Can anyone suggest a DVD / HDD Recorder based on the following criteria

- Ideally dual format DVD (+/- R & RW)
- At least 80Gb hard disk
- Has a SCART input (not a built in tuner), this is so i can plug my freeview box into it, but allow upgrade to Sky.
- Ability to connect to a PC.

Thanks in advance

Jonny Smith

Hey,

This is a weird one...

If I inadvertantly try to use the remote for my PVR-350 when GBPVR doesn't have the focus, the task switcher (what happens when you alt-tab in XP pro) pops up on the computer screen and gets frozen. I can at that point click on the window that GBPVR is running in and the border changes color as if it has the focus but it's also locked up. If at that point I try to run anything else by clicking on a shortcut the properties window for the shortcut opens up rather than running the program that the shortcut points at. If I quit the application that the task switcher shows as having the focus then I can use the keyboard to control GB-PVR again but the remote at that point causes the MVP Server app to pop up and get the focus but won't control GBPVR. At that point shortcuts also function normally again. This is with 94.12 and a PVR-150, PVR-350, Sygate firewall, AVG antivirus, and MY-HD running on an MDP-120. I tried stopping all of the above first and I still get the error. It's running on a P4-2.4 with 768megs and a Rage 128.

I've been using GBPVR for a week or so and it's awesome! I'm sure we can figure out what the bug is!

Thanks,

Sevenxbb

Sometimes a recorded show has no audio, this happens about 1 in every 10 shows. Does anyone have any idea what causes this? Let me know if you need more info. on my system.

I'm trying to get my MediaMVP to work with GBPVR. I read the section of the gbpvr manual that says you have to set the ‘auto start MVP servers’ setting in the config app to ‘1′. I can't find this setting anywhere. I ran the GB-PVR configuration program and looked through all of the tabs, but I can't find autostart anywhere. Can someone walk me through this?

Also, how do I set the Hauppauge MediaMVP services to not start automatically?

Up until now, every single update I've done has gone flawlessly and I've been really happy with each one.

When I read about the new features, I was excited, especially the transcoding ones.

Well, I've unfortunately run into a problem. I'll paste what I've written about it previously and see if anyone can help me out:

Quote:Hey Sub,

My wife and I have enjoyed your program for a long time and with each release it gets better and better.

I eagerly updated to this latest version, and to my dismay, up came a .NET error when it tried to start the Config after installing.

I had backed up my database, so I'm not worried about losing it, and I even tried uninstalling GB-PVR and reinstalling it. I also check and I have the latest .NET framework installed on my Win2K box. I don't know the best way to give you the error, but copying-and-pasting it in, so here it is (sorry!):

Quote:It looks like you're missing a file (NativeUtilities.dll). Try reinstalling.

Quote:So, I tried reinstalling and the problem still happens. NativeUtilities.dll (I see where you saw that now) is there and in the right place. In fact, I can copy over the previous version I had of it (0.93.10 I think), Windows asks if I want to overwrite, I choose Yes, and Config doesn't complain about missing the file, it's just missing a method (I didn't think it'd work, I was just checking file names).

Can maybe somebody post their NativeUtilities.dll so I can compare?

Quote:I've tried reinstalling to no effect. I've recovered the old GBPVR directory and things seem OK now.

Some background: I had to reinstall Windows2000 because video playback kept freezing the systme on me. So the last two GBPVR installs were fresh.
I installed MDAC 2.7sp1 & .net framework 1.1.

Please Help!!

I had been having playback problems recently watching TV. Some skipping (so minor my wife didn't see...like a frame or two), occasional green or white squares in the picture, and once in a great while, picture freeze (but audio kept going).

I played w/ a bunch of things: demux, mpeg decoders, buffer file location, virtual mem file size and drive location, etc. It started around the time the new GB version came out, and since it was only live tv (in timeshift) and there had been the problem w/ mpeg1, I thougth it may be the problem, too (but I had a feeling this started beofre I updated, but couldn't be positive). I had even changed out my nvidia 5600 for my 5500 (not because of this...I came across reviews that the 5600 I had may be a poser, essentially).

Finally it occured to me that around the same time I also installed the 77.77 nVidia drivers. I went back to 77.72, and so far, it seems to be gone. It may be that something that 77.77 improved was just too much or not fully compatible w/ my HW and exact setup, since I don't see a lot of other people w/ same problem.

This is still just a theory. It could not be this at all, or maybe the 77.77 just had a bunk install, and a reinstall of 77.77 would fix it. But, again, it did seem to help, so I wanted to put this story out there. I know how hard it can be to pin down a problem like this sometimes, and I figured this may info someone else could use, or at least try.

I'm updating EPG from schedule calling "gbpvr -OnlyUpdateEPG", but this is annoying if I happen to watch recording the "Update EPG" window pops up when it finishes after few seconds everything is normal then, but still... Is there any option to hide this window?

I was reading the specs on HD receivers, and they mentioned output all the way down to 480i. So I figured that they would work on my 36"JVC the same as my DVD player. I went to Comcast and picked up a HD Cable Box. I hooked it up with SVideo cable, and went straight to the HD Channels. They cam in fine, and looked pretty good. Then by fumbling around, I found if you hit the menu button on the box itself while it is still turned OFF, a menu will show up on the TV. You can set the output for 16:9, 4:3 letterbox, 4:3 Pan&Scan. I put it on 4:3 letterbox. There was also a setting for output of 480i,480p,.....

If you have it set to 4:3 letterbox;
Widescreen shows are perfect.
Fullscreen shows have a box around all 4 sides. (but still look correct)
If you have it set to 4:3 Pan&Scan;
Widescreen shows are cropped (left and right are missing)
Full screen shows are perfect.

The problem is, I haven't found a way to change it by the remote. You have to turn it off, and go into the menu from the box itself.

Once I figure out how to get GBPVR to tune the new HD Cable box, I will try recording directly from it. I am currently using girder and a serial cable for my current box, the new one has everything but serial. Ethernet,USB,firewire, an IR blaster jack... I'd love to get info on all of it!

Hi,

I am running MCE 2005, Twinhan SAT CI with the latest BDA drivers, when I set the Capture source as Twinhan DVB-S (choose the satellite etc), select EPG source as DVB EPG Broadcast then select Map Digital Channels to EPG.

I then get the tuning screen it searches for through the transponders and just after it looks at the first transponder I get an error message:-

Unhandled exception with the following details:-

Details:-

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.GetTransponderServiceList()
at xa2c78d1ab7eb027b.x501d1ffea8b79320.x692a1118e1794d77(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.OnTick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr idEvent, IntPtr dwTime)

<snip>

Can anyone help as I would really like to try this software.

Many thanks,

David

I've searched the posts and seen some explanations to the this problem, but none seem to work for me. I use zap2it.
i have changed the number of days in the epg settings to 14, but i still only see 5 days worth of listings.
i know zap2it will expire, i'd like to use xmltv, but i have no idea how to start with that. i am not at all familiar with writing code or manipulating configs.
Any help extending the listings, or where to start regarding non-zap2it guides?