Last night I was playing around with GBPVR, running some test recordings to see what I could and couldn't run in parallel, and I noticed that one of my recordings didn't stop when I thought it would. When I checked the program guide, I noticed that ABC ran Desperate Housewives from 9:00 until 10:02. And the guide was pretty well correct. At 10:01, the program hadn't ended. So in order to watch the end of Desperate Housewives ABC is forcing you to sacrifice 2 minutes of the beginning of your next show. That's getting nasty. Fortunately for us, the next show we wanted to watch was on ABC. Otherwise, I'd have been ticked.
I haven't run into this yet, but what does GBPVR do when there is a 2 minute conflict?
I am having a problem getting gbpvr to recognize the FM tuner on my card. I have an Avermedia M150. I did download and regsvr32 the lame.ax file mentioned in an earlier posting. When I try to have gbpvr scan for stations is gives me an error saying "Unable to locate and available FM tuner". Yes, my card does have an FM tuner. It would be nice to use it. Any thoughts?
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Once in a while, when I have too big of an MPG file that I want to burn on a DVD, I use an authoring program and create a DVD on my hard-drive. Then I use DVD shrink to shrink it down a DVD. Most of the time this works fine, but once in a while, I encounter a DVD Shrink "programming error". It doesn't matter what I do, the error is still there. I can author a DVD fine, but it won't let me shrink it.
Anyone else experience this? Do you have a work-around?
I had a recent setback in my quest in promoting my PVR setup with the wife. I was recording a program while playing a different program through the TV Out of my PVR-350. At about the 45 minute mark of the program being recorded, I paused the playback for about a minute, then hit play. Usually, this results in the playback jumping back about 1/4 second and then resuming. I got the usual 1/4 second back jump, but this time it froze. It would not respond to any input from the remote. I was able to exit playback mode and GBPVR with the keyboard. I restarted GBPVR but then it wouldn't respond to anything except a close, which generated a Windows error. The bad part is that the recording in progress stopped. The systray GBPVR app reported that the program was still recording, but the file size was not increasing. I tried restarting the recording service, and that seemed to work. Unfortunately, it restarted the recording using the same file name, which overwrote the previous 45 minutes of the program. This didn't go over well with the wife (it was one of her shows). I would really like to be able to play a file while recording something else without risk of losing the program being recorded. What could cause the problem I encountered? BTW, this PC is the family computer and is usually running Outlook, Internet Explorer, and maybe a couple of more apps. The recording being played was recorded using WinTV2000, but I've not had trouble with other recordings from the same source, but this was the first time I've tried playback while recording. The recording and playback directories are on a secondary 250GB drive dedicated to videos. How do I need to go about troubleshooting this? Is there a tutorial somewhere explaining the error logs?
Here is one I would like to see:
The ability to fine tune the receiver. I have a couple of channels that when they are detected automatically they have a picture but no sound. The card I'm using is a Hauppauge PVR 150, even when I let the Hpge software detect the channels I have a couple that have no sound, so I have to turn off auto frequency tune and adjust the tuning manually.
Hello everyone,
I have the Sapphire Theatrix capture card. I think most of you have heard of it before. I am wanting to use the composite connections from my vcr to my capture card to be able to record several videos to hd to make a dvd from. I have tried many different programs, but they seem to have severe limitations. Powercinema which comes with the Sapphire has the ability to capture composite, but has a 2 gig limitation on recordings. So when i have attempted to record even a one hour vid in good quality resolution, the 2 gig limit is exceeded and it records in two files. Though not insurmountable, it is very inconvenient to merge the two files. I have tried WinAvi-capture, but I cannot get any sound from it at all. Nice picture, no sound. Does anyone have any suggestion as to a vid capture program that would work with this particular card?
Thanks in advance for any help that you can give...
I'm sitting with a friend by whom I have installed the o2grabber and defined the XML file. The TV guide works perfect now. However, the live TV doesn't work now. We only see a short flash of the tv program. After the screen is black, but the sound is there. Please help!
Instead of the standard MPEG2 recording, is it possible to record to MPEG4 using GBPVR? I am using a Hauppauge-PVR150. I am not sure if the encoding is based on hardware on the card, or whether you can specify a seperate software encoder from GBPVR.
Hi,
Has anybody tried the FM Radio with Hauppauge 500 MCE.
I got a kind of "double sound" if I configure GB-PVR with both TV receivers on the card.
It sounds OK if I configure with one TV-receiver but then again i loos the ability to record an watch TV at the same time.
Tom - Norway
