I've been using a Media MVP for the past few months for my music collection, and tried out gb pvr this week, and I'm really impressed. so impressed I'm going to buy a tv card. Am in UK and would like to be able to record freeview so am thinking of wintv nova-t (pci). after browsing the boards this morning I'd just like something clarified -
I understand that freeview(uk digital terrestrial) is broadcast in mpeg so there is no need for hardware mpeg encoding. does this mean there is no advantage to using a hardware encoder e.g. wintv-pvr 150 and a freeview box, rather than just a wintv nova-t card?
also if anyone has any other suggestions of cards/opinions on the nova etc I'd really like to hear them
Posted by: thobastian - 2005-04-28, 08:05 AM - Forum: MVP & NMT
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Hi !
I have installed my gbpvr system for 1 year but I had a tv card with no gbpvr-support. Now I have the Hauppauge Nova-S SE and have a little install problem. I see no tv picture on my mvp! :-) I see the channel list but mapping didnt work and on the tv I received the message, that my skin is miss.
I know the very small docu in the gbpvr wiki, but that didn´t help.
Can somebody help me and make a short step by step docu incl. osd (like XMLTV) and so on ...?
Hi
I have a symantec personal firewall. It wont allow me to watch tv for example because it cant the front end cant connect to the gbpvrrecordingservice.
What ports need to be enabled? i did some digging and came up with these:
webserver (whatever you chose in config)
GBPVRRecordingservice.exe remote localhost:3360 local 7968
GBPVRTray.exe remote localhost:7968 local localhost:3360
and created a rule for these, but no joy. :p Can someone tell me if I am on the right track?
I just recently built myself a media center (1.8GHz P4, 512MB) and have everything setup great. I installed GB-PVR (most recent version) last weekend and had no problems setting up the system. I am using software decoding plug-in (running WinTV GO model 190) and the Moonlight MPEG2 encoder. I have been able to record shows until yesterday.
When I go into the TV Guide and select a show to record, as soon as I press record the program locks (shows it not repsonding in task manager). IF I shut down the recording service and GBPVRtray icon the program comes back saying "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it". This is with the tray program shut off or activated.
I looked in the GBPVR.exe log the first time it hung and it shows after hitting record it was sending command to reset the GBtray recording service but it locked up. I even reinstalled the program and plugins and reset up the program but it still locks up. Any ideas? Like I said, it was running fine for a week then started hanging up. Thanks!
Is there a way to force VMR9 in live TV preview mode without editing filter merits ? I notice VMR7 (Video Renderer) gets loaded even though VMR9 is selected in playback tab. VMR9 only seems to get connected once timeshift mode is started.
11:41:40.546 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
11:41:40.546 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
11:41:40.546 VERBOSE - Hauppauge WinTV Color Format Converter 2
11:41:40.546 VERBOSE - Capture
11:41:40.546 VERBOSE - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
11:41:40.546 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
11:41:40.546 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done
11:41:40.546 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playLiveStream(pGB, 'Color Converter', 'Out', 'Encoder', 'MPEG', 'Capture', 'Audio Out', hwnd)
11:41:40.546 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer)
11:41:40.546 VERBOSE audio renderer filter: Default DirectSound Device
11:41:40.593 VERBOSE getSetting(DeinterlaceMethod)
11:41:40.609 VERBOSE FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: None
11:41:40.640 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
11:41:40.640 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
11:41:40.640 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
11:41:40.640 VERBOSE - Default DirectSound Device
11:41:40.640 VERBOSE - Hauppauge WinTV Color Format Converter 2
11:41:40.640 VERBOSE - Capture
11:41:40.640 VERBOSE - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
11:41:40.640 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
11:41:40.671 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playLiveStream() done
11:41:40.671 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerVMR9:howTeletext()
11:41:40.671 VERBOSE Removing WST Decoder and WST Codec
11:42:02.078 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StopRecording()
Also can somebody explain the deinterlacing options available via preview mode. I cannot seem to get the encoder-passthrough method to work on my 150MCE.
