Ok, so my PVR-500 finally arrived in the mail the other day. I popped it in, installed the latest drivers and fired up GB-PVR. My initial tests worked (much to my suprise) but I finally have arrived at a kink in my project.

First off, my specs:
AMD 1.7 GHz on a non-VIA ABit board (NF7-M)
512 DDR
PVR-500MCE
GBPVR using just the default plugins for testing


I can't get this damn card configured for the life of me. Since the PVR-500 has two hardware encoders I have set up two capture sources in config.exe: "PVR-500 1-1" and "PVR-500 1-2". I am planning on adding one more PVR-500 someday which is why I named them in this way.

I have tried many permutations of "PVR150" "PVR150MCE" "PVR500" and "PVR500 w/ FM Tuner"

Both are set for "Direct Recording Plugin" in the USA. One is "Capture device #1", the other is "Capture device #2". They are both set to Internal Tuners running off of Cable on Medium (default) quality.

Both are using Zap2It which works like a gem. I also updated the EPG for both "capture devices" without a hitch.

I am only running one coaxial cable into the tuner card using the 'second to the right' input jack. I understand this card has a built in splitter, and the right input jack is for the FM tuner (which I dont't intend to use)

When I use TV guide to record 2 programs at the same time, 'PVR-500 1-1' always records a 0KB empty file. 'PVR-500 1-2' works flawlessly. Also, if I try to enter Timeshift mode in LiveTV right away I just get dumped back into the TV Guide page with no error message. However if I 'record' any ol show first (and thus sacrificing it to the 0Kb pit) and THEN fire up timeshift mode...it will work fine.

What the heck am I doing wrong? Do I have all my facts about this card correct? :mad:

Thanks!

I've got a question. GB-PVR starts up fine, lets me watch live TV fine, but when I switch to timeshift mode (press pause) during TV watching, there's a long gap and a Windows Installer window comes up and asks me to find "GBPVR09211(1).msi" I press cancel and it goes away, OK, fine. Same thing happens when I try to use Net Radio. What is this problem and how can I fix it? Also, a general question: When I'm in timeshift mode, if I exit back to main menu, my timeshift is lost, correct?

Also, I have a question about using FM radio. Every time I try to use it, it tells me I must have the Lame MP3 Encoder to use it. I do. Now how do I point it to the encoder?

Let's tell you about my system:
P4 3.4GHz w/ HT
512MB DDR2 @ 533MHz
nVidia GeForce 6800 w/256MB
VisionTek Xtasy ATI Theater 550 Pro
WinXP home

I can tell this program has enormous potential once I iron out these issues. Props to the entire dev team. Now help me figure out my problems :p

EDIT: just needed to edit so I can be subscribed.

I had never heard of gbpvr until today when I was reading HTPC News. Good stuff, and this is something I would certainly be interested in looking at...if you could provide delivery of digital cable over firewire within the GBPVR interface. There's quite an active thread over on TGB regarding timmoore's application that allows for channel changing over firewire as well as recording of digital cable off an STB over firewire, but he can not deliver live A/V within the MCE interface.
Is support of Tim's app withing gbpvr for changing channels being explored? How tough would it be to capture the stream off the firewire and display live TV within the gbpvr interface? Is it possible?
For reference, see this thread on TGB:
http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/...eID=104152

Thanks!
Ghostlobster

If anyone here has used USB 2.0 external harddrive as the location to record? I am thinking about purchasing an external harddrive, so I can record all the program for achiving, and I can also hold the ISO of my purchased DVD.

It also can be used for automatic backup of important stuff from your main PC which has the WinTV-150 card.

Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated.


Rob

If my PC happens to reboot for any reason, or the recoding service is restarted (or I do something stupid like click OK in the config) while something is recording, the portion of the show that has already been recorded appears to be overwritten with the new recording starting from the time the recording service comes back up. Is there some way to tell GBPVR to not replace the already recorded part and either append any new recording to the end of the existing file or create a new file?

This hasn’t happened often, but I’m scared that it will happen during a show that is very important… to my wife! There’d be hell to pay if we lost half of McLeod's Daughters!

Thanks.

Maybe this has been stated before, but there should be a bar showing the volume level. Another thing is that the hauppaugge remote should be utilized better. In example, there is a previous channel built in for the 45-butoon remote(i dunno about the 34), and the power button should start GB-PVR and GB-PVR should use the TV, MUSIC, and RADIO buttons at the top.

I'm new to the whole PVR world, coming over as a long time user of Tivo. I am trying to register for Zap2it, but it is asking for a certificate code. I am using a PVR150 and cant seem to find the code. Is there one, and does it differ from card to card? Thanks...

Hi will there be any support for the VLC media Player?

im having trouble with zooming in/out and the x,y why points in my pictures. everytime i do it, i get the formula wrong, and i got sick of trying. so whose good at maths? the variable i have to work with are
zoomfactor = how much the pic is zoomed in by
oldzoomfactor = the old zoom factor
oldX, oldY, oldWidth, oldHeight = old image dimensions.
newX, newY, newWidth, newHeight = new image dimensions.

to get the newwidth/height i just do oldWidth/oldzoomfactor * newzoomfactor. but how do i get the newx/y? i havent done any maths in years, and i looks like ive forgotten most things (im sure i could do this back in highschool). so anyway, anyone know the solution?

cheers,
reven.

I've recently installed your awesome program, but am having some problems with it. During the auto tune it skips over my very first channel. It's channel 2 and that would be CTV (canadian television). The EPG I've pulled from zap2it is working fine but when I change to channel 2 it is all static. I've not gone through the rest of the channels to see which others are doing this. I noticed it's also happening when I used Mediaportal as well. But it works fine with the bundled WinTV2000 from the Hauppauge card. I'm using WinXP (all updates), Hauppauge 150MCE and latest drivers from Hauppauge website. Please help I don't want to abbandon your software, it seems great!