Hi
when using MVP Hauppauge original program is it possible to press a digit e.g. 3 go get 30% into the video or 6 for 60%. Would that be possible i GB-PVR?

Hi,

for several weeks now i was looking at a lot of different HTPC programs. Installing them, configuring them and always thinking how to get the most out of them with plugins etc. It even started to be a hobby for me and i spend a lot of time in it.

Sadly i discovered GB-PVR last Friday and installed it.
Well ... now my hobby is gone ... everything works like i want it to work ... what am i going to do in my spare time now ? :-)

Now here is a list of htpc Software i tested with advantages and disadvantages ... feel free to add your experience:

-Showshifter 1-3.x : The best recording profiles of all htpc software and it uses very little ressources ... great for software capture cards ! However no real support for standby,hibernate and a very slow development. The modules (music,pictures) have very few features

-GotTV : Didn't work stable for me .. a lot of crashes. Bad GUI. The configuration was also not very easy

-SageTV : It didn't work with my PVR 150 MCE PAL. It is a known bug with the PAL version of this card. From what i could see i didn't like the user interface very much. Besides it is expensive.

-BeyondTV : I didn't look at this piece any closer. Its also pretty expensive

-Meedio : Looks promising but still a real beta and not working stable for me

-TVCentral : This is the german version of a htpc software based on the meedio core. It currently looks better then meedio, has a good user interface, supports standby (with sleeptimer plugin). I was close to buying it but didn't like the politics of the company. For example club user get reduced prices, epg with all channels costs 2,50Euro / month instead of less then 1 Euro etc ). Its biggest disadvantage was, that you couldn't do manual record at all ! The support was/is bad and the CPU usage was very high even with hardware card (50%)

-MediaPortal : Very good and open source software !!! Worked very well with my software hauppauge WinTV PCI FM card. Great search features in epg (in description or categories). However after i bought my PVR 150 MCE i discovered, that it records only in dvr-ms format with hardwarecards which is simply crap ! Only WindowsXP can read this format out of the box (and only with MediaPlayer 9/10).... no easy DVD burning etc.


So my conclussion is, that GB-PVR is simply the best htpc sofware for cable users. I wonder why so few useres are in this forum. I discoverd GB-PVR only by chance and i think many people just miss it because it is not really advertised. There is only one software i know of which is better and its called LinVDR. However its a Linux system and the it only works with Full Feature card which cost more than 200$ in germany. It is also only really usefull for Sat users since at least in germany we have only very few digital cable channels.

I want to thank the developers and especially sub very much for their great work and of course i will donate for this great software ! Actually this software is worth more than all the commercial software out there and not donating something is a crime imho. Even a student can earn 10$/hour so there are no excuses !

The only things i still wish for GB-PVR is, that it also lets search you in the description and that we get a new release where the epg in the TVGuide shows something after 2.2.2005 :-).

The last wish which will most likely never become true is a faster channel switching. As it is now i will use GB-PVR never for fast zapping. This is the only thing all the other htpcs software do better but its a architecture problem i think. I also like the 0 % cpu usage while recording very much which compesates for this.
I even tried to use a ramdisk because i thought that this would allow me faster channel switching but it didn't help !?!

By the way what does GB (in GB-PVR) stand for ?

I've downloaded the lastest version several times - every time I try to install I get an error. It's occured to me that this is an update file and not the full GBPVR, but I can find no documentation or information to this effect. Futher, older version of GBPVR seem to have broken links. When I install, it says that I need to "notify the application vendor to verfity that it is a valid windows installer package".

I'm missing some sort of secret code or knowldege here apparently.
What's my next step?

Note: I've installed the mirosoft.net file so that's not the problem.
Also, my download seems to hang at 99% forever - if that helps isolate the problem.
Thanks.

It would be nice if the readme files in the plugin zips contained all the default button behaviours for us noobs.

Where does the MVP get the menu items to display? I've downloaded the excellent My series of plugins and created menu subdirectories to organize things a little better but the MVP menu has not changed. Everything has been rebooted (PC, router/bridge, MVP). I had this problem a while back but when I started to investigate they started working so I quit. Any help will be appreciated.

I have 2 channel sources.

1. Cable
2. Only one constant channel from satellite. (Yes, I'm using Dish Network for just one foreign channel)

Can I feed the constant channel on svideo input and the cable connection to the tuner input?

Will this setup work or do I still need 2 tuner for this?

Have installed and confirgured this card with GBPVR. But cannot get the remote to work with GBPVR. The remote does work with WinTV2000.

How do you set-up the remote to work with the GBPVR.

hello,

just trying the pvr-500, what to do with this error?

31.01.2005 10:22:14.562 ERROR [2] Error: msg=0x202 (WM_LBUTTONUP) hwnd=0x90ff0 wparam=0x0 lparam=0x21300a4 result=0x0 : Failure playing back file : at NativeUtilities.MediaHelper.playVideoFile(String filename, Form form)

regards
henrik

I just downloaded this program and I can't figure it out. I have media center 05, but I want a program that will let me view my Xbox in "real time". What I mean by this is I bought my Hauppauge 150MCE so I could watch tv on my system but also play my xbox or dreamcast on here. every program I have tried to use the composite input on the card with there is like a 5 second delay, how can I set up this program to view the composite input and hopefully not have this lag.

Thanks in advance!

Anyone have a recommendation for setting the Hauppauge 350 to the highest possible quality. There must be a point of diminished return and I was wondering if anyone has worked with that?