Hello,

I just installed a 150MCE card, and gbpvr for the first time, on a Win2K Pro box. It's running SP4, and the latest DirectX.

I've followed the quick start to configure, adding my local channels, 150MCE card, etc.

Upon trying Live TV, I receive the following message:
Debug Assertion Failed
Program: c:\program files\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe
File: dbgdel.cpp
Line: 52
Expression: _BLOCK_TYPE_IS_VALID(pHead->nBlockUse)

After which, the app locks up.

Also, if I try to watch a video clip on my harddrive ( one that already exists ), I hear audio but only see a black screen for the video output.

Any ideas?
I'm emailing all the logs zipped up to support@gbpvr.com

Thanks

Hi all,
I have just signed up to this forum so go easy on me!

I am currently using a crappy avi capture board with iuvcr and an external program to control recording for a surveillance system. this works well but i want to get a mpeg2 board - possibly leadteks pvr2000.

basically, all i want to know is how to tell gbpvr to start and stop recording from an external program.

I have used borland builder 6 to do this for iuvcr.

source will always be composite in and quality will always be highest.

below is iuvcr commands


#include <winuser.h>
HWND iuvcrwindow;
if ((iuvcrwindow = FindWindow("TfVCR", NULL)))
{
    PostMessage(iuvcrwindow, WM_COMMAND, command, LParam);
}


// The list of commands:


#define VCR_QUIT 50000                      //fast quit without saving changes. Use WM_CLOSE for normal exit.
#define VCR_SHUTDOWN 50001         //not used
#define VCR_NEXTPROGRAM 50002
#define VCR_PREVPROGRAM 50003
#define VCR_START_PREVIEW_T 50004 //work as trigger
#define VCR_START_CAPTURE 50005
#define VCR_STOP_CAPTURE 50006
#define VCR_MUTE 50007
#define VCR_FULLSCREEN 50008
#define VCR_WINDOWED 50009
#define VCR_FULLSCREEN_T 50010 //work as trigger
#define VCR_SNAPSHOT 50011
#define VCR_PAUSE_T 50012 //work as trigger
#define VCR_PAUSE_ENTER 50013
#define VCR_PAUSE_RESUME 50014
#define VCR_NUMPAD0 50020
#define VCR_NUMPAD1 50021
#define VCR_NUMPAD2 50022
#define VCR_NUMPAD3 50023
#define VCR_NUMPAD4 50024
#define VCR_NUMPAD5 50025
#define VCR_NUMPAD6 50026
#define VCR_NUMPAD7 50027
#define VCR_NUMPAD8 50028
#define VCR_NUMPAD9 50029
#define VCR_SETFILENAME 50040 //LParam must contains pointer to zero-terminated string

is it this simple for gbpvr??

Hi,

I finally installed my channels in GBPVR.

But now when i start live-tv on my MVP i only see the correct channelname but got a black screen.
In my live-tv directory everytime a new file is created but it stays at 0 bytes.

Does anyone know a solution for this?

Folks,
Sorry to bother you, but I was wondering if someone could tell me if GBPVR supports either the LifeView OEM card (GOOG-PC) or the Pinnacle PCTV Pro TV tuner/adapter. I have a very fast machine (Athlon XP 3200+ (400Mhz frontside bus)) , 1GB Ram, 120GB Serial ATA drive). So I don't think this is a speed issue

To date using the provided software from either company provides less then desirable resuls as I'm trying to capture DVD quality (6Mbs at least) from live TV or S-Video inputs. I continue to either get pixelated or grainy captures. Any help would be greatly appreciated

AreYouWireless

I previously used a different DVR and was in the habit of just turning the thing off when I was done.  When I do this with the MediaMVP while in Live TV mode the program appears to shut down since the MediaMVP is turned off.  However on the computer the small icon at the bottom of the screen continues to show the green record icon.  If I then turn the MVP back on it goes directly to the Live TV screen but there is no image.  All else works fine including going in and out of the menu system.  Still when I go back to live TV mode no picture appears.

The only way to recover from this seems to be to go to the computer and close down the server.  Once the server restarts all works fine.  Possibly when the MVP shuts down the program could recognize that and shut down the live TV session as well so that when you go back in it would just restart from scratch.

