I've been looking to improve my mpeg playback quality for sometime. something I discovered is that even if you set the "relevant" registry settings in the registry the MPEG Quality with the InterVideo Decoder is still never as good as it is within Intervideo.
Here's what I did to resolve this:
I set it so I was getting everything peak in Intervideo WinDVD (I'd imagine it'd be the same in Any App)
(each one at a time, I did all of them to be safe)
I then imported the reg file into these areas.
and now without changing anything my video quality is identical to that of InterVideo WinDVD, but my processor load on all mpeg2 based applications went from between 20-30% to 8-17%.
Now, I had already tried each of the above settings individually within the registry at each of the above registry keys, it improved processor load and improved the quality a good bit, but never as good as it was in WinDVD.
The export/import of that entire Key is what finally made the two identical.
This worked on both my PVR using dedicated TV output and on my regular computer using both the primary and secondary displays.
I have observed that the VMR9 display mode is not keeping the original aspect ratio on DVD playback, and instead is streching the image to full-screen.
My preferred video/audio decoders are Intervideo and have set their merit to be the default prefered decoders (proven with GSpot), and set gbpvr to "System Default" for all playback and DVD choices, and selected VMR9. With this configuration, gbpvr is not preserving the DVD original aspect ratio. I also get the same result if I use the Cyberlink decoders.
Using Graphedit I have proven the default VMR9 renderer is outputing the correct aspect ratio to the default player. This applies to both the Intervideo decoder and the Cyberlink decoder. I have also observed that if you change the gbpvr configuration from VMR9 to Overlay mode, then the original aspect ratio is preserved in Overlay mode. This leads me to believe something is wrong with the gbpvr VMR9 display mode.
occasionally, when playing back a recording, it shows me a duration of only twelve seconds in the progress-bar, but it actually has a duration of 66 minutes. It would play fine until the end (the full 66 minutes), but if i use my remote to skip/pause/ffwd etc., i'm "caught" between the beginning (second 0) and second 12.
The file plays fine in other apps like zoom player or windows media player, the problem only occurs when playing back with gbpvr. The file is recorded and decoded with my pvr350, maybe this is the problem, because zoom player or wmp don't utilize the card for playback. Here are some parts of my GBPVR.exe.log:
Code:
28.09.2005 08:16:34.843 INFO [2] playFile(Big Brother)
28.09.2005 08:16:35.000 VERBOSE [2] About to play file: D:\Aufnahmen\Big Brother\Big Brother_20050927_19002000.mpg
28.09.2005 08:16:37.093 VERBOSE [2] Playback started: D:\Aufnahmen\Big Brother\Big Brother_20050927_19002000.mpg
28.09.2005 08:16:37.312 VERBOSE [2] Received event code: 14
28.09.2005 08:16:37.312 VERBOSE [2] Received event code: 0
28.09.2005 08:16:37.312 VERBOSE [2] Checking if resume prompt needs to be shown
28.09.2005 08:16:37.312 VERBOSE [2] PlaybackPositionManager.getLastPlaybackPosition(D:\Aufnahmen\Big Brother\Big Brother_20050927_19002000.mpg)
28.09.2005 08:16:37.828 VERBOSE [2] Showing resume prompt
28.09.2005 08:16:37.828 INFO [2] Loading commercial skip point file: D:\Aufnahmen\Big Brother\Big Brother_20050927_19002000.txt
28.09.2005 08:16:38.046 VERBOSE [2] Received event code: 14
28.09.2005 08:16:40.187 VERBOSE [2] PlaybackPositionManager.deleteLastPlaybackPosition(D:\Aufnahmen\Big Brother\Big Brother_20050927_19002000.mpg)
28.09.2005 08:17:05.515 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:06.328 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:06.734 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:08.187 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:08.984 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:09.187 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:09.593 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:10.593 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:12.234 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:12.250 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 31 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:12.625 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:12.625 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:16.906 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:16.906 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 5 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:17.703 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:17.718 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:17.921 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:17.937 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:18.343 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:18.375 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:18.593 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:18.609 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:18.781 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:18.781 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:19.031 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:19.031 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:19.765 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:19.765 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:20.578 