I have a hauppauge pvr150 and I am pretty impressed with this program. Is there a way to have more control over video size and bit rate besides low, med and high?

Is there a list somewhere of what all the buttons on the 45 button remote do. Like the color buttons at the bottom.

I have two questions about DVD2MPEG
First is there a way to have it use MPLEX and make more than one file if needed? I alway just end up doing this by had. Of course after my wife finds out the ending of the movie is missing. I use Video Redo to join them.
Second I just bought Madagascar and tried to convert it and I had the problem above. It made 4 files. I joined 2 & 3 only becuase 1 and 4 were really small. Now my wife is saying the voices do not match the video.

I ran Overlay the other day, and aside from needing some new color settings from my VMR9, it runs really fast.

Aside from less cool-looking OSDs, what are the reasons for not using it? What are people using?

I've just realized how high my processing runs lately, w/ the post-processing I have going on (resize, resample, etc). It would be nice to lower the peaks a little.

below is my render method for a caller id plugin. I see that the mode is set correctly.

The section in bold is invoked. The image is correct I can save it to a file. I return it, but I never see it on top of the video. I do implement the IVideoPlugin interface and have it in the config.xml I see all of the other methods get invoked.

Ideas?

public Image render(out bool requiresMoreRendering)
{
requiresMoreRendering = false;
renderAgain = false;

// reset clickable regions
clickableNames = new Hashtable();

// alpha blend with background
float[][] matrixItems ={ // Note the value 0.8 in row 4, column 4.
new float[] {1, 0, 0, 0, 0},
new float[] {0, 1, 0, 0, 0},
new float[] {0, 0, 1, 0, 0},
new float[] {0, 0, 0, 0.8f, 0},
new float[] {0, 0, 0, 0, 1}};
ColorMatrix colorMatrix = new ColorMatrix(matrixItems);

ImageAttributes imageAttr = new ImageAttributes();
imageAttr.SetColorMatrix(
colorMatrix,
ColorMatrixFlag.Default,
ColorAdjustType.Bitmap);

// prepare background

// foregroundImage = new Bitmap(720,480);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(foregroundImage);

// g.Clear(Color.Transparent);
g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;

Font generalFont = skinHelper.getNamedFont("GeneralText");
Brush generalFontBrush = skinHelper.getNamedFontBrush("GeneralText");
Font selectedGeneralFont = skinHelper.getNamedFont("SelectedGeneralText");
Brush selectedGeneralFontBrush = skinHelper.getNamedFontBrush("SelectedGeneralText");
Brush selectionBrush = skinHelper.getNamedBrush("Selection");


if ( this.bVideoMode )
{
string displayString = szLabel + "... (" + DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString() + ")\n" + szName + _name + "\n" + szNumber + _number;


g = Graphics.FromImage(compositeScreenImage);
g.FillRectangle(new SolidBrush(GBPVR.Public.PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetOSDTransparentColor()),0,0,720,480);

//g.FillRectangle( new SolidBrush(Color.Black), new Rectangle(5, 105, 305, 25) );
g.DrawString( displayString, generalFont, generalFontBrush, new Rectangle(10, 100, 300, 20) );
Logger.Info("Drawing string " + displayString );
//return ( foregroundImage );
return ( compositeScreenImage );
} else
{
Graphics.FromImage(backgroundImage).DrawImage(backgroundPicture, 0,0,backgroundPicture.Width,backgroundPicture.Height);
g.Clear(Color.Transparent);


// g.DrawString( "Call Data " + szCallData, generalFont, generalFontBrush, new Rectangle(10, 10, 300, 20) );
// g.DrawString( "Adj Call Data " + szAdjustedCallData, generalFont, generalFontBrush, new Rectangle(10, 40, 300, 20 ) );
// g.DrawString( "Label " + szLabel, generalFont, generalFontBrush, new Rectangle(10, 70, 300, 20) );
g.DrawString( "Number " + szNumber, generalFont, generalFontBrush, new Rectangle(10, 100, 300, 20) );

Graphics.FromImage(backgroundImage).DrawImage(foregroundImage, new System.Drawing.Rectangle(0,0,720,480),0,0,720,480,GraphicsUnit.Pixel,imageAttr);
return ( backgroundImage );
}


// return blended result
return backgroundImage;
}

Guten Abend
spricht hier auch jemand Deutsch und kann mir helfen?
Ich weiß das es ein engl. Forum ist, aber mein engl. ist leider nicht so gut und ich habe mich jetzt 2 Tage durch das Forum gekämpft (als Gast) aber bin leider nicht zum Erfolg gekommen.
Ich habe eine DVB-S TT-Premium und habe mir jetzt einen MVP zugelegt. Meine Frage ist geht das ueberhaupt und wie muss ich das ganze konfigurieren? Die Karte wird als Sigma Designs XCard erkannt nehme ich an, da Einstellungen möglich sind=>es passiert aber nichts

Als Hintergrund => ich möchte einen Media-Server betreiben der über den MVP bedient wird und fuer die Ausgabe verantwortlich ist.

Der Server ist ein Athlon 900MHz mit einem Shuttle MK32N Board mit 256MB, also ein aelteres System

Zur Zeite Teste ich auf einem Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe mit einem XP2500 und 512MB eigentlich auch aelter

Also wuerde mich freuen wenn mir jemand helfen kann?
Danke und schoenen Abend noch!

Currently I'm saving my recordings as DVR-MS..

Anyway to change this to an other format ??

MPG ??

Thanks

I just bought an Avermedia A180 HDTV Card. Right now I'm probably going to (try to) use it with GB-PVR. I have a couple of questions:

1. Is it compatible with GB-PVR? (I assume so)
2. I'm using the aerial/ATSC channels for my HDTV. However I plan on keeping my other card (PVR150) which will be connected to cable. How will this work in GBPVR (will it work?)
3. Do you think my CPU will be powerful enough to handle PVR'ing HDTV? The signal from the card is MPEG2, right? (no software encoding) Will my CPU (Athlon XP 1600+) be able to handle it? (if it can't, the CPU is a good overclocker so I can overclock it about 200MHz or so, although I don't right now)

Thanks

It appears that the configuration program and the location of the prefered channels have become decoupled. I make changes in config and they are no longer being made in the application? It also appears that the channels in TV guide/live TV seem to be sometimes doubled, sometimes they dont appear in the list, but in scrolling up and down there are "phantoms" channels that don't show up in the list, but when scrolled there is a spot where the active cell is not visible? too small?

I was going to see if there was an xml file or registry location that might be wonky and manually clean it up, but can't seem to find where this data is saved.

Any help on location or another way to resolve this issue? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, with no joy.

thanks.

I'm really liking GM-PVR but there is one thing I can't do with it. Record two channels at once. I believe, in my case, that this is more of a hardware problem . So... I would like a recommendation on a good, low cost, hardware encoding tuner card that would work well with my PVR-350, and, of course, with GB-PVR. I don't need another remote. I don't need an FM tuner. I'm thinking about a PVR-150 MCE. Is there anything about then MCE version that would cause me problems? From what I've read, this card is the same as a PVR-150 but without a remote. Is there anything else out there that would be a better choice?

A related question: If GB-PVR is currently using the PVR-350 tuner to record a program, can I view and/or pause live TV (through my PVR-350 TV Out) using the PVR-150 tuner? If not, is there another tuner card in which this is possible?