I was just wondering the average RAM usage of the GB-PVR recording service. Mine is 100MB with about 6 shows scheduled to be recorded. This seems a little high to me, but what is the average RAM usage?

No idea what I've done, but DVB-T radio is working,,

If I switch from TV to a radio channel the image freezes, but the radio works

Does anyone who uses DVB to record know of a command line tool which can 'fix' the recording. As you may know, DVB transmission/reception isn't perfect. This means the captured mpg stream has missing and out of sync video and audio frames. These have to be corrected if the program is used to make a Video DVD, otherwise the picture/audio is likely to be out of sync (usually by a few seconds). At the moment I use either Ulead Movie Factory 4 to repair the file, or if this fails (which it does occassionally) I use PVAStrumento. The problem with both these tools is that they are gui based and take a 5- 10 minutes to run. It would be much nicer to have something automatically repair the recording in the postprocessing.bat file. Any ideas ?

I have removed the SD video size limitation in Comskip
The maxium video size is now 2000x1200
An experimental HD version of comskip can be downloaded from http://mk.kaashoek.com/gbpvr/comskipHDbeta.zip
All SD processing is as it used to be so you can use it for both SD and HD
Audio processing on HD is not yet operational so the result may be less accurate
Input can only be a Program Stream, Transport Stream does not work yet
I appriciate your feedback

Hi

Noticed that the settings for LNB on Twinhan DVB-Sat card is non intuitive (to me at least - others might take the same view).

Settings need to be

LNB LOF1 (MHz) 10600
LNB switch (MHz) 10714
LNB LOF2 (MHz) 9750

Strangely if the LOF settings are reversed then some channels are found.
Setting as above tunes far more channels.

I would have expected the LOF1 setting to be low band (9750) but on my system the above settings work.

Hope this helps anyone with tuning issues on the Twinhan Sat card.


Kev

Hi

Using the "you can never have enough tuner cards approach" one very quickly has to deal with the consequence of so many TV channels.

I have a DVBT card, DVB-S card and a dual composite input MCE500 card connected through an AV amplifier to a skybox, digital terrestrial box and further satellite box. Also have a motorised satellite dish which can see satellites all over europe and this gives me access to literally thousands of channels.

In GBPVR setting this up (using girder to control the dish) is possible but the GBPVR TV guide is troublesome in that it simply puts all the channels in a single long list.

Even without said multisatlleite system the problem would still exist (to a lesser degree).

It would be ideal if TV channels could be grouped into types like e.g. news, films, music etc.

I realise this would have to be a manual process since the xml data handling etc would be non algorithmic, but it ought to be fairly straightforward to implement.

Channels could be tagged (manually) as news, sport etc and then buttons would filter the TV channel list accordingly. Similarly a type could be defined such as favorites and this list could then be revealed at will.

Such a sytem might be easy to implement and there might even be space for a row of buttons at the top of the EPG screen.

Might be worth considering at least.

Kev

Hi,

I wasn't sure where to post this, but thought it might be of interest to the group. Here is a link to the subject card:

Click Here

I ordered one to use as a second tuner. Shipping for me was $4.99.

Hi,
I am currently trying to decide whether to use BeyondTV or GB-PVR for my HTPC. I love the idea of the GB-PVR project and the great work by its creator and the developers of the fantastic plugins, and the program itself seems to work well for me. Unfortunately, I'm experiencing an absolute showstopper, which is that the channel listing guide is missing about 3/4ths of my channels!

I'm using the Zap2It service in NY, USA. It lists all of the channels, and they're checked in the setup screen, but when it downloads the program listing (which takes an awfully long time), most of them are missing. There seems to be no pattern to it; the channels skip from like 1-4; 7,8,11, 16, 17-21, 27, 30-33, etc. I'm not sure if it's the same channels missing from the lineup after every channel download, though.

So, does anyone know what could be going on? I use Time Warner digital cable in Queens, NY which has about 1000 total channels (though I'd use only about 100 of them at most). Is there some kind of numerical limit to the number of channels GB-PVR will show? Would it help if I unchecked all the PPV, etc channels I won't use? Is there an alternate service (I haven't tried looking into the XML option; don't quite know how it works yet)

Thanks!

I've currently set up my postprocessing.bat file to automatically extract commercials using Comskip and VideoReDo. Now I'm looking to add some stuff to that batch file to autocompress the video, to save on HD space.

VirtualDub seems to have a good set of command line options (so it can be set to execute in a batch file) but my question would be the output file.

Say I started with:

<show name>.mpg

and ended up with

<show name>_orig.mpg

and

<show name>.avi

Would GBPVR play the file correctly if the extension is changed? Can GBPVR even handle playing DivX encoded AVI files at all?

Hi

I'm new to GBPVR but wanted to give it a try after mixed experiences with Showshifter and MediaPortal.
Problem is it claims to work with the Pinnacle Mediacentre 300i DVB-T cardbut I tried setting it up as described in the help GBPVR help file and it doesnt appear to work. I used the BDA recording plugin to set up the capture card. The Pinnacle is listed under that plugins menu but I see no other way to set it up. It appears to refer to a satellite card ? The Pinnacle is a Anntenae powered card but there is no where to set it up.

Am I missing a trick or doesnt it work??

Any help much appreciated.