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
I have installed xDVD plugins, so I can watch ISO or DVD using my MVP in other room. I am not sure on the sequence of events that needs to occur for successful play.
Sometime, I hit previous, and I get the DVD/ISO to play, but If I hit Play, it comes back with L:\DVD.mpg is being used by another process.
L: is my external harddrive, and it is where all the ISO's are located.
I do have VLC installed, and I see ISO is mounted in virtual drive K, but I just don't understand the sequence of events for successful play.
Please help me understand what should I do first. Should I hit trandcode first then hit Play or hit Play first, and it should automatically trigger transcode.
MVP is slowly growing on me, and I really like the ability to watch and pause and forward live TV which is just totally cool.
I am tring to find out why the MyVideo plugin refuses to load. It wont load with no matter what skin I use. I have the current MyVideo installed.
I have made sure that MyVideosPlugin.dll is in the plugin directory and the current skin (Xmedia) is loaded.
If someone can take a look at this log and see if they see what is wrong, that would be great.
By the way, after about a day tring to figure it out, i wiped the drive and installed fresh, only to get the same thing
thanks!
Here is a clip of the error log.
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.052 VERBOSE [2] MyVideosTask created
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.312 VERBOSE [2] first update not needed
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.352 VERBOSE [2] second update not needed
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.392 VERBOSE [2] third update not needed
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.522 ERROR [2] Error initializing menu plugin: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\plugins\MyVideosPlugin.dll
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.522 ERROR [2] Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.532 ERROR [2] at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type)
at xd426863f4d052758.xc4f12ec3a8a4c96b.xb77fa95273e0c 228()
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.532 ERROR [2] Inner exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: .\skin\X M E D I A\My Videos\..\images\popup_dialog4.png
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement)
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(Ima ge image, Boolean fillWithBackgroundColour, Color backgroundColour, String name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(Str ing name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name)
at MyVideosPlugin.MyVideosTask..ctor()
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.532 ERROR [2] at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement)
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(Ima ge image, Boolean fillWithBackgroundColour, Color backgroundColour, String name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(Str ing name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name)
at MyVideosPlugin.MyVideosTask..ctor()
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.532 VERBOSE [2] MyVideosEvent created
Hello,
just like many others here I encountered GB-PVR when looking for an alternative to the WinTV-Software that comes with Hauppauge Nova-T USB2.
In the beginning I was very happy with GB-PVR because it helped me
getting very close to my goal: Viewing and recording, using only the remote control as input device.
Currently it is the best software I found, but I still found some drawbacks that prevent me frome getting really happy. I just want to list them here, maybe
somebody can help me on, it would be great.
1.) Muxers:
I tried the Cyberlink Version 5 Multiplexer and the built in Windows XP Muxer that produces the dvr-ms-Format. Only the Windows-XP-Muxer worked flawless, the one from Cyberlink worked well for some channels, but there was at least one channel where the recording contained gaps and skips. I had to got with the XP-Muxer because of that, thus unfortunately I am stuck to the proprietary dvr-ms-Format.
2.) Remote Control
Don't know if this is related to GB-PVR: Pressing OK on the remote control seems to send two signals instead of one: The selection jumps up one step and then the wrong item is selected, instead of just selecting the right item. I experienced that with GB-PVR and not with the original software, s I post it here, though I am not sure if it is software related.
3.) Programming Guide
Channel mapping seemed to work, but there is at least one channel that behaves strangely. If I select it, sometimes the right channel is shown, sometimes no channel at all, and sometimes a different channel that is not mapped to this item.
4.) Channel list
I added and remove a second capture source in the configuration tool.
But event after removing the capure source, the channel list in the
config tool still contains the items from the deleted source. How can I get
rid of them.
Trying to understand if Twinhan DVB-S with CI is working with scrambled channels!
When I’m reading on the forum it seems to have been a problem earlier, but how are things with current release (v0.94.13)?
When in Video Archive and viewing a video, once it terminated, I press on 'Stop' on my Cyberlink Remote Control (Thanks Sub for adding the support to this one) to return to the Video Archive screen.
The problem is that it then automatically toggle display mode between list view and preview view.
If I press on 'Stop' again to toggle display mode again, it does its twice so I'm stuck at preview mode.
So it feel like the 'Stop' button is sent twice to GB-PVR, but it could also be a problem with the support of the Cyberlink R/C in GB-PVR...
The problem is not present when using CTRL-S on the keyboard.
Hopefully, this is something easy to duplicate and fix for Sub or the PlugIn author...
I've got a problem with GB-PVR displaying subtitles from .srt-files twice on top of each other, I've not had this problem before and I think it has been this way since I installed the new version. I know that one of the subtitles displayed comes from the DirectVobSub (whatever the name is) plug-in, but the second one I'm not sure where it comes from. If I play the same video in for example Zoom-player only the subtitle from DirectVobSub is displayed.
Is this second subtitle displayed by GB-PVR itself, and in that case how do I turn it off? DirectVobSub is to me the preffered way of displaying the subtitles since it has support for Unicode and also it looks nicer.
