Since upgrade to 95.nn changing to different skins in config has not shown up in MVP screen -- although the skin changes DO show as expected when running GBPVR on my PC.

I have killed all instances of GBPVR, done cold starts, all to no avail.

Any ideas for this newbie?
Is there some caching going on for MVP ??

Thanks for any help you can provide
Lucille

Running: HP a810n / AMD 64
WinXP Home
GBPVR 95.16
PVR-350
MVP

In config.xml, I have

<UseWindowsMediaPlayerForAudio>false</UseWindowsMediaPlayerForAudio>

But this does not allow me to use visualizations when playing music. If I turn it to "true", then GB-PVR just hangs up. It freezes and I have to reset.

Also, when it's true, I was not able to play Netradio (which during the Christmas season, is great and a must!)

What can I do to: Use Visualizations and play Netradio??

My setup:
Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 STB
S-video output from STB to Hauppauge PVR-150 card. Use Hauppauge 45 button remote and IR Blaster to change channels on STB.
Home-built Athlon 3000+ system with 1 Gig memory, ASUS A8V Deluxe Mboard, ATI 9800 Pro video card, two 200 Gig ATA-100 Seagate hard drives

What works:
Hauppauge Win TV2000 – video and audio are good to excellent. MPEG-2 recordings look good to excellent.
Beyond TV Trial Version – video and audio are good to excellent. MPEG-2 recordings look good to excellent.

Problems with GBPVR – build 09516:
1. Video looks fuzzy. Scrolling ticker on CNBC fuzzy and barely legible. Audio is OK.
If Hauppauge and Beyond TV get a score of 100 on video quality, then GBPVR gets 75. However, stationary text on screen in GBPVR looks sharp and appears almost equivalent to Hauppauge and Beyond TV.

2. Watching prior recordings does not work. Video looks like extreme slow motion, with a frame change once every 2 to 3 seconds or so. The recorded file itself is OK, and looks normal when viewed with Windows Media Player, or WinDVD. The quality of the file may be somewhat lower than those created by Hauppauge or Beyond TV – using same settings. However, more testing is required to be sure.

The recorded video is on a drive separate from the Windows system drive, but the drive configuration should not be a problem since both Hauppauge and Beyond TV function OK.

Any thoughts on the above two problems?

GBPVR is an excellent program, and fixing the above problems would go a long way to making it outstanding.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Donald

P.S. How do you advance more than one channel at a time in the GBPVR Program Guide, using the Hauppauge 45 button remote? I haven’t found the magic button yet.

Hell all. First post here and sorry to say it is a plea for help. I had live TV working with all 5 channels I get here in Germany on AFN. On zap2it I found they do have listings for AFN so I signed up for an account and applied the proper setting to get the guide to work. Now that I have the guide working the live tv won't. I get the object reference not set to an instance of an object error message. I looked for my gbpvr.exe.log to attach here but could not find a file named that. I do have my native file though. Can some one help me out. Thanks

