I'm soooooo frustrated. This all was working so well until last week when i installed the newest version of gbpvr, and now nothing is working anymore.
I have a WinTV PVR USB2 which works fine. I've downloaded the latest gbpvr and reinstalled everything. when I had the BlueMCE2 skin the mediamvp server wouldn't start, so i switched back to the default skin and now everything looks fine. I set up my GBPVR to record some shows and saw that 'something' was recorded (something recorded for an hour, and it took up 2Gig - so it all looked correct) but when i tried to play it back either on the computer or on tv it was just a bunch of blackness, nothing else. The TV tuner shows up fine, so I'm not sure why the recording is failing now. I'll include my logfiles again.
I live in Denmark in a small town withouth any possibility for Cable TV (ever?)
I have a nice little MediaCenter based on a custom cabinet and an 2,8GHz P4 with a gig of RAM. All running very smoothly.
On my labtop (for travelling) I enjoy using a Pinnacle PC-TV USB2 unit, nice, handy and relatively stable (value/money). I bought this a year ago, today I think I would have bought something else though as the software is way to closed!
Now for my question:
All my channels at home are received through my Sat receiver as all terristic channels now are available as Digital broadcasts and the rest is provided by the satellite!
This means that I just turn on my TV and have to do all and any channel selections on the Sat-box - there is absolutely NO way i can see around this as a build in Sat-receiver seem unable to read decoding information from the Conax card provided by my distributor of Sat channels.
Now I am wondering:
Why even buy an analogue PCI card for my "Mediacenter" as all I really need is a Hardware based MPEG2 SVHS IN card for recording the signal from the Sat-box.....
Does anyone have any ideas for an ideal solution together with GBPVR?
I find the feature of being able to broadcast the signal using my LAN and a player on my Labtop (in my office) at home irresistible and would love a good solution for this.
Any advice / hints are very welcome before I rush out and invest a lot of money in some hardware I really do not need (Hauppage PVR-150) - or do I _really_ need to own one of these?
I've been having a problem with shows being marked failed in the Recordings menu, but in reality they aren't. It's happened about 4 times during the last couple of weeks.
GBPVR won't let me play them directly, but having My Videos configured to show files in the Recording directory, I can use it to play the file. They play back fine, are complete and no error appears in the recording service log.
Another quick question if I may. Is it possible to select a specific sound device for GB-PVR?
Background - Still trying to share a single PC for both simultaneous PC & TV/GBPVR usage. Hopefully girder will assist with making the picture side reasonably independant, however still searching for a solution re Audio, so that the PC user and GB-PVR/TV (using PC TV output) have independant sound.
Idea - I realised I actually have a midi/audio card (in addition to the standard PC audio out) that I could use. I have a piece of music software for example that lets me choose the audio card for audio output, but all other applications sound does continue to go to the standard PC audio out.
If i play the xvid or divx in VLC perfect!..IN gbpvr ...slow...choppy...wrong aspect..isnt like f11 to change aspect??cause that and f9 didnt do anything....I installed vlc and ffdshow...Why is gbpvr not playing these well??
Am trying to tune my tuner properly as some channels are out of tune. I got correct tuning signals from cable company but it's in mhz, can anybody give me a formula on how to convert these frequencies to decimal so i can add it to my registry.
Q1 - Is the idea to disable the GB-PVR remote setting when using Girder to (a) enable some remote buttons that aren't functional as I have 2005 MCE remote and (b) override some keys which are not working for me [e.g. the "PC power" key on my 2005 MCE remote tries to put my PC in to hibernate mode which is really bad]?
Q2 - I wonder whether it is possible to leave GB-PVR configured with a remote so I only have to then configure girder with the extra keys and override keys, hence keeping things a lot simpler re girder configuration? That is, this would require that if Girder matched a keypress it would process, but then GB-PVR would not process it, and if Girder didn't match the keypress then GB-PVR would process. I'm not sure if this is possible or how/where one would configure the precendence for the two remote keypress listener applications (i.e. GBPVR and Girder).
After having problems setting up my 500mce, which has worked fine the last 2 weeks, I suddenly get 1 empty (zero file size) recording while recording 2 shows at one time. Checking the status while they were both recording it did show each were recording but only 1 did. During the recording, each shows directory was created but only 1 show a file with a changing file size.
I know I've seen something similar to this before but a forum search didn't seem to find the same problem. Does anyone have a suggestion to check this?
Thanks
I know I shouldn't have, as the thing was working fine, but I upgraded my PVR-150 drivers and started getting Audio Stutter on DSL Cable Channels (Inout via SVideo/RCA) but not on the FTA Analog ones (Input via Tuner) , in GBPVR?
I then went back to the original drivers (followed all instructions about HCWClear etx etc) and the situation was still the same.
I will eventually work out the driver issue (I hope) but outr of curiosity, would anyone know what may have caused this in the first place and particularly why it stutters on the DSL channels, but not the FTA ones?
Here is an odd situation that I can reproduce consistently.
1. Boot the machine that GBPVR is installed.
2. GBPVR recording service starts.
3. Scheduled recording records.
4. Check the recording, no audio.
Work around:
1. Stop the recording service.
2. Launch the Lifeview TV Walker TV application.
3. When the video and audio start let it run for a few seconds.
4. Exit out of the Lifeview Walker TV application.
5. Restart the GBPVR recording service.
6. Scheduled recording records.
5. Play the recording, and now there is audio.
I'm using the DIVX recording option, with MP3 audio. Haven't tried this with MPG as the recording format.
This is consistent since at least 0.91 version, and I can repeat it at will. If I don't stop the service, run the TV Walker application, and then restart the service, there is no audio. I only have to do this situation once, until the machine is restarted (which for me is maybe once or twice a month).
It's more of an annoyance, but is huge on the WAF list, especially when some of the programs she watches doesn't have audio.
