hi guys
just accidentally dropped into this site and it seems fascinating..i think i got the bug to build a pvr.
my main requirements are that i am able to schedule recordings from an epg (ala serial link in sky+) from my samsung NTL cable box. will gbpvr do this for me and is there some way for gbpvr to change channels on the NTL box?
so
1. control ntl samsung box
2. record from epg data (and is this free for the uk)
3. is it stable

thanx for anyhelp (and sorry for the newbie type questions)

Hi all,

I had a friend who visited China and said he might be able to find me a TV-card on the cheap out there. Don't know if it's true, but before sending him a list of cards I wanted to check what TV standard is out there, to be sure it fits in my country.

I found these sites:
http://www.users.bigpond.com/msn/3D_Soft...ystems.htm - gives exact standard (including PAL B/G/I, etc).
http://www.mindfully.org/Resource/Video-...World.htmp - 2 lists, sorted by country name and by TV standard.

Might be useful for some of you sometimes.

GGF

I was wondering if anyone had thought of a file explorer plugin?

I have many different devices (digital camera, mp3 player, smartphone etc) and would often like to copy information to/from GBPVR. As my HTPC is a dedicated machine, I have only the remote and it would be great just to have some basic file handling without having to get out the mouse and muck around in windows. This is one of the plugins I found very usefull while using media portal and would be great in GBPVR. Would have thought it should be easy to implement as well.

Just an Idea...if only I was a programmer!

I know this really isnt the best place for this question as I think it is more hauppages problem then gbpvr, but they dont seem to want to answer my questions via email or on shspvr site. Figured someone here might know whats up; so copying my post here. :o

I was having the issue of the blaster stop working after a few minutes of idle time issue, but was able to solve that thanks to some great information here, I am, however, still losing IR blaster control (Remote works fine for menus and such, just not controlling my cable box) every time I record something. I can get it back by restarting the IR program but a) that is really kludgy and b) wouldnt help if I had set 2 or more things to record on different channels while I was not around to restart the program.

I have tried all of the official page drivers, the 2 latest prerelease drivers + the new cdlite, and a hodgepodge of older drivers between the offciial and latest prereleases.

I primarily use the newest version of GBPVR software wise.
Hardware wise, My media machine is:
Shuttle SN45G (NForce 2 board)
AMD XP 3000+
1 Gig of dual channel geil golden dragon ram
Geforce 5600 256mb

Software wise, I am currently running:
XP Pro SP2, 2600 version
Nforce Unified Driver 5.1
pvr_2.0.34.23168
hcw2.2.22301pp2
blastcfg version is: 2.0.22355 (above package has version 1.3.x that does not have the motorola entries i need)

Really getting frustrated and thinking about returning the thing and getting one of the ATI solutions, but hate to give up after spending so much time trying to get it to work right. Any help would be much appreciated.

I have kind of a weird problem I think. The discovery channel is channel 45 where I live. Channel 45 is the only channel that has no audio when I access it through GBPVR. I am using a brand new Hauppauge 150PVR. At first there was no audio on just channel 45 when I opened wintv 2000. I went to channel configuration and deselested automatic fine tuning (ATF) for channel 45, and I adjusted the fine tuning manually and it didn't take much and the audio was there. Now everytime I open wintv 2000, channel 45 has audio just like any other channel. However if I access channel 45 by selecting the "Live Tv" button, or selecting to "watch" a program on the "Tv Guide", there is no audio. Please help me, I just know there is something simple I am forgetting to do. Thanks to all who reply.

I'm able to capture video and it playsback fine in wmp but when I try and watch live tv i get a 'failed to communicate with recording service'.

I finally killed linux and mythtv after reinstalling about 20 times. I really hope this is easier.

Is it just me or does comskip take up to an hour to process a 2hour recording?

I keep getting 0 byte recordings. It appears to be when I have two recordings going on at the same time, one of them is 0 bytes.

I have a WinTV-PVR 500, and I didn't have this problem before. (I have had problems with overlapping recordings and such before, but the current algorithim is working great for me...this is a new problem.)

This is part of the log:

