In code how is the Internal video library layed out, want to base it for my own plugin..seems like there is not much info on the internal code.

I installed GB-PVR today on my system (specs below). Everything works very well, and I'm amazed at the quality of the software you're providing pro bono. I have only one glitch, which a search of the forums indicates has been experienced by others: changing channels is remarkably slow. On average, switching takes about 6 seconds. After I hit the channel change button, within about 3 seconds I get a still image of the next channel, but no sound. Within another 2-3 seconds I get sound, and then a split second later, motion. Channel changes on the same system with WinTV2K take a split second.

Based on what I've read on the forum, I moved the live video directory to a separate physical disk from C: and disabled realtime virus scanning for that folder. I also set live TV pre-play delay to 0 milliseconds. None of these changes seemed to help the problem at all.

Is there a consensus on the cause/fix of this problem? Or is this the normal performance I can expect?

Thanks,

virusdoc

System specs:

Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard
AMD 64 3400+
1 GB PC3200 RAM in dual channel mode
C: RAID 0 PATA IDE, 240 GB (maxtor 120 GB x 2)
D: PATA 80 GB (live video folder on this disk)
Capture: PVR-250
Video: ATI Radeon 9600
Clean WinXP Pro install, SP2, two weeks old and defragmented
GB-PVR 2313
No other applications in use when GB-PVR is active
All GB-PVR config settings at default

I understand that you'd need two cards to record two channels at the same time (that's pretty obvious because each card only has 1 tuner), but what about if you want to watch a recorded program while simultaneously recording a show? The PVR350 seems to handle this (their literature says that it will handle simultaneous hardware-based encoding and decoding), but what about for the other boards (PVR250, PVR150)?

In looking at one of the projects done over at Anandtech they were comparing a Linux setup with a Window MCE setup. On the Linux setup they were using two WinTV-GO cards (which they said was required to be able to watch while recording), but the MCE setup was able to get away with just using the PVR250.

So how many cards are required in a setup? Can you watch-while-record using a PVR250 or PVR150? If so, is pre-recorded watching decoded in software or hardware? I'd like to get by using a relatively low-powered PC so it looks like the PVR350 is the way to go because it will do hardware-based decoding (but if this is also the case with another card, then that might be the better way to go to save some bucks.)

I have been looking for where the Icon descriptions on the Main menu are located to make a small change but have not been able to locate where these are stored. These same literals seem to carry over to any skin used.

I would like to change the descriptions for each selection that uses the word "programmes".

Example: "Brouse the TV Guide and select programmes to record"

I would like to change the spelling of "programmes" to "programs" to correspond with local usage.

Is this available to edit or hardcoded into the primary program. There are similar spellings for other main menu descriptions where I would like to change the spelling of this word as well.

Hey all, I have a question. When something's recorded, its filename is usually something like showname_date_time_blahblah and whatnot. I was wondering if htere was any way to set the filenames to be something like ShowName - Episode Number - Episode Name, etc - maybe pulling all of the info from the tvguide for the name? I wouldn't assume it would be very hard to implement if it hasn't been already.

Thanks

I know there has been other posts started on this, but Im getting nowhere... I just bought the card the other day, originally for MythTV, but then I found out the 150 isn't supported that much yet, that and I always have  hard time with linux. I really love this pvr though, so I want to use it instead, but Im having a lot of problems.

Another thread said you can use it without ir.exe, but how is that setup? When I try the direct access option and close IR, the remote doesn't work.

With IR, the remote still doesn't work that well, infact the only buttons that do work are volume up and down. In another thread someone posted thier [gb-pvr] section in irremote.ini looks, which isn't working here.

Also, everytime I start live tv it says that a remote has been found, and it used to crash LiveTV when that happened, a reinstall fixed that, but it still pops up, is there any way to fix that?

Can someone possibly help me with any of this? Also, if someone has a 150 with the new remote that has it working, could they send it to me?

Thanks!
Mike

I just set up a new machine (Dell sc420) and installed a 150MCE card.  gb-pvr installed and set up fine, but when I try to view live tv I hit the following assert, and see the following information (and exception) in the debug log file.  Then gb-pvr just hangs.  Do you know what I could be doing wrong?  I'm trying with Overlay Manager playback settings because it told me VMR9 is not supported.  Do I need a better video card than the one on the motherboard?  I plan to only view tv via a mediamvp on my tv, but I'd like to get everything working locally first.

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Debug Assertion Failed!

