I just got gbpvr working, and am wondering what i need to change the channel on a sat. dish. it has no low speed data port, so i know i need some type of ir blaster, but the all seem expensive. is there a better,reliable, cheaper option? and what exactly do i need?
So what I would like to do is be able to set a show to record, then have comskip check for commercials, have the commercials cut out and have the mpg file be named something closer to the show's title than Inside The Actors Studio_02390483247398_2389479382793.mpg.
I have installed compskip, comclean and renamerecordings into my gbpvr directory, and my batch file looks like this:
Comskip appears to be working fine (produces a long log explaining everything about what it did, and created cut points). And comclean appears to have worked (it creates 2 files: Inside The Actors Studio_02390483247398_2389479382793.mpg and Inside The Actors Studio_02390483247398_2389479382793_original.mpg), one of which is 1.98GB and the other is 1.76GB, with the original being larger.
The problem is this: The file lengths are the same, 1:02:54, even though one is allegedly shorter. And the non-original file seems corrupted at points (if you skip into an area where a commercial used to be I think, it freezes up...)
So how can I get comclean to work and produce shorter, workable mpg files? Also, does my batch file look okay? Any other way to do this? I usually find that comskip does well enough that I would rather have to watch 20 seconds of commercials it misses than sit with MPEG-VCR for an hour editing all my shows manually.,.....
I stumbled on to this little trick while I was trying to get my MVP up and working.
In my home network setup I have two computers set up with GBPvr running. I have my primary PVR which is a lower spec'ed machine that is located in the living room. I also have my Photo/Video/Audio machine located in my basement office(I had to relocated when my son was born). Main computer has enough horsepower to preform the transcodeing needed for avi play back (I'm still working on sync issues). But my PVR does not.
So (where the hell is this going?) I wanted to be able to switch my MVP between my PVR and my main desktop. I found that If I run the GBPvr Mvp client via autostart or in the window mode, I can switch from one to the other by pressing the green remote buttton(MVP power standby). It doesn't always work but its pretty consistant. 90% of the time I would be connected to my PVR but since I do all my video converting on my main desktop, its nice to be able to watch without having to map drives or manuall start and stop the MVP services on each PC.
According to Sub when it comes out of stanby, it looks for the first server it can find. For some reason when you go to standby it has a tendancy to grab the other server. It works really, well for my application. Sort of a bonus. It might work to let you swich between the MVP software and the GBPvr Software. Not sure. This might be my fix for my AVI playback issues.
Well I'm not quite a new user, not yet. Just need some advice before I get started. I want to setup my PC up as a PVR, I was all set to buy WMC when I came across this piece of software. So I've got a few questions that I hope you can help me with.
1. How does GB-PVR compare with WMC? Does GB-PVR do anything WMC can't or vice-versa? Does one done something better then the other?
2. So I've got a PC running Window XP, as far as I can tell the only thing I need to do to get this up and running is to buy a tuner card, is this correct?
3. What's the best tuner card to buy to work with GB-PVR, I'd like to be able to watch one channel and record another. Is it possible to buy cards that can record two programmes and watch a third?
4. What is the quality of recorded programmes like when replayed back on the TV with maximum quality selected, is it as good as the original broadcast?
5. How important is the graphics card in the PC? Does it make any difference to the quality at all?
6. When using the PC as a PVR is it still possible to use the computer while it's recording/playing back a TV programme? By use I mean browsing the internet/word processing, what about playing games?
OK I think that's it for now. As you can probably tell I know next to nothing about this subject so any help would be really appreciated.
I have two questions related to XRecord that I've yet to find answers to:
1. Is there any way to specify how many episodes of a show I want recorded? I'd like to set it up so that I can record 3 eps of one show, 5 of another, etc.
2. In the Scheduler, after a show has been scheduled, there are several options which can be modified. One is 'DuplicateScheduled', and it is set to false in my case. What does this mean exactly?
Now guide2j is bundled in the same installation
Guide2j was renamed to XGuide (might need to check the new box in the config)
FastFind was renamed to XSearch (might need to check the new box in the config)
Fastfind now supports the user hitting the & character
another attempt to handle the out of memory error
The new cdk scheduler that will reload the schedule after it runs. If you do not have the latest version
please backup your priorityrecording.exe and replace it after the installation.
You do not have to use all 3 plugins if you do not want to just disable the ones you do not want in the config.
I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this but I wanted to share some of my finding.
Trans2MVP either crashed or worked perfectly for me. It depended on the source file. i.e. for a particular file Trans2MVP either worked perfectly or crashed every time.
I then installed several codecs - for some other reason.
Then Trans2MVP never crashes on me. However, for the files that once crashed, now the sound is out of sync - on both my 350 and MVP.
I'm not sure this is in the right place but I'm not sure where else to put it so here goes.
Ever since installing ver 93.10 i can't keep the Media MVP screen saver from popping up ever 60 seconds. I've gone into the Happauge software ver 2.5.23228, (although i've tried several different versions with the same results), and tried a number of settings, off, blank, 5 min, 15 min, and all the setting work just fine as long as i'm in the Happauge software.
When i shut down the Happague software and bring up GB-PVR servers, no matter what i'm set to, i get the bouncing Happauge logo in 60 seconds. I have the GB-PVR screensaver set to off, and that works just fine.
I just don't understand why the Happague screensaver keeps popping up. It doesn't do it if there are screen updates happening such as on the main menu with the next recording panel active or while watching a recording but as soon as you don't do anything for 60 seconds up it comes.
