The Sample PriorityRecordings.xml on theCDKScheduler page seems out of date.

I get a lot of missing entries when using it, can anyone upload a more recent version?

Hi - any advice for a newbie most welcome - I just posted on Hardware board but realised this might be the more appropriate one

I have scanned the site but have not found the answers - apologies if they have already been covered.

I am researching venturing into the GB-PVR world and am a bit daunted/worried I'll buy a load of kit and not be able to put it together\get it to work! (the most complex tech install I've done todate was a Wireless G card and router and that took a while to work! The key things i want to be able to do are:

- record, pause etc on my ntl digital tv pack (but on the TV)
- in the longer term prob add Freeview so I can watch one and record the other

What I have now:
- NTL digital pack with PACE decoder
- TV with Video S, normal coaxial, SCART etc input sockets
- ACER TravelMate 240 laptop 2.8GHz Celeron processor, Windows XP, 256MB RAM and Intel Extreme Graphics 2 card (no TV-out), 10Gig free harddisk space
- Linksys wireless-G card and WAG54G ADSL gateway

My plan is to use GB-PVR with:
- Hauppauge WinTV-USB2.0 - to get TV signal from NTL box to laptop
- Media MVP (possibly via the wireless-G gateway box) for output from laptop to TV
- In the longer term phase II add e.g. Hauppauge WinTV Nova USB digital for Freeview and USB-UIRT to control the NTL box

Total cost for the first phase will be around GBP100 and the same for phase II

My questions if anyone can help are:

1) Complexity\system?

- How much tech expertise will I need to get this to work - e.g. should I be less ambitious and go for Tivo which would have the same functionality as my phase I, have many fewer cables (never good for a laptop! but cost more!!
-Will my computer system be able to cope (good enough Graphics card, enough memory etc)?

2) right kit for TV signal input?

- will the WinTV-USB2.0 be ok or will I need the WinTV-PVR-USB2.0 (I'm not sure on the difference except around GBP50!?- details in links below:
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/product..._usb2.html
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/product...rusb2.html
- Are these the right ones for input (with stereo sound/good TV quality) from an NTL digital box or is there a better solution?
- I assume that to control the NTL box I will need USB-UIRT - I see from their website their sold out at the mo -any other way to get one?

3) Right kit for output?

- Is there a better option than the Media MVP at GBP50? E.g. a PC to TV Converter at GBP35 (I assume GB-PVR would work with this):
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.....doy=6m3
- The advantage of the Media MVP is I assume that I can control the computer via the MVP remote to access music and photos too and may be able to contect it via the Linksys Wireless G. Any thoughts?

4) Incorporating Freeview

- Will WinTV Nova USB work with this system? Any other option better?

Many thanks in advance for your thoughts!

Tim

Using the latest version of GB-PVR with a Hauppaugu PVR-350 in th UK running Windows 2003 server.

The first problem i get is when i tune channels in using the analog aerial. I get the EG updates, I tell GB-PVR on which tuning channels the 5 terrestial channels are on (using the channel numbers from WinTV2000). All of the channels work apart from Channel Five.

When i go into LiveTV, I can surf through the channels, BBC1 (using hauppauge tuning channel 22) BBC2 (25) ITV1 (31) and Channel 4 (29) and it displays the correct channel and the programme information, but when i turn to Channel Five (hauppauge tuning ch 18) it just displays the previous channels picture but with channels 5's programme information.

It does this if i surf through upwards or downwards, so Channel Five always displays either BBC1 or Channel 4.

IT also does this if I schedule a recording on Channel 5, it will record the correct time slot, name it correctly, but it will record the channel that the tuner was last on.

This channel displays fine through both WinTV32 and WinTV2000.


I have also tried to use the Cable tuning function (as I am using the NTL cable feed for my UHF aerial, I found out I can use cable tuning and get the terrestial channels and a few others (paramount, TCM).

Now when i do this, no channels display at all, they just display static, though I am using the same channel tuning specs from Wintv2000 and in winTV the channels display perfectly.

Any ideas?

OTher than that, wicked program, thanks for writing.

I have been using GBPVR for 3 months and I am very happy with it. The only problem I have is that I cannot record at 720x480. I have changed all of the Quality Profile Settings in GBPVR config to 720x480, but when I view the files I have recorded, they are still at 640x480. This would not be a problem for me except that this makes it take much longer to burn DVDs with the Ulead software.

I am using Windows XP, GBPVR 0.23.13
My capture card is a Hauppauge PVR-150 retail, NTSC

Has anyone had the same experience and know the solution?

Thanks,
Zunder

Hi - any advice for a newbie most welcome

I have scanned the site but have not found the answers - apologies if they have already been covered.

