I'm having an issue that I could use some help with. I just set up a dual monitor system on my GBPVR computer. I have an ATI Radeon X300 series video card with a Dell flat panel monitor on the VGA out (primary monitor) and a Old Sony Multiscan 15sf on the DVI port through a DVI to VGA cable (secondary monitor).
I can watch captured shows just fine on both monitors and the interface looks fine on both monitors. However, I can't get live TV on the secondary (Sony) monitor. The GBPVR window is simply black with no audio on the secondary monitor. If I start live TV on my primary monitor, I can move the window halfway between the two monitors and see half of the tv show and half a black window. If I start live tv on the secondary monitor, it will simply show black (and no audio) until I hit escape and restart it on the primary monitor even if I drag the window back to the primary monitor.
The live TV is coming from a Hauppauge WinPVR 250. Im stymied given that it doesnt seem to be purely a video problem since there is no audio as well. Any ideas? Would any log files be helpful for a diagnostic?
Would like to use GBPVR as video streaming front end for the Hauppauge MVP.
Perhaps at some point I will upgrade my Leadtek TV2000 to Hauppauges 150. However for now I would like to store my "backed-up'd" DVD'S on a server, and stream them to a TV using a wired ethernet connection.
I plan to download GBPVR this week, however I thought I would ask the question..............will GBPVR work as I described above without a supported MPEG2 hardware based TV.
I have looked everywhere for an option to play audio cdroms and can't seem to find one anywhere. Is it possible to do so from within GBPVR? Having to go load another program is not a practical solution for my partner :<
I've seen various threads about connecting an MVP by wireless, but haven't seen one specifically dealing with my present situation.
I've gone from a house completed wired to a rented house with no wired connections (Except ADSL to the Internet). Very sad as I have to keep my drill under wraps. Present setup is:
- GBPVR server in the living room.
- MVP in the bedroom.
- my PC and Linux server (wired network) with Internet access in the study.
I need to connect these three wirelessly to:
- permit the GBPVR server to connect to the Internet for 'normal' GBPVR related activity (updating tv listings, album covers, etc.).
- permit the use of the MVP (i.e. to access the GBPVR server).
What would your recommendations be for the three pieces of wireless kit I would need to get this working? I assume I can use a PCI wireless card for the GBPVR server, but am not sure at all what I need for the network (hardware and network config settings) in my study (would a normal wireless router do the trick?) nor the MVP (an access point or bridge or router?)
I assume 54g hardware would do the trick, but was wondering if the new MIMO enabled hardware would be better.
The comskip 0.77 default ini file has default the mpgtx output format enabled.
This does not make sense for most users so, unless you want to run mpgtx without comclean (you don't if you don't know what this means) please change the to the following setting in comskip.ini
output_mpgtx=0
This will effectively stops comskip from creating the .bat file, so sub does not have to add .bat to the default files to delete :o
I am considering swapping my GBPVR's cable box to the newer one that is HD compatable. I just got into recording from the firewire port, and am working on reencoding to mpeg2/DVD.
Mainly I am interested in ways of channel changing it. I am currently using girder with a serial cable on the older Motorola box, and I would prefer that to IR. Can the USB be used?
I searched the forums, and couldn't find anything that quite matched this request, so hopefully it isn't redundant.
My ReplayTV box handles the resume/restart option a bit differently, in that it adds a "Play from beginning" option to the recording menu once you have already watched it at least once.
This is a rather subtle distinction, but moving the resume/restart options to the recording menu, rather than at the beginning of video playback, prevents the user from having to always answer the popup and makes the whole process a bit smoother.
Is this something that has already been discussed and declined, or an option we might see in a future release?
When I delete a show (Make dir options enabled) from the menu, then when I look at the disk there still is a Dir with the name of the show (Only one show in the folder) and also a Comskip Bat file?
I would wish that it did a full clean up.
Another thing Live TV leaves really big files, anyway to delete them automatically?
