After a wonderful situation finally gaining the wife's trust, managing the new PVR recording world, I decide to go full out and install another PVR-150 card to handle the conflicts on analog cable with no additional set top tuner boxes.
Windows sees two PVR-150s after the driver(s) installs for the second card, shows no conflicts, and that's where the good news stops.
Major bad. Remote: dead, even w WinTV2000.
Neither tuner card records now w gbPVR .93? last Julyish release, despite the first one showing it's recording and the other card is "sleeping" says the recording service tray. LiveTV blew up at first with a nasty Windows error, then worked after a restart or two.
What the hell went wrong? I searched the forums for three hours snatching hints from here and there, hoping this thread might put all the pieces to together, or maybe the WIKI will someday outline this in as much detail as the MVP stuff.
From the WIKI, I installed / configured the second tuner card by giving it a different name.
Then I selected "PVR-150" from the dropdown menu because that's what it is.
And because it's identically the same as the first tuner card, I made this a different Capture Device #2.
Because both cards are running off the same cable feed via a splitter, this second card also was set to cable and I used the same account and channel settings with ZapTV as the first card to make it easy. <=== is this ok to do?
I've read vague references to having each tuner hold a different set of channels, but that sounds very complicated with the ZapTV accounts and all. Moving channels from one collection of channels to the other to manage a conflict sounds very cumbersome. Gow does that show up in the TV Guide part? It almost sounds better to get another machine to throw the second card into.
But I read about dudes loading in seven tuners. How? Definitive directions are needed in the WIKI if each card needs a different set of channels with different ZapTV accounts(?) and how to manage all of that...
The EPG download for the second card went ok using the same original card settings (account / pass etc) - no errors, but:
Did I need to wipe out the first card's EPG to eliminate the potential conflicts that it was warning me of for the last ten days? Is this why nothing right happened this morning - that it still thought there was a conflict?
How does gbPVR allow manage prior recording conflicts with sudden appearance of an additional tuner card? What didn't happen this morning for me was two shows were conflicting starting at 5 a.m. for each of them and neither got recorded, although the grid and the recording service tray lied about it.
Going into "Video Library" from the main screen I expected to see "card2" because of the "card1" has been there from the beginning of using gbPVR and there was no "card2". Should there be?
I didn't plug in the remote sensor on the second tuner card - is that ok?
If I've missed all the step by steps somewhere, please point me in the right direction-- or if you know how to make a second PVR-150 peacefully co-mingle with the first, I'm looking for answers!
When I press Ctrl + R I only get the black screen with 100 (0) and the time in the top line. Having read other threads about teletext issues I think these lines in the GBPVR.exe-native.log file are related to my problem:
14:48:52.890 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'VBI' to 'VBI'
14:48:52.890 VERBOSE ConnectPins failed!
I've been testing playback of AVI files and MPEG-2 files in the "Video Library" and have noticed the following:
[1] Fast Forward - For AVI files the function kind of works however you do not see video updates during the fast forwarding, rather you just hold the remote control FF button or keyboard button down for say 10 seconds and then see the effect of it after this.
[2] Rewind - The keyboard rewind button doesn't seem to work for either the MPEG2 or AVI file I had, BUT the remote control rewind did.
[3] Also had some intermitant hangs of GB-PVR at some points when rewinding/fastforwarding large MPEG2 files (a bit hit and miss re trying to reproduce however)
Hope this is of use. If there are any suggestion configuration changes/patches I would be interested in hearing, or if more info is needed.
I'm working on a translation of the GBPVR into Hebrew which as you may know written from right to left.
Most of the translations went just fine - while tweaking button possitions and so..
However, when I got to the TV Guide section I had some problems setting the SelectedProgrammeTitle and SelectedProgrammeDesc correctly as they come as Special Elements and I'm unable to right align them...
1) the Tuning Assistant will only scan the first 11 channel frequencies, which in the case of New Zealand only covers the VHF band and misses out the UHF channel frequencies. After doing some research I found that for New Zealand it scans through the registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TV System Services\TVAutoTune\TS64-0]
This has 47 channels listed, so why doesn't the Tuning Assistant scan all 47 channel frequencies?
2) I also found out that if .........\TS0-0 key exists, then the Tuning Assistant and GBPVR will use that key instead of the TS64-0 key. This can really screw up your TV channel configuration in gbpvr if some other program generated the entries in the TS0-0 key (which is what happened to me). Is this supposed to happen?
It would be really appreciated if GBPVR could automatically detect and keep the source aspect ratio. This feature is very common on software DVD players and the competition (MediaPortal), and in my opinion would add substantial value to GBPVR.
I use GBPVR ver 94.13. When using the std plugin, Video Library, under MVP, I get a glitch when a video finishes playing. At video end, it goes back to the list of videos available (good) but when I try to navigate up or down with the Ch +or- it jumps back to the main menu. On the computer it navigates as expected.
'Just when one thought it was bad enough to try and introduce a bill to criminalise the skipping of commercials, apparently Microsoft has filed a patent where a user's subscription or rental fee on viewing content can be based on the user's viewing habits. For example, this would allow users to be charged fees for fast forwarding through or otherwise skipping over the commercials on TV, whether it is a recording on DVD, video-on-demand service or even a programme on TV/Cable/Satellite. On the other hand, the patent covers the rewarding of discounts for watching commercial advertising. If you copy, please show appreciation by linking back to CDFreaks.
As advertisers are losing interest in delivering paid advertising to users just for them to skip over the ads, Microsoft’s patent aims to solve this issue for media content providers by charging users based on their viewing habits, such as to penalise those who skip all the commercials or to reward those who watch them all. For example, this approach would essentially allow advertisers to only be charged for ads that are actually rendered. Microsoft's patent covers content on devices such as PVR's, DVDs video-on-demand set-top boxes, PCs, TV/Satellite/Cable recording devices or other equipment where users can skip over content.
"In addition to the revenue obtained from viewers for monthly content subscriptions and pay-per-view purchases, these advertisements for products and services are a large source of revenue for a provider of the media content," the patent application reads. "However, advertisers will be increasingly unwilling to have their advertising messages communicated with media content that a viewer can navigate to skip over the advertisements.
"Accordingly, media content providers need to provide alternate advertisement revenue models so that advertisers will continue to sponsor advertising messages being delivered with media content for consumer viewing."
So the solution, according to Microsoft's patent application, is to charge people when they skip these commercials and possibly charge them less in monthly fees when they do watch the advertisements. The full text patent can be viewed here. If content providers start making use of this patent,the worst affected will be those who insist on skipping all commercials as this would mean having to pay the full price. As consumers don’t pay for terrestrial TV in the US, then if these content providers take on this technology, it will be interesting to see how they will go about charging consumers for skipping over their commercials, especially since their programmes are mostly paid for through advertising. Please link back to CDFreaks if you copy this, thanks.
For pay-per-view content such as sporting events and movies, chances are that content providers will charge a higher fee for their content and then offer rebates based on how many commercials the user has watched during the programmes. I would not be keen on seeing DVDs take this on as it would mean having to purchase a new DVD player to support the user’s viewing habits or otherwise be excluded from discounts.'
