Hi,

Before I splurge on a Hauppauge DVB card, I am trying to get my FlyTV Prime card to work. It's a software card and I've managed to get it to work as far as live TV. However, it will not record or timeshift. I guess this is because I'm missing a codec.

I've downloaded pretty much every codec, codec pack, mux, demux, cyberlink vcr, etc stuff and no dice.
I have lots of log files I'll zip and attach if you want all of them.

If anyone has any suggestions that'd be great!

Hello, is there a way to use the Video Archive plugin to replace the 'Recordings' plugin? I dont want to mix my tv recordings with my video files and I prefer to use VA for recordings.

I have an Hauppauge 150 with cable running into using the internal tuner. Would adding an external cable box to the composite input allow me to record 2 channels at the same time? Or watch 1 and record on the other? If so how would I need to set it up? Thanks in advance for any help.

Searches in the forum came up with no answers, so here goes...

I've been using gbpvr version 0.94.13 for a couple of weeks with my new MVP, but have noticed that the livetv buffer directory maintains all of the MPG files from watching live TV, and never gets cleared, thus filling up my hard drive. I made sure to disable FFDSHOW and I routinely exit and shut off the MVP device, and the MVP server software on the video server. Is there a log file or setting which will allow me to ensure that the buffer files can be deleted after I'm done viewing live TV? All functions of the MVP seem to work fine, but I need to recover the disk space from watching live TV in order to record future shows... And yes, I made sure that the hauppauge mvp server software is not running.

My video server specs are:
Windows XP SP2
Pentium 4 3.6GHz
Hauppauge PVR150MCE
Wired 100baseT network to the MVP

This is not the problem in my previous post, I have been doing manual updates of the epg because of this problem.

Also this is not a GB-PVR problem directly. GB-PVR never gets a chance to do the update due to this problem. I just hoped since it is a suspend issue someone might have an answer.

I have my pvr computer going into s3 (suspend to ram) sleep mode and I can wake it with my mouse and everything is fine. It also wakes itself to do recordings but I haven't observed it during a wake for recording so I don't know if the screen is working or not. The recordings themselves are fine. The problem is that when it wakes itself for epg updates (1:00 pm EST) is doesn't fully wake up. I wakes and the drives spin up and you can hear activity neither monitor nor tv get a display. Then approximately 1 minute later it goes back to sleep. I checked the logs for GB-PVR and nothing happened at 1pm in any of them. I did note in the system log that the wireless network card established a connection so I don't think it is a network issue. I did read a MS KB article about waking from hibernation and going back to sleep 5 minutes later but that doesn't apply since I am not using hibernation (S4) and it is going back to sleep in about 1 minute.

If anyone wants more information about S3 sleep mode or other suspend issues you might want to check the forums at
http://www.thegreenbutton.com/

Pete Borders

I have a MVP in the living room connected to a my GBPVR computer in the basement. I'm trying to configure the system so that I can save as much energy as possible without jumping through too many hoops like running to the basement to power on the computer. Currently, I have the computer automatically shut itself off at 11PM via software and automatically turn on at 6AM (via BIOS) since I don't recording late night TV programs. TV listings are updated during the daytime. The hard drives are also powered off when the computer is not busy. Is there anything else I can do? I presume that if I turned on suspend or hibernate, the MVP would not be able to wake the computer up. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hi, I have an ADS Tech InstantTV DVB-T PCI card which I believe is not supported by GB-PVR, as it is not listed in any catagory in the "Capture Source" "Recording Source" List of cards. Is there anything I can do or do I have to wait for support to be added?



http://www.adstech.com/products/PTV-334/...id=PTV-334

Sorry if this is a stupid request.

Cheers for the help,

Jim

Ok first off I have to say that GB-PVR is a very impresive program. So far I have not had any real problems getting my two 500mce cards working and everything is recording great. I still have some work on the remote front but I am getting there.

