I have a setup now with one Hauppauge PVR-250 card. I'm thinking about getting a 2nd TV tuner card. I could get another PVR-250, or for about the same price, I could get a PVR-500.

Apparently the PVR-500 is just like two PVR-150's. So, what is the difference between the PVR-150 and PVR-250? Some people have told me that the PVR-150 doesn't support MPEG2 hardware compression, but from what I've read, it does. So what's really the difference?

3 tuners would be nifty, although 2 will do if the PVR-500 is just going to be a headache in the long run.

System is an Athlon 64 3200+. 1GB of RAM. I might decide to transplant the PVR into my Pentium4 3.4 Ghz (overlocked to 3.8 Ghz), 1GB of DDR2 533 RAM, fast hard drive.

On Hauppauge's site I really can't tell the difference between the PVR-150 (and hence, PVR-500) and PVR-250.

I bought the PVR-250 initially over the PVR-500 because the 250 had a remote control and the 500 didn't. Now that I've got the remote through the 250, I don't have a problem getting a "remoteless" card for my 2nd card.

Any input would be appreciated. Thanks.

- Bob

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I have approx. 1800 albums (in mp3 format) on a remote server, mapped as W: on the gb-pvr machine.

I have run the config app to build the mymusic.db file, which took a little while.

However, when I select one of the folders in MyMusic, it seems to take forever to bring up the list, almost as though it is reading everything across the network . Having a local db, I would have thought that it would have been very quick.

Any ideas as to what's happening here?

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Hello everyone.

I am having a problem with my Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150 IR transmitter/remote.... It works great when I first start up, then I will watch TV for a while and when I go back to change the channel the remote doesn't work...... if I bring up the GB recording status it says its sleeping.... I have tryed everything I know with no luck.... I have all the latest drivers for it and I did the fix in the GB config. I have tryed to restarted my WinTV remote controller but when i do that it says that the hardware is not found.... The only thing that seems to work is to restart the system I really dont want to restart the system all the time..... I am using this system just as a PVR can anyone help :confused:

Is it possible to have the computer start up maybe every 2-3 hours or so if it's in hibernate mode. Does anyone have this problem? You are out at work or something and the system is in hibernate mode, but you remember you want to record something. You try to access it through the web, but alas, you can't because your system is in hibernate mode. Obviously GBPVR has a way of waking the computer up from hibernate when it's ready to record, but i'm wondering if it's possible to add a setting that you can have it wake up every couple of hours so that if you remember that recording, you can just wait until the "awake" time and schedule your recording.

Through natural attrition the current pool of pre-release testers is looking a little lite these days, so I'm looking for some additional users that would be interested in helping checkout releases prior to unleashing them on the general public.

If this sounds like something you'd like to do, please send me a PM. I'd also like to see a very breif summary of your setup (what capture cards? MVP? what country etc? What EPG?).

When it gets close to a release, I make pre-release available every 3 or 4 days.

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Same old topic... Has anybody had any success with winlirc and gbpvr working together? If I remember correctly there was some months ago someone who made a separate applet for winlirc with gbpvr. I desperately need to use non-hauppauge and non-universal remotes working with gbpvr.

How up to date is everyone keeping their Hauppauge drivers/software? I'm running a PVR-USB2 and (2) Media MVP's but haven't done any updating since last winter. I just noticed their are some new versions and wondering if it's worthwhile...

Please include myBlaster support. I bought it when I saw it was supported. Now it isn't.

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Ok, I know there is probably a metric tonne of threads on this particular subject, but it has been frustrating me for quite a while and I'm sick of sorting the wheat from the chaff.

EQUIPMENT

I have MCE 2005 loaded and the NVidia decoder. I've specified the NVidia decoder as the required file where necessary.

I am using the onboard video which isn't fantastic and can't add any other cards as the mobo only allows one (which has the 500MCE decoder card in it). This is a 1.2 Ghz processor, but the decoding is supposed to be taken care of on the card, freeing up the processor.

I can't use MCE because the onboard video chip doesn't pass inspection and returns an error.

I haven't tried the DVD settings yet.

When I tried to scan for FM channels, it went through the entire spectrum but didn't select any. I manually chose one as it was slowly cycling through them and it stuck, otherwise no love.

I loaded GBPVR and got it fairly well set up, except for a couple of things.

1) There is an awful stuttering in live tv. The sound is fine, but the video cuts and jumps.

2) I have the Microsoft remote and can't get it to change the channels. I've specified this remote on the proper page, but no love. Also, is there a way to reprogram it so that the START button runs this program instead of the Media Center?

3) Would it be worth my time to downgrade to XP Pro instead of MCE2005?

I have a pioneer receiver that says it can decode wma9 over optical and coaxial.I have an optical plug installed on mvp is there anyway i could pass wma over my optical cable.