I'm planning to start assembling my first HCPC shortly and am trying to figure out what kit I need to buy.

I currently have quite a nice, quiet living room PC running an Athlon 2500+ processor, a Geforce FX5200 video card and attached to a 15inch analogue minitor. I have a small old CRT telly, a nice AV receiver and speakers and a Humax 8000T PVR which also acts as a Freeview box.

What I'd like to do is get a decent LCD TV say 26-32 inch with DVi input, a 19inch digital monitor and then connect all ofthese to my PC running GBPVR which seems to be the best free HCPV solution.

My questions are?

1 What video capture card would you recommend? I'm not keen to subscribe to Sky so would like Freeview functionality. Does that mean I need a Freeview video cature hard such as the Hauppage Nova T ? or can I buy a cheaper analogue card and plug my Humax into that to watch Freeview? I'd also like to be able to watch and record different Freeview channels at the same time. Does that require 2 digital cards? or 1 digital card plus my Humax??? The Nova T seems to get poor views mostly becasue of the poor software. If I install GB PVR do i not need to worry about the poor hauppage software?

2 What graphics card would you recommend? As i understand it to get decent picture quality out of a new LCD TV I'll ned to attach it to the PC via a DVi card. As my old FX5200 doesnt have a DVI output, I assume ill need a new graphics card. I like the idea of a dual DVi card so that I can attach both my new LCD Tv and my new monitor to the card. I'm struggling to find a mid range card which does this. My motherboard uses PCi slots rather than PCi Express. Any recommendations? I play the odd game but am not heavily into gaming so don't need a top end card.

3 Any recommendations for a digital 19 inch mnito and a budget 26-32 inch LCD TV would also be appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any info.

Wade

Hi

I was woundering if there is software out there that would turn a laptop into an MPV client. When you look at what an MPV is it's a laptop just beefed up version and has all the hardware components of an MPV client +plus. I have an old laptop and instead of buying a MPV client then plugging that into a wireless network box, I could just sit my laptop next to the Tv in the bedroom and connect via s-video and bang away you go ?

It would be cool to have a GBPVR client interface that would connect to a main GBPVR server and run multiple clients ?? with some restrictions mainly for live TV, but if you had multiple tuners you could allocate one per session. even from a handhelp pc ?

Kool eh !!

should this be in the "wish list" topic ?

cheers
Gareth

I just updated to .94.13 from .94.12 when I did this i noticed I lost all my MVP MAC settings. (X & Y Offset, Height, & Width) Plus the secound MAC address add we completly wiped out. It was easy to fix since I backed up all my files before the upgrade. I was just wondering if this is normal.

When trying to play an MP3 I get the error message 'Attempt to divide by zero'. And the the music player/plugin quits out.

At first I thought it was an error with the music plugin I'm working on but then I tried the same MP3 in My Music and Music Albums and I get the same error.

The MP3 plays fine using iTunes and Windows Media Player on the same PC but funnily enough not on my phone (SE K750i).

I guess its something to do with the type of MP3 (bit rates etc) but if GBPVR uses WMP codecs how come it fails in GBPVR but not in WMP?

Any ideas?

Is there a way of getting all channels from GBPVR.Backend.Common? The only way I've found is to get listings and get the channels from there. But if you want to add a manual recording functionality, you also need to get channels that don't have listings...

The EPG here in the UK frequently gets all mixed up due to late alterations. If I clear the EPG and then update it, do I loose any scheduled recordings for the period in querstion?

I know I could just try and see, but I thought I might as well ask first!

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im trying to make it so when a new music track is added to the database, a couple of triggers are fired before the insert to first make sure an artist exists in the Artist entity and an Album exists in the Album entity, this way i dont have to do mulitple update commands or multiple checks, just the one insert statement, but i keep getting this error when trying to run the create or replace trigger statement

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So I recently moved to another city. Upon arrival, I updated my Zap2It profile and changed the settings to reflect the new cable lineup. However, GBPVR continues to show the old channel lineup. It appears to be getting programs but it is still using the old channel lineup (and thus recording the wrong channels). Imagine my face when i sat down to watch a good old episode of CSI and instead got the home gardening channel!

Anyway, I thought maybe it was Zap2It, so I created a new account. Still no luck, I update the EPG, I empty the EPG, etc.. all to no avail. I don't have a firewall running on this PC. Used to work fine (back where I used to live). I check the lineup on Zap2It and it is correct, but something is going on here!

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