Just recently, my gbpvr playback for recorded files gets stuck on a frame while the audio continues. I can skip forward and the frame will change and remain frozen while the audio continues. I can play the same mpg files with media player just fine. Anyone encountering the same problems? My setup is: p3-850, 512 mb of ram, hauppaugge pvr-150.
Thanks.
So apparently, looking throught the forums, it seems that using just any video card with TV out is not good enough. I have an MSI GForce4 MX440. The video on the TV is not the greatest.
So what is the criteria? What is the minimum?
Good video out?
Good VMR9 support?
So I ask, what is the recommended video card to make BGPVR look the best?
I find that the rendering quality and navigation of the gbpvr dvd player (which I understand to be a directshow from the dvd software) is different from the player's own quality and nav.
I did read some of the helpful finds of windvd 7 registry entries that someone had posted and tried them out. They did improve the quality, however, there's still a lot of difference.
I'll try to as objectively as I can state the issues, maybe someone out there has a solution:
System Description:
3 year old athlon 1800+xp system with 750MB ram, nvidia Ti500 vid card, audigy platinum, 320GB of space for tv and dvd movies.
Connection:
Input: Hauppauge 150 inputs from antenna, and s-video for digital channels from comcast (hdtv) box.
Output: s-video to a hitachi 42" widescreen projection tv
Basic Game Plan: Create a movie juke box. Rip dvd's, remove extra features and any software such as interactual etc, create an iso and watch it "on demand" using gbpvr.
Black level quality/JPEGiness: Without the registry entry for DXVA I get a very jpeggy blotchy quality. However even with it in there the blacks are still a bit "muddy". Maybe its a gamma issue but it is noticeably off.
Audio: Audio settings from windvd don't map into gbpvr or the directshow (or however that works, a little clueless here on that one). As of now I do not have a receiver and surround system and just hook it into my stereo system. Basically the downconversion settings from windvd are not in effect when I play the dvd. However, it sounds quite good when I play using windvd.
aspect ratio: I've tried the F7 (mapped the * key to F7 on the remote) and the ratios provided are not the same as the ones from windvd. There is a grey bar on top and bottom. The windvd itself plays fine with the widescreen occupying the entire screen or the grey bars being fairly dark as to be not noticeable.
DVD Navigation: this has confused me the most. I have tried using config to set it to DVD Navigation and Intervideo navigation. Neither one provides a smooth interface. It appears to be a bit random in its behavior. Fwd/rew are my main basic problems. I've tried the setting it to step instead of speed up and that seems to work better. But there are certain dvd's that misbehave more than others. None of these problems occur with windvd.
I finally gave up fixing this and I mapped the "picture" button to launch windvd. Windvd default disk drive is set to the Daemon tool's map drive.
So, when I select a movie I hit stop and now that the movie is "mounted" I then hit the picture button which launches windvd.
Do to hurricane wilma last week I did not how power to record two of my families favorite shows.
If anyone has recorded last weeks Medium from 10/24 or
Commander in chief from 10/25 and has a decent connection please let me know and we can come up with a way to transfer them.
Jeff....I have noticed a bug(I think) in the current relase of VA(10/08/05).
Load all files and directories on intial startup.
I have my configuration set to cache just one directory and 1 new recording. I did this since if I cache everything no new recordings show up as they are added.
The bug seems to be when I delete the last recording for a show I can not see any more recordings under any other show...they like vanish. I go out to the main menu and back in....still nothing listed.
If I turn the MVP off/on (via the remote not hard off/on) and go back in I can then see the recordings....until I again delete the last recording in a show.
Has this been identified before or is anyone else experiencing this?
I currently have an Antec ATC 610 which I'm giving the boot. The case is beautiful, but the space is too confined and case cooling is a problem. What is everyone's opinion of the Sonata II for a HTPC case. My setup is as follows:
Abit NFS-7 2.0 NForce2 motherboard
AMD 2400 XP
1GB RAM
PVR-350 and plan on adding PVR-500 in the future
soon to be 2x 250GB or 300GB SATA drives
DVD ROM
ATI 9800 Pro
3x Media MVP units
I would like a case that is quiet, but also good on keeping temps low. Any recommendations are apprecicated. Also what is everyone's opionion on RAID? Should I RAID my two drives for GBPVR? Thanks...
first off, i LOVE GBpvr and will still use it, this is more of a bug report.
my computer was dragging really slow, with a gig ram and a smoking cpu that never happens. i brought up the system tool thing(alt, ctl, delete) and notice over 30 programs marked (gbpvr.exe were running and using all the memory.
if i restarted the computer they all would come back up and drag the whole thing to the ground. after a system32 error crashed it for good the system was toast.
this has happened one time before and resulted in the same total crash.
i've re-installed the system and will re-installed GBpvr. i love the program so much i don't mind it killing the computer every couple of months. (smiles)
anyone else run into this???????????????????????????????????????????????
I'm devestated. I've just got a new sattellite reciever (Canal digital, code RC-5 I guess), and the USB-UIRT does not manage to switch correctly to any two-digit channels.
1-9 seems ok though, so I played around with RepeatCount and InterCodeDelay but nothings seems to happen. By that I mean regardless of if i have reapeatcount 90 or 5, intercodedelay 100 or 900 the failure/success rate seems to be the same
I have now repeatedly switch between two-numbered channels and it accept
first digit, next time second digit, then first, then none, then first, then both and so on.
It's almost as if the code was alternating on just the two digits....
I've restarted GBPVR-recording service between each changing in the USBUIRT ir file. I've also relearnt the remote, but same result....
