I've often been curious about what sort of cases etc people are using in the HTPC setup. If you've got a digital camera, how about you post us a pic or two so we can all have a look?
Its bit bright outside, and my digital camera seems to be doing a crap job photographing my setup, but I'll upload some photos later today.
Below is an interesting shot of one of my bookcase shelves. I also have several other devices that are not shown here.
Downloaded TV guide from BLEB, there are 2 channels called ITV2 one is on 36 and another 54, these seem to show fine in the PVR engine on screen as 2 channels one above the other, on the WEB END it combines the channels to ONE LINE making this line twice as long as the others and leaves a blue background where there isnt any data on the other lines to fill.
But it looks like it isnt showing BOTH channels its taking one and printing the listing twice.
Where on one channel there isnt anything at a certain time it says "CLOSE" as the program title.
Can get screen dumps if needed, also means the navigation button for RIGHT is well off the screen by a whole screen amount as 2 channels are on one line making it twice the width (although it isnt showing both channels contents).
First, please bear with my stupidity... This is the first time I've really done any windows coding... I'm really keen on learning though. So anyway I thought I would dig into Fast Find and try and redesign the keyboard. Having said that I was wondering if you might be able to tell how I can go about centering the text inside the buttons on the on screen keyboard.
Somewhere in the back of my mind I thought I saw a mention of this but can't find the post.
Am I right in thinking that if you have more than one tuner that XRecord will take into consideration the pre/post padding and schedule back to back recordings on the different tuners rather than the default GB-PVR approach to put them both on the default tuner?
120gb WD HD
256 mb ram
Hauppauge 350
EPIA 6000
win2k
Antenna TV
Here's the issue. I can select a channel, and it will start to play. But any time I go back to "home" the whole computer will crash on me. I did not know if there are any tweaks or things to do to increase performance, or conflicts that might be going on. I believe I have the latest downloads from shpvr. It's starting to get a little frustrating. Thanks in advance
Sorry if these suggestions have previously been requested or can be done, but I would like to see a couple of (minor?) improvements to the Net Radio capability.
- Ability to group stations together, preferably by Net Radio understanding and being able to navigate through directories
- Ability to specify the storage location. It would be nice to store the pls files in a chosen location, rather under the 'Net Radio' directory where they can easily be forgotten and wiped out during re-installation etc.
I've recently started to build a PVR. I'm using GB-PVR (obviously) on XP on an Athlon 1.4 GHz, 512 MB machine. GB-PVR works fine by itself, but if I try to enable ffdshow, even with it not doing anything, my cpu usage goes to 100% on video playback. Do I just not have enough power to run it? Or is something else going on?
Also, does GB-PVR not use ffdshow during time-shifted live TV? During recorded show playback, I can put ffdshow info up on the OSD, but during live TV (time-shift on), I can't show anything up on the OSD and I don't go to 100% cpu, like I do during recorded playback.
I have a weeny problem that when I try to access Live TV, all of a sudden I get the following message:
"Error: Failure playing back file"
Now, the last thing I changed was the Live TV buffer dir, but tele worked the first time I tried after that, and from then on it doesn't. Even if I uninstall and reinstall GB-PVR, nothing. I changed the buffer dir to "C:\LiveTV Buffer", perhaps it doesn't like spaces?
Anyway, here's my "GBPVR.exe-native-1.log" log:
01:19:10.203 INFO Log started
01:19:10.203 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard()
01:19:10.203 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(OutputMode)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(TVStandard)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(ForceHDTV)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE Using vertical resolution: 576
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(LiveTVPrePlayDelay)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(XCardOSDMarginLeft)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(XCardOSDMarginTop)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(XCardOSDMarginBottom)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(XCardOSDMarginRight)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(XCardOSDHighQualityOSD)
01:19:37.656 VERBOSE Original flags: 00000003
01:19:37.656 VERBOSE Setting PAL mode
01:19:37.656 VERBOSE New flags: 00000003
01:19:37.656 VERBOSE Setting CVBS mode
01:19:37.656 VERBOSE mode: 00000003
01:19:37.781 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap()
01:19:37.875 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap() done
...
01:19:56.500 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard::playFile C:\TV-1-120050313_0100.mpg
01:19:56.906 VERBOSE Stopping previous graph
01:19:56.906 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:19:56.968 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:19:57.250 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap()
01:19:57.343 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap() done
...
01:21:20.593 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard::playFile C:\TV-1-120050313_0100-2.mpg
01:21:21.015 VERBOSE Stopping previous graph
01:21:21.015 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:21:21.046 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:21:21.296 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap()
01:21:21.390 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap() done
...
01:22:17.234 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard::playFile C:\TV-1-120050313_0100-2.mpg
01:22:17.656 VERBOSE Stopping previous graph
01:22:17.656 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:22:17.671 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:22:17.937 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap()
01:22:18.031 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap() done
...
01:22:46.734 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
And heres (what I assume is the relevant bit of) my "GBPVR.exe.log" log:
13/03/2005 12:40:03.265 VERBOSE [2] HideMouse ref=-1
13/03/2005 12:40:06.437 VERBOSE [2] RecordLiveTV: 1
13/03/2005 12:40:08.656 VERBOSE [2] About to play LiveTV File: C:\LiveTV\TV-1-120050313_1200.mpg Channel: Galaxy 102.2 (Birmingham)
13/03/2005 12:40:08.656 VERBOSE [2] Before LiveTV Play
13/03/2005 12:40:09.140 ERROR [2] Error: msg=0x100 (WM_KEYDOWN) hwnd=0x5013c wparam=0xd lparam=0x1c0001 result=0x0 : Failure playing back file : at NativeUtilities.MediaHelper.playVideoFile(String filename, Form form)
at aw.a(Channel A_0)
at aw.k()
at bk.d()
at al.e()
at cc.a(KeyEventArgs A_0)
at cc.a(KeyEventArgs A_0)
at p.a(Object A_0, KeyEventArgs A_1)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyEventArgs(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmKeyChar(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at p.a(Message& A_0)
13/03/2005 12:40:09.187 VERBOSE [2] StopLiveTV()
I assume it's something to do with the live tv buffer, but I don't know what, or how to fix it! :S
problem:
TV channel numbers are mixed up. I can select a program in the TV guide and choose "watch". On my TV, I get picture and sound, but unfortunately, the wrong channel.
My idea was to run tuning assistant to find channels, write numbers down and fix it in GB-PVR.
Tuning assistant obviously finds channels but does not show anything on my computer monitor, so I have no idea WHAT was found.
A quick question regarding using PostProcessing.bat to transcode recordings to another format and comskip.
If I use comskip, and I also call a script to transcode the latest mpeg to DivX format, presumably both the divx encoding program and comskip will be attempting to access the same file at the same time. Can anyone see this causing problems?
The reason I ask is because ever since I set my transcoding script up I'm finding that my programmes no longer have any comskip markers on in GBPVR.
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