Hey,
I just got my PVR up and running and so far everything is going relatively well. The software is working very well but there are a few things I'm hung up on and I'm hoping some very familiar users here could give me a helping hand.
1. I'm running dual monitors (analog 15" flatpanel primary, TV secondary) I would like to be able to start launch GBPVR fullscreen to the secondary monitor. If I launch from the icon on the desktop on the primary monitor it stays fullscreens on that one, however if I launch from a GBPVR icon on the secondary it displays fullscreen on the secondary (which is what I want). I'm just curious if there are any parameters to launching or anything else I can do to force the secondary display default.
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4. Are there any plugins to change how files are named when a show is recorded? The show - episode name/number would be much more useful than some of the numbers that are used.
Thanks for reading this far. I tried to search for some of these but came up a little empty, if you think its been answered just tell me and smack me in the face. Thanks again.
I am new to the GBPVR. Thank you for your well spent time and effort.
I am having difficulty displaying any video onto the TV. Everything seems to behave perfectly through the monitor. I have the S-Video output simultaneously displaying on my TV. Everything behaves as I'd expect it to (), but when I try to play any video, recording, live TV, or DVD, the TV simply displays a black screen. On my monitor I can see the video playing perfectly.
Any ideas.
My configuration is as follows:
BIOSTAR M7NCG 400 (with Integrated nVidia Geforce 4 MX and S-Video Out)
Hauppauge PVR-350 (only using to capture )
AMD Mobile running at 1.8 GHz
512 MB Ram
120 GB HDD
All replies are greatly appreciated ... I have scanned the forums to no avail.
Using Twinhan Alpha, and Intervideo Video/Audio Decoders. Using Cyberlink MPG Muxer (3.5.0107).
I have been unable to record or pause live tv on GBPVR. If I press pause, the 'please wait' screen comes up, then I get sent back to the menu and it says 'Error playing back video file'.
In the logs I get this:
GBPVR.exe.log
20/07/2005 01:56:08.187 VERBOSE [2] RecordLiveTV: 2
20/07/2005 01:56:08.765 VERBOSE [2] About to play LiveTV File: D:\TV\Temp\Joins BBC News 24_1_20050720_01100200.mpg Channel: BBC2
20/07/2005 01:56:08.765 VERBOSE [2] Before LiveTV Play
20/07/2005 01:56:09.375 ERROR [2] Error: msg=0x100 (WM_KEYDOWN) hwnd=0x307b4 wparam=0x4b lparam=0x250001 result=0x0 : Failure playing back file : at NativeUtilities.MediaHelper.playVideoFile(String filename, Form form)
at ay.b(Channel A_0)
at a8.a(String A_0)
at a8.a(Object A_0, KeyEventArgs A_1)
at q.a(Object A_0, KeyEventArgs A_1)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyEventArgs(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmKeyChar(Message& m)
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)
20/07/2005 01:56:09.390 VERBOSE [2] StopLiveTV()
20/07/2005 01:56:09.578 VERBOSE [2] at ay.b(Boolean A_0)
20/07/2005 01:56:09.953 VERBOSE [2] MDB updated, forcing refresh of next recording panel
20/07/2005 01:56:12.859 VERBOSE [2] ShowMouse ref=0
20/07/2005 01:56:15.937 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
20/07/2005 01:56:15.937 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
20/07/2005 01:56:15.937 VERBOSE [2] Purging any stale logically deleted recordings
20/07/2005 01:56:21.937 VERBOSE [2] HideMouse ref=-1
20/07/2005 01:56:53.937 VERBOSE [2] MDB updated, forcing refresh of next recording panel
GBPVR.exe-native.log
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE - Video Renderer 0033
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE - InterVideo Audio Decoder
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE - Realtek AC97 Audio
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE - BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE - MPEG Audio Decoder
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE - App Overlay Source
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE - InterVideo Video Decoder
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE - Twinhan USB2 DVB-T receiver
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE - Microsoft DVBT Network Provider
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
01:55:59.937 VERBOSE locked=0 present=0 strength=0 quality=0
01:56:00.453 INFO SetTuningRequest() finished
01:56:07.953 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StopRecording()
