What quality do you record at?

How much time can you fit on an authored dvd at that quality?

Just curious to hear what people here do, and how it works out for them.

I am new to GBPVR.  I recently bought a Hauppauge 150 and installed it.  I have WinTV 2000 working properly.  IR receiver and blaster are working.  I also have a 200 IR blaster for GBPVR which works properly.
But I am having a few problems with GBPVR.
1) When viewing with GBPVR, the windows box stays visible, as does the windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen.  I see the extra stuff at the top of the image that should go away with overscan.
2) When watching live TV, I get a lot of audio skipping, and even, what I would call gobacks, where the audio and video skip back in time repeating what was just said and shown.  Amazingly, the video and audio remain in sync!
3) When watching an already stored video, if I press FF or RW I can't get the video to go back into play mode.  If I do it on the screen, all that shows up in the display is a pause button!
(From searching the posts, this may be a known defect and I should use skipping feature, but I thought I would mention the fact that the pause shows up on the screen).
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Eugene

My system is suped up Compaq EN 866 SFF as follows:
PIII 866 (yes, its not that modern, but its dedicated to PVR. and works fine with Hauppauge software as mentioned)
256 MB Ram
40 GB HD 7200 ATA 100
160 GB HD 7200 ATA 100
Hauppauge 150 for capture
ATI AIW Pro 8 MB PCI for video output to TV (not for capture)
IL 200 blaster

I just downloaded gb-pvr the other day so I assume I have the latest version, but when I go to http://localhost:7647/gbpvr/Login.aspx and login, I get:

Server Error in '/gbpvr' Application.
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File or assembly name GBPVRBackendCommon, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name GBPVRBackendCommon, or one of its dependencies, was not found.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.  

Assembly Load Trace: The following information can be helpful to determine why the assembly 'GBPVRBackendCommon' could not be loaded.


=== Pre-bind state information ===
LOG: DisplayName = GBPVRBackendCommon, Version=1.0.1748.9738, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
(Fully-specified)
LOG: Appbase = file:///C:/Program Files/devnz/gbpvr/web
LOG: Initial PrivatePath = bin
Calling assembly : gbweb, Version=1.0.1748.12477, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null.
===

LOG: Policy not being applied to reference at this time (private, custom, partial, or location-based assembly bind).
LOG: Post-policy reference: GBPVRBackendCommon, Version=1.0.1748.9738, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/Temporary ASP.NET Files/gbpvr/2364619e/429af7e1/GBPVRBackendCommon.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/Temporary ASP.NET Files/gbpvr/2364619e/429af7e1/GBPVRBackendCommon/GBPVRBackendCommon.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files/devnz/gbpvr/web/bin/GBPVRBackendCommon.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files/devnz/gbpvr/web/bin/GBPVRBackendCommon/GBPVRBackendCommon.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/Temporary ASP.NET Files/gbpvr/2364619e/429af7e1/GBPVRBackendCommon.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/Temporary ASP.NET Files/gbpvr/2364619e/429af7e1/GBPVRBackendCommon/GBPVRBackendCommon.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files/devnz/gbpvr/web/bin/GBPVRBackendCommon.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Program Files/devnz/gbpvr/web/bin/GBPVRBackendCommon/GBPVRBackendCommon.EXE.



Stack Trace:


[FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name GBPVRBackendCommon, or one of its dependencies, was not found.]
  gbweb.guide.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) +0
  System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +55
  System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +27
  System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +731




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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573

Any ideas?
BTW, I just looked and C:/Program Files/devnz/gbpvr/web/bin/GBPVRBackendCommon.DLL doesn't exist.

Hello All

I have a P4, 2.8gig, 1gig ram, ATI AIW 9800 Pro machine running XP Home. I have a 150 Retail and a 150 MCE installed.
I had success running Release 2313 for about a month or so, doing many synchronous recordings. Then, about a week ago, I found one of the cards would create a recording folder, but put no mpeg in it. I uninstalled and reinstalled the apps, drivers, etc. several times, to no avail. I ran the HCW program to scrubb the drivers, still no go. At one point, I got both cards to work again, but one gave me huge 50gig, 1 hour recordings. More work got me back to only one card working.

