So a weird thing happened yesterday. I started getting on the PVR all static on both TV tuners. I wasn't sure if it was my connection, so I installed WinTV2000 (ah!) but the picture is fine. I even tried the GBPVR tunning assistant and I get a picture there. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.
I'm a newb, so apologies if this has already been discussed - I have tried searching.
When I rip a CD in the My Music plugin, it rips perfectly, but places the rips in a directory with a random string of numbers for a name, and each is track is simply named track 1,2,3 etc.
I thought that the MyMusic ripper performed a freeDB lookup to download the correct tags? Am I missing something?
Also, is the ripper designed to download the album cover from freeDB aswell?
I think I may have discovered a bug or a missing function in VA. Now that I've been using GB-PVR to record HDTV shows I've noticed that VA doesn't list any of these shows in its Videos menu (by the way I like the new look.) Regular old Analog shows appear just fine. Could it be because I am recording these shows in the DVR-MS format?
This thread will explain some of the issues and workarounds with the Nova-t PCI (90002) DVB-t card. Feel free to add your own comments to it.
Driver Changes
CD v1.0 - first driver, quite buggy. Will require restarting the device driver if an application using the driver crashes. Has issues with stuttering.
CD v1.1 - still buggy. Driver still works if an application crashes but will cause a noticeable stutter every 65535 interrupts (approx 12 min). Only single Nova-t card supported.
CD v1.2/Driver 22285 - interrupt bug fixed. Only single Nova-t card supported.
Driver 22345 - support multiple Nova-t cards.
CD v1.3 - still using 22285 driver.
CD v2.0/Driver 23082 - enable CX22702 auto-lock for +/-166/7KHz offset scanning. But as a result of this change it is nescessary ignore 166/166KHz specified by software (or double channels will be found)
Driver 23151 - auto-lock still enabled. Support multi-instance so 3rd party software will run on MCE2005 without stopping MCE services. May cause stuttering when using dual cards.
CD v2.1 - uses 23151 driver
Driver 23208 - fixes stuttering issue introduced in 23151. May not scan properly for Australian users (7MHz issue? - unconfirmed)
CD v2.2 (pending) - uses 23208 driver
The CX22702 Auto-lock Issue
The CX22702 demodulator features an auto-lock feature whereby it can automatically locate a mux that is located +/-167KHz (166KHz from software perspective) from the base frequency. Muxes are commonly offset in the UK in this way to avoid interfering with another transmitter.
The Nova-t drivers are based on the source driver from Conexant (Stratford reference design). The original driver had the CX22702 auto-lock disabled, and so if you had a mux on say 762.167MHz you would have to get the software to scan 762167KHz exactly. MCE2004 and MCE2005 scan in this way (CH21-167, CH21, CH21+167, CH22-167, CH22, CH22+167, CH23-167, CH23, CH23+167...etc). Older software only scanned the base frequencies (CH21, CH22, CH23 etc.) and so wouldn't find an offset mux. Hence, transmitter tables in the software were changed to specify exactly.
Recently the auto-lock has been enabled, so if the software scans CH21, CH22, CH23 etc. the demod will automatically lock onto an offset mux if present. This would have presented a problem however for MCE2004/2005 because it would still scan every frequency inc offsets, so if you had that mux on 762.167MHz it would locate duplicates, once on 762MHz (with demod auto-locking) and again on 762.167MHz (with auto-lock not required). So, it was decided to ignore the exact frequencies and let the auto-lock do the work.
So, if you choose to use the newer drivers, make sure that you edit the tables in C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\BDA\dvb-t to only give the base frequency (e.g. 762166 becomes 762000, 577834 becomes 578000). Read on for another issue though...
