Can someone in the know please explain to me how to use a Matrox with TV out?
From what I can gather, there are different 400 versions & you need a dual monitor version so you can plug a special VGA to S-video/component adaptor up to it.
but the adaptor only works with certain boards?
There are a lot of them on e-bay on the cheap.
I'm just confused on what to get.
I'm using an older PC that is finicky about graphics cards so an older card like the Matrox would work well as it's from the same generation.
Also, has anyone used the matrox marvel 400 with GBPVR?
Yes I know its an old hardware encoder card, but it does the tv out thing also & their fairly cheap on ebay also.
I have GBPVR installed on my main desktop with the PVR350 (which is fine) and on my tablet PC. The tablet PC connects to the main PC via a wireless broadband router. The tablet PC does not have a CD or DVD drive.
I need to install an MPEG2 decoder on my tablet PC to read the GBPVR recordings and to play movies in general (off the DVD drive on my main PC).
How is it best to get this decoder? If I run the PVR350 setup it detects there is no card and advises me not to continue.
Is there a better arrangement for sharing GBPVR? Can I share the PVR350 with the tablet PC e.g. watch live TV on the tablet.
Hello,
I've been trying to get the setup of gb-pvr just right for some time now. One thing that has been bugging me is the slow startup time of gb-pvr after I install the myvideos plugin. When I look at the logs, I see:
4-3-2006 14:44:56.093 VERBOSE [2] MyVideosTask created
4-3-2006 14:45:06.781 VERBOSE [2] first update not needed
4-3-2006 14:45:17.796 VERBOSE [2] second update not needed
4-3-2006 14:45:29.765 VERBOSE [2] third update not needed
4-3-2006 14:45:34.906 ERROR [2] Unable to find node: /settings/CompositeImages/CompositeImage[@name="ActorInfoBioBackground"]/DrawImage[@filename="@Poster"]
4-3-2006 14:45:34.906 ERROR [2] Unable to find node: /settings/CompositeImages/CompositeImage[@name="ActorInfoGalleryBackground"]/DrawImage[@filename="@Poster"]
4-3-2006 14:45:34.906 ERROR [2] Unable to find node: /settings/CompositeImages/CompositeImage[@name="ActorInfoMoviesBackground"]/DrawImage[@filename="@Poster"]
4-3-2006 14:45:35.218 VERBOSE [2] MyVideos.PausedFiles.Reload(): PausedFiles not null, reloading files
4-3-2006 14:45:35.437 VERBOSE [2] MyVideosEvent created
It takes about half a minute for it to figure out that there are no updates needed. Does anybody know which updates these are and if it could be turned off or made faster?
Also, the errors I believe are because of missing items in my skin (these were with the blue skin. Am I maybe missing some files?
I've been getting this problem whenever I try to update my epg. I'm extracting my listings from the radio times website (I'm in the UK) with Alans Birtles XMLTV GUI. Once I start receiving this error I'm unable to update my listings and I lose the majority of my channel entries. (the channels exist but with no listings attached.)
My temporary solution is to restore the ghost image on my machine, however since this is about the eleventh or twelfth time Ive got this error I thought I'd post about it. I'm open to suggestions. Can anyone offer advice.
I just upgraded to 0.96.8 tonight. I was having some connectivity probs with my MVP and thought I'd do a re-install, but went for the newer version too. Everything went OK with the install (haven't checked the MVP yet) but I can't see my recordings. I have a bunch of TV recordings and the only way I can see them are as videos, not in my recordings menu. I have set up my TV Programs and Live TV Buffer in config to point to the old location, but no luck yet. Anyone have any ideas?
I bought a cheapo Ebay tuner the other day with a Philips 7130 chip in it. I noticed there is no support for it yet, but I was wondering if there was a way to "trick" the card into working. GB-PVR is the only decent PVR software I can find out there with support for my local program listings via Zap2It. Any help is appreciated.
As with all releases, if you're upgrading, I recommend you backup your gbpvr.mdb and config.xml files.
From the change.log
Quote:
2006-2-4 v0.96.12
- Fixed a bug with remembering the aspect ratio with VMR7
- Fixed a bug with pressing the left arrow twice on the quality setting of the schedule recording screen.
- Fixed a bug with channels with AC3 audio.
- Fixed position of video inset window for VMR7.
- Fixed a bug that could result in two video files (or dvds) playing at the same time.
- Fixed a bug that could cause reoccurring manual recordings to be deleted during the EPG update.
- Added option to config.xml to have video also obey the overscan settings. Previously this only applied to the menus etc.
- Fixed a bug which could cause the mouse clicks to not register on OSD buttons.
- Fixed a bug with identifying mouse click locations when in fullscreen mode and overscan values are non zero.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused small square boxes to appear of the left of the teletext screen
- Fixed a bug that could cause the MVP to keep streaming net radio stations after the MVP was put into standby
- Fixed a couple of bugs related to using the FM radio plugin on a sub menu.
- Added a couple of API changes required for the web admin
- A few speed and stability improvemnts for digital cards in live preview mode. These only apply when you are still using the default <BDAQuickPidSwitch>true</BDAQuickPidSwitch> setting.
- The needsRendering() method is no longer called when the music visualizations are fullscreen
- More improvements to the MVP client (pressing Skip multiple times in quick succession, initializing video output correctly after MVP has been in standby... etc)
- DVxplorer based cards like the Emuzed Maui cards should now work. If you're in a PAL country though, you'll probably need to set the ForceStandard setting in direct.ini to force the card into PAL mode. It seems to always default to NTSC.
