Having spent a bit of time shopping around for micro ATX boards with tv-out built-in, I've come to the conclusion that there's not many out there, especially if you want more than two PCIs slots to play with.

Anyway, just in case anyone is looking for the same type of mobo, I thought I'd share a couple of helpful links and hints. My search was based on using an AMD 64 CPU and boards capable of using the AMD Cool'n'Queit thingy. I also narrowed the search to socket 939 boards as the on-board memory controller makes them better than the alternative socket 754.

The Radeon ATI Xpress 200 (not the 200P, though!) appears to be the main chipset in use for integrated graphics on small mobo's, but be careful in your choice. Many of the boards claiming to have on-board tv-out have a tv-out header on the mobo to which you can optionally connect a bracket. The bracket then takes up one of the card slots in your case so using it may prevent you from putting another card in. To me this loses the advantage of integrated tv-out, so best to download the manufacturer's mobo manual if you want to be certain of what you're getting.

The ATi website gives a useful list of mobos using this chipset and an overview of their specs.

The other main chipset supporting tv-out on a mTAX board is the nVidia GeForce 6150.

One of the most useful resources I found in tracking down the right mobo for me was AMD's pages on recommended motherboards. I started from here, entered my requirements and then researched the options it came up with.

My eventual choice was a MSI RS480M2-IL. True integrated tv-out, svideo and spdif, a PCIe x16 slot and 3 PCIs. The right choice for me because I wanted to keep everything in the case and not have any USB boxes dangling off it.

Anyway, I hope this is of use to someone.

When i try to delete recordings from the "Whats new" screen, I click on a recording, press OK on the remote, then press on delete, and then i confirm and press yes. The recording does not delete. When I do it the second time, it does delete. Very weird.

Hi,

Will running ComSkip after a recording is complete (as opposed to during recording) improve its accuracy?

Also, can anyone suggest some good comskip settings for Canadian tv?


Thanks!

Ok i pretty much got everything running except a few things.
First off im using a theater 550 pro with a cyberlink remote that came with it..
A few issues could be my remote.. .but i cant do them by mouse or keyboard either..I go into search guide theres no way out but to shut off the program.
Also still no way to add net radio stations to favorites.. i tried record button and alot of keyboard stuff but nothing worked.
This remote is sensed by a usb run device if that helps also. Thanks

I have been trying to get the My Videos plugin to work allowing me to burn files to disc. I have followed the install and setup instructions on the wiki and also searched for the errors on the forum here. Whatever I do I can't get past this error. Any help or suggestions would be most welcome.

Quote:C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>"C:\utils\cPVAS.exe" "C:\temp\demux.ajb"
PVAStrumento 2.1.0.13
Parsing jobfile

ALERT> loglevel = 2
***
*** PVAStrumento 2.1.0.13
*** running at 01-13-2006 00:47
***

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>"C:\Program Files\DVDAuthor\DVDAuthorGUI\bin\mplex"
-f 8 -o "C:\temp\temp.0.mpg" "C:\temp\temp.mpv" "C:\temp\temp.mpa"
INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
**ERROR: [???] Unable to open file C:\temp\temp.mpv for reading.

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>del "C:\temp\demux.ajb"

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>del "C:\temp\temp.mpv"
Could Not Find C:\temp\temp.mpv

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>del "C:\temp\temp.mpa"
Could Not Find C:\temp\temp.mpa

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>PAUSE
Press any key to continue . . .

Sorry to be a n00b but how do I import my music collection into the plugin? I've correctly set the defailt directory!

Thanks

Im having a problem with a reoccuring recording. For some reason, when I set this show to record every week, it schedules the same show at the same time twice. It shows as a conflict, even though its the same show. This does not happen with every scheduled recording though.

For example: I set CSI on Thursday nights at 10 pm to Record Season (all in in this weekly timeslot, this channel). However, in my pending list, two instances of same CSI episode show up.

Any ideas?

Sub,
A new version of ShowAnalyzer has been released and it's no longer running with recordings as far as I can tell. I'm going to see if it'll come on after a recording has completed but I doubt it. Any ideas?

I just installed GBPVR and it works great, except for the whole 2 hours off thing. I did some research and found out that I set my time zone wrong on Windows. I fixed the time zone, emptied the EPG (using Zap2It), and filled it again with the correct time. I thought I did, but the times are still off. A show that is on now actually appears 2 hours later in the GBPVR guide. What am I doing wrong?

I was looking into some transcoding things and noticed the FFmpeg plugin in the gbpvr "Third Party" directory. FFMpeg is GPL'ed, but it seems that GB-PVR is using it via command line, which, according to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html...ggregation, seems okay. However, Deinterlace only has the source included, which makes me wonder whether this code is included in GB-PVR, either built in or called as a library. If so, GB-PVR can only be released as GPL code, too. (GPL is pretty viral that way.) Also, I didn't see any plugins that indicated they were GPL, but if they were that also wouldn't be allowed with a closed-source GB-PVR (LGPL plugins should be, I think). I'm no expert, but I do have to deal with this stuff at work (Java developer), and it can be tricky, but a violation wouldn't be a good thing.