I am researching venturing into the GB-PVR world and am a bit daunted/worried I'll buy a load of kit and not be able to put it together\get it to work! (the most complex tech install I've done todate was a Wireless G card and router and that took a while to work! The key things i want to be able to do are:

- record, pause etc on my ntl digital tv pack (but on the TV)
- in the longer term prob add Freeview so I can watch one and record the other

What I have now:
- NTL digital pack with PACE decoder
- TV with Video S, normal coaxial, SCART etc input sockets
- ACER TravelMate 240 laptop 2.8GHz Celeron processor, Windows XP, 256MB RAM and Intel Extreme Graphics 2 card (no TV-out), 10Gig free harddisk space
- Linksys wireless-G card and WAG54G ADSL gateway

My plan is to use GB-PVR with:
- Hauppauge WinTV-USB2.0 - to get TV signal from NTL box to laptop
- Media MVP (possibly via the wireless-G gateway box) for output from laptop to TV
- In the longer term phase II add e.g. Hauppauge WinTV Nova USB digital for Freeview and USB-UIRT to control the NTL box

Total cost for the first phase will be around GBP100 and the same for phase II

My questions if anyone can help are:

1) Complexity\system?

- How much tech expertise will I need to get this to work - e.g. should I be less ambitious and go for Tivo which would have the same functionality as my phase I, have many fewer cables (never good for a laptop! but cost more!!
-Will my computer system be able to cope (good enough Graphics card, enough memory etc)?

2) right kit for TV signal input?

- will the WinTV-USB2.0 be ok or will I need the WinTV-PVR-USB2.0 (I'm not sure on the difference except around GBP50!?- details in links below:
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/product..._usb2.html
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/product...rusb2.html
- Are these the right ones for input (with stereo sound/good TV quality) from an NTL digital box or is there a better solution?
- I assume that to control the NTL box I will need USB-UIRT - I see from their website their sold out at the mo -any other way to get one?

3) Right kit for output?

- Is there a better option than the Media MVP at GBP50? E.g. a PC to TV Converter at GBP35 (I assume GB-PVR would work with this):
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.....doy=6m3
- The advantage of the Media MVP is I assume that I can control the computer via the MVP remote to access music and photos too and may be able to contect it via the Linksys Wireless G. Any thoughts?

4) Incorporating Freeview

- Will WinTV Nova USB work with this system? Any other option better?

Many thanks in advance for your thoughts!

Tim

Hello all - sorry for posting this here but I can't even get registered at Zap2It to use their forums. I go through the registration process but when it gets to submitting the form it gives me a 404 "Page can not be found" error and kicks me back to the start. It seems to have recorded my user name as it will not let me register as it the second time I tried, but it refuses to let me login either. Any suggestions?

*Update* I received an email from Zap2IT confirming my registration, but it does not accept it when I go to update my EPG source. So still no luck...

I downloaded and installed CDK Sched, X Record, RecTracker today in an effort to beef up thew recoding ability of GB-PVR. I have a few questions that I am hoping someone can answer. By the way, kudos to the developers of these plugins, they are great.

1. How do I change Priority of a Scheudled recoridng without editing the .xml file through a text editor? Is there a way to do it through the GB-PVR app?

2. I set up a recoding using Scheduler through the XRecord plugin. I set up an Entry that would record Carnivale. Although the entry appears on Scheduler, it does not show up under Reoccuring or Pending. Is this because I have to wait until the epg is updated for my Scheduled recording to be validated?

3. Is there a way to search through the TV Guide portion of GB-PVR, find a show, then set ity up to record that show for all airings? For instance, I would find American Idol on the TV Guide, then click on that and somehow be able to click my way through setting up a season recording for that show. This quesiton is not as important to me as #1 and #2.

Thanks for your help!

- JW

It seems that if the file has been deleted manually (as in not in GBPVR) GBPVR will automatically remove the file from the recordings list.

This i fine except for I occasionally remove the hard-drive that all these files are stored on and only remember to plug it in before going into gbpvr about half the time. Could there thus be an option to turn auto-delete off?

fini

Hi,

Just discovered gb-pvr and have to say pretty impressed.

Managed to get the following working
2 x Blackgold GDI (bda driver) simultaneosly. one records the other whatc program

1 x Twinhan DVB-s Card again with BDA driver (simultaneosly with the 2 DVB-t cards)
The mapping between xml epg and channel is one of the best around, pretty straight forward and works quite well.

Main strenght are hte stability of this software, pretty simple but functional.

One problem I currently have is that I can't cancel a scheduled recording once it has started. Anyone with the same problem?

Secondly I would love to see this program improved in its gui.
Keep up with the good work.

AS

I know there seems to be some issues using the Live TV Preview (non-timeshift mode). Here is what is happening on my system. Just passing this info on to Sub.

First of all, I have an Avermedia m150 board.

In build 0.908, when I checked the Live TV Preview box, the live TV would work great, except that I got no sound. I tried all the other Live TV options (those produced error). Time shift TV works just fine.

In build 0.910, I now get "Object refernce not set to instance of object". All combinations of other options produces the same error. Time shift TV works fine.

Just thought I would pass this information on.

- Cruzer