing else?
what OS would you reccomend? xp? mce? 98 se? i have all at my disposal... (my friend works at microsoft, nice discounts)
I've got a PlayTV Mobile Tv Tuner by Prolink for my laptop, and it works great, except the program that came with it left something to be desired. I would really like to get this to work, but I just don't know how!
I have been using wake.cmd to restart the driver for my Xcard. Recently I removed my pvr-150 and replaced it with a pvr-500. After the upgrade, my network connection was terrible after the computer came back from stand-by (S3). Everything stuttered when Itried to play back videos from a network drive. If I rebooted the computer, the video playback worked fine.
Now I use wake.cmd to restart my network adapter and videos on the network drive play without stuttering.
I do have one question. How do I prevent wake.cmd from displaying on the screen when the computer wakes from stand-by?