Program: c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe
File: dbgdel.cpp
Line: 52

Expression: _BLOCK_TYPE_IS_VALID(pHead->nBlockUse)

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1/22/2005 2:06:48 PM.359 VERBOSE [2] installDirectory is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\
1/22/2005 2:06:48 PM.359 VERBOSE [2] configurationFile is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\config.xml
1/22/2005 2:06:48 PM.359 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString
1/22/2005 2:06:48 PM.359 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString : Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=".\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
1/22/2005 2:06:48 PM.359 VERBOSE [2] databaseConnectionString is Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
1/22/2005 2:06:48 PM.359 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DontAntiAlias
1/22/2005 2:06:48 PM.359 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/DontAntiAlias : false
1/22/2005 2:06:48 PM.359 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/LoggingLevel
1/22/2005 2:06:48 PM.359 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/LoggingLevel : Info
1/22/2005 2:06:48 PM.468 INFO [2] Starting
1/22/2005 2:06:49 PM.437 INFO [2] Initializing InputDeviceManager
1/22/2005 2:06:49 PM.484 ERROR [2] Unable to find node: /settings/SpecialElements/SpecialElement[@name="MenuType"]
1/22/2005 2:06:51 PM.343 INFO [2] LiveTVVideoPlayer.initialize()
1/22/2005 2:06:53 PM.359 ERROR [2] StartRecordingLiveTV() failed: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

Server stack trace:
  at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect(EndPoint remoteEP)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.CreateNewSocket()
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.SocketCache.GetSocket(String machineAndPort)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink.SendRequestWithRetry(IMessage msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink.ProcessMessage(IMessage msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream, ITransportHeaders& responseHeaders, Stream& responseStream)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.BinaryClientFormatterSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)

Exception rethrown at [0]:
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
  at GBPVR.Backend.Common.IRecordingService.a(Int32 A_0, Boolean A_1, String& A_2, Int32& A_3)
  at ba.a(Int32 A_0, Boolean A_1, Programme& A_2)
1/22/2005 2:07:27 PM.515 ERROR [2] StartRecordingLiveTV() failed: System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException: Underlying socket was closed.

Server stack trace:
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.SocketHandler.ReadFromSocket(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.SocketHandler.BufferMoreData()
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.SocketHandler.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.SocketHandler.ReadAndMatchFourBytes(Byte[] buffer)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpSocketHandler.ReadVersionAndOperation(UInt16& operation)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientSocketHandler.ReadHeaders()
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink.ProcessMessage(IMessage msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream, ITransportHeaders& responseHeaders, Stream& responseStream)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.BinaryClientFormatterSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)

Exception rethrown at [0]:
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
  at GBPVR.Backend.Common.IRecordingService.a(Int32 A_0, Boolean A_1, String& A_2, Int32& A_3)
  at ba.a(Int32 A_0, Boolean A_1, Programme& A_2)
1/22/2005 2:07:28 PM.750 INFO [2] NetRadio buffer size is: 96000

I read someone was able to configure girder to control a Directv box using a serial cable. I need to know what plugins do I need. I have girder, the directv box with serial connection, and the serial cable. I read instructions for a Motorola box but I'm not sure if the files mentioned will work with mine.
Thanks

Hi,

I have a PVR 150MCE. Unfortunately I cannot get the card to work with any software except WinTV2000. Yep, I've tried all the drivers and reinstalled the PC etc. just get a black and white, flickery picture with bad lipsync. Picture is fine in WinTV2000 - strange eh!

So, my question is: Instead of GBPVR doing its thing when its time to start a recording, is it possible that it can trigger an executable instead?

Thank you,

Regards,

Steve

Well after my failed attempt in the early hours of this morning, I put my 500 back in the machine this afternoon and took out my 350 (I deleted the 350 driver from Device Manager before shutting the machine down to remove the card, and also removed the capture source for it in Config.exe).

The 500 installs fine and I see the two tuners in Device Manager. I setup two capture sources for the tuners (#1 & #2) and did the usual with the EPGs etc. etc. All looked fine.

I then scheduled two recordings to start at 6pm as a test. GB-PVR seemed to go through the motions (it created the folders for the two shows) but the systray icon sat at red and when I brought it up it said both sources were sleeping.

I tried all manner of recording attempts - sheduled one at a time, manual recording (one or two at a time) still nothing. Going to Live TV causes the assertion failure in the recording services as mentioned in various posts (Line 52, dbgdel.cpp etc.).

I'm using XP Pro, not MCE, but using the MCE drivers for the 500 which seem to install fine. Can anybody suggest anthing for getting a 500 working? Please?

Cheers,
Brian