I'd been struggling with problems recently regarding the PC falling back into standby after waking for a recording, and also the recording service not restarting after running the config app. WAF was falling fast. I'm pretty sure I've resolved it and thought I'd share my SPT (stupid pvr trick).
I primarily use an MVP but recently fiddled with getting the remote to work with the PC, which I did. I think I set my capture source to use the "HOP HOG" IR blaster during that process (which I don't actually use). Well, after scanning many log files and noticing long time delays when changing the channel with the blaster, the light went on, and I realized where to look. After changing back to "no channel changer required" my troubles are (hopefully) gone.
This is the support forum right? Hi...my name is Roy...and I love GBPVR.
I've coded up something I hope you guys will like and use..
a streaming solution; it's an add-on to the web interface. after you login, you can open the streaming page. You will need to have VLC installed on the server and the client. through the web page, you choose the recording you want and choose the desired bandwidth quality (150k, 500k, etc). Based on what you specify, your recording will be transcoded on-the-fly and streamed to you (using mpeg4 for video and mp4/aac for the audio). Everything is done on the web; it will spawn a player window with an embedded VLC client with play/pause/seek controls, and you're ready to go. the seek feature is a bit experimental, but I think I'll keep it in.
from the server side, you would need to open up a port on your firewall/NAT router to allow for the streaming. I've tested this a few times when I was away from home and it worked well.
stay tuned, i'm finishing it up and will post it soon. (btw to sub in case you read this, i'd love to share this with you so that GBPVR can incorporate this in the future)
Have been researching setting up a PVR system and was really happy
to find GBPVR and this forum. From what I've seen, it's one on of the
friendliest and most helpful tech/user forums I've ever come across.
My plan is to put a tuner card into my existing system (home made
P4 3 GH, 1 Gig Mem) and do recording and DVD burning to start.
When time and funds allow, I'll wire-up a couple of MVPs.
A few questions.
1. Though I won't be watching much TV on my computer, I will of course
have to interface from it. My rig has only Intel's on-board video chip.
(GMA 900 or something - does handle Direct X 9.0). Just want to be sure
this will work. As I said, it's not really for serious TV viewing.
2. Haven't seen much here about the ATI Theater 550 cards. Mostly
Hauppauge hardware. But everything I've been reading seems to
indicate that the 550s give a better quality image. Also, the cards
are smaller, and the one I'm looking at comes with a Firefly RF remote
which would work across the 15 or 20 ft. to my bedroom TV when
it gets MVPd. So, just looking for opinions on that card, both from
a hardware point of view, and compatibility with GBPVR and MVP.
(There's a Diamond card + remote now at New Egg for $70 after rebate!)
3. What's the deal with .NET and where do I get it?
4. Info, tips and recommendations on MPEG decoders also appreciated.
hi - hoping you can help. I had to build my computer back up from scratch and I can't quite get my gbpvr working. I have Hauppauge's WinTV PVR2 installed, and the latest GBPVR executable. I have confirmed that both my Hauppauge services are disabled and the GBPVR recording service is enabled. I have set up the config to be 'internal tuner (antenna)' and I use Zap2it and comskip. I believe i have the flag 'use short skip instead of ff/rwd' disabled. I will try to send the log file when i get home, but it doesn't seem to give much info.
Basically when i try to record a show, it always stops halfway through. so it'll tape for 5 minutes or 10 minutes and then just stop. The recording service says that it's still recording fine, but the recording itself is just cut short. If i play the clip, the clip seems to play fine - but it's just cut short.
I'll include the log file this evening, but are there any suggestions on what i might try? increase a buffer size somewhere? reinstall an older version of gbpvr? ideas?
I've used gbpvr in the past and I love it - so I'd love to get this working again.
High I'm runnning a Media MVP and some Divx and SVCDs are formatted wrong on my screen. I've read about the aspect ratio settings but they say they don't work until you press F7?!?? how do you do this via the Media MVP? will I have to map a key on the remote? Im a little unsure as what to do here to get it to work . Currently I have a large black box at the bottom of the screen on play back and most of the image is squashed at the top.
I know I keep asking noddy question im just still getting to grips with everything.
I have the Hauppauge PVR-150 and a Hauppauge PVR-USB-2. I've discovered that the USB2 tends to have files be almost twice as large as the the PVR 150. For example a 2 hour recording at the Medium Quality will about about 3GB, whereas the 150 may have it at abou 1.5GB. Any thoughts on why and/or if there is a trick to decrease the USB2 filesizes?
I've heard people prounounce this about five different ways (i.e. how-pawje, hop-idge, hap-oh-gie...). Anyway, from the horse's mouth:
How do you pronounce Hauppauge?
Hauppauge is a town in NY on Long Island. Hauppauge is pronounced HOP-HOG. The area around the headwaters of the Nissequogue (NISS-I-QUOG) River was dubbed Hauppauge by Native Americans; it means "overflowed land'' in the Algonquian language. Hauppauge boasts a large industrial park which is home to many well known companies.
I have been using GBPVR for some time now though after the last few releases any use of the features in the Recordings section has become agonizingly slow. There are 91 recordings so not sure if there is some sort of practical limit to how many you can keep. But simply deleting an existing recording or one pending could take 30 seconds or more, often hanging the app completely. All other non-recordings based menu selections like live TV or TV guide work fine. The only function in Recordings unaffected is playing, which works fine. It just seems impossible to manage recordings in any way ...
I have uninstalled (completeley down to deleting the directory after uninstall) and reinstalled GBPVR 3 times, using the import function to import my recordings and re-scheduling everything again, no luck.
Any suggestions? I'd be happy to try anything or try and older version again as they didn't seem to have this issue.