I reformatted the hard drive and did a fresh install of XP, with SP2, Directx 9.0c, Microsoft .NET, SB Audigy drivers and ATI 9800 Pro Catalyst drivers. I loaded the 150 drivers and installed GBPVR. This time, I received some error message referencing some C++ issue. It is discussed in this thread: http://gbpvr.com/cgi-bin....sertion

I reinstalled XP again, but with service SP1a. I had the same problem with the error message on a clean machine. It stopped doing it for some reason, and the program would allow me to set it up. Now it starts and gives me the guide. I can see the listings. When I select a show on at the current time and hit "watch", it thinks for a second and it returns to the guide without displaying the show selected, i.e. no TV to watch. It also pretends to record, but does nothing other than create a dummy folder and a green light in the tray.

Can anyone tell me what is going on here? It would be one thing if I had never gotten the program to work. However, I set it up before on a machine full of programs. You would think it would run better on a clean machine with no programs.

I have come to rely on GBPVR, and I want to again.

Please help.

Thanks

S.

I'm not sure if I should post this here or on the wishlist instead. Sorry if I chose the wrong one.

Maybe one of you brilliant plug-in developers could create an Update-EPG plugin. I guess there could be a button in the TV Guide section that when selected will update the epg or maybe the button should be in the main menu. This would be useful for people with a headless machine where the only permanent interface is the OSD.

Since the scheduled epg update doesn't function correctly at present, I have to remote desktop to my machine and manually update.

Thanks

I know you have mentioned this but it would be very useful.

A remote button (probably the one without any text on it) that allows the user to hit

special+0 -> and then calls the
public override bool OnKeyDown(System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)

Perhaps we make it the ctrl/alt key or something so the developer can say

if ( e.Alt )
{
if ( e.KeyCode == System.Windows.Forms.Keys.Down )
{
// do special logic
}
}

jorm

Hi guys,

First, thanks for all of your help from before: I purchased a Asus motherboard with Sempron 2400, and also an AGP Radeon 7000 that you folks suggested. It seems pretty stable.

I'm almost running properly but with one problem: At five minutes in of Live TV OR file playback, my audio drops out. It is not the recording, the audio exists in the file itself, nor is it a specific place. I can start playback, fast forward 10 minutes in, then hit play and five minutes later, it'll go silent. Or, I can start playback, touch nothing, and five minutes later it'll go silent.

The system:

Asus A7V400-MX w/Sempron 2400
256MB RAM
20GB Maxtor 7200RPM, 8MB cache
ATI eHomeWonder tuner
ATI Radeon 7000 AGP
Onboard SoundMAX audio
Windows XP Pro

I've tried both CyberLink PowerDVD and Intervideo WinDVD decoders, similar problems. Playing the file again doesn't recover this problem, exiting GBPVR and returning allows for another five minutes, which makes me think it's GBPVR or somewhere between GBPVR and the audio hardware.

Any ideas or suggestions? I can provide a log file if needed?

I have a new plugin i am working own, From video archive source, the problem is it uses the recordings directory for the files. When i try and change directory in recordings to g:\ it says system volume info denied, however if i change it back to g:\Movies ....it shows the list but only sub folders within g:\movies..How can i change it to look at the root of g:\

I got myself a Hauppauge PVR350 recently and I'm having a few issues.

The first is that there is no sound when using the pvr350 tv-out in GB-PVR. When rendering to the screen in wintv2000 the sound is fine. System sounds also work fine.

Next is that the image that GB-PVR sends to the tv is vertically stretched some and the top and bottom of the image is cut off. It's not enough to really notice unless you're looking for it or have some reason to look specifically at the edges of the display. I'm using the s-video out of the pvr350.

Lastly when watching live tv sometimes the image goes to a series of tightly spaced red bars. When this happens the cpu goes to 100% and spins there. If I play with things to much at this point sometimes the entire computer will lock up. Reinstalling the pvr350 drivers helped a lot and disabling the second cpu in my box helped more (I'm using a dual 350Mhz box). Actually it hasn't happened since disabling the second cpu but I haven't really put it through it's paces hard.

I am using the latest GB-PVR with the latest PVR150 drivers and updates. Now my remote kind of works better, at least I can change channels (with the number keys, not with the chan + and - buttons), however, every time I change the channel, I get an annoying popup that says that the remote was found, which cause the remote to stop working (and GB-PVR to lose focus) until I hit ok, is this an ir.exe problem or a GB-PVR problem? And has anyone ran into this before?

Screenshot: http://www.mikeslab.net/ir.jpg