sub i know you have been putting this off, but i would really like to start playing around with this, like when i get new emails i would like to display message globablly in gbpvr saying "You've Got Mail" and handy control over to that box (may need a override HasControl() method which returns a boolean or something...) so i could either click an "ok" button, or set a timer to display the message for five seconds, then automatically hide/close the popup. its a pain in the arse, but a really nice feature to have.

I get the following:

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Server Error in '/gbpvr' Application.
HTTP Error 404 - Not Found.
Version Information: Cassini Web Server 1.0.1970.26188
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Whenever I try to access the web server. Any ideas why?

Firewall is open, standard setup of GBPvr.


Cheers

Art

I bought a sapphire theatrix 550 pro, which is essentially an ATI wonder elite, and i want to simply make high quality MPEG-2 recordings with it from the composite video or s-video inputs, and thats it, i have o desire to use the TV tuner fucntions. however, i have a few questions for people on here:

1) no matter what i set up the profile quality settings to, it always goes back to "medium" quality settings.

2) what settings do i need to have to enable previewing and recording from my laserdisc player hooked up to the s-video or composite inputs on the capture card?

thanks in advanced for the help

OK – I have done a lot of reading on these posts and on related other forums. I am ready to buy my final piece for my system. I am a little bit hesitant to decide and would like to ask for your comments.

Hardware available:

• 2 older Pentiums (350 and 450 MHZ) currently running as server in my network, Linux & Win2000, 512 MB Ram
  
• 1 Athlon 1700, 384 MB Ram, running PVR stuff right now w/o problems.
  
• Hauppage PVR-250 (excellent piece of equipment by the way)
  
• Lot’s of hard drives in various forms, space and fashion
  
• Wired & Wireless G Network (just ran a Network Cable to the Home
  
• Entertainment Center, speed no issue)
  
• Currently SDTV, not really intended to go to HDTV soon
  

1. Do you think I can run MediaMVP with a 450 MHZ machine? Is there someone doing this right now?
   
2. Is it possible to run the XCard with a 450 MHZ machine?
   
3. If I have to fall back to Athlon 1700 – which option would you recommend? (sub – I understand you don’t recommend equipment….)
   

sub or anyone,
on my main machine it takes like 0.5 seconds to change tracks if i pust ctrl-right but on my pvr its always taken about 5-10seconds (which is really annoying), its been like this after two formats (of the machine), and both machine have the pretty much the exact same codecs, i thought it might be ffdshow, but managed to disable it and same result.
its not a major issue, since i dont play music that much, but would like to get the problem fixed.

tia
reven

Is there a way to turn adjust the intensity of the colors captured by the PVR-250?

My recordings are being captured with a very strong red coloring, and I would like to be able to turn that down a bit. Is there a way?

Art

I have been unable to find keyboard shorcuts for the following:

Mute
Recordings
DVD Menu
Exit GBPVR

I was able to setup functions in Girder to get around this lack, but if anyone knows if they exist, please let me know.

Cheers

Art

Hey,
I managed to get it working after being an idiot so now I have a few questions:

1. I can't seem to be able to watch programs which are currently recording. What could be the problem here? When I goto it in recordings it doesn't let me click on it (i.e. just does nothing) and when i try to view another channel it tells me its recording and I can watch the recording problem but when i click this it returns to the main menu.

2. What is the MediaMVP server all about?

Cheers,
Adam

Hi, I lurked on this forum for a while, and finally decided to take the plunge and get an MVP. The MVP works great, but I am having trouble setting up the remote. I have the old 34-button remote, and I can't use the number buttons to change the channel. Also the mute button doesn't work. Any advice for this noob would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hello,

Brand new to GBPVR, this is my first attempt at making a PVR.

Setup:
Hauppauge 250 tv card
Intel se-440bx motherboard
PIII 866mhz
384mb RAM
60gb HD, split into 2 partitions (1 for windows/programs, 1 for files)
GBPVR 09208
windows xp pro sp2
matrox g400 dual head
MediaMVP

So far everything is working well, after a bit of trial and error I was able to get the video signal from my Scientific Alanta digital cable box into the computer and back out to my MVP.

Here is the problem: there is a considerable amount of 'latency' between me hitting a button on the cable box remote and the results displaying on the televsion via the MVP (about 3 seconds).

I'm not too concerned with the ability to pause/rewind/ffwd my television; in fact, I'm quite happy to get rid of that feature if it would allow me to 'surf' with the least amount of delay possible.

As I'm new to this, I'm not sure where to start in the Configuration program.In the audio world, we have the same sorts of problems with soundcards not being able to monitor signals from their inputs in real-time because of all the work involved with passing the signal from the input to the driver to the os then back to the driver then back to the output.

In order to compensate, some soundcard manufacturers offer 'low-latency' drivers which bypass the operating system and allow the signal to only have contact with the host software. There are settings for the driver which allow the user to customise the degree of latency control in terms of milliseconds or buffers, or it will allow the signal to completely bypass the host software. The tradeoff is between speed and quality; the lower the latency, the higher the chance the audio will drop out or stutter.

1. Is there a way to completely 'turn off' the ability to pause/rewind/ffwd television so that there is no need for the video signal to go anywhere but back to the MVP?

2. Barring that, is there a way to turn down the delay/buffers to minimize the amount of stuff that gets passed around before being sent to the MVP?

3. Do encoding/decoding quality settings effect the speed at which a signal is passed to the MVP, and if so, does it effect the speed at which the computer passes the signal to the network port, the speed at which the signal travels along the network cable, or the speed at which the MVP displays the signal?

Thanks in advance,

Nick