When I try to playback any tv show using the gbpvr player, there is about a 1 inch flashing bar on the bottom of the screen. I am guessing there is some setting that needs to be changed for this because if I play the video on mediaplayer it plays back fine. Has anyone got any ideas for how to fix this?
Thanks,
James
I've got a Roslyn tuner card, and would like to be able to use the audio inputs to record audio tracks. Will GB-PVR do this? If not now - in the future? If not then, do you know of any other audio recording software that will work with the Roslyn card?
Anyone else have this problem? Ever since I have connected my MVP I can no longer see PC's in my workgroup. I can access them by IP, or by \\{servername}\shared dir but not when browsing. It's not a big deal, but I am not thrilled about it either.
When I first installed GBPVR a week or so ago, the CPU usage was about 35-40% vs. the Fusion v3.11 I was running which was (and is) about 40-45%.
Then for some reason CPU usage on GB-PVR went up to 80-85% in LiveTV mode.
And now there is a distinct stutter in many channels.
I've tried different settings to no avail.
My system:
Dell Dim 8300 P4 2.8 800FSB with HT (though I'd turned HT off)
128MB Geforce 5200 8x AGP with Aperture at 128
512MB DDR2 400 memory
WinXP with all upgrades
Fusion 5 Gold+ (watch only OTA HD)
Without GB-PVR on, CPU usage is <5%
Config settings:
Video Decoder ZuluBDAHDTV or Nvidea (no real diff between the 2)
VMR9 (I tried overlay -- there was some but not substantial improvement)
on Misc tab:
Live preview unchecked (I've tried checked with passthru and unchecked)
MS-DVR for Mux
I'm thinking of something kinda like addressbook, but it's a simple movie database. I record and burn them on DVDs, and sometimes, I forget that I have them and re-record them. Maybe if after burning something, you can copy it to the database, and it'll show me a list of the movies I have.
How exactly does GBPVR get the artwork for the different shows. I works most of the time but I noticed for one show that 'The Thomas Crown Affair' artwork was retrieved for 'Thomas and Friends', ie. Thomas the Tank Engine. :p
I just found GBPVR recently and thought I'd build myself up a dedicated PVR system.
Currently I have an old 450mhz system running as a music server and tied into my home theater system. I wrote some remote control software and it works pretty slick. That's about all it currently is though - a digital music player.
I thought I'd make the leap and further integrate -- so, I'm planning on replacing that 450mhz machine with a 3ghz, 533 FSB Intel based box with a 200gb drive dedicated to video, music, and image storage and a half gig of ram. This PC will not have a monitor and probably won't have a keyb or mouse for that matter -- will be managed via Remote Desktop.
I have an old school tube TV that I probably won't replace for a while. It has composite and S-video in's.
I would like to be able to play DVDs, MP3 music, internet music, (fm tuner would be cool too), watch my analog cable, and do the PVR thing with this system.
First question, I'd like to only buy a TV / en/decoder card once - I think I'd like it to have as much hardware encoding/decoding as available as to keep system resources as free as possible. What's the recommended card in this dept? I've been looking at the PVR-350 so far.
I've read some are having problems with the PVR-350 cards locking up when using the composite out function -- have any of these problems been had by those using Intel chipset based MB's? I'll be using an ASUS P4PE.
Next, in the past, I had been considering upgrading my sound card to an M-Audio 2496 card (with RCA ins and outs). Will I still want to go this route, or will I be able to send MP3 and internet based music out the RCA jacks on the TV card to the receiver/amp? If so, will they offer reasonable quality?
Any other caveats I should be aware of? I'm looking to build a very slick, well integrated, and easy to use/operate system that even my wife will enjoy taking advantage of.
What would some of you that have a good bit of experience do if you were building up a system like this, with those goals in mind?
I'm trying to run gbpvr with a hauppauge pvr 350. I have the recent MS.NET framework installed.
However, everytime I want to end the configuration dialog by clicking on OK, the following happens:
- restarting the recording service
- (waiting for 10 seconds)
- and then, the following error message, with the option to continue the config, or quit.
an unhandled exception.... couldn't get process information from remote machine!
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.InvalidOperationException: Couldn't get process information from remote machine. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Das Gerät ist nicht bereit
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceMonitor.GetData(String item)
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.GetPerformanceData(String item)
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.get_CategoryTable()
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.GetPerformanceData(String[] categories, Int32[] categoryIndexes)
at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfos(PerformanceCounterLib library)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfos(PerformanceCounterLib library)
at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfos(String machineName, Boolean isRemoteMachine)
at System.Diagnostics.ProcessManager.GetProcessInfos(String machineName)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses(String machineName)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses()
at xeb983fa94d0b4753.xfd6951461fe46d87.xd1bc48f5dba57993(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just in time (JIT) debugging, the config file for this
application or machine (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the machine
rather than being handled by this dialog.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
What could be causing this? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
I think I've followed all the steps, but still not getting there..... I have gbpvr set up with a Nova-T and working fine. I want to add a Twinhan sat card. The card is in the pc and has been working. I've downloaded the Twinhan BDA drivers, but when I try the setup prog (depending on version) it complains that this is only for MCE or asks me to install SP4 (I'm running W2k SP4),
so I've gone to device manager and updated the driver for DTV video and replaced it with THBDA (thbda_mce_uk renamed) and when the driver was asked for 878bda.sys renamed to thbda.sys. It now looks right in device manager, but graphedit only shows Twinhan under filters and not reciever component.....What am I missing?
I have a Pinnacle DVB-T 200e, it uses BDA driver, but the program fails to initializate it.
Anyone can tell me if I have to use a partcular driver?
Thanks.
The error is :
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at IUnknown.QueryInterface<struct IBDA_Topology>(IUnknown* , IBDA_Topology** pp)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.LockChannel(Int32* locked, Int32* present, Int32* strength, Int32* quality)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartScanTransponder(String transponder, Int32& signalStrength, Int32& signalQuality)
at xa2c78d1ab7eb027b.x501d1ffea8b79320.x692a1118e1794d77(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.OnTick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr idEvent, IntPtr dwTime)
