I recently bought the Hauppage Nova-T USB and have been looking for software to replace the awful WinTV app that came with it to watch UK FreeView channels.
The big plus point for GB-PVR is that it works fine with my laptop's TV-Out and fullscreen (more than I can say for nearly all the competing apps that I tried) and also integrates nicely with the Hauppage remote control.
However, I've got a persistently recurring problem with the Live TV plugin that is driving me insane: GB-PVR picks up far fewer channels than competing apps (showshifter for example was able to reliably pick up pretty much everything). Even worse, after rescanning I can watch all the channels detected in the preview window while assigning them to my EPG channels, but after closing config and going to the main app I start to lose channels left right and centre. Within a short time last night I was only able to watch the BBC channels: first I lost the ITV channels, then the Channel 4 channels went and I eventually gave up. On different days it can be different channels disappearing. A rescan usually brings them back for a while but nothing ever seems to be permanent.
I'm also having trouble in general finding the best way of updating the EPG. I've tried the XMLTV plugin, with an XML file generated from the Radio Times XMLTV grabber (http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv/) and I've also tried the over-the-air plugin. Neither give me a complete channel list that is reliable regardless of which channels I pick up in the scan. Anyone got any tips on getting a complete EPG?
Is there any way to supress the entries in the MusicPanelWidget.log file as you can see in the attached screendump my logfile has grown to over 550mb all of which seems to be info that would only be needed for debug purposes.
the pendinglist.log is also quite large but not really a problem in the same way
I have a Hauppauge 350PVR - and it is working fine in most every way.....
I love GB-PVR - so many great options!
The only thing I can't get to work is LiveTV.... I have worked through a series of errors (most of them covered in the support forums - very nice!).... and now, it tries to load, the screen goes black, and the message about the Home button appears.... a few seconds goes by... then - it goes back to the main menu.....
Any ideas? It doesn't give any error messages.... just doesn't show anything.... I love the software - and think it's many Plugins are great! Nice work all!
(My favorite is the Weather.... that is what sold my wife on it! We don't have access to a "localized weather channel" like cable gives.... so that was a great alternative!)
Anyone know of a way to use the built-in hauppauge 350's video out but use a different renderer for audio?
I only have one pc for the moment, and it's my media center and regular PC. It does double-duty so I like to use the hardware decoder on the card, but then it won't play mp3's where I want (plays them on the pc). I have a mobo with onboard sound and an audigy2 zs. I use the zs for my pc and would like to use the mobo's audio for my media center. The problem is, if I hook the audio up to my mobo, the living room only gets mp3 sounds, radio, etc... If I play an mpeg there is no sound because it's trying to go through the card. If I hook both up to the 350 I get awesome audio/video from mpegs but nothing from mp3's. *8(
I'm thinking there's no way around this, as the decoder just does it all.
I've been working on my first adventure into plugins and have run into an oddity. Wondering if anyone else has run into it before.
I'm attempting to discover when GBPVR has switched to a new track.
I haven't seen a OnTrackChange event for GBPVR so am attempting to use the GetAudioPlayList for the CurrentIndex, TrackDuration, and Playbackposition.
All works perfectly when running it from the PC. However, when calling from within a MVP instance I get back all 0's.
Is this a bug, known feature, or am I calling something incorrectly.
Long time reader, first time poster...
So, my problem is that everytime i try to play a video in GB-PVR via MVP I get a black screen and am returned to the menu i came from. Sometimes the server crashes, sometimes not. I've tired all sorts of things, and videos seem to play fairly well with Happauge software, but GB-PVR interface is just better. Any ideas of what to look for/think about?
Thanks
This post is to document the solution to an error that took me a few horrible days to solve - and I am sure we have all had those days.
I installed the MVPScreenPosition plugin (which I think is really nice - now). After installing the plugin and trying to get the screen postions set on one (I have two) MVPs, the MPV would only give me the following error "Trying to Connect to Server". Since I had only recently installed the second MVP through a wireless Access Point (using two Linksys WRT54G and HyperWRT firmware), I incorrectly assumed that the error was associated with that setup. I assumed this even though it had worked perfectly up to that point (only a few hours). The real problem was related to setting the MVPOffsetY to a negative number. I incorrectly assumed that this would move the screen position to the left. Obviously, I was wrong and this caused the "Failure to Connect to GUI Server" error.
So, if you get connection errors after changing the settings of the Screen Postion, make sure you do not have negative values for any of the settings.
If this is universally not allowed for the screen postion, it would be nice if the MVPScreenPostion plugin would trap negative numbers in the settings validation and therefore prevent this error by newbies like me.
Hope this helps somebody spend a few days of their life better than my last few.
The latest release of my tray app allows you to automatically shutdown your computer (or put it in standby etc.) when the current recording session has finished.