A second thing on the wishlist, which is related, would be to be able to view a recording in progress after it begins.  Currently when something is recording and you go to the live TV it gives the message that there is no tuner available.  On the standalone DVR I used before, going to Live TV would automatically take you to the channel which is currently recording and display the recording in progress.  If you then try to change the channel a screen would pop up giving you the option to stop the recording and change the channel or  to just return watching the recording in progress.  

Another related issue here is if you are watching live TV and a prescheduled recording starts, the live TV screen freezes.  You can back out to the Main menu fine.  If the program would automatically switch to viewing the program being recorded instead of just stopping, I believe that would be an impovement rather than having to back out of live TV, going to Recordings, and then playing the recording in progress.  Once the recording in progress finished the program could either revert back to live TV at the channel where it stopped or go on to the next recorded program if one is scheduled.....

A problem area found is that when watching the program which is being recorded, at the end of the recording I closed out and went back to the main menu. I then went to the live TV menu item. The program went into the feature but did not play the sound or video but just maintained a blank screen. I behaved just as described above when I shut the MVP down without backing out of the live TV menu first. I rebooted the computer and all came back just fine. I could have possibly just stopped the server and restarted it as that has resolved such lockup problems in the past.

ive added a few skinning improvements to the "my" series of plugins. you can now have different fonts, alignments for selected menu button and selected files. you can now have a different image for a selected file when the filelist is not in focus (ie when the menu is selected). also ive changed the "my pictures" selectors to use composite images so it now matches "my videos"/"my music". theres are the only changes i made to the plugins, so theres no extra features or anything. and the default blue skin doesnt use any of these new features neither does the media experience skin (which i have also updated to support the changes, even thou it doesnt take advantage of them).

any questions, suggestions, or if you want me to add something else to the skins let me know. im aware that the color bars for the "my dvd" section in my videos isnt configurable, i had a few issues with this, but its on my todo list.

my videos: #1.2.1852.4956
my music: #1.1.1852.4992
my pictures: #1.0.1852.3346

GB-PVR Media Experience: err there is no version number, just a download

I have the Media MVP and Hauppague 150MCE.  I have been unhappy with the inability to set the output of the MediaMVP to adjust Saturation and Brightness.  While roaming around in GB-PVR I found the direct.ini file in the main directory for the program.  There I was able to make these settings which makes the program stream the TV in play mode look great.  Changing the brightness setting from Auto to 75 did the trick.

It would be nice if these settings could be changed in the Configuration program for GB-PVR without having to directly edit the ini file or even better if they cound be changed live while watching Live TV with the MPV remote so that you could see the effect as changes are made.

Hi,
I recently started using gb-pvr and i'm quit statisfied.
However i've noticed the standard resizing to 4:3 and read that ffdshow can resolve this.
But i'm getting problems using the recent versions of ffdshow resulting in a black screen in gb-pvr (both windowed & non windowed, switching from ie. vmr9 to overlay does not make any difference).

So i've tested a few versions and found out that :
- The latest version that works is: ffdshow-20030523.exe

Anything after that results in a black screen
At least i presume, versions tested:
ffdshow-20020617.exe
ffdshow-20030103.exe
ffdshow-20030523.exe
<-- OK Till here
--> Black Screen from here
ffdshow-20040828.exe
ffdshow-20040725.exe
ffdshow-20041012.exe

Does anybody else experience this problem or better still know how to resolve this? (I've seen more posts about this but can not really tell if they use ffdshow or not).

My Config:
- PVR 150 non mce, Radeon9800 Pro, Win XP SP2, Latest GB-PVR, Using Interaudio Video Decoder (Not the nonCSS version but the other one)

Hello everyone - I am new to this and need some help. I searched around the various posts to no avail. I have a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR USB2 and I am running version 2313 of GB-PVR. I noticed after some experiementation that I need to start WinTV to sort of wakeup things before I can get a proper recording. In other words, if I re-bout my W2K machine and a recording is made, the resulting mpeg is corrupt.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Hi,

Are there any users here using GBPVR with an Hauppauge PVR 150 card here living in the Netherlands?

I still have problems with setting up the channels in GBPVR.
Using the tuning assistant gives an Connectpinns error.
I tried several solutions i found here in the Forum but none of them works. (changing direct.ini or conerting channel-setup in registry).
Maybe some other dutch users found a good working solution?

Many thx in advance