I just installed my pvr-150mce and followed the gbpvr quick setup guide. Things seemed to go as guide indicated, my problem is now when I go into the gbpvr menu, view the TV guide, select a chanal and press the watch button, all the chanals are very fuzzy. I can barely make out any resemblance of a picture. What did I do wrong???
I wish you could ESC in XRecord w/o being on the menu...esp since you start in posters. It's only one like that I can think of where it's two steps to back out of it.
What does or how does GB handle TV? I'm just wondering because its pix always seems on the lighter/gamma end of others like Win2k or Dscaler's viewer, where they look more alike.
Great software. Thus far, everything seems to work well, but I can't get live TV. I am getting the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
From my scanning of old discussions, Hauppauge PVR-150MCE should perform fine here. Any suggestions?
I've been running the MSDE as my backend for a while now and things seem to be working pretty good. But I've noticed on occation that performance slows down and my CPU cycles from nearly zero to 100% utilization. I can see in the task list that the MSDE database is the one jumping up and down in CPU utilization so I put the profiler on it and I see GB-PVR is constantly issue a simple query against the database, over and over again...
SELECT * from PROGRAMME where oid = 193478
where the oid value changes each time.
Every now and then I see another statement sprinked in there:
SELECT * FROM RECORDING_SCHEDULE order by manual_start_time
What is GB-PVR up to?! Is this a normal process of GB-PVR or some hiccup between MSDE and GB-PVR?
Posted by: boldt - 2005-03-08, 04:01 AM - Forum: Hardware
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Greetings, I just started researching the ability to setup a PVR using some equipment that I have laying around. GBPVR seems like a fantastic project!
I would like to know if the Happauge WinTV Go model 190 will work with GBPVR?
I have the software installed, however I seem to be having difficulty getting the software to recognize the card?
Are there alternate drivers available that I may be able to use?
i currently have an xcard, but was thinking of getting a nova-t card to use the record functions within gbpvr. what are people using as playback of recordings, ie can I use the xcard? Only have a 1Ghz mini-itx so would rather use a hardware decoder.
Seems simple, but if I sit down at 5:58 I'm looking at what's on at 6 oclock. It'd be nice if the guide would let me hit 'watch' maybe 1 or 2 minutes before the start of the show so I wouldn't have to back out of the guide and go back half an hour and select and watch the preceding show. Sure it's lazy, but we're all here about a program that makes it (much) easier to spend more time on the couch.
Per a request in the Wishlist forum, I've written a command-line utility called RecStatus.exe.
You run it from the command line (or from within a batch file) with the following options:
 time=xx  where xx is the number of MINUTES to look ahead for a pending program to be recorded;
 silent=yes [no]  this sets whether the utility suppresses all text output about the results.
         EXAMPLE: RecStatus.exe time=10 silent=no
The utility returns the following exit codes, which can be processed by the batch file that calls it:
2 - there is a program currently recording;
1 - program is scheduled to start within the specified number of minutes (takes into account scheduled prepadding);
  0 - all clear - neither of the above is true;
Unless you run it in silent mode, RecStatus will report what program is currently being recorded, otherwise it will report the details of any pending recording that is scheduled to begin within the specified time frame.
Two Questions:
1) If I make a second capture source directly from my satellite receiver with a composite cable and set it up as using an external tuner do I delect "fixed channel externa tuner" or just "composit external tuner?"
2) How do I swtich from using one capture source to the other? My signal from the orignal source was lost when I wanted to go back to it, until I deleted the new capture source I had created.
I think I am missing something simple....like how many times to open and close the config program when making changes or selecting one source over another.
