The title says it all really. I've been playing with a FM Radio setup (just messing about in GraphEdit so far but thinking about coding it). It occured to me that it would be neat if I could pull the station name, genre etc. out of the RDS stream. Anyone know if RDS info is available from cards such as the PVR350/500 etc.?
Hi there,
I've got a Nova-t usb (908) bought from scan
I cant seem to get GBPVR to link up to it i.e I get a channel information not known when I try Live TV. It works fine with the Hauppauge software and I have also tried the drivers from here
I cant see it listed at all in the pvr config am I doomed from the start or am I missing something.
Thanks
My PVR-150's picture quality is a problem! I'm sorry if this post is too long, but this problem could kill my PVR. The problem could be the AIW output, but I think the PVR-150 is the culprit.
Does anyone else notice these symptoms?
1) The dynamic range is insufficient. Highs and lows are clipped and details are lost. Bright areas are washed-out and dark areas are black voids.
2) subtle differences in cotrast are lost. People's faces end up looking cartoony in many instances, with their faces being reduced to a single washed-out color looking like they are wearing a ton of peach-colored makeup.
3) The card seems to have a real hard time making all channels look good at the same time. One channel will look overly-contrasty with extreme highs and lows, while another, with the same settings, lacks contrast and looks flat and muddy.
My expectation was that a PVR would be able to produce video nearly identical to the original. I know this is possible because my APEX DVD+RW produces EXCELLENT output even at the 1Gb/hr mode. Is this a reasonable expectation of a PVR?
Some more detail:
*I spent 4 hours tweaking the ATI output and PVR-150 settings (with the Hauppauge tweak tool). I could not find any settings that came even close to the quality of the APEX DVD+RW's. The tweak tool's "sharpness" setting didn't appear to have any effect.
*I can adjust the settings to see details in the highs or lows, but not both at the same time. This proves the detail IS there, which would indicate this is more of an AIW problem.
*However, when I adjust to see dark details, it looks HORRIBLE. I get MPEG2 artifacting, graininess, and horrible gradients. This would indicate it is more of a PVR-150 encoding problem.
*Computer images coming from the AIW look GREAT on the TV. Photos are sharp and have plenty of detail, indicating the AIW CAN do it.
*I've only been using "high" quality, but haven't significantly changed GB-PVR's settings for "High". Upping the bitrate didn't seem to make much of a difference.
*"LiveTV" produces these same contrast and detail problems as recorded TV, but since I notice some MPEG2 artifacting I'm guessing there IS MPEG2 encoding/decoding going on even in LiveTV that isn't being timeshifted.
*reducing the contrast in the Hauppauge Tweak tool helped the clipping of the highs and lows, but produced a horribly flat-looking non-contrasty image. There's no middle ground! Also, some channels might look fine in one contrast while others look horrible. But, somehow, the TV and APEX DVD+RW seem to make it work.
*The tweak-tool's static spatial filter (whatever that is) can't be changed to dynamic. It always changes back to static.
*I get the same picture quality problem with Hauppauge WinTV program
*Cartoons look EXCELLENT! PVR-150+AIW reproduces sharp changes in contrast and color very well.
*I *think* I've tried different MPEG2 codecs (Intervideo, Intervideo nonCCS, default which I assume is the Hauppauge installed one). But I don't know how to get GB-PVR to see additional ones.
*If a show's lighting is JUST right, it looks pretty good, but could be more sharp.
*I've tried 800x600, 720x480, and 640x480. Always 32-bit color, nothing looks any better than anything else.
*Trust me that the TV is set up right
*I tested composite video to see if there was an s-video problem. Composite looked worse.
I need help!
1) Can a hauppauge PVR-150 be expected to produce quality as good as an APEX DVD+RW? Should it look really close to live TV?
2) Are ATI AIW Radeon's notable for good or bad TV-Out quality? Are there better?
3) Should I be trying another MPEG2 decoder?
4) Do the symptoms I'm describing (with clipping, overly contrasty, washed-out colors) indicate a problem that can be solved with different Hauppauge settings that maybe aren't available in the tweak tool?
5) Can post processing help? How do you set up fdshow?
6) Or does everyone have these problems and I need to learn to get over it?
i tried to figure out how the jpeg-files have to be named to be displayed in the myMusic-Icons-view... as it seems there is no documentation available and (sadly) the plugin itself is not open source, i have to ask here...
or am i just too stupid to find the documentation? :-)
I've recently installed the latest release of GB-PVR. Unfortunately the OSD is very dark, it was OK until the last install. Does anyone have any ideas?
Just wanted to say hi to everyone and share how excited I am. I've spent the last month researching and testing all the top PVR packages. I ended up here and all I can say is wow... GB-PVR is by far the most flexible and stable PVR I have used.
A big high five to all the skin developers and everyone here for that matter. I have gleaned a ton of knowledge here in the last few weeks. I tried every skin available and decided I'd try to roll my own based on bits and pieces from several skins that I liked. I hope that is OK?
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