Ok the problem. I have tried several different days settings for my zap2it requests from 13 down to 9 and I still get only 4 or 5 days worth. I have confirmed the subscription is active (until 1/2006). I have looked at the logs and it does seem to be requesting the correct range. Then there are multiple lines of receiving the data (this is from memory I am at work and the pvr is at home). There didn't seem to be a correlation between the number of lines and days though. Any setting I can add to get more information into the log, it is set to debug right now. Also is there a temporary file that contains the downloaded listing data, I would like to see what was actually received.

Note, I also use zap2it listings for a pocketpc tv guide app (on another computer) and I can get all 13 (max) days from zap2it in it no problem. I really need to get at least a whole weeks worth, otherwise searching is rather limited.

Pete Borders

i have the latest version of gbpvr, but cannot get it to work.

i have two twinhan dvb-t cards. both working fine with dntv live. I have tried all bda drivers, but currently have 1.2.1.9 installed.

i have several mpeg-2 decoders including elecard, and cyberlink (powerdvd6). it is currently set to the elecard one.

it fails on downloads the epg fine.
when mapping digital channels to epg channels it crashes with an unhandled exception although it does seem to pick up the signal (strength 81, quality 96)
"object reference not set to an instance of an object"
i have seen the faq on this issue, but no parts seem relevant (no plugins)

i have set the location to south of england, redruth, and the relevant bda driver.

below is the relevant part of the log...
#

18:54:15.908 INFO tuning@1
18:54:15.908 INFO tuning@2
18:54:15.908 INFO tuning@3
18:54:15.908 INFO tuning@4
18:54:15.908 INFO tuning@5
18:54:15.908 INFO tuning@6
18:54:15.908 INFO tuning@7
18:54:15.908 INFO tuning@8
18:54:15.924 INFO tuning@8
18:54:15.924 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAMultiplexer)
18:54:15.939 VERBOSE About to auto detect correct tuner filter
18:54:15.955 VERBOSE Looking for associated filter
18:54:15.955 VERBOSE - TwinHan DVBT BDA Capture Filter
18:54:15.955 VERBOSE Successfully auto detected tuner filter: TwinHan DVBT BDA Capture Filter
18:54:15.955 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Output1' to 'MPEG-2 Stream'
18:54:15.955 VERBOSE About to try to add VMR9 preview window
18:54:16.095 VERBOSE Adding VMR9 preview window
18:54:16.095 VERBOSE getSetting(EPGProcessingMode)
18:54:16.095 VERBOSE Mapping Video PID 101
18:54:16.095 VERBOSE Mapping Audio PID 102
18:54:16.095 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredDecoder)
18:54:16.111 VERBOSE video decoder filter: Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder
18:54:16.361 VERBOSE locked=1 present=1 strength=77 quality=90
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE - Default DirectSound Device
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE - BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE - VMR9
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE - Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE - Elecard Audio Decoder
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE - TwinHan DVBT BDA Capture Filter
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE - TwinHan DVBT BDA Tuner Filter
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE - Microsoft DVBT Network Provider
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
18:54:16.408 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StartRecording() finished
18:54:16.424 VERBOSE BDARecorder::ScanTransponder(T:C39,618000,0,0,8)
18:54:16.424 INFO ScanTransponder@1
18:54:16.424 INFO ScanTransponder@2
18:54:16.424 INFO DVB-T CarrierFrequency:618000 Bandwidth:8
18:54:16.424 INFO ScanTransponder@3
18:54:16.424 INFO tuning@7
18:54:16.424 INFO ScanTransponder@4
18:54:16.455 INFO ScanTransponder@5
18:54:16.596 VERBOSE locked=1 present=1 strength=75 quality=90
18:54:19.596 VERBOSE BDARecorder::GetTransponderServiceList()
18:54:19.596 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAScanType)

Some people are reporting problems with broken timelines in mpeg files.
I put together a small utility called retime to repair a broken timeline.
One of the utilities that creates a broken timeline is comclean, that explains my interrest....

You can download retime.zip from the url mentioned below