AMD Athlon XP1800
512MB
Nvidia MX440 (DVI out to 60" HD LCDRP)
SB Live 5.1 (digital)
Win XP SP2
FusionHDTV5 Lite
Using NVIDIA purevideo decoder, AC3filter, Overlay, DVR-MS mux I was able to watch live TV, record, playback. The CPU runs less than 50% most of the time. Occasionally it reaches 80%.
The only problem I have is while watching Live TV, if I hit the pause button to engage timeshifting, I get the dreadful "Object Reference" error. But if I hit ctrl-K to start recording while watching, no error.
I finally got round to trying standby mode with the new 0.96.08 release (great job, by the way, upgraded without any issues), and it seems to work fine. That is to say, putting the PC into standby from GBPVR works, and the PC seems to wake up at the right time and record stuff.
What I want to know is, can it somehow be made to go back into Standby afterwards?
Also, when it comes out of standby, the screen (TV-out on my ATI radeon card) is blanked, and won't come back to life unless I hit a key on the keyboard. Pressing remote buttons (Haupage 150 45-key remote) doesn't work, it has to be a keyboard key. Anybody have any idea why its like this (maybe just video drivers?) and if there's anyway to get it back to life?
I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendatoins for the specs for a box for recording via a Nova-T. I would be using GBPVR as the frontend but would be doing no viewing of recordings or live TV whatsoever.
I'm thinking of a P3 1ghz might cut the mustard as it will just be recording the MPEG2 stream straight to disk (I think :o), but any thoughts are recommendations more than welcome before I hit ebay to grab some kit
Some folks appear to be having the rather annoying problem of downloading files attached to Forum Posts using Internet Explorer, only to find they are corrupt.
The problem: Downloaded files, even if downloaded as a .zip file (i.e. with that extension), simply won't open (with MS's built in zip-opener) ... (i.e. you get the "The compressed (zipped) Folder is invalid or corrupted" message).
These utils will intercept IE's downloads and give you a nice CLEAN non-corrupt file, provided you save them to your desktop (or wherever) and make sure you enable the "intercept click within IE" options in either (both should be automatic on install). I have tested both these progs work. Other download managers MAY also work.
Open the zip file as normal.
OR
B. Two-Step Extraction (I should have been a dentist)
Using IE, download the zip file to your desktop (SAVE AS, do NOT open), THEN open the downloaded .zip file with a program like:
other (free or otherwise) ZIP progs MAY also work....e.g. WinZIP
and extract the (normally SINGLE) file to your desktop, then RENAME that extracted file to a .ZIP file extension (if it is not already one), you can THEN use MS's built in zip-opener (or 7-Zip e.g.) and see all the correct files in THAT new zip file (i.e. a two-step process).
I tried a couple of other free progs, SimplyZIP didn't work like WinRAR, nor did FreeZIP. For WinGZ you will need to give the file that WinGZ extracts a .zip extension, then open that file again. The freeware "7-Zip" ALSO works, but extracts a rather nondescript file called "Content", which you then need to rename to (e.g.) Content.zip (i.e. add the extension) and then you will be able to double click that file and extract the ACTUAL files.
OR
C. Simply use a different Browser to download the file
e.g. Firefox does not have this problem.
The above solutions (A) and (B) are for IE users only.
OR (sub's solution)
D. Disable HTTP1.1
Try disabling HTTP 1.1 in your IE settings. (Tools, Internet Options, Advanced Tab, uncheck "Use HTTP1.1")
Hopefully this will help other folks out.
k.
Thanks to djtaylor for making me think about this and try a few things out!
Has anyone got the twinhan dvb-t remote to work with gbpvr either via a hip configuration or directly with gbpvr?
I can't seem to make it do anything sensible with the hip configuration screen.
Everyting seems to be working quite well with the 96.8 version except pausing live TV. When I pause live TV it tries to use the GBPVRparser (even when set to do not use with radlight and the demuxers to prefered). When it does this i get extremely stuttering playback. Deregistering the GBPVRParser causes it to use the elecard demux, but then exits after about 2 sec and stops the recording. Deregistering the elecard demux leaves the microsoft MPEG demux but GBPVR does not want to use it for live TV (in recordings it does fine). The recording continues but the screen stays with the wait message and processor runs 100%. GBPVR at the normal 30-40% and system uses the rest.
When I unregister the elecard and microsoft demuxers it will also use the GBPVRParser for recordings and this leads to the same extrem stutter. with extreme stutter I mean that effectively the video reaches at best half the framerate, the processor usage is quite normal though.
Posted by: #66 - 2006-03-01, 08:09 AM - Forum: Hardware
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After getting great service from the Nordic Hauppauge office (they sent me free of charge a new IR/blaster cable that my son had snapped off!) They informed me the there will be a new card "soon"
This should work with a Canal Digital subsription card and have BDA drivers!
I now there are others out there how have got some card/CAM readers and DVB-S cards working with CanalDigital. Would like to here from your experiences.
I'm sick of no proper blaster codes for my STB and slooooooooow channel change. Also Digital to analog seem a bit og a wast.
I just updated to the newest version from version 0.95.16. Since the update, live TV won't fill the screen. There are black bars along the sides. I tried going through F7, but nothing working for the aspect ratio. Would I need to make a custom aspect ratio? I am using VMR7 because that is the only thing that will work for me. See the images and logs attached.
On a different note, the "picture in picture" when you hit menu on the remote, goes to the upper left corner, instead of into the blank space in the skin.
