When I press pause to enter timsehift mode from live tv, gbpvr just hangs at the "please wait" message. If I luse Explorer to look in the buffer directory, the show is recording fine, I just can't watch it. What looks like the releavnt log extract is pasted below: I can see two potential problems. One is the message relating to filters, and the other is the message saying the buffer file is already in use. Any idea how I can fix this? It used to work fine.
I have a Lifeview FlyDVB-T PCI card installed, and am trying to use it with GB-PVR. I have managed to get it to scan for channels, and have mapped the channels to the EPG, getting the channel previews working in the appropriate box. However, when I run the application and try to watch TV, I get a message that "No capture-source was available to enable you to watch the requested channel". I don't know what I should be setting for my "channel changer", so that has been left as "no channel changer required". I can't see any other settings that are appropriate.
I live in London, UK, and my nearest transmitter is at Crystal Palace.
One of the major downers people have noted about using the Xcard is that you can't see your desktop when you exit GB PVR. It's my understanding that you can see the desktop in TVedia when using the Xcard. That would be a great feature for Xcard users.
I'm not clear on all the mechanisms at work here, but since the Xcard has a VGA in, I imagine that it would be possible to convert it to the SVideo or component out.
I just read thru 5 pages of search results and didn't find an answer. While watching a recording, fast forward works great, but rewind does nothing. I hit the button and playback is paused for a second or two and then resumes playing or sometimes I have to hit the play button so it'll start playing again. I've resorted to skipping back, then fast forwarding at double or triple speed but that sucks...
Since fast forward works good, I don't want to enable short skip.
For those of you who capture in mpeg and re-encode to divx/xvid, I have a question. What program or programs to you use to re-encode to avi? I am mostly looking for a freeware solution (yes, I'm poor!) but would consider purchasing a product if it was highly recommended and not too expensive. I have tried the mpeg version of virtualdub and vidomi but have not been too pleased with the results (scenes with movement not smooth, overall bad quality video). I'm not quite a newbie nor am I an expert so the program should be relatively easy to use. It's also quite possible that I'm not using the correct/best settings in virtualdub or vidomi.
I was (and still am) a little lost in the frequencies-sources-channels thingie. I live in belgium, so I needed to do a frequency copy. I used the frequencies of my provider (telenet) and used freq2reg and freg2xml to copy the data in the registry and in a xml-file.
This works quit good (I added a dummy channel first to gap the 0-channel).
I would like to use a second xmltv source to add epg information. This file is generated via pytvgrab and this works fine. But how can I map the channels of the second xmltv file to the channels of the first file? I used the same id in both files, but this doesn't seem to be sufficient.
In some part for the user, but as much for you, sub. It would take some extra coding to apply specific error msgs (where possible), but I think you'd cut back on some questions, and allow more experienced uses to help them in the forum.
I perfect example is the error you get when trying to watch TV while recording (and not knowing it). If the msg said "Recoding in progress", instead of what it says now, none of those people would bring the error here.
Just wondering if someone could advise me. I've just installed DVD2MPG on my machine so that I can convert my DVD's to mpg which will allow me to view them through tv-out on my hp350.
When I convert to mpg I'm getting the resulting mpg file larger than I expect. When I converted a DVD which had VOB's adding up to about 4Gb the resulting mpg was around 7Gb which seemed large to me.
Is this typical ?
I'm a little limited on space with my current set-up does anyone know a way of reducing the quality and therefore the size of the resulting mpg files.
I am using the standard Skin (Blue) with GB-PVR but this seems to occur with any skin
I am viewing the TV guide and have the cursor set on the first channel in the guide. If I move the cursor up I would have expected the channel guide to scroll to the last channel. But instead I get the error Object reference etc.
Anybody encountered this or have any idea what it could be?
OK, my hardware just arrived (pvr-500 and mediamvp). For now I decided to do a fresh install on xp sp2 on a 9800xt system.
Everything went fine, and I had all my drivers working just fine. I installed the pvr stuff, the mediamvp stuff, and it all worked (from what I could tell anyway).
Then I downloaded the latest version of gbpvr (see pic 1), and the I noticed that when I went to run the config tool, a bunch of text was "missing" where there should be text. (see pic 2, 3 and 4). I just took 3 pictures to give you an idea as to the problem. The missing text only seems to be within the config program and everything else seems to be functioning properly.
I am somewhat stuck now since I can't proceed since I can't tell what buttons are what
Can someone please have a look at these pics and give me some ideas as to what I can try next? The display drivers are the latest I downloaded from the web.
