I may have missed this somewhere, but I haven't seen a description of what MediaMVP actually gives you when used with GB-PVR, for example:

Is the menu system a clone of the current GB-PVR skin?

Does the OSD operate, and how does the OSD quality compare to say a PVR-350?

Are any / all of the plugins available?

Any insight appreciated!

Thanks,
Matt.

Machine:
Windows 2000 professional, with all service patches and 2.6 mdac.
Uneec Fur Fusion HK7N with Duron 800mhz, 512mb ram, 80gb HDD.
Hauppauge PVR-350.

Problem: Just about got everything setup, and it appears to work pretty well. However sometimes when changing channel, or trying to exit back to the menu from tv mode, the machine will hang. Only option is to reboot.

Any ideas?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B...99-5687202

Sub recommended I ask for recommendations of the best mpeg2 decoder to download (any free ones?) I have pvr 150 and PVR wintv usb 2. When i watch high action, it is a little choppy. Please help so that i can watch sports on pvr

also, what bitrate should i set it to--and constant or variable?

Setup:
- MediaMVP
- PC running WinXP (XP firewall disabled, no other software firewall)
- Linksys router/DHCP server
- GBPVR server, Hauppauge server disabled.

I hooked up the MediaMVP to the Linksys, on the screen I see:
1) Contacting DHCP Server (for less than a second), then
2) Contacting MediaMVP Bootserver (for a long time), then repeat from step 1.

So looking at the Linksys, I can see that the MVP gets a DHCP address with a lease expire time of 60 seconds, but after about 20 seconds it rejects it and gets a new lease (with the IP address incremented by 1), again 60 second lease time, and again after 20 seconds it gets another IP incremented by 1.

So I stopped the GBPVR MVP server, and started the Hauppauge one. Same thing happened.

Anybody else run into this issue? The Linksys router doesn't block any ports from within the LAN (at least that I could tell on the config webpage of the router), so why can't the MVP get to the bootserver?

I hope someone can answer it! The Hauppauge support pages are not very useful for this...

Pulp

It would be a big help for my current (admittedly cockamamy) set-up if I had the option to use the episode title (where available from zap2it) in the naming of the files that GBPVR produces.

Currently I get:

Gilmore Girls_200500208_17001800.mpg

But if I could get:

Gilmore Girls_200500208_17001800_Rorys Dance.mpg

(where the title of the episode is included in the title (sans special characters, limited to a certain number, skipped if missing, etc...), with the date and time still there for uniqueness and easy ordering) then I could more easily organize and archive these for (say) DVD-R burning, or off-box archiving.

As it stands I am using a laptop with a small harddrive in my experimental GBPVR setup. It has been so awesome so far that I basically fill my harddrive up almost every other day and end up moving the stuff (for now at least) off box for later viewing. (I am GBPVRing a Buck Rogers marathon right now almost by accident "record all episodes" ...but once I move them off tonight I will lose the handy title placing in GBPVR).

Currently I do not have viewing really worked out very well. I do not have a MediaMVP (nor would that work very well with the small drive I am working with so far). My Inspiron does have a TV-Out though and with $9 in cables I am able to watch files on the TV.

The way I watch things right now though involves downloading them back to the laptop for TV play, and then their information is lost to GBPVR. Since most description/tv-guide type of stuff is geared toward what is on in the future, I have no good way to find out which episode:

Gilmore Girls_200500125_17001800.mpg

is without skimming the show for clues.

Another idea would be to have the option of outputting a text file with the title and full description of everything recorded, like:

Gilmore Girls_200500125_17001800.mpg
Gilmore Girls_200500125_17001800_description.txt

which would have the zap2it stuff.

(I know I know, just get a big harddrive and a media mvp.)

One reason I am suggesting (wishing for?) this is that I am considering long term solutions that do not involve having a PC in the livingroom. With 802.11g etc... there should be more "media server -> snazzy living-room component" solutions (like they have for mp3, only bigger bandwidth).

Perhaps someday I will have a cable-box in the office, connecting to my GBPVR and dumping everything to a drive that is available for streaming to a wireless-network mpg/avi player connected to the TV in the livingroom (the title names would come in extremely handy with that implementation for instance).

Thanks for considering it.

curioffl(sseat)

I have been experimenting with making a new skin for this great app but if I make a background with a gradient it looks terrible on the TV output of my 350. The vertical gradient outputs as a number of horizontal stripes.

Is there a limit in the number of colours?

Many thanks
Simon

I have taken some of the core functions of the Video Archiver plug-in and some of the common functions implemented by sub in his example plug-ins and packaged them into a library of common GBPVR utilities designed to hide some of the complexity of building plug-ins. I have also written a very small example plug-in that shows how to use the utilities to create a simple video file lister/player plug-in. I have not yet posted the library and sample, but a sneak-peak help-file is posted at
the wiki site

Jeff

I've tried to build a PVR with my old 800mhz Duron processor, however I've found my live TV doesn't play very well. So, I guess I need to know what I should buy -
I'm currently running a PVR-250 with an old ATI All-In-Wonder AGP card for video out. I will someday add a second tuner - likely a PVR-150. And I want my video to look great.

What AMD processor should I get (keeping in mind I work for a living).
Thanks.

This could be an on/off thing for those w/ two cards.

One feature that would make sense would be to have the TV change channel if it starts recording to that channel.

If you're watching and had a record set in case you weren't around, being kicked out to the guide is jarring. More so since you can't just play from the guide, and need to back out to record, go to the recording, and play from there (so this would be nice, too).

A nice add-on related to this would be to be able set a show to watch, but not record. This would take you to a preset show when it comes on, using the same scheduling that you use to set to record.