Not really sure if this is a bug or not, but last night after my power went out and the computer rebooted, GBPVR recorded a program, but there was no audio in the stream. No unusual errors were reported in the log file.

I was able to get audio back, but I had to first go into the TV application that came with the Walker and then record a program in GBPVR. The recorded program then had the audio stream recorded.

Ended up losing one of my wife's programs, but that isn't a huge deal, she's almost two weeks behind on watching them anyway.

Sub, any idea why the sound was missing before I went into the TV software that came with the Walker?

Anyone got an existing skin, or know how to make a two column main menu?
With about 8 plugins, and 14 items on screen, I still have to scroll. It would be nice if there were two (or more) columns available on the screen.
I just wanted a piece of sample code, as I'm not quite sure where to start myself.
TIA.

I had 91.8 installed on 2 machines. I used to fairly regularly run 2 copies, one serving the MVP which is always running as a service, and then another displayed on the PC as needed.

I upgraded to 91.11 last night, and I noticed that when I start a second gbpvr process now, it uses up all the available CPU and does nothing, until I kill it.

I thought it might be a bad install, so I did a fresh install, but it's still doing the same thing.

The other PC still has 91.8 installed, and I have no problems running more than 1 copy there.

Edit:

Seems to be somehow related to the "plugin panels". I commented them out of the skin I'm using and it starts and I can interact with it, but it consumes all available CPU still. When I exit, the GUI goes away, but the process continues to run consuming all the CPU.

Tried the standard Blue skin, and it does the same thing.

I turned on debug in the logs, but I'm not seeing anything unexpected.

Edit 2:

Figured it out. I had set the service to run as my user account, otherwise I had issues accessing networked shares. The re-install put the service back on the system account.

If you run the MVP server on the system account, and then run a gbpvr process on your user account, the 2nd gbpvr process eats up all the CPU.

Why can't we use a modded xbox as the front end for GB-PVR? I would say it would be easy for the Xbox media center project to be extended to play the media being streamed from GB-PVR. This way the component video and optical audio connections of the xbox can be used. And used xboxes are not much more expensive than the mvp these days.

I'm curious as to what people are using to edit out the padding at the beginning and end of recorded shows.

In most cases, I don't mind the extra bits, as the file is erased after watching, but for videos that I want to keep, it would be great to edit out the extra video content without doing re-coding of the source.

Are there any inexpensive video tools for manually cutting out the padding and/or commercials without recoding the source.

Wrocky

I'm trying to use a Nova-t 9002 Digital card with the latest version of GBPVR and the sound is stuttering in live tv mode. It's just impossible to listen to the audio but video is perfect. When I carried out the installation and mapped the channels, the odd tv channel showed on a small window and the sound was perfect.

I'm using the latest Hauppauge 1.3 drivers, Directx 9c, dotnet 1.1 and the latest cyberlink mux filters. I've also tried a clean installation too. This card works ok with Win-Tv & Media Portal but nothing beats GB-PVR for me.

Can anyone help ??

I saw mention that a few of you are using the gyration mouse. How well does it work off the desk? Is it easy to hit the area you are aiming for?

Hi,

I have a Lifeview Walker mini USB tuner and am trying to make it work with the GB-PVR. Apart from the problem of not working yet (Live TV is black...but this might be me not using it right), I have noticed that there is no option to select the Walker in the Tuning Assistant. All the other choices end up with a report of a mistake and a frozen Assistant.

Is the Tuning Assistant just not compatible with the Walker or might this be due to something else?

Thanks!

[WIN 2000, GBPVR09010, Walker drivers 1.6]
(will try the newest GB-PVR version in a few days..)

Hi all,

I'm having lots of trouble installing the BDA drivers for my NOVA-T card. I'm unable to find any instructions on how to do it, so far I've been:

1. Removing the Hauppauge drivers using 'hcwclean'
2. Rebooting and waiting for the 'new hardware found' dialogue.
3. Pointing towards my previously extracted drivers obtained from here: http://www.technotrend.de/new/sdk/bda_MCE2005_new.zip
4. Selecting for a manual selection of hardware

And that's where I get lost, I don't know which of the INFs to point to

So I ran into a problem last night.

When I ran gbpvr I saw the windows installer start up and do somethings before gbpvr came up. When it did the EPG was deleted and all of the ScheduledRecordings were gone.

Has anyone seen this? I am not running the latest release yet. I will post the release number when I get home.

On a side note for sub.

On one of my development machines without a capture source in the latest versions I can not add one anymore.

I get an exception with

System.ArgumentException: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: "BDA Recording Plugin" Key being added: "BDA Recording Plugin"
at System.Collections.Hashtable.Insert(Object key, Object nvalue, Boolean add)
at System.Collections.Hashtable.Add(Object key, Object value)
at bg.m(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)