While you are updating the My Series.. I just thought I pass on a feature idea for My Programs :
Providing an option to set the priority of each program (eg, app, emulator) : High, Above Normal, Normal, Below Normal, Low.
I would imagine that some programs (such as emulators) can take alot of CPU%. When this happens, the GBPVR recording service seems to have trouble recording properly (eg, blocky, jumpy video, with scratchy audio).
Just wondering if adding the above option can help avoid the problem. ie, combo of 'AboveNormal' recording service with 'BelowNormal' (or even 'Low') running programs.
My problem is that I can't fast forward/rewind/skip on shows that I have recoreded. When I pause live tv, I can rewind and fast forward. I've unistalled and reinstalled the Hauppauge IR software on my computer, thinking that may have been the issue, but nothing.
Is anyone else having this issue when they use GBPVR with MediaMVP?
I can't seem to get the FM plugin to work with my WinTV PVR USB-2. When scanning for stations, it never finds any. The FM Radio application supplied by Hauppauge works fine, but I can't use it with my MVP.
the plugin works great for most things and thanks for it.
I have a few request however if it's not too much to ask.
1. The record button doesn't do record on live TV. I believe this might be because that command has recently changed due to a conflict with record and the red button.
2. Can you add a button equivalent to the go/home button on the Hauppauge 45 button remote? Maybe the checkmark button or even the question mark if possible.
3. Can you not assign anything to the volume and mute button so that it will send to the master volume instead of GBPVR? The volume buttons don't always work in all the plugins. Also, the mute button doesn't work at all.
Sorry if this is dead simple or buried deep in some options panel, but I'm not seeing it...
My tuner source for recordings is external. It's a digital cable box plugged into the SVideo port on my PVR150. When I setup a recording, my IR Blaster sends the channel code to the tuner and away she goes - works great.
However, GBPVR is connected to the family TV set and we all share this digital cable box on the common household TV. IE; ONE tuner for both GBPVR and biological units. They have proven to be much more difficult to program than the computer; sometimes they turn the tuner off when they are done, sometimes not.
If the last person to use the TV has powered the external tuner off, then changing the channel prior to my next recording does not do a damn bit of good if the tuner isn't powered on. Is there a way for GBPVR to confirm that the external tuner is on? Sending a "change power state" type of command to the tuner may in fact turn it off if it was powered on already - so I'm not sure if this is possible..
Do I just try make sure nobody ever powers the tuner off? :eek:
I recently started using a couple MVP's, and they're great. However, I run into a problem that I can't find a way to cure.
I've been noticing a stutter while watching movies on the gbpvr PC and have finally tracked it down. When either MVP is turned on but not being used, every five seconds on the PC one of the MVP services spikes the CPU. It doesn't seem to hit it too hard, anywhere from 35-42% utilization, but it definitely introduces a noticable and irritating stutter in the video playback on the host PC (sound is fine). The strange thing is that my CPU utilitization during playback only uses about 25-30% of the CPU, so it would seem that the two running together shouldn't have a problem since it still doesn't get anywhere near 100%. But it also doesn't seem like the service should use anything like that much CPU when it's not doing anything either other than, I assume, polling for input. If I turn the MVPs off, the periodic CPU spike disappears.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Sub, is there any chance that the MVP service isn't yielding like it should and so holding on to the CPU just a tad more than it should?
I'm writing this as I am struggling to find much info relating to using Mini ITX boards from Via working well with GB-PVR...
I have been waiting for almost a year for the EPIA SP board to come out as it looked to be a bit more suited to HTPC... I was going to try MEEDIO but came across GB-PVR and liked what I saw...
I now have GB-PVR running on my EPIA SP board using most of the default settings... I had an aerial installed on top of the house (I get a 100% signal now) and am pleased with the results... this is my first attempt at a PC for the living room.
Overall, I'm quite pleased with the setup, although, I will look to upgrade the motherboard when its next versions come out as the Via C7 Chipset has full support for DX9... This is the main problem with the boards from Via... I have to use overlay for the video which works, but occationally jitters... However the recorded playback works fine...
I will probably end up watching Digi TV using a dedicated freeview receiver (because the channel changing takes about 5 secs to work on the PC), then flip to GB-PVR to record programs...
Is the slow channel changing a problem with all Digi TV cards??? are there ways to speed this up...
I have 2 capture cards. One set-top-box. Some shows that air 2 or more episodes in a row, with zero time between shows. I also need padding because of the inaccuracies of my EPG, PC clock and actual air-times (which are not always accurate).
When the show is on tuner-accessible channels, there is no problem.
For shows coming off the STB, I currently have only one of the cards connected, because there is only one STB and thus only one "real" capture source.
However, I have 2 cards, and have no problem to split the signal so that the other card's composite input will see the same STB output. I can't configure this as a separate capture source because that would cause conflicts over the single STB.
Right now, what is many times one episode will end a few seconds before teh first recording ends, and I will get a few seconds of the second episode in the first file. This is annoying, not to mention that I get a few seconds shaved off because GBPVR is "changing channels" to the same channel again, and not recording in between.
I could solve the problem by scheduling a manual recording over the entire timeslots for all episodes. But this is quite annoying because then I lose the guide info and the ability to watch one episode, and delete it when I done to free the space. I must watch all episodes in the chunk before I can delete it.
Any sugegstions?
Thanks,
GGF
P.S. Maybe this is a Wishlist item - to have a way to tell GBPVR that a capture source (other card's composite) is a "secondary" for some other, and that could allow GBPVR to add padding to consecutive shows on the same channel from the same STB.
They have proven to be much more difficult to program than the computer; sometimes they turn the tuner off when they are done, sometimes not.
