Hello to all:

I think I have my PVR all planned out but I'm trying to find out which direction to go with remote controls. I've been having a hard time finding advanced information on the various remotes, IR, and RF, transmitters, receivers etc.

I will be having a server box with two PVR150s (OEM), two STBs connected by s-video to the PVR cards. The STBs are DCT 2000 and DCT 2500 cable boxes from Shaw Cable.

I have a TV, Audio Receiver, and DVD that I also want to remote control. Originally I was drooling for a Harmony remote because of the one key macros I could create. (one 'Movie Key' would turn on TV, DVD, and Receiver, set Receiver to 5.1, adjust sound, turn TV's OSD clock off)

I think I read somewhere that the Harmony is difficult to use with GB PVR. Maybe I have to config the config file...

Anyway, I'm getting mixed info on the IR receiver-transmitter that comes with the PVR150 card (might not come with the OEM version) - Don't even know what it's properly called!

Does it connect to USB or the PVR card itself?
How would I tell the computer or GB PVR to control a certain DCT? How would I differentiate between the two cable boxes...?

Is the main concept that my remote beams to the computer's receiver, than the computer transmit other IR codes to peripherals?

Is it true that the IR technology for AV Remotes is different and incompatible with IR Mouse/Keyboard technology?

My first choice was to get a Firefly. (Don't NEED RF but it's nice :-) )

Then I heard of the 'All For One' remote. WinMCE remote... Hauppauge...

All of these would probably work OK for one device (computer) but can they be programmed to control other devices too?

Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at writing documentation and if I'm able to get some good info, I'll collect it, and post it on the wiki...

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Frank

PS. What I might have to do is buy all of remotes, play with them, write down the info and then return the devices. But that seems pretty lame. I'd rather not bang my head against the wall...

There is very little information on Audio with the GB PVR documentation/forums/wiki

Does GB-PVR directly control volume/mute?

Are there any other advanced audio controls available?

For example, I'd love to be able to enable a compressor, (to even out the whispers and gunshots).

I don't know whether that would be core, plugin, or external.

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What I really want is to remove my clunky simulated 5.1 Receiver and get a dumb 5.1 system, and let my computer do all the sound filtering, echo/reverb, compressor and stuff, but don't know where to start looking for that info...

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Anyone in the Calgary Alberta area that knows where I can get a MediaMVP?

I'd really like to buy from a place that I can take back if necessary.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Frank

Does any know if they are adding code for the ATI Wonder PRO card. i tried the software befor and it didn't work. if any knows anything that can help just let me know.

Just figured out that I'm not getting events from IEventNotification.

I've tried blowing away my code and re-implementing the IEvent part but to no avail.

Anywhere special it should be, I.e. in an IMenuTask.

And is there anything other than the Interface need to be done, no calls to start it somewhere??

I know this doesn't belong in this part of the forum, but I don't know offhand where it should go, so here it is.

I'd like to know how GB-PVR sets the bitrate for audio and video when capturing. I've been researching how to do this programmatically, and just keep coming up empty. It always seems to boil down to two choices, either display the directshow filter's property page and let the user do it, or try to save and restore the filter data's state by keeping preset states in memory or on disk. There doesn't seem to be any concensus on just how to do the latter, or if it can even work reliably.

I've read through many DirectX/DirectShow newsgroup archives and haven't found a good answer to this, and the DirectShow API on msdn doesn't seem to address it. Hauppauge tech support completely ignored me, not even bothering to tell me to get lost.

PVR software makers (You, the Sage and BeyondTV people) must know some way to do it, and I'd appreciate if you could give me at least some hints on this.

I already have enough code working to build and run a capture graph, so I'm not starting from scratch here, I just need a bit of help.

Thanks.

Hey all,
just got a haup-pvr-150. i downloaded gb-pvr (i only downloaded the drivers from the hauppauge cd, not wintv) and followed the wiki to set it up. For some reason, I get the famous "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error, and when i turn off live preview mode, it gives me a "cannot play back file" error. I hear really good things about GB-PVR but I can't seem to get it started. Any pointers? BTW, the mpeg2 decoders i have are cyberlink & intervideo (comes with hauppauge).

Hi all,

I have been using GBPVR with great success for the past 18 months. During this time I primarily used it on a laptop running Windows XP Sp2. I just bought a new desktop machine running MS Media Center and cannot get it to work. I am running the latest Hauppauge and GBPVR software. When I run it seems to get stuck on the "Loading Application..." screen. I have uninstalled and installed the software many times. I have even tried older version etc. My question is if anyone has tried GBPVR on Media Center before and how did they get it to work. FYI - I am also unable to get MVP to work as well.

Thanks

Can anyone tell me what all of the batch files called by gbpvr are, and what arguments are sent to them? For example, I know that parallelprocessing.bat gets sent the full path and filename of the current recording as %1, and the channel number as %2.

I know the wiki has some info about this, but it doesnt have anything about the arguments.

A question about filesizes and bitrates:
1. I would like to record to disk something from TV, burn to DVD, and then watch on TV. Quality & resolution not required to be very high. I have NTSC, LeadTek PVR2000 hardware encoding card.

2. Originally, I thought (and the supplied software confirmed) that an MPEG2 file of 750MB for 30 minutes, should produce "sufficient" quality for this usage.

3. In GBPVR, I set up Custom1 to be:
Video resolution: NTSC 720*480
Variable
Bitrate: 2000
BitRate Peak: 2500
Audi Bit Rate:224
Audio Sample Rate: 48 Khz

4. This produced a file 2.5GB (almost twice what I had intended).

5. These are some key hints as to what kind of file was produced (output from the dvd burning process):

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>C:\utils\cPVAS.exe "G:\GB-PVR WorkArea\demux.ajb"
PVAStrumento 2.1.0.13
Parsing jobfile

ALERT> loglevel = 2
***
*** PVAStrumento 2.1.0.13
*** running at 02-02-2006 21:21
***
Stream info for
G:\GB-PVR WorkArea\The O.C\The O.C._20060202_20002100_original.mpg

Found 1 video stream.
Found 1 MPEG audio stream.

VIDEO #1
Resolution 720 x 480
Aspect ratio is 4:3
Frame rate 29.97 fps
Nominal bitrate 7000000 bps
First PTS: 00:00:00.333

MPEG AUDIO #1
MPEG1, Layer 2
stereo, sampled at 48.0 kHz.
Bitrate 384 kbps
Each frame contains 24.0 ms audio (1152 bytes)
First PTS: 00:00:00.333
(and this from dvdauthor/mplex)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [???] Frame width : 720
INFO: [???] Frame height : 480
INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 4990000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Audio stream c0 (G:\GB-PVR WorkArea\tem
p.mpa)
INFO: [???] MPEG AUDIO STREAM: c0
INFO: [???] Audio version : 1.0
INFO: [???] Layer : 2
INFO: [???] CRC checksums : no
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 49152 bytes/sec (384 kbit/sec)
INFO: [???] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [???] Mode : 0 stereo
INFO: [???] Mode extension : 0
INFO: [???] Copyright bit : 0 no copyright
INFO: [???] Original/Copy : 0 copy
INFO: [???] Emphasis : 0 none

6. What values should I have under Custom1 to produce a good quality picture (from TV), but be under 750MB per 30 minutes?

Thanks in advance.
and, thanks to Reven for doing the MyVideos plugin.