01:56:08.156 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StopRecording() finished
01:56:08.765 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playVideoFile(D:\TV\Temp\Joins BBC News 24_1_20050720_01100200.mpg)
01:56:09.171 VERBOSE Creating new graph
01:56:09.171 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer)
01:56:09.171 VERBOSE audio renderer filter: Realtek AC97 Audio
01:56:09.296 VERBOSE getFileFPS() unable to open file, defaulting to 30fps
01:56:09.296 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioDecoder)
01:56:09.328 VERBOSE audio decoder filter: InterVideo Audio Decoder
01:56:09.328 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredDecoder)
01:56:09.343 VERBOSE video decoder filter: InterVideo Video Decoder
01:56:09.375 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
01:56:09.375 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
01:56:09.375 VERBOSE - InterVideo Video Decoder
01:56:09.375 VERBOSE - InterVideo Audio Decoder
01:56:09.375 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
01:56:09.375 VERBOSE - Realtek AC97 Audio
01:56:09.375 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
I've read different flavors of trying to solve the problem of getting multiple recordings of the same episode when recording a season. I understand the need to have the additional hours in the recording window for delays in a schedule. Thats good stuff!!! I think this problem if possible needs to be handled in a different way. Possibly through meta data in the show listings. By comparing the name of the show and the title you can eliminate duplicates. Some of this has to already be going on since it doesn't record an addition 120 minutes on both sides of an hour show. It must be looking at titles to decern what in that 120 minute window to record. Now I don't know how some shows on cable that dont have episode names will work out such as World Series of Poker and some Reality stuff that just go by Show names. There has to be a good way to do this though because its done in other PVR's. Props to the sub though. Hopefully he understands that we are just trying to help make a good product.
I've got some code that I'm trying to translate from VB6 and raw C to a C# plug-in. The C# version uses...
private Process myProcess;
...to spawn an external application (along with the Process.StartInfo needed for exe name, window style etc.).
The app starts fine but I then need to use the equivalent of SendMessage() for IPC and I can't quite get my head around how this will work with the Process object I've created.
and was looking through the logs to see if anything looks like if could be a possible
cause. Looking at the gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log it seemed strange to me that it
keeps repeating SourceConfigurationContainer.LoadAll() every couple of seconds. Could
anyone confirm if this is normal or indicates a problem?
Finally managed to get an example of the log showing a crash whilst trying to view live
TV from my MVP only lasted a few seconds then crashed locking up the pc requiring a
power cycle.
A file was created in R:\gbpvr\buffer called TV-1-320050719_2201.mpg with a size of
288KB which only seems to be one low quality frame.
Does this log give any big clues as to what is happening? any help appreciated.
It's a pretty tall order, I know. But I use Girder to control GB-PVR and it'd be nice not to have to run the interface each time I want to see what's going to record next or the status of each scheduled recording. I'm sure that there is other info that could be useful.
Maybe the GBtray agent could offer payloads for Girder (or any other program for that matter) to use, a la Zoomplayer. Schweet.
When I click on pause, got message "switching to timeshift" mode but the tv screen never returns to normal & GPPVR stops to respond. Recording did start and continued, as I can see the file created & grows in size until I end GBPVR using Windows task manager.
One small installation glitch (may not be related) is that I install under one user account, try to run it under another account, failed, install it again using the 2nd account. I'm not sure how to wipe out an existing installation & start from scratch.
Any help to get my system going will be much appreciated.
System:
Windows XP SP1
.Net Framework 1.1 (tried with & w/o SP1)
Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE
P4 2.8E w/ 512MB Ram
GBPRV version 9211
BTW, I had GBPRV working before on Windows 2000 Server, same hardware as current setup.