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:20.593 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:20.781 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:20.796 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:21.078 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:21.078 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:23.000 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:23.812 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:24.015 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:24.421 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:24.843 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:25.656 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:25.859 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:26.046 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:26.453 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:27.296 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:27.890 VERBOSE [2] Skipping forward: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:28.687 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:28.703 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 8 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:28.890 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:28.906 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:29.390 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:29.406 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:29.734 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:29.750 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:30.953 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:30.968 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 2 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:31.187 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:31.187 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:31.531 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:31.531 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:32.062 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:32.078 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:32.359 VERBOSE [2] Skipping back: 0
28.09.2005 08:17:32.375 VERBOSE [2] Current duration: 12 Current position: 1 New position: 1
28.09.2005 08:17:33.625 VERBOSE [2] PlaybackPositionManager.storeLastPlaybackPosition(D:\Aufnahmen\Big Brother\Big Brother_20050927_19002000.mpg, 2)
As I said, it happens randomly, and I cannot find a particular reason for it. I use the latest drivers from hauppauge for the tv-card.
I have a second pvr150mce tuner in the mail and was wondering if I need to do anything special with gbpvr to get the second tuner recognized and working? From what ive read all I do is add another capture source for the second tuner? I know its a noob question and if there is another post dealing with installing a second tuner plz point me in the right direction. thx.
Running latest version of Gbpvr (94.13), with pvr250, winxp sp2, AMD64, Vinyl AC97 audio.
I have no audio in live tv, DVD play back and anything recorded new. All my old recordings and music have audio. I used to have these settings:
Video Decoder: NVIDIA video decoder
Audio Decoder: NVIDIA audio Decoder
Audio Renderer: System Default
VMR9
and it used to work. I have tried every combination of choices available and still no audio, and sometimes depending on the choices the video is real choppy.
Audio works fine outside of GBPVR including DVD's using NVDVD.
I have installed all drivers from hauppauge including the mpeg decoder, to no avail.
Like many others I store my music collection in Flac format. I would like to play my flac files using GBPVR. Has anyone had any luck getting flac to work with GBPVR?
I have a dual tuner WinTV PVR-500 and every time I try to record using both tuners simultaneously I get a 0kb file.
It appears that the problem occurs both when I record during two different time slots and the shows over lap due to the pre and post padding but also occurs when I record two shows simultaneously on different channels.
The first recording always works but I get an error in the 'recordingservice' log that says the following:
27/09/2005 8:58:07 PM.576 VERBOSE [464] File does not yet exist (may fail): D:\GBPVR_Recordings\The Biggest Loser\The Biggest Loser_20050927_21002200.mpg
And as it says if you go to the appropriate directory the .mpg file has not yet been created. After the recording should have ended a 0kb recording shows up.
Anyone have any idea what happened.. I'm not winning too many points with the wife!
I just got my PVR up and running and tried watching a couple of our first recorded TV shows. I'm having the following problems:
Let's say I want to fast forward through 20 minutes of a show, how do I do this with MVP and the Hauppauge remote? Is there a way to do this like a DVD player works with the fast forward while playing feature?
I've noticed that the remote allows me to skip forward 30 or 60 seconds with each push of the button - however, this function seems to quit working after using the pause button. Anybody else seen this? I'll try to pay attention more carefully to when exactly it happens.
I just got my PVR up and running - WAY COOL. Wife loves it too.
I programmed a few reoccurring recordings just to test things out using the GBPVR GUI on the MediaMVP. Now I want to delete these tests. I've fiddled with Recordings, TV Guide, and Search Guide to no avail.
Am I missing something or is there a plugin or utility that has enhanced control over scheduled recordings?