11:52:05.218 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
11:52:05.218 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
11:52:05.218 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
11:52:05.218 VERBOSE - Encoder
11:52:05.218 VERBOSE - Capture
11:52:05.218 VERBOSE - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
11:52:05.218 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
11:52:05.218 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done
11:52:05.218 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playLiveStream(pGB, 'MPEG-2 Demultiplexer', 'Video Pin', 'Color Converter', 'Out', 'MPEG-2 Demultiplexer', 'Audio Pin', hwnd)
11:52:05.218 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer)
11:52:05.250 VERBOSE audio renderer filter: Default DirectSound Device
11:52:05.250 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredDecoder)
11:52:05.312 VERBOSE video decoder filter: NVIDIA Video Decoder
11:52:05.312 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredDecoder)
11:52:05.328 VERBOSE video decoder filter: NVIDIA Video Decoder
11:52:05.359 VERBOSE getSetting(DeinterlaceMethod)
11:52:05.375 VERBOSE FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: Encoder pass-through
I have started to create a perl module for accessing the GBPVR (and Video Archive plugin db) database based upon Class::DBI and DBD::ODBC. The goal is to provide an easy-to-use object-oriented interface for both reading and writing (w/transactions) to the database where knowledge of actual SQL or schema is not required.
I'm posting the initial creation here and would welcome comments/discussion, specifically:
Is this a good thing to have?
Will you use it?
Do you have specific uses in mind?
Do you have any comment on the structure (names space, method names, relationships, etc)?
Comments on TODO items in the doc
Attached is a zip with the .pm and docuemention in POD and HTML formats with many more details.
As a short summary, these are the table classes provided:
[INDENT] GBPVR::CDBI::RecordingSchedule
GBPVR::CDBI::Programme
GBPVR::CDBI::PlaybackPosition
GBPVR::CDBI::Channel
GBPVR::CDBI::CaptureSource
GBPVR::CDBI::VA::ArchiveTable
[/INDENT]
And here are a few snippets to help illustrate the usage:
Code:
use GBPVR;
# search listings for titles of Star*
@rows = GBPVR::CDBI::Programme->search_like(name => 'Star%');
# find recorded shows
@rows = GBPVR::CDBI::RecordingSchedule->search(status => 2);
# find and output details for pending recordings
my @rows = GBPVR::CDBI::RecordingSchedule->search(status => 0);
@rows = sort { $a->manual_start_time cmp $b->manual_start_time } @rows;
foreach my $row (@rows){
printf "%-20s %8s %s - '%s'\n",
$row->manual_start_time,
$row->programme_oid->channel_oid->name,
$row->programme_oid->name,
$row->programme_oid->sub_title;
printf " %s\n", $row->programme_oid->description;
}
I don't realy know where to put this so I ask in here.
I have a gamepad that I hoped I can use with GB. Are there any plugin or somewhere you can use the gamepad to navigate thrue the menues?
If not are there possible to do an plugin that can navigate thrue ALL the menues or just the one you write the plugin for?
Firstly, let me thank Sub for an otherwise excellent program. GB-PVR is very close to being a pay-worthy program. I think with enough people working the bugs out GB-PVR could offer some stiff competition. Anyways, back to my problem....
OK, the BAD :mad: : The sound loses sync with the video on LiveTV. No matter what combination of decoders I try, the sound will not stay synchronized. The included Cyberlink PowerEnema software doesn't lose sound synchronization, so this seems to be a GB-PVR issue. The following are my choices for software MPEG-2 playback:
===Video Decoder===
System Default
NVIDIA Video Decoder
Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder
The GOOD : Oh, WOW does my TV look good with the PowerDVD 6 decoder! Cyberlinkâs CLEV-2 decodes better than anything I have ever seen. The colors and contrast are simply amazing! And this is coming from a guy who has been using Dscaler for years! This is why Iâd like to get GB-PVR working with my Theater 550 Pro. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My RIG:
Abit NF7-S
AMD Athlon XP @ 2.4 Ghz (actual)
1 GB PC3200
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 NU (driver 71.89 WHQL)
200GB x 2 Seagate 7200.7
MSI Theater 550 Pro (driver 6.14.10.66 WHQL)
WinXP SP2 (fully updated)
howTeletext()
: Oh, WOW does my TV look good with the PowerDVD 6 decoder! Cyberlinkâs CLEV-2 decodes better than anything I have ever seen. The colors and contrast are simply amazing! And this is coming from a guy who has been using Dscaler for years! This is why Iâd like to get GB-PVR working with my Theater 550 Pro. Any help would be greatly appreciated.