If you turn the screensaver/visualizations function, will it not fire while watching tv? I did some reading, but couldn't find a specific q&a (point me to a thread if there is one instead, pls). I don't use the native windows one now because it won't sense watching a DVD as being active.
I haven't use this yet, since we don't listen to a lot of music throught he tv. My wife wanted to, which reminded me about the new visualizations.
I have been putzing with trying to get dvd2mpeg to work on a disk I have. It is a disk made by dvdshrink. DVD2MPEG quits after extracing the m2v file. There is no audio file. I assume it is because I removed the first english audio (probably 5.1 dts) to save space. Is this likely the problem. I will try using 81 as the audio stream to see if that works.
I have been using GBPVR with Hauppauge PVR USB2 and MVP. I am now contemplating building a close-coupled solution with GBPVR, however I cannot get my head around how I use a hardware MPEG encoder in combination with a Freeview card.
I would ideally like to use PCI solutions for PVR and I would also like a Nova-T PCI to bring Freeview on-board too.
The questions I have are :
- Can I pass the output of the Nova-T into the PVR150 across the PCI ?
- How can I hardware encode the output of a Freeview card ?
- Am I stuck with software encoding ?
- Is there a reference desgin that simplifies the process ?
This is an example of how to get the new name of a recording after renamerecordings did run in postprocessing.bat
It shows how you can run comskip and comclean after renamerecordings using the new name.
This is specially usefull when you use comclean2 because the input file used for cuttermaran includes the name of the mpeg file.
Warning: This has not been tested extensively!!!!!
Code:
Renamerecordings %1 >renamerecording.log
rem Process all the lines from the Renamerecording log file
set newname=%1
for /F "usebackq delims=: tokens=1,2" %%i in ("renamerecording.log") do call :processline "%%i" "%%j"
goto :afternewname
:processline
rem Remove
set arg=%~1
rem Skip useless lines
if NOT "%arg:~0,3%"=="New" goto :eof
set newname=%~2
Rem Skip the space at the start
set newname=%newname:~1,100%
goto :eof
GBPVR seems a very nice peice of software and it looks like it supports my Hauppauge PVR-500-MCE.
However I have some quality issues with recorded TV - the MPEG stream is very bumpy and frames looks out of synch (when picture has motion).
The Recording Plugin is "Direct Recording Plugin" with "Hauppauge PVR 500 with FM tuner".
The Meduum Quality settings are:
- NTSC 480x480 / PAL 480x576 --> is there a way to verify I'm in PAL mode ?
- CBR, 3500Kbps
- Audio 224 (bit rate), 48Khz
I have noticed some people discuss the encoder settings when these problems appear, but as a technical person that still has got to learn alot in the PVR world, I can't tell how this is related to the *encoding* settings of this card.
When the card produces a stream to be saved to an mpeg file, it already prepares the stream with the configured settings. the *decoder* seem to be used only during playback - am I missing something ?!
If my assumptions are right, the decoder has little affect about the quality of the stream. I try to use many softwares to play the MPEG file (inclugind PowerDVD, but the quality stays the same - jumpy and irritating)
please let me know if you can diagnose the problem. and find the problem.
When I launch GBPVR and click Live TV I get this message:
No channels have been set up. Please run Configuration utility and setup the EPG source use the "Update EPG" button to force the system to import the latest set of channel and programme information.
I have tried this (I think?) I really would like to get this program to work I have heared some many great things about it, but I really need to be "spoon-feed" technically speaking.
Does anyone know of any plugins for gbpvr that will handle a low disk space situation. As it is now, If I forget to check it for a while, gbpvr will simply eat up all the disk space and crash the computer.!!! I was hoping someone knew of a plugin that would have gbpvr simply stop scheduling recordings after a set minimum hard drive space level?
Hi,
I have just installed the latest version (0.95.16) and I get the following error when trying to run config.exe:
File or assembly name NativeUtilities, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
Details:
Code:
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System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name NativeUtilities, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
File name: "NativeUtilities"
at xeb983fa94d0b4753.xfd6951461fe46d87.x1f0684532099dac8(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
LOG: Policy not being applied to reference at this time (private, custom, partial, or location-based assembly bind).
LOG: Post-policy reference: NativeUtilities, Version=1.0.2168.28045, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files/devnz/gbpvr/NativeUtilities.DLL.
I have checked and there is a NativeUtilities.dll in my main GBPVR folder. I know from other posts that some of you had web-related problems with NativeUtilities.dll being present in web/bin, but it is not the case here and I didn't install anything beside the main application.
