I just rebuilt my Win2000 box because my old drive crashed. I set it up clean with all SPs and installed 94.13. My recordings are on my other drive on a separate partition, and GB-PVR is the only thing that uses that partition/drive letter. I had some old recordings from the previous install, which were fine. After getting GB-PVR set up and playing with it, those recordings were hosed. The sizes looked right, but some wouldn't play, and some would contain video from old recordings. I deleted everything, defragged, and started over. Also, I turned off live preview. Then I recorded a few shows and everything was good. Normally I use my MVP for everything; however, yesterday I was using the GUI on the PC and playing with live TV again, and now my recordings are hosed again. Live TV worked on the PC at first, but when I tried it yesterday it never would display, just a black screen with a message about preparing to go.
I have a PVR-150. Does live tv use the card and filesystem in a different way than recording? I can't imagine what about live tv would cause filesystem corruption, but I thought I saw a post sort of like this problem before on the forums, though I couldn't find anything searching. I'm using the 150 drivers from the Hauppauge site as of last week. Does the driver interact with the filesystem, or does it just make data available via the bus? I want to rule out things besides GB-PVR, but I had looked at the files before and after playing with the GUI on the PC, so the time window in which the problem happened is pretty small. Does GB-PVR open or otherwise access recordings while running, even if not being watched? I think I may have viewed the now-hosed recordings via the GUI and then played with live tv, but then safely ESC'ed out to the menu. I didn't see anything useful in my logs, which I was looking at to see why live tv wasn't working. It did seem to work on the MVP.
Collection users wishing a smooth transition to GBPVR v95.11 are advised to defer upgrading the GBPVR core software until the Collection skins have been tested with the new release.
Inorder to make the required changes to the skins, I must upgrade my system. Therefore, I will be seeking volunteers willing to test the changes under GBPVR v94.13.
Please let me know if you are will to be a volunteer.
After going through some posts here it seems conventional wisdom that Stateside HDTV *IS* possible with GB-PVR but that you can only watch it on a PC monitor.
Is this because most VGA cards' S-Video output craps out above 480p? Won't it scale down to full screen? (my Matrox G550 may be different).
Will 720p programming work at 800x600? Or will the tops and bottoms be shaved off? Would fdshow work to scale HDTV down?
As a last-ditch effort to get HDTV through S-Video and GB-PVR, has anyone developed a way to convert HDTV program streams to standard NTSC-sized MPEG2 files automatically?
I realize I'm not going to get HDTV quality, but anything beats analog NTSC (Never Twice the Same Color).
sub Wrote:Attach some screenshots (not too large), with arrows pointing to the exact buttons your talking about and I'll try to help you.
To make it easier to explain I took the default skin and made only small changes to "BaseSkin.xml". I changed the fillcolor for popup buttons to red, and the fillcolor for normal buttons to green:
Code:
<!-- image used for a selected button (in this skin the main menu buttons are different size and shape, so these are defined separately in mainmenu\skin.xml) -->
<CompositeImage name="SelectedButtonImage" size="130,38">
<DrawRoundedRect loc="4,5" size="120,30" radius="10" borderWidth="4" borderColor="White" fillColor="DarkGreen"/>
<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="15,9" size="115,34" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>
<!-- image used for a normal button (in this skin the main menu buttons are different size and shape, so these are defined separately in mainmenu\skin.xml) -->
<CompositeImage name="NormalButtonImage" size="130,38">
<DrawRoundedRect loc="4,5" size="120,30" radius="10" borderWidth="4" borderColor="Black" fillColor="DarkGreen"/>
<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="15,9" size="115,34" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>
<!-- image used for a popup selected button -->
<CompositeImage name="PopupSelectedButtonImage" size="130,38">
<DrawRoundedRect loc="4,5" size="120,30" radius="10" borderWidth="4" borderColor="White" fillColor="DarkRed"/>
<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="0,9" size="130,34" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Center"/>
</CompositeImage>
<!-- image used for a popup normal button -->
<CompositeImage name="PopupNormalButtonImage" size="130,38">
<DrawRoundedRect loc="4,5" size="120,30" radius="10" borderWidth="4" borderColor="Black" fillColor="DarkRed"/>
<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="0,9" size="130,34" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Center"/>
</CompositeImage>
This gives me the following result in the recordings screen:
(A) points to the normal buttons, which are displayed correctly in green.
(B) points to the popup buttons, which should be displayed in red, but show up in green, too.
Before I spend time posting logs etc. can anybody confirm that it is possible to schedule recordings using the Web interface?
If I try to schedule using one of the season options I get a web server error (index was out of range) and if I try using "once" then there is no error but nothing is scheduled. Might be connected but the web log has a lot of errors saying "capturesource not found".
I've tried the latest release as well as the latest webadmin release with no change. Searching the forums seems the imply there were issues with the cassani web server and the latest .net but nothing confirmed.
I have just been given an AV sender which I have hooked up to my pvr350 this seems to work really well although the picture is a bit dark, except that I cannot work out how to get the pvr350 to answer to the remote which should be being sent back via the AV system.
I have the config app set up to use 45 button remote and direct access to hauppauge remote [or words to that effect] I'm at work and cant quite remember what the config app says.
The devices came from argos in the uk partnumber 5344273 costing £24.99 and claim to have "Built-in infrared extender allows you to use your existing remote controls. "
Has anybody else got this type of setup working and if so what config options have you used for the remote
Looking through the change list it seems to be mostly bug fixes. My installation is working fine so thinking I should stick with it for now. Any reason not to?
Also I've just switched to the BlueMCE2 skin, is this still being updated?
I'm in the market for a TV card/s for my new media centre.
Ideally I would like a dual tuner or two separate tuners.
Here's where I'm stuck.......I want the ability to watch and record freeview as well as SKY (I'm in the UK). Does gbpvr support both analogue and digital at the same time? If it does (I think from reading other posts, that it does!) how does the EPG work and what cards should I be looking at?
I 'm guessing that SKY and its EPG is only accessable through a single dedicated channel???????
Clearly I'm a complete novice so any advice would be great!
I'm also looking out for a really quiet PSU (400W+) .....any recommendations.
Cheers
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