No channels are found on certain muxes
It appears that where the auto-lock is required, there isn't sufficient time to get the info on channels in that mux. The easiest solution I've found is to add the problematic mux again, e.g. for me I had problems scanning the last mux (which was really 762.167MHz and so needs more time for autolock):
Code:
[TERTYPE]
1=Borders and Northern England
2=Belmont
[DVB]
0=7
1=C30,546000,0,0,8
2=C48,690000,0,0,8
3=C68,850000,0,0,8
4=C66,834000,0,0,8
5=C60,786000,0,0,8
6=C57,762000,0,0,8
to
Code:
[TERTYPE]
1=Borders and Northern England
2=Belmont
[DVB]
0=7
1=C30,546000,0,0,8
2=C48,690000,0,0,8
3=C68,850000,0,0,8
4=C66,834000,0,0,8
5=C60,786000,0,0,8
6=C57,762000,0,0,8
7=C57,762000,0,0,8
No channels are found at all
Go into C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr and edit config.xml so that <BDAScanType>1</BDAScanType> becomes <BDAScanType>2</BDAScanType>
I just tried to download gbpvr off the website. Everytime I try to install I get Error 1335: "cabs.w1.cab" is corrupt. The only post I could find in the forum just says to do a clean install. I have tried three times and get the same error. How can I install the softwrae properly.
I've got one of these fancy new 7800GT jobbies and it comes with VIVO, i've also got a standard UK Digital box (Matsui) and it connects fine through a scart to composite adapter. Since the 7800GT (and I think any vivo card from the ATI x series and the nVidia 6000 series) supports hardware encoding and everything (bar tuning) that a good PVR card will do, i'm wondering if there's any plans to support this setup? I mean by controlling the box by RS232/Serial, not magically through composite.
All I can say is wow, looks like a great program that I wish I coudl get working. I've read and checked and searched and wikied but can't find a solution to my problem.
Running a PVR2000 as my capture, ati 9250 as my vid card. Whenever I try for live tv I get the dreaded "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error. I tried creating my own pvr2000 reference in the direct.ini from the details I found @ http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:VhBfw...=firefox-a
but I didn't have any success. I even changed the driver references to (PAL) as some of mine are labelled in device manager but then got a warming about drivers not being installed. I hope someone can help me out, I'm dying to get this working.
I think this is the relevant part of the log:
8/21/2005 8:52:56 PM.437 VERBOSE [2] PreviewLiveTV(2)
8/21/2005 8:52:56 PM.484 VERBOSE [2] PreviewLiveTV() done
8/21/2005 8:52:56 PM.515 VERBOSE [2] DirectRecordingSource::getPreviewGraph(2)
8/21/2005 8:52:56 PM.625 ERROR [2] Error: msg=0x202 (WM_LBUTTONUP) hwnd=0x31029a wparam=0x0 lparam=0xe90188 result=0x0 : System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at ConnectFilters(IBaseFilter* pFilterUpstream, IBaseFilter* pFilterDownstream)
at NativeUtilities.ConexantRecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, ConexantRecordSource recordingSource, Int32 qualitySetting, Int32 board, String filename, Int32 channel, Int32 countryCode, Int32 tuningType, Boolean useStreamingEngineIfAvailable, Boolean previewMode, Boolean fmRadioMode, Boolean fmRadioPreviewMode)
at NativeUtilities.ConexantRecorder.getPreviewGraph(String cardType, ConexantRecordSource recordingSource, Int32 board, Int32 channel, Int32 countryCode, Int32 tuningType)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.DirectRecordingSource.a(ChannelTuning A_0)
at bc.a(Channel A_0)
at bc.l()
at bw.e()
at as.e()
at cp.a(Point A_0)
at q.i(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at q.a(Message& A_0)
8/21/2005 8:52:57 PM.359 VERBOSE [2] MDB updated, forcing refresh of next recording panel
8/21/2005 8:52:59 PM.718 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/NetRadioBufferSize
8/21/2005 8:52:59 PM.718 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/NetRadioBufferSize : 96000
8/21/2005 8:52:59 PM.718 INFO [2] NetRadio buffer size is: 96000
I installed videolan to see my recorded tv programs over the internet. This is because I'm away from home a lot.
The problem is that VLC starts playing the program and stops after a few seconds. Sometimes I can watch a show a little bit longer, but about 99 percent of the time it stops almost immediately.
