What are the pro's and cons of various Network media players. I'm on the market for one and trying to get info on the pro's and cons of them all is hard work at present.
I just trialled a SMC Wireless player and the playback quality of my Hauppauge 500mce captured video was FLAWLESS - REALLY NICE quality! But the catch is this STUPID device can't FFW or RWD which is useless for Ad's etc. Does the MVP do good skipping in and does it ad-skip with Comskip when used with GBPVR's server software?
One other nice product was from http://www.buffalotech.com - Its a DVD Player with progressive scan and wireless/ethernet media player all in one. And its DIVX certified as well to boot although this is for the bedroom tv and I'll really only want to playback stuff in MPEG2 format video'd from TV.
Any advice out there from owners of any like products?
I currently have GB-PVR running on two machines, one with a FreeView WinTV on a PC/Monitor in my study, and one with a PC/capture card and Sky Box plugged into the TV.
What I'd like is plugin that merged the recorded programs from the two GB-PVR's onto each machine. It doesn't have to copy the actual MPEG across as this can just be accessed by a network file path, however I'd like to be able to click on the Recordings button on either GB-PVR and see recordings from both machines and then click play and have GB-PVR play the file regardless of whether it is on the local machine or on another instance of GB-PVR on the network.
I haven't looked into this closely yet.. if its storing recorded programs in an XML (or other format) file, it should be an easy matter of periodically comparing and merging entries from both files, along with a relative path so GB-PVR can play the file. So recordings show from all GB-PVR's running on the network.
What do you plugin developers think? Sounds pretty straightforward.. it doesn't need an advanced config interface, just a place where you can specify network file paths of other GB-PVR instances and recorded files for merging into a local instance of GB-PVR and how often to sync.
Thoughts? Anyone else ever wanted all their GB-PVR's to work together?
I have a slight problem with Live TV. After I switched channel a few times the picture freezes seemingly randomly, for a couple of seconds at a time, then keeps doing this until I restart GB-PVR. It comes back after just a few channel changes again. Funny thing it doesn't affect all channels, say 8 out of 10, but the other two works fine. And it differs from time to time which works well, and which don't.
I've of course tried to restart my computer, without success. I haven't had this problem with any other TV App I've been using, and recording seems to work just fine. CPU load is fairly low, as well as the RAM usage.
Hi and thank you to all that reply to this post. I'm confused on where to go and to which group to post to, so please feel free to steer me in the correct direction.
I have a pvr-150 and a pvr150mce which are housed in the same box. I am watching the recorded media via a MVP. I was having no problem that I know of until I added the second card. I wanted to be able to record two programs at the same time. The GB-PVR will allow this and the machine will handle it no problem. The problem that I have is that the show titles are listed in the video library section but no file is present when you go to view them. There is no listing of the show in the recordings/ready or recordings/whats new section on either computer or MVP screen. The computer allows me to watch live TV, but not MVP. I have the comskip installed and the rec tracker, but have some questions about rec tracker I will post in the plugins forum. anywho, can anyone help me discover how to get both cards to work and save the files so I can watch them on my MVP?
Howdy Guys,
Long time since I have posted but things have been working pretty smooth. Well until I got all ambitious and bought a capture card. I had been using the MVP And GBPVR to just watch movies, and listen to music, etc. I hadn't really jacked with the TV and recording stuff since I already had a PVR that came with my Dish Network.
I bought a Hauppauge PVR-150, got it all configured, and setup recording, etc. I can watch Live TV and record what I am watching so far without a problem. I actually recorded 4 hours straight on 1 program with no problem while in live TV mode.
The problem comes in with scheduled recordings. I am trying to record the Sesame Street every morning for my daughter to watch that night since she misses it since we are driving to school. Recording will kick off and I can get from 2 minutes to 45 minutes before it locks up the whole system. I get home from work and I have to hit the reset button since the mouse, keyboard, and it isn't responding at all via network.
I knew there was a problem recording to the VIA IDE chipset that occurs with lots of similar applications so I bought a Promise IDE expansion card and moved my recording drive to it. I have also played the buffer, and Pagefile for the system on that IDE channel as well. I have googled, and searched here and not been able to find a solution. I have found you guys extremely knowledgeable and helpful, and I am hoping you can come through for me again.
