The tuner I bought is 'AVerTV M150' and the pvr software I am using is 'Nero Vision Express 2' that came with when I bought 'Samsung DVD+RW'.
It shows the TV fine but when I record, it stutters very much. There are many video compression options but it stutters with most of them. Rarely it goes smooth but the sound does not match well with video.
What would be the problem here? The software I am using? Because it is poor? Or is my PC? My PC's spec is ::-4 1.80GHz and 256MB RAM:::.
I think the software is the problem, so I am thinking to exchange the tuner to 'Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE' which 'GBPVR' suppoorts, then I can use 'GBPVR'.
Do you think it is going to help the stuttering problem?
Okay, so sometimes I shutdown GBPVR (I know, sacriledge!) so that I can copy shows off the machine to an external drive... But then I have to get the keyboard back out in order to fire up GBPVR... Is there someway to get the 45 button hauppauge remote to fire up GBPVR when you hit the power button instead of the standard WinTV craaaa... stuff?
Thanks.
Rich
P.S... I figured this was semi GBPVR related, hence I put it here in support rather than General Discussion...
I am in the process of setiing up a PVR solution with a Hauppage 500MCE card. I have setup two different capture sources for the two tunes on the card.
Everything seems to be working fine in terms of watching tv and recording. I have however stumbled over a problem where I noticed that during sunday evening one of the channels was still showing the saturday listing (as well as the sunday one) in the TV Guide. This lead me to try to use the "Empty EPG" feature. Unfortunately it has no effect. I empty the EPG on both Capture Sources and saves but the TV Guide stays populated!
I saw an old thread discussing some of the same problem (in 2003) but the guy with the problem got over it when he upgraded to a later version apparently ... I am on the latest version.
I purchased a "USB 2800" (http://www.digitus.com) videograbber and would like to use it with this nice application. The device is connected to a digital satellite receiver.
Unfortunatelly I couldn't find any capture source that matches my device.
The gadget is allready working with "Ulead VideoStudio 9" (Windows XP, SP2, P4 2.8) and so I am really hoping to get it working with gbpvr.
Any sugestions or maybe other applications I could use are highly welcome.
Okay, I just recorded an hour program that recorded in 2x for some reason, because it was an hour program, but when I view the program it is only 25 minutes. It's not cut off, it is literally sped up to 2x (what I'm approximating). Not all recordings do this, probably 1/7 or so, but it has happened before. The filesize is 700 MB, about half of what an hour program is. So the error occurs in the recording process, it is very weird though. Anyone have any ideas as to what's causing it? Sub?
BTW: P4 3.0 gHz HT, 256MB ATi Radeon 9800XT, 1 GB RAM, TEAC DVD+RW (DV-W58E), Hauppage PVR 150MCE, Latest GB-PVR, 80 GB Main HD, 120 GB Video HD (where recording is made)
Recently, I upgraded the GBPVR to that latest version (as of two weeks ago) and the upgrade went well. Yesterday evening, however, I shut down the front-end, went to the config, then restarted the front-end. Upon launching the front-end, I saw an MSI installer message that read somthing on the lines of:
"Please wait while we configure the application" - It it the customary MSI/Setup startup message.
Once the application started, I had no guide, no capture sources, and not recorded programs. I shut down the front-end app again, and noticed that my 200-something MB DB was replaced by the usual (empty) 400k DB. Naturally, I was furious! I had a snapshot of the DB I had right before the upgrade, and used that to reconfigure the app. Naturally, I lost track of any recordings I had from that point forward.
I have updated the PVR app a few times, and I had never run into that problem before.
This problem is a little dinconcerting, for the obvious reason. I know that my DB is gone , but I would like to know the cause of the problem, so that I can protect myself as much as possible.
Hi Chaps.
I've been wanting to build my own pvr since I saw this cool software. We've recently moved house and I made myself a budget for it. Unfortunately it turns out the tv reception around here is naff. Most of the houses in the street have 20 foot poles with jodrell bank nailed to the end of them and they still cant get channel 5. Ho hum.
So I wondered about cable ?
I've been playing with the hauppage software and I can see that you can select cable or antenna. So I presume the guys from ntl turn up, drill holes in your house and drink all your coffee and leave a bit of cable sticking out the wall.
Does this cable just plug into my pvr250 somehow ? I thought they went all digital now and threw those old analog set top breeze blocks away? Or do I need some digital version of my pvr 250 ? How does it work ?
Hello I am new to this, so please go easy on me, I got my media mvp today, and hate the software it comes with, so after looking at sites that do other software for it, I decided to use this one, the only prob is how do I get it to work? I have downloaded it, and installed it but nothing worked, (I did take of the old software before installing) I don't know how to get it to work, and now until I know what to do I have gone back to the old software, until I know what to do. Can anyone help me?
-4 1.80GHz and 256MB RAM:::.
, but I would like to know the cause of the problem, so that I can protect myself as much as possible. 
