Is it possible to set GBPVR to use the Nero Showtime codec for video and audio playback?

I have transcoded most of my library to Nero AVC, and the results are small files at superb quality. However, although these files are perfect quality when played back through Nero Showtime, the quality of video and audio when played back through GBPVR is not as good. I am using FFDShow by default, as the Nero codecs do not show up in the list of codec selections.

My question is, is GBPVR not detecting the Nero codecs for some reason, or are the Nero codecs 'hidden' from other applications?

TIA,

Big G.

Trying to get SA to run out of the postprocessing.bat file by using the comskip proxy with no luck so far. Has anyone figured it out? Running it manually works fine.

I'm using GBPVR via a MediaMVP with 34-button remote. The volume keys (Vol+ and Vol-) work for live TV and watching recordings. However, they don't work for music. (I've tried with both the GBPVR native Music Library, and with the Music Player plugin.)

Can someone point me to a solution?

Once that's solved, is there any way to get visual feedback when setting volume? (e.g., a volume bar?)

Many thanks in advance.

Hi, I'm new to all this and experimenting with direct recording to DVD-RW using GBPVR. I have a Hauppage 350, using a Nvidia MX440 s-video to TV.

I'm using GBPVR's direct recording plugin with Mpeg 2 encoding so I'm getting roughly four hours using the lowest settings, which are:

PAL: 352x576;
Constant bitrate: 1500kbits/sec;
Audio bitrate: 128;
Audio samplerate: 44khz

1.) Is there any way to lower the settings beyond these parameters as the next lowest settings are for NTSC only?

2.) Is there any way of changing from Mpeg2 on the fly recording to any of the other Mpeg encoders? (eg. Mpeg4 which has a better compression rate.)

3.) If none of the above, is there any other Mpeg2 encoder that gives any finer control over resolutions and bitrates?

I know there are external devices that use other encoders, such as DIVX, WMA etc, but I'm primarily focusing on the Hauppage series, internal cards as they appear to be the most popular choices.

I've been through the forum threads and so far can find nothing which comes close. Can anyone help?

Hi,

i have a question about the used keys in the Program, will there a release where i can
defined the keys as i want ? I`m using the Program out of the myHTPC Software
and i already have defined keys for everything.

Thnx

Cape-City

If you could use the play button to start a file.

I'm not sure if I'm like other people, and use play to start watching a show instead of using ok, and then watch.

Also, it just seems natural to press play to being playing something.

I'll probably write the utility that takes care of this, but I thought I'd get some input from the GBPVR community beforehand...

I would like my PC to notify me when an upcoming program matches some text criteria that I have previously specified. For example, let's say that I am a Dallas Cowboys fan and I want to know about any upcoming program that pertains to the Cowboys. What I want to be able to do is set a "watch list" of text patterns that is automatically searched for each time an EPG update is completed. I do not want to have to manually do the search myself (such as via a FastFind search) - I want to set it once and then simply wait for an alert.

In this case, I would specify something to the effect of "Alert me when you find the exact string "Dallas Cowboys" somewhere in either the program title or program description. Because I would almost certainly *not* want all matching programs to be recorded, I would want the software to either simply alert me, perhaps via email or a popup window (and let me manually add the program(s) I want recorded) or else ask me about each one and take care of the scheduling for me. Similarly, if I were a Cary Grant fan, I would set up another query pattern that checks for his name. Even though GBPVR does not keep extended EPG fields (such as an "actors" field), starring actors' names often appear in the program description field for movies (at least this appears to be true for Zap2It listings in the U.S.). Perhaps the software could optionally take advantage of the extra data maintained by the highly useful ZapTools.

Of course, I could keep as many "search patterns" as I would like.

I'm not aware of any current GBPVR plugin or utility that performs any task such as this on an automated basis.

Any thoughts/suggestions/comments appreciated...

- Jim

My 350 is working just fine but I now want to add Freeview support.

Does anyone have any idea if adding a PCI Nova-T will work alongside the 350?

TIA

Hi - My GB-PVR runs on a machine connected soley to a TV. Works great, but to facilitate the machine's maint., GB-PVR config., and management of my recordings I set up XP's remote connection between my laptop and the dedicated PVR.

One problem. I have the dedicated machine running VMR-9. The laptop is older and does not support VMR-9. Apparently, when I've tunneled into the dedicted machine and launch GB-PVR, the PVR programming is sensing that the laptop doesn't support VMR-9 and gives me the warning screen and won't let the program run.

I CAN get into the program and adjust things IF I've already launched GB-PVR on the dedicated box by the way... not a biggie - but I'm curious about this...

I think i may have seen something about this before, but when i view things in gbpvr, i see this white fuzzy thing on the first line on top of the picture. When I watch the same clip in windows media player, you don't see it!