I have pasted in what I can find in the logs around that time frame. Please let me know if I am missing something else from another log. Thanks so much for your time and help, have a great day and take care. p.s. I love my GBPVR
---gbpvrrecordingservice.exe-1.log-----
7/12/2005 3:03:08 AM.081 INFO [110] Auto-Updating EPG
7/12/2005 3:03:12 AM.027 INFO [110] Requesting listings for period: 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z - 2005-07-20T00:00:00Z
7/12/2005 6:59:00 AM.141 INFO [23] Found new programme requiring recording: 123 Sesame Street
7/12/2005 6:59:13 AM.160 ERROR [23] Error loading ReoccuringRecordingExtras: The data value could not be converted for reasons other than sign mismatch or data overflow. For example, the data was corrupted in the data store but the row was still retrievable.
---gbpvrrecordingservice.exe-native.log---
06:59:03.907 INFO Log started
06:59:03.907 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording(1, 1, 3, 0)
06:59:03.997 VERBOSE Capture Device is based on BlackBird architecture
06:59:03.997 VERBOSE Capture Device is using Conexant (derived) drivers
06:59:03.997 VERBOSE Loading filter names
06:59:03.997 VERBOSE Found names:
06:59:04.027 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
06:59:04.027 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
06:59:04.027 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvTuner
06:59:04.027 VERBOSE Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvAudio
06:59:04.307 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Analog Audio' to 'TVAudio In'
06:59:05.609 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Audio Decoder Out' to 'Analog Audio In'
06:59:05.619 VERBOSE Looking for encoder filter
06:59:05.809 VERBOSE - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Encoder
06:59:06.120 VERBOSE ConnectPins: '656' to '656'
06:59:11.778 VERBOSE ConnectPins failed!
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_Mode(AMTUNER_MODE_TV)
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_CountryCode(1)
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_TuningSpace(1)
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_InputType(0, 0)
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_ConnectInput(0)
06:59:12.249 VERBOSE put_Channel(3, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT)
06:59:12.559 VERBOSE get_VideoFrequency() returns 61187500
06:59:12.559 VERBOSE get_CountryCode() returns 1
06:59:12.569 VERBOSE About to query available formats
06:59:12.569 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::SetConfigurationECP()
06:59:12.609 INFO Firmware Version 2.5.32
Audio Firmware Version <<can't read now>>
Model 26032 Rev C199
Serial No: 7933913
Tuner: 99
Decoder: 28
AudioIC: 35
IR
Input Map: C= 0x000f, S= 0x0003
06:59:12.769 VERBOSE FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: GB-PVR WST SRT Analog
06:59:12.919 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Writer
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - Encoder
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - Capture
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - TV Audio
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE - TV Tuner
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
06:59:13.010 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done
---Event Viewer---
The previous system shutdown at 7:01:05 AM on 7/12/2005 was unexpected.
In Words:
0000: 000707d5 000c0002 00010007 035e0005
0010: 000707d5 000c0002 0001000c 035e0005
---Hardware Information---
OS Name Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
Version 5.2.3790 Service Pack 1 Build 3790
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name TOES
System Manufacturer VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Model VT8366-8233
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~1599 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG, 8/26/2003
Perhaps in the future this may be a way to solve my digital cable problem. Currently my PC is located at an inconvenient distance from my digital cable box, and since I don't want to pay for another box I simply recieve only analog.
Something like the slingbox might let me leverage my home wifi by letting me get a digital cable stream up to my PC.
Is anyone else in Australia having issues playing captured streams from SBS and Seven through there MediaMVP when using GBPVR? I capture with Webscheduler using the cyberlink muxer and if I try to FF a capture the screen goes black and the mediaMVP crashes if I then try to stop it.
If it is only me then I'll look for other causes, if other people are having problems I'll send sub a DVD of samples.
Hey guys, I am new to this whole PVR thing. I was able to get GB-PVR to communicate with my card today althoug I had one question. When I go to the Config, under Recording and Playback, there are three options for me:-
1. NONE - Software
2. PVR 350
3. Sigma XL
I was not able to see my PVR150 there. Does this mean that there is no Hardware support for my PVR150? and I will not be able to to use the hardware decoder? I do get reception but am not sure if it is in Software mode or Hardware. Please help!
I had been using the MVP And GBPVR to just watch movies, and listen to music, etc. I hadn't really jacked with the TV and recording stuff since I already had a PVR that came with my Dish Network. 