Hello all,

I tried the transcode to xvid through mencoder (and just about every other freeware out there, tmpegenc, flask etc) and I'm not getting comparable quality video output. I've tried to mess with the options to the best of my abilities but nothing I've done so far seems to produce a reasonable quality video from the mpeg files of the tv recordings.

I tried a software called blaze media player and it was able to convert to wmv (including other formats). But what made me take notice was the file was nearly 1/3rd in size and I could not perceive loss of quality (in the wmv file).

My question is:
From what I can see from online searches, it appears a lot of people are looking to create xvid files - is there any advantage over a wmv file in doing so?

Thanks,

Does anyone know of a plugin or skin that gives you more detailed descriptions in the Recordings area?

Specifically, I don't want to have to click on a show's title to see it's description. The description should always appear when ever I highlight a specific show. I would especially like to see the show description in the Conflict resolution area. It's hard to know which show I should record if I don't know if it's one I've seen or not!

I looked at some skins XML and wondered if there was some way to modify the recordings XML to give me this extra information but I couldn't find any REAL explination of just how powerful skins are or how to write the XML for them.

Maybe I could do it myself if I had good documentation?

Hi all,

Power was lost last night due to a transformer blowing (wow was it loud!!).

This morning my MVP wasn't working. It was stuck on the requesting DHCP addie/ Boot message. Ran ethereal and saw that the MVP box wasn't being assigned an IP. I'm only running the GBPVR software on XPSP2 Home edition. No MediaMVP or DHCP software. (I'd installed the MediaMVP sw intitially but then removed it). Btw, I'm running a non-managed 100Mbit switch on the PVR network.

Searched the forums and deduced that I should reinstall MediaMVP, set the processes to manual. Did that and shut down GBPVR. MediaMVP interface worked fine on the MVP. Shut MMVP down rebooted and GBPVR interface is back to working.

So, i have a couple questions...

1. Do i now need to install a DHCP server to automaticaly assign an IP to the MMVP box in event of another power off event? If so, what server is recommended? I could upgrade to XP pro if it has one.

2. The GPVR interface doesn't show any of my recordings. How to resurrect them? The lady won't be happy if she has to search through the video library ..heheheh..

EDIT: upon searching more..I see the recording prob source. I'm recording to a USB drive and the drive wasn't seen right away on startup. Likely the info was deleted then. Anyway to recover?


TIA!

I have a set-top-box running gbpvr, with a PVR-250.

Is there any way to adjust the recording brightness? On some shows, anything white is totally washed out. On all shows, the brightness is higher than watching the same thing on live tv --- even when watching the video on another system over the network.

Any suggestions on adjusting the PVR-250 picture settings?

Hello, forum!

I tried to record in High and Medium profiles but I don't see any difference in quality - I am recording shows from my sat box (composite and s-video).

The only noticable diff is file size.

Is Medium profile good enough or I should stick with High?
TIA

This really isnt a hardware question but oh well :-p

I was just curious to wich is the most common (easiest to use with gbpvr) I am useing windows xp right now, not sure if 2000, xp mce or 2003 server would be better to run or easier.

Guess i am looking for a poll

Thanks

Hi,

I a newbie here, please help me to understand a few things. I'm sorry if this questions has been asked before but I couldn't find any solutions to my questions I have here.

1. GB-PVR stated it support the use of Realmagic XCard (SigmaDesigns), if I were to use Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 350 with the XCard together will it work ?

2. Can the PVR350's remote to control the XCard ?

3. I can't find any EPG or XMLTV listing in my country, please help ? (I'm in Malaysia).

4. How do I configure the Weather plugins for my country (eg. Malaysia) ?

5. Is there any printed documentations that I can download regarding the use & configurations of GB-PVR and it's plugins ?

I have set XMLTV Radio Times to put Film: in front of any film - it is definately there in the xml, but it will not show in the guides

Any ideas why?

Thanks

If you use "Seen It" in XRecord, is it adding it to recording tracking, or just deleting the instance? It would be great to have it do the former, since the latter can be done just by deleting/canceling it.

Hi, is there a similar utility that will do the same as FastFind for programs but for My Music, My Playlist, My Pictures, My Videos, etc.

Thanks