7/10/2005 8:59:00 PM.087 INFO [35] Found new programme requiring recording: Family Guy
7/10/2005 8:59:00 PM.087 VERBOSE [35] Changing to channel (GBPVR.Backend.Common.NullTunerController): 8
7/10/2005 8:59:00 PM.087 VERBOSE [35] Requesting IRecordingSource to start recording: O:\MyVideos\Family Guy\Family Guy_20050710_21002130.mpg
7/10/2005 8:59:00 PM.103 VERBOSE [35] DirectRecordingSource about to start recording oid:2 channel:8
7/10/2005 8:59:00 PM.383 VERBOSE [45] SourceConfigurationContainer.LoadAll()
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.377 VERBOSE [45] SourceConfigurationContainer.LoadAll()
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.470 VERBOSE [35] recording started
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.470 VERBOSE [35] Programme is now recording
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.470 VERBOSE [35] RecordingFactory.save()
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.470 VERBOSE [35] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.501 VERBOSE [35] RecordingFactory.getExtrasForGroup(9)
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.517 VERBOSE [35] getDatabaseConnection() creating new connection
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.563 ERROR [35] 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.
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.563 VERBOSE [35] getDatabaseConnection() creating new connection
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.563 INFO [35] Found new programme requiring recording: The 4400
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.579 VERBOSE [35] Changing to channel (GBPVR.Backend.Common.NullTunerController): 29
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.579 VERBOSE [35] Requesting IRecordingSource to start recording: O:\MyVideos\The 4400\The 4400_20050710_21002200.mpg
7/10/2005 8:59:02 PM.579 VERBOSE [35] DirectRecordingSource about to start recording oid:1 channel:29
7/10/2005 8:59:03 PM.233 VERBOSE [35] recording started
7/10/2005 8:59:03 PM.233 VERBOSE [35] Programme is now recording
7/10/2005 8:59:03 PM.233 VERBOSE [35] RecordingFactory.save()
7/10/2005 8:59:03 PM.233 VERBOSE [35] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
7/10/2005 8:59:03 PM.233 VERBOSE [35] RecordingFactory.getExtrasForGroup(6)
7/10/2005 8:59:03 PM.233 VERBOSE [35] getDatabaseConnection() creating new connection
7/10/2005 8:59:03 PM.249 ERROR [35] 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.

The log has a bunch of :
7/10/2005 8:59:04 PM.370 VERBOSE [45] SourceConfigurationContainer.LoadAll()

Can that be shut off? Every two seconds...makes the log kind of large.

This program was 0 length too: It was at 9:30, after the 9:00 Family Guy, but while the 9:00 4400 was still recording:

7/10/2005 9:30:00 PM.135 INFO [35] Found new programme requiring recording: Family Guy
7/10/2005 9:30:00 PM.135 INFO [35] Stopping existing recording on this capture source. (removing from currentlyRecording)
7/10/2005 9:30:00 PM.135 VERBOSE [35] Stopping recording oid:2
7/10/2005 9:30:00 PM.197 VERBOSE [45] SourceConfigurationContainer.LoadAll()
7/10/2005 9:30:00 PM.306 VERBOSE [35] RecordingFactory.save()
7/10/2005 9:30:00 PM.306 VERBOSE [35] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
7/10/2005 9:30:00 PM.337 VERBOSE [35] Adding O:\MyVideos\Family Guy\Family Guy_20050710_21002130.mpg to commercial detection queue
7/10/2005 9:30:00 PM.384 INFO [986] Post Processing thread starting...
7/10/2005 9:30:00 PM.384 VERBOSE [35] Changing to channel (GBPVR.Backend.Common.NullTunerController): 8
7/10/2005 9:30:00 PM.384 VERBOSE [35] Requesting IRecordingSource to start recording: O:\MyVideos\Family Guy\Family Guy_20050710_21302200.mpg
7/10/2005 9:30:00 PM.415 VERBOSE [35] DirectRecordingSource about to start recording oid:2 channel:8
7/10/2005 9:30:01 PM.209 VERBOSE [35] recording started
7/10/2005 9:30:01 PM.209 VERBOSE [35] Programme is now recording
7/10/2005 9:30:01 PM.209 VERBOSE [35] RecordingFactory.save()
7/10/2005 9:30:01 PM.209 VERBOSE [35] getDatabaseConnection() creating new connection
7/10/2005 9:30:01 PM.209 VERBOSE [35] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
7/10/2005 9:30:01 PM.256 VERBOSE [35] RecordingFactory.getExtrasForGroup(9)
7/10/2005 9:30:01 PM.256 VERBOSE [35] getDatabaseConnection() creating new connection
7/10/2005 9:30:01 PM.256 ERROR [35] 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.

What else do I need to send?

I'm using 0.92.11.

Kevin

I just found this post on the internet (TVedia):

A patent pending OSD engine overcomes Xcard's 256 color OSD restriction to display images with a full range of colors, so user interface is as vibrant as displayed on a 32 bit colored PC display.

http://www.8dim.com/products/xcard.asp

Any idea if this would be possible on the GBPVR side?

*heitjer*

I can't get GB-PVR to work in Windowed Mode. Yes, I have the box ticked in configuration. I even uninstalled and reinstalled to see if that would work. I have searched the forums and could not find an answer. I am extremely novice at all this, so if anyone is kind enough to help me, I hope that you can explain it to me in simple and detailed terms. Thanks very much for any help you are able to provide me. Jack