8:07:51.046 INFO Log started
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE getSetting(ShowClosedCaptions)
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE getSetting(UseFFDSHOW)
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE getSetting(EnableTeleText)
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE getSetting(HorizontalZoom)
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE Horizontal Zoom: 1.050000
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE getSetting(VerticalZoom)
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE Vertical Zoom: 1.000000
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE getSetting(HorizontalOffset)
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE Horizontal Offset: 0
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE getSetting(VerticalOffset)
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE Vertical Offset: 0
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE getSetting(LiveTVPrePlayDelay)
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
18:07:51.046 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio0)
18:07:51.078 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio1)
18:07:51.078 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio2)
18:07:51.078 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio3)
18:07:51.078 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio4)
18:07:51.078 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio5)
18:07:51.078 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio6)
18:07:51.078 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio7)
18:07:51.078 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio8)
18:07:51.078 VERBOSE getSetting(TeletextRect)
18:07:51.078 VERBOSE MinimumFilePlaySize=200000
18:07:51.109 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerVMR9() initialising...
18:07:51.109 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
18:07:53.921 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording(1, 1, 25, 1)
18:07:53.921 VERBOSE getSetting(DeinterlaceMethod)
18:07:53.921 VERBOSE Capture Device is based on BlackBird architecture
18:07:53.921 VERBOSE Capture Device is using Conexant (derived) drivers
18:07:53.921 VERBOSE Loading filter names
18:07:53.921 VERBOSE Found names:
18:07:53.921 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
18:07:53.921 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
18:07:53.921 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvTuner
18:07:53.921 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvAudio
18:07:53.984 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Analog Audio' to 'TVAudio In'
18:07:54.062 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Audio Decoder Out' to 'Analog Audio In'
18:07:54.062 ERROR Failed to get capture filter output pin. This will cause encoder auto-detection to fail
18:07:54.062 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioDecoder)
18:08:00.484 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StopRecording()
18:08:00.609 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording(1, 1, 25, 1)
18:08:00.609 VERBOSE getSetting(DeinterlaceMethod)
18:08:00.609 VERBOSE Capture Device is based on BlackBird architecture
18:08:00.609 VERBOSE Capture Device is using Conexant (derived) drivers
18:08:00.609 VERBOSE Loading filter names
18:08:00.609 VERBOSE Found names:
18:08:00.609 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
18:08:00.609 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
18:08:00.609 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvTuner
18:08:00.609 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvAudio
18:08:00.640 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Analog Audio' to 'TVAudio In'
18:08:00.734 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Audio Decoder Out' to 'Analog Audio In'
18:08:00.750 ERROR Failed to get capture filter output pin. This will cause encoder auto-detection to fail
18:08:00.750 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioDecoder)
18:08:13.031 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StopRecording()
18:08:13.140 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording(1, 1, 3, 1)
18:08:13.140 VERBOSE getSetting(DeinterlaceMethod)
18:08:13.140 VERBOSE Capture Device is based on BlackBird architecture
18:08:13.140 VERBOSE Capture Device is using Conexant (derived) drivers
18:08:13.140 VERBOSE Loading filter names
18:08:13.140 VERBOSE Found names:
18:08:13.140 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
18:08:13.140 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
18:08:13.140 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvTuner
18:08:13.140 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvAudio
18:08:13.156 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Analog Audio' to 'TVAudio In'
18:08:13.234 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Audio Decoder Out' to 'Analog Audio In'
18:08:13.234 ERROR Failed to get capture filter output pin. This will cause encoder auto-detection to fail
18:08:13.234 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioDecoder)

I have a PVR 500 MCE, my machine is a DELL Dimension Desktop, Pentium 4 3.2 GHz (HT) with 3 GB of memory.
For the PVR 500 I have setup to recording sources, both with ZAP2IT. Both accounts of ZAP2IT contain the same channel setup, about 200 channels.
With the GBPVR version before 95.14, the update took a few minutes.
Now, with 95.16, the update takes about 3 hours, the CPU is at about 75% for 3 hours.
The configuration for EPG is:
<!-- EPG settings -->
<EPGProcessingMode>NORMAL</EPGProcessingMode>
<UpdateEPGHour>22</UpdateEPGHour>
<WakeMachineForEPGUpdate>false</WakeMachineForEPGUpdate>
<BlebUserAgent>GBPVR</BlebUserAgent>
<Zap2itListingDays>15</Zap2itListingDays>
<DvbEpgHarvestDuration>120</DvbEpgHarvestDuration>
<SaveZap2itXML>false</SaveZap2itXML>
<UseNewZap2itParser>true</UseNewZap2itParser>
<CompleteEPGReload>false</CompleteEPGReload>
<TvGuideSpecialTaskExecutable>
</TvGuideSpecialTaskExecutable>
<TvGuideSpecialTaskArguments>
</TvGuideSpecialTaskArguments>

What can I do to make this faster?

Regards,
Gert

hi all!

im so happy since know almost everything seems to work (after a very hard week of configs!). now a new problem i have. i have managed to use tvxb and output a xmltv file. problem is that when i try to update the epg with gb pvr it takes a long long time (its been runing for 40 minutes and still it seems stuck). i cancelled it before and used a short version of the xmltv (only 4 entries) and it worked fine. what can be the problem. is there a limit on channles (i only have like 30). i dont understand why it gets stuck, all the channels are congifured the same way in the ini file. very strange. id love to hear any suggestions

Best wishes

Zeltak

Hi all

i use my htpc with the tv out option with my Nvidia gforce 3 card (i know its old ). the thing is that with a computer monitor its all ok. when i take my htpc and connect it to a tv i get the taskbar 80% cut and cant see most of it. i tried playing around with the nvidia options but with no luck at all...i cant seem to find anyway to fix this anoyying thing..can anyone help?

thx in advance

Zeltak

Noticed lots of new names lately, just wondering how people discovered GBPVR. I stumbled across it on a Google search.

Hi,

I'm planning a media pc build soon, and just looking at different components - spotted the Terratec Cinergy 2400i DT is going to be available very soon in the uk - has anyone had any experience with the Terratec Cinergy cards and gbpvr?

Cheers,
Pete.

Could you help me to choose a cheap PCMCIA or USB TV-tuner that supports CLOSED CAPTIONS, please? (AverTV CardBus supports CC, but it is 100$ and, surprisingly enough, it is not available in my town)

Thanks in advance