I have a PVR 150 with GBPVR, current version. Whether I am in Live TV mode or Playback mode, any movement of the cursor on the screen displays a menu for Pause, forward, backward, and a progress "bar" at the top.
On a new PVR 500 in a second computer, (running current version of GBPVR) no movement or clicking of the screen brings up that "menu". Sometimes the keyboard shortcut for Pause or jump forward, etc., does not work either.
I changed to and from Window mode and there was no change. The cursor moves, I can run other Windows programs, it is just the GBPVR menu that I am missing in playback mode.
I searched the Forum here but perhaps I do not know what to search for as I did not find anything on this issue.
Having been a member of this group for a couple of weeks i'm still a bit confused as to what kit I need to set up a GBPVR system.
My situation is that I am in the UK and currently get my TV via Freeview which I run via a Humax PVR/set top box into my TV via a scart lead.
I've got a 1 year old PC running a 2500+ AMD Athlon processor in my lounge and have just ordered a dual dvi head graphics card which should allow me to connect bioth my LCD TV and my PC's monitor to my PC.
What I want to achieve is better picture quality on my LCD TV combined with a capability of both watching and recording digital TV at the same time.
From what I can gather on this forum, the Hauppage 150 PVR cards seem the most preferred soluition, but these are analogue cards. As far as I can see I need a digital card but I have also gathered that you get a much better picture with a hardware based rather than software based decoder. As far as I can see, most of the digital cards which are compatible with GBPVR offer software based decoding.
So what is the best/most reasonably priced hardware based digital card i can buy??
Sorry for the newbie ness of the question, but any heklp gratefully received.
I would greatly appreciate if somebody could tell me how to adjust the contrast and brightness setting of my two PVRs: a WINTV-PVR150 and a Sapphire Theatrix.
Lets say I have a non-MCE PVR-150 and a PVR-500 in my GB-PVR system and a MediaMVP.
How would this work if I had a STB either digital cable or satellite? Would each tuner need a STB and an IR blaster? How would each tuner get the channel it needs?
I am guessing I would really need 3 non-MCE 150's each with it's own IR blaster and 3 STB'S and not a 500.
Could you please clear that up for me? It's the last thing I need to get a good understanding of before I move forward with my expansion plans.
I currently have a PVR-150 (non-MCE) card and i want to add another tuner (or two). I've read somewhere that there is a card that DOES NOT have the hardware encoding and that it relies on the system CPU to do all the work. Which card is that so I can avoid it? I was thinking about another 150 or 500 but if I find a good deal on any of the other PVR cards I might grab one of them. Was it the 350 card that does not have the H/W encoding?
I have been having problems whereby gbpvr wasn't flashing my cable box. I had just installed the latest release of gbpvr. Thinking it was a bug went back to the previous version and deleted the entire directory of all config files etc. saving only the file with the remote codes for my cable box
Re-installed and reconfigured the program. However the USB-UIRT still won't send the flashes to the device. Thinking that I might have a corrupt config file, tried relearning the remote. I get to the point where I click New and wait for the prompt to press the 1 button. However while the prompt appears, it doesn't wait for me to press the 1 button, goes to the press the 2 button prompt, etc and all the way to 0 and OK and then prompts me to name the config file. I have tried removing the USB-UIRT and putting it back, restarting gbpvr and even shutting down and restarting the program but it still won't learn now
Posted by: reven - 2005-11-01, 06:59 AM - Forum: Wishlist
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i wish....
(how do you start a wish? its never seems right?)
that the onscreen display showed the "TimeshiftRecording" (or whatever its called) composite image when you are watching a recording in progress. i always watch recordings from the pending list when they are in progress, and i think it would make more sense if the onscreen display indicated it was recording (and then switch to normal osd when it is no longer recording, so it might change while watching the show).
Whenever there is a "black scene" that comes up, it seems that the image that is shown is the black TV screen when no image is displayed. When I press the Video/TV button, on the top right, it says Video in a green font. So whenever the image goes black, the image becomes that and the video green turns on. It's as if it goes back and forth between no image and a faint display. Is this making any sense?
This may be a problem with my dvd decoder. But i've tried switching it to another decoder, but it hasn't really worked. I am using InterVideo's WinDVD 7 decoder.
