I was so happy last night. Finally got everything working with beautiful smooth pictures and great sound. Recording working great. So I decided to upgrade the nVidia graphics drivers to the newest version which went well and I went to bed.
Next morning, fired up GBPVR to watch morning news and have picture but no sound (Avermedia, with cable input) switch to satellite (Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2) and have picture and sound. Play a recording from last night off cable and have picture and sound. This tells me that something has happened with the Avermedia card so I reinstalled drivers, rebooted but no change; still no sound. Any ideas? I would like to get out of setup and debug mode at some point have been fiddling now for a week.
I'm new to this whole PC as a tivo thing but I'm giving it a try! To my surprise I can get a card for about $140, free software, and not have to pay for services! Hooray! I'm thinking about getting a 500MCE from haupage. I had an old tv tunner card from them I wasn't happy with because the drivers sucked and locked up my computer. My new computer is an AMD 2+ GHZ on an ASUS A7V600-X motherboard with a VIA KT600 chipset with SATA bridge that seems to be compatible. I'm a bit nervous though about getting this card as I can save some money and get a single-turner card that's not Haupauge for only $40, but I"m willing to pay the extra $100 to be able to record two shows at once and still broswe the net, etc. while it does it.
If anyone has any suggestions, let me know... I'll also let you guys know if the thing works or not..be ordering fairly soon.....
-Daniel
I'm currently using the NVIDIA Video Decoder and Overlay Manager. When I watch Live TV (HDTV) CPU utilization is always below 50%. When I watch a recording of HDTV, the CPU utilization jumps to at least 90% up to 100%. Shouldn't both of these functions be using the same Playback settings and have comparable CPU utilization?
OK, yes, I admit it. I've been unfaithful. I just couldn't help it. The temptation was too great. So beautiful. So sexy. So slick. The blue background - discretely in constant motion. The white and green UI quickly zooming back and forth between screens. The thumbnail-sized video window always there at the bottom left. The "online spotlight" with some very promising video-on-demand services, games and more. It was just too hard to resist.
But boy did I get screwed. Only half of the channels had EPG data. Getting commercial detection to work properly was more or less impossible. FF/RW didn't work at all (except for DVDs where there where two speeds in each direction - x2 and x32 - both completely useless). But worst of all - it failed to record the latest episode of Nip/Tuck.
Now I won't promise that I'll stay faithful forever, I'm sure Microsoft will try to lure me in with something even more attractive within a year or so (Vista...). But Sub, you still have the most reliable PVR and as long as that is the case I will keep coming back (if you'll have me, that is...)
I've just started messing with GB-PVR this weekend, and I'm limited to using Overlay Manager if I want smooth HDTV playback. While viewing Live TV, everything looks fine. However, if I record a show and play it back, HDTV shows will show zoomed in, such that only see the upper-left quarter of the video. I've tried every Video Decoder I have installed and it seems to only play back at the correct zoom if I use VMR9 or VMR7, but will not playback smoothly. Any suggestions?
BTW, this is an amazing bit of software. I wish Dvico would provide as nice a PVR a solution.
Update:
Live TV also has this zoomed in funny business if the Video Decoder is set to System Default.
having a bit of trouble setting up gb-pvr with the channels for my card.
card - Blackgold DVB-T
OS - WinXP Pro sp2
In the config menu i go to <capture sources> then <edit>.
In <recording source> i have selected BDA Recording Plugin and then my card.
In <EPG Source> i have selected XMLTV Plugin and located my listings file.
I click Update EPG and in the channels box it shows the relevant channels i chose in xmltv.
I then click "map digital channels to EPG channels" and this is where i get problems.
I get the message:
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Debug Assertion Failed!
Program: ....\gbpvr\config.exe
File: ....\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\atlmfc\include\atlcomcli.h
Line: 150
Expression: p!=0
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Any ideas? Not sure if im doing something wrong and i'd really like to get this working.
Is there any way of seeing in GBPVR on PC whether MVP(s) is connected and what the user are doing - watching video - idle, watchning pictures, listening to music etc
