what are your fav games to play on your htpc?
im trying to find some good console type games i can play using a gamepad and my htpc. also curious to what you guys like?

my favs
- Need for Speed Underground 1
- Lesiure Suit Larry 8
- Quest for Glory V (oldie but goodie)
- Prince of Persia 2 (came with my gfx card, really cool game)
- Need for Speed Underground 2 Demo

seems that when i record i get a bunch of graphical glitches, a combination of lines being skued, and blocks of video being strange. Anyone have suggestions?

Hi guys,

well, I have tried GB-PVR over the last couple of weeks, including the new version released yesterday and there are two problems I cannot seem to solve so I though I might ask here.

I have a Hauppauge PVR500 dual tuner card by the way.

First problem is that audio always lags video in liveTV mode (and subsequent recordings of course). I have already done a forum search on this topic and the solutions I found (defrag harddisc and/or add a registry switch for the TV card driver) did not help at all.

Also, I am 100% sure that this is a problem inside GB-PVR. Why? Because I have tried many other programs (Dscaler, Mediaportal, SageTV, ChrisTV) and all those programs work fine. No AV sync issues there.

So if on the same system, same drivers, same time etc. 4 programs work fine and one does not, where is the solution usually ?

I have tried to change various default settings for the card but could not find any setting that influences AV sync. Maybe someone can give me a hint ?

Second problem is that picture quality is worse in GB PVR than in those other apps I mentioned and this is due to interlacing artefacts that are visible in GB_VCR even though I have the "deinterlacing filter" active for the LivePreview mode.

Dscaler obviously has the best quality but even ChrisTV, Mediaportal and SageTV without Dscaler filters are way better than GB-PVR. I changed the default bit rate values for the card but these obviously do not help with interlacing artefacts.

I do not want to use ffdshow for deinterlacing, maybe there could be alternatives (like integrate Dscaler filters etc.) arranged for in the future.
Maybe someone can help out a bit !

Thanks,
Alex

with the new aspect ratios you can easily switch between the defined aspect ratios. but ive found that i keep switching to certain ones, for certain videos. i have a widescreen tv. and ive created a aspect ratio that shrinks width (so the overscan part of the image is shown, so the image appears tall and skinny) and then stretched the height, this gives me a simulated widescreen effect, which is great for tv in most situations. i could set this to the default ratio, but i have a lot of xvids, which are all widescreen 640x350 (or around that), which i use the normal aspect ratio for 0,0,1,1. it would be nice if you gbpvr detected the aspect ratio of the video, and automatically switched to that aspect ratio for that given file or live tv. you will still need to switch manually sometimes, for widescreen broadcasts which have the black bars. but in general it will be automatic.

How much memory are you runnng on your PVR?

I'm not talking about general use machines that have GB-PVR running on them. I have built a dedicated box that is to run in the lounge. It presently is using 512MBytes of DDR (2700 speed) ram and has space for one more stick. A second stick will enable the dual channel mode on the nForce 2 chipset, which may or may not be a good thing!

When I bring the unit out of standbye, or access the unit after a recording, the hard drive thrashes away and it takes some time before I can get the desktop back, even when 'comskip' is not using all those cpu cycles. Would more memory help? If I transfer an mpeg file over the network, every 500meg or so of file the network transfer slows down to a crawl for a few seconds, then goes back to normal.

Oh I'm running XP SP2, an XP2400+ and a 160Gig Samsung drive, not the quietest when the heads are seeking I must say!

Hello Sub

Got problems with 0.91 and recording bda. All worked fine in previous version (once I'd trackdown a suitable demultiplexor) but the new version records 0kb files again :-(

I noticed the new box on the "Misc" tab where you could choose the multiplexer but Ive tried all 3 and none work.

Any ideas?

Brian

I had problems with some menu items, the weather and shutdown plug-ins did not work at all. Now it seems that the reason is that gbpvr.exe is started with the start.exe command from a command script I have made. This script updates the XMLTV file just before loading gbpvr.exe with the UdateEPG parameter.

If I start gbpvr.exe by using the shortcut from the Start Menu (Start -> Programs -> GB-PVR -> GB-PVR) all menu items is working great.

Does any of you developers know the difference in starting up the program by either a shortcut in Start Menu og by a command script using the start.exe ?

I have tried to chage the working directory to where GB-PVR is installed. That didn't do any difference.

Personally, I LOVE the Media Experience Skin--it's beautiful. Anyway, one thing that I wish it had is a recording panel (is that what they call it??). Basically, some of the skins have something on the top or the side that says "recording soon" or they show what is currently recording. I would love that to be included in the next release of the ME Skin.

First off, I'm still using 0.90.10, but I can't find anything in the changelogs for 0.91 about this, so I assume it hasn't :-) If the behavior is different in 0.91, my apologies.

Previously, when you schedule to recordings from say 7.00 to 7.30 and 7.30 to 8.00 respectively, any padding at around 7.30 was ignored, and the first one would end at 7.30, the next one start at 7.30. Since I haven't had the time to investigate this, I don't know what the status on this behavior is in recent versions of gbpvr.

What I did yesterday was to first schedule a show at 7.30 to 8.00. Then, we were watching a show (not through gbpvr, though) that was on between 7.00 and 7.30, and then my kid demanded my attention, so I decided I'd let gbpvr record the rest of the show. This was at around 7.20. So I entered the EPG and asked it to do a quick record of the show. I have a 5 minute post padding on by default. This first recording then started, and went on until 7.35, at which time show number two started to record. The two shows were on different channels, if that makes any difference.

Is this behavior by design? And does it apply to two shows scheduled on beforehand, or only when you start recording a show after it's already begun?  

Hi,

I a newbie in this field, so please do not flame me if has been discussed to death.

I'm buying a PVR250 (retail) and I plan to set up a box in my home as an experimental PVR with GB-PVR. Now, in phase I of my plan, I will hook up my coax to the Hauppauge card. Up here in Canada, cable operators carry 30 FM signals in the 88-108 MHz range (cable 95, 96 and 97).

So here is the question: without resorting to a specialized FM tuner, would it be possible to hack the registry to tune in to those frequencies, using FreqCopy or otherwise?

Thanks in advance

Claude