This is all very new to me, but i want to know if this is possible: can i connect the TV-OUT from my vga-card(s-video) to the VIDEO-IN from a PVR-150 (which i dont have yet) and than watch it on my tv with a mediamvp?
If i can watch live-tv, than it has to be possible to watch the VIDEO-IN channel ?
The idea was to use the hardware mpeg-2 decoder instead of software decoding.
This way i could play all formats for which  my pc has a codec installed, even with subtitles (directvobsub)  
TVTOOL could be helpfull



sorry for the bad english

Hi all-

Here's my sysem (just completed building):

amd 3000 939
asus a8v
512 ballistix ram
fx5200
80gb and 120gb hdd
hauppauge pvr-150
nero burning rom 6
gb-pvr
win-tv
etc.

anyway, i'm working on getting this all figured out, and i need a lot of help. i've been doing a lot of research, but i'm worried i'm not using my time wisely. here's what i want:

i'd like to use my computer as a pvr. i'd like to be able to record television shows, then author dvd's containing the shows. i would like (if possible) to fit at least 3-4 hours of television on one dvd (if the quality isn't complete crap in doing so).

i've read about a lot of things that i have no idea how to use. comskip seems like something i'd like to look into, but i don't know how it works. also, my ir remote that came with my hauppauge card... it works with wintv, but i don't know how to use it with gb-pvr. basically i don't know how to do any of the above.

can anyone help me, by either directly addressing my questions, or merely pointing me in the right direction? i really appreciate any help i can get.

thanks very much!
adam

Hi,
I know you are working on it Sub, but can you give me an idea when you will release the new version with support for the PVR 150 IR blaster? I am itching to try it with my Sky NZ box.

well I was at my usaual forum, and someone built a DVB program that would display osd on HPlus type card.. well with little testing I see it worked with all sigma cards.. (congrates to emes30 for some original thinking)

but the interesting thing is with experimenting this approach, things could be applied universally.. to all dvd codec ( Emes30 is limited to one particular dshow filter that exposed the subpicture pin)

basically all you do is build pass through dvd navigator filter..

source- V->| passthrough | -> Video input codec pin
...........A-> | "DVD NAV' .| -> Audio indut codec pin
.................|_._._._._._._| -> subpicture pin

basicall all the pass through "dvd Nav " does if say that the out put is dvd compliant ( so the subpicture would be enabled on all codec) also if there is no souces pressent an backgroud image is displayed or if there is an actual dvd present. and if an source is pressent it will display switch to displaying the source..... but with investigating it seems that you should be able to build menus the same as any DVD menu found on any dvd.. and that it would display universaly..

I know SUB is unlikely to adopt this method . but I thought I mention it just In case it gave him some Ideas..

After several days, I received an email stating that I had registered with gb-pvr. In the email there are 2 links that can be used to activate my account. I have tried them both by clicking on them and typing them in manually and I always get this message:

"An error occured, not all of the required fields were sent from the validation link. Please ensure that they whole link was entered, it's possible that your email clients auto-wrapper cut the link in half. Please try again.

You are NOT logged in "

I thought the problem was because I was not logged in. If I log in and then type in the url, I get the same message and in the upper left corner of the screen it states that I am a guess. Obviously my member name and password work because I am able to write in the forum.

any suggestions?

thanks
Dave

I have a Hauppauge Nexus-S (DVB-S) and I will use with GB-PVR!

How can I do it? Is there any Driver?

Thanx for help :-)

How about a DVArchive plugin that would write the xml files so that DVArchive can serve the shows to ReplayTV units.

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.)