I've been using Mediaportal for the past month.. and while
it looks and works great.. MP is really designed to be a fulltime HTPC. Sadly, I only have one PC and it needs to multi-task
GBPVR seems to be flexible. However, I have a couple of rookie questions that I can't seem to find answers from the old posts:
(1) Some MCE remote's buttons do not seem to work in GBPVR (eg, Info, Recorded TV, Live TV, Guide, DVD menu). The most useful button that is missing support is the Info button - am I missing a setting?
(2) I am trying out the default skins and they all look really blurry on my 1024x760 LCD and PAL TV (compared to MP's skins). In fact the fonts are too big and do not fit inside the buttons. I would have thought that my HTPC configuration is quite common - so are there any alternative skin files to use?
I have looked through previous threads and have taken the following actions - but still cannot get any TV channels to be found when I click the "Map EPG Guide" button in setup.
1. I downloaded the bda_1040.zip file and tried to install the drivers from within it but they are apparently not the correct ones.
2. I am currently running on latest drivers from Hauppauge site - hcw13nova-t.exe
3. I have downloaded the CLDump.ax and MpgMux.ax files and run "regsvr32" on both of them.
Still no channels found tho. Media Portal finds them no problem so its not the card.
Some questions as to where to go next.
1. Do I actually need to install the full application from Cyberlinks website? Or are the two files mentioned above sufficient?
2. When choosing the card I can see "Frequency" settings that are greyed out. Do these need to be edited? If they do then how do I edit them?
I tried to use Media Portal a few weeks ago, and besides being probably the most unstable program I've ever run, it did have a couple of nice features.
The thing I liked the most was the way you could navigate the UI without stopping what you where doing (e.g. watching timeshifted TV). In GBPVR, I'm always a little bit worried that I'll hit the wrong button on the remote (back/info etc), because then the recording will just stop and I won't be able to get back to it.
I'd like to make the following suggestions (highest priority first):
1) When you're watching timeshifted TV and hit Record I'd like it to behave like you have added the show to the schedule (i.e. if you leave for the main menu, it doesn't stop recording).
2) If you start watching something (be it LiveTV, timeshifted tv, a video file or a dvd), the only way of stopping the playback/recording should be by using the "Stop" button. If you use any other means (i.e. you just navigate back to the menu), the file should continue to play/record (or be paused) - but in the background. This probably only makes sense if you also add:
3) A small window on the main menu (like in media portal) where you always see what is currently being played.
This would, in my opinion, make GBPVR a completely kill-all application. If I've understood the architecture of the application correctly, at least 1 and 2 shouldn't be too difficult, right?
About a week ago I started having problems with my EPG. I am in the US and using zap2it for information. I started loosing recordings a little while ago and traced the problem back to the EPG. Looks like either I am not getting all chanel info from zap2it or it is not being converted properly. I have tried clearing epg nad reloading info. Also tried deleting capture sources. Went so far as removing gbpvr, deleting old install directory and reinstalling.
WHen I create new capture source, all chanels are present. When I download epg data and go to the tv guide many chanels are missing. Missing chanels are listed both in my zap2it account and newly created capture source.
Any help would be appreciated. using 92.08? Newest version. Saw same problem on previous version.
I have two HP Nova T (90002) tuners in a Windows XP Pro system. They work with the ShowShifter demo. I am using the SS BDA Multiplexer. GB-PVR version 0.92.8.
I can set everything up and use it for music and videos. I can load the EPG and browse programs and schedule recordings.
When I go into configure -> Capture Sources -> Select either capture source and Edit -> Click Map digital channels to EPG channels - nothing happens. GB-PVR just sits there until I kill it with task manager.
Any idea what causes this?
FWIW I used to have an earlier release working with one Nova T but it had stuttering audio.
It would be great to have Forums for popular or even for all plugins so you could read all questions / support regarding a specific plugin without having to search around.
Authors of plugins could follow the threads and try to help if they have time.
I am using a CyberLink Remote which came with my ATI 550 card and i cannot get many of the buttons to work with the software. the back button does not work, channel up and down does not work, and i am having trouble getting the program feature to remember the keys i have "taught" the program. sometimes it will remember, other times ti will not.
I installed the newest version of GBPVR recently and noticed something strange with my set up. I have 2 capture cards - a pvr150 and a pvr250. When I configured the program, I was having problems with the recordings - the size of the recordings were 0kb. So I was checking to make sure the cards were set as device 1 and 2 and not both as 1, and decided to switch the order. After I switched the order, the recording works perfectly - no problems at all.
The initial configuration was as follows:
PVR150 - device #1
PVR250 - device #2
So I then switched the device number arrangement to:
PVR150 - device #2
PVR250 - device #1
Also, timeslot selection. If there are two 30 min shows say from 6:00 - 6:30 and 6:30 - 7:00 and the current time is 6:45, the default selection position is on the 6:00 - 6:30 show. Is there a way to auto advance it to the active timeslot?
