I have sent an e-mail to hauppauge, but maybe someone here can help me with this - I bought a PVR-150 today, which I was going to use for free-to-air channel recording, while my existing 250 was dedicated to the cable line-in.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to tune any channels in with the 150. After removing the 250, and doing complete uninstalls and reinstalls, I suspect the problem lies with the hauppauge "tuner format" setting - in the WinTV ap, I can't tune in any channels either, as it steadfastly maintains that the format is "MN", with no options for argument.
As I specifically bought the PVR150 in NZ at double the US price in order to have the PAL abilities, this seems a trifle unfair. Checking both the physical label on the card and using prodinfo confirms that the card does in fact have "Tuner Formats: (B/G/I/D/K/L/L')".
I tried the shspvr multi-format registry hack, but all that does is let me change the video to PAL B (admittedly an improvement, as while it was set to M or N, the composite line-in didn't work properly either, but now does).
So - anyone know how to convince the hauppauge registry settings that the card is in fact PAL-B capable? (And yes - I have completely uninstalled several times, using hcwclear.exe each time, and in fact manually going through the registry and deleting all hcw and hauppauge references last time, to no effect, on both the CD-drivers and the latest web ones).
Has anyone else found errors in the guide data provided through Zap2it? I swear it has mislabeled quite a few episodes that have caused me to record something I wasn't expecting. I'm just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. And, if anyone has any, suggestions...
After battling for quite a bit and coming up with inconsistant results I come to you guys again for some pointers.
1. Goal:
a. To use the ShowAnalyzer text file and Cut out the commercials ,
b. and while doing so convert to DivX (I like the Home theater profile),
c. and convert the audio to mp3
d. And do all this within a factor of 4 times the original recording time on my Athlon 1800+xp.
What I've done so far:
I wrote some scripts (unfortunately in cygwin bash) to automate the process of selecting frame ranges and such and I have a template of saved processing settings for virtualdubmod which I use to generate a script file. The script works, but a bit questionable when launched from postprocessing.bat - its a bit slow (have to run more tests). And, the reason for choosing virtualdubmod? it can do the goal items.
I'm getting excellent results with Divx HomeTheater settings and mp3 audio. About 40% of original mpeg file size with very acceptable video.
Problem:
here's the big problem. The virtualdubmod goes into livelock (not a clue what that means) while transcoding. My tests were on smaller files where I didn't have this issue, but when I let it loose on a 1.5GB file it hung indefinitely in the livelock mode.
Does anyone have any clues on this livelock, or if there is a better method to do what I'm trying to do?
Hey, I have been using gbpvr for about 6 months now (without trouble) and just installed it onto my new machine (Upgraded machines) Anyway, I can watch tv just fine, however when I try to watch a recorded TV show (the main feature of gbpvr) I click it, it asks me if I want to Watch, Delete, or Exit. I click watch, and nothing happens. It shuts the screen asking me what I want to do with the show, and then acts normal.
Please Help!
*Edit* God I feel stupid, I think I am missing the codecs, what codec does gbpvr use?
With the new (albiet basic) ATSC HDTV support I have been eying buying a Fusion5 Lite card, but i wanted to see if there have been many North American GBPVR users who have tried the support in the new version and what your results and experiences have been like.
Another question i had (since the DVICO site doesnt discuss it as far as i could find), is it not worth the time if you do not have a roof-top antenna?
I've just tried creating a DVD from MyVideos for the first time, I had installed everything before I just had to setup the paths in convert.bat and dvdburn.bat.
I added four files to the DVD and then clicked burn.
PVAStrumento seemed to do its thing OK with DOS windows popping up etc. and MyDVD moved on to step 2 'DVDAuthor in Process' I left this running for about 40 minutes then went upstairs to check if the machine was doing anything - it didn't appear to be so I cancelled it.
I had a look in my temporary directory I'm using for DVD burning and there is a temp.xml file with the following contents:
I've tried a couple of times since, all the paths are correct in the bat files, but it still stalls at step 2. I also tried running it with Task Manager on top and mplex.exe never appeared in the processes.
Looking at the threads from when reven was first looking at adding this functionality to MyVideos (http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...stcount=30) I can't see that it would take over 40 minutes (however my machine is slower than the one reven was testing on).
I also hoped there would be an example batch file for doing this outside of GBPVR in that thread but i couldn't find one.
I also tried running the convert.bat file with the arguments as covered in the readme file that comes with MyVideos but that didn't do anything.
Does anyone have any ideas what is going wrong?
I'm going to set it going again before I go to bed, see if it does anything over night.
Just discovered this app and having some teething problems.
Aplogies if this has been discussed to death, although a search on wiki and the forums revealed nothing, but is it possible to use a Radeon All in Wonder with GB-PVR?
I have tried using the software encoder which just hangs my PC and would like to give GB-PVR ago.
Just reposting this info from the official 93.10 announcement thread, to make it easier to find for Theater 550 users:
If you own an ATI Theater 550-based encoder and you're getting zero-byte recording files in the latest GBPVR (v93.10), use notepad to change the "AutoDetectEncoderMethod" attribute from 2 to 1 in config.xml.
Don't use Wordpad (it may change the formatting), and make sure Word Wrap is disabled in notepad.
Make sure to restart the GBPVR Recording Service after the change is saved.
I bought a pvr150mce and I am currently using it in Xp. The picture quality seems to not look that great, just analog cable, (there seem to be small lines going horizontally through the picture) Are there any new xp drivers or ways to make the picture look better..
