Hi, I want to get a DVB-T card that works with GB-PVR, as it easily looks like the best PVR software. I was wondering which card I should get, the "ADS Technology Instant TV DVB-T PCI" or the "Hauppauge Win TV Nova-t PCI"? I know the Nova-T is supported, but I'm not sure about the Instant TV. If the Instant TV is not supported, are there any other similarly priced cards with S-Video/Composite in/out?
My adventures with my new hobby continues. I managed to get GBPVR work with my old WinTV card (temporary solution until I find a good deal on PVR-150, nowadays broke ). It works great on my machine with no problems. I guess because it is also a faster machine It is not really draining CPU as much as it used to on my older machine to record something via software encoder and watch something else.
Ok so the problem with MVP is that regardless of what value I put for X and Y offset in the config files, all MPEG2 files, whether recorded via GBPVR or downloaded, seem to have a 1 inch black bar to the right (i.e. shifted to the left). Has anyone experienced that? What could be the solution?
WMV and Divx do not seem to have this problem.
My MVP is the older one with the 35 button remote.
I'd like to suggest two idea for a plugin or native feature in gbpvr.
1. Use imdb.com's MyMovies as a list of titles to find. Then have the TV schedule downloader (Zap2IT, etc.) retrieve the MyMovies list and then scan the new downloads to see if there is a hit. I can envision it having options to let me control 'auto record' and 'email me with hits'. This would be awesome. I know that movies I want to see come on, but I won't catch them.
Obviously, there would need to be a way to enter my logon info for IMDB.COM so the download program could get my movie list.
2. Have the web interface to the TV schedule show the IMDB.COM ratings for movies in the schedule. It would be awesome to have a 'movie' tab where it only shows movies in the schedule and that tab would do the hit on imdb.com to get the rating for the display. I'd like to sort by rating so I could decide what movies I wanted to record. I can see this being added to the search area of the web interface so I could search for movies (a checkbox) and have the imdb.com info appear in it as well. Actually, I guess it would make sense for the download program that gets the TV schedule updates to query IMDB.com at that time and pull in the data so it is fast and efficient.
I can imagine that there are 'use' issues that would need to be addressed, but if it was written in a modular fashion, sites other than imdb.com could be available as alternatives in order to get a spirit of competition involved. That might help in negotiating access.
I have Large Fonts set on Windows so it makes apps easier to read when displaying on the TV. (in Display Settings > Advanced > General )
When it's set though, the fonts in GBPVR look a bit too big and some text gets pushed out of the way in the menu. Is there anyway to get the skin to ignore that setting? Some windows apps seem too.
The Large Fonts setting is pretty useful, so I figure someone else has probably come up against this before, and might have an idea.
Is there any way to adjust the start and end times of manual recordings in one minute increments? It only seems to adjust in ten minute increments on my machine.
Hi Gang - I got a radioshack MVP! thanks forn the tip. Couldn't have worked out better - my soyo mobo ( w/ integrated TV out) just blew for the last time and I've given up on that system.
I now have an old celeron 900 mhz system w/ 512 mem that I can put my Haupp card in and add my larger harddrive to. First question. Will this machine meet spec.? It's ok on the Mhz standpoint advertised by the media MVP, but it's a celeron. I don't know how that fits into the equation. I assume the MVP device takes over alot of the cpu load and hope that the older PC (running XP pro) will be ok... :confused:
Secondly - will the following setup work from a networking standpoint?
I have an cabinet with no hardwired network nearby. Can I put both the PC and the MVP in cabinet connected directly to each other with a cat5 cable? Then to allow for updating with Zapit, can I also add my existing wireless USB device to a USB port on the PC? Or will having cat5 and a wireless usb working at the same time confuse the hell out of the PC? :confused:
Note that I can just barely keep my home network figured out. I can, if neccessary or less technically complicated, run a cat5 cable to the tv cabinet and then put my hub/router/access point in the cabinet - connecting both the PC and the MVP to the hub...
I've been running GBPVR for a week just messing with it and I've got it playing nicely with everything I own. Even got a very clean image and I'm impressed. The OSD works great on Live TV and also on Recordings but it does not work on DVD Playback anymore. I removed Dscaler and FFDshow because they well made my tv playback suck. DO I need them to get the OSD working in DVD Playback.
Also GBPVR locks up on DVD playback. I cannot use the keyboard, mouse or anything, all I can do is watch the dvd and kill the process to exit. I don't have a clue why this does not work and I'm out of options on troubleshooting it myself. It anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
Few JPG files causes GB-PVR MediaMVP Server to crash when I view them via "My Pictures" and the MVP box.
Maybe one out of 50 JPG pictures causes the crash. All pictures were taken with the same digital camera, and all were resized with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2. In any other way the failing pictures looks perfectly normal.
If I remove the few failing pictures from the folder, the slideshow runs perfecly.
GP-PVR on the PC can view all pictures, only MVP crashes.
It is not enough to restart the MVP box, only a restart of the MediaMVP Server program can bring the MVP box alive again. Sometimes it hangs so hard that I cannot stop the program, and I have to reboot the PC.
PS:
I have resized the JPG files to a size of 150kb because I have experienced that MVP doesn't lige big JPG's. The size should not be the problem.
Am I the only one who have experienced this strange error?
Pentium III 1000MHz
512Mb RAM
120GB HDD
Windows 2000 Pro
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