I just installed GB-PVR on top of Microsoft Media Center Edition 2005 aand I have a few questions before I dig too deep here.

1) How long is the rewind buffer? i.e.: Can I turn on the PVR and start watching, let's say, channel 13 at 9:00 AM. At 11:00 AM, I decide I want to go back to what was on at 9:00 AM and record that hour-long program. Can I do this just by rewinding back just over an hour - to any point in the 9-10 program - and hit Record and get just that whole one hour program to a recorded file?

2) I can't watch Live TV because when I try I get an error that it can't find hcwIRblast.dll. I have the MCE IR Blaster thingy hooked to my cable box... but I suppose I need something to tell the PVR that it should change the channel. I went to the Hauppage site and they mention something about a new IR Blaster, but there's nothing in the Accesories section where it says it is.

3) I understand I can but something to use as an Extender. I just sent back my two Linksys Extenders because I couldn't get it to play widescreen or 5.1 audio DVD's I had ripped. Can I with GB-PVR and it's extender?

4) How is the performance using the extender? With the Linksys box it seemed a bit slow in rewind, skip, and various other things - and I have a 2.4ghzx machine with a gig of ram.

Thanks for your help!

Eric

I ahev a Sigma Design - REALmagic Hollywood® Plus card. would I be able to get that to work with GBPVR?

humm I started up gb-pvr and it reinistalled it self for some reason.. basicaly destroying itself in the process. nothing works . I uninstall and do everything clean.. then at somepoint it does it again . destroy it functionallity again..
by the way there seems to be a bug in the video libary if you highlight a movie to play then press play (instead of double click the icon) you can not navigate the file list any more with in the video libary, you can only navigate between play and menu.. this is by keyboard navigation

Help...

Okay here is what happened, I stopped all the services, zipped up the gbpvr directory. Put the MyVideo plugin in, had some issue with it so I decided to back it out, made sure the services and startups did not start, rebooted clean. Renamed the gbpvr and unzippped it, I noticed about 30 seconds from the end the Windows Installer popped up. After everything was done, started services. Went into GBPVR to make sure everything was okay and nothing.. No pendings, no records, no TV Guide. Looked in config.exe and everything (settings) are like the installation was new.

I'm thinking I'm hosed, I also think the problem I had was the config.xml, I think I screwed it up trying to edit the MyVideo plugin section, think the save as did it.

Luckily I didn't have a lot of pendings to be recorded.

If you can help salvage my wreck I welcome it. If you tell me how I can backup and restore in the future, well I'd _really_ like to know that one.

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Thanks guys!

John

I'm currently using a PVR-350 with good results, but as with any project I'm ready for more (as in tuners). I am considering adding a PVR-500, but read in the documentation that it is not fully supported yet. At the same time I've seen a number of posts from people using them successfully. So what are the limitations? Thanks in advance for any replies.

I have taken the very well behaved Typhoon TV PVR drivers, and added the wisgostrm.dll file from the version 1.6 TV Walker drivers, giving me an excellent driver set that still supports MotionJPEG and H.263 hardware encoding. You will need to update your go.ini file in the gbpvr folder as follows:
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">[SETUP-Main]
SupportedDevices=Plextor ConvertX M402U|Plextor ConvertX TV402U|WIS GO7007SB|LifeView TV Walker mini|LifeView TV Walker Ultra|Typhoon TV PVR|Rover Media TeleBox U2
WithTuner=Plextor ConvertX TV402U|LifeView TV Walker mini|LifeView TV Walker Ultra|Typhoon TV PVR|Rover Media TeleBox U2
VideoStandard=AUTO[/QUOTE]

After switching to the Typhoon driver set, the Lifeview TVR application will no longer work, and if needed, the Typhoon version will have to be installed. In my experience, it is not necessary to reboot after the driver update, unless you have also installed the application. Remember, as with any Walker driver update, you must first run the remove.bat script included in the driver install folder before reconnecting the Walker device.

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Hitek

hi
i wondered if anyone can supply me with a copy of the bleb channels xml doc. i am having real difficulty in getting this to work. i am getting this error in the config exe

Error processing bleb file: This is an unexpected token. The expected token is 'DOCTYPE'. Line 2, position 3.

any help would be most appreciated

oh and i am running 90.10


thanks mick

I just posted a new skin based on MediaPortal's Blue Two skin.

http://www.bladerhq.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...inBlueMCE2

Props to MediaPortal for providing really nice images to work with.

I am using a Nova-T card in the UK, and use the Bleb option to get the channels. SOme of the channels are not listed though, such as Sky Sports News, The Hits, TMF etc. Is there an updated version of the bleb file a can download?

150MCE on a 1.6 Duron.

When watching live TV I can pause but the Rewind or FF (when i am buffered) do not work. Also when I playback a recording in GBPVR (as opposed to in media player) I cannot FF or Rewind.

Any thoughts?