A weird one this - I've been having problems recording the program "Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps" (currently on UKTV at midnight for those in NZ).

Although I schedule the recording (with no conflicts) and an initial directory is created, the actual program does not record.

Could it be due to the fact that the name of the show in the recording guide is "Two Pints of Lager And ..." and the ellipses confuse GBPVR somehow?

I just did a clean reinstall to try and get the diskspace plugins to work (still don't), so don't have any useful logs at the moment, but will try recording it again tonight and see what happens.

cheers,

Tieke

i have been at this for a whole week:

i bought an MCE remote from http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_info.ph...cts_id/167 and have been trying to set it up. there are no drivers for it, as it is supposed to be an MCE remote. it is USB. when i plug it in, i can send signals to the receiver from the remote, which triggers a red light on the receiver. however, i have NEVER been able to control ANYTHING with this remote on win2kpro. nothing has ever been opened/closed/altered on my screen from pressing a remote key. obviously, i cant get it to work with GB-PVR. does anyone have any ideas?

if not, does anyone have any suggestions on which remote to buy for my system that will work with GB-PVR? is my remote bunk and should i buy a microsoft MCE remote? does anyone have a streamzap remote? snapstream? anyone have some prefabbed girder commands for a generic remote i can get? help please!


btw i am running win2kpro on an abit kt7a mobo with a PVR-150 as my video input.

I will be receiving the new hauppauge remote for the WinTV-PVR-250 tomorrow (I hope). What do I need to do to install it so that it will operate with the GBPVR?

I am hoping that this new remote will allow me to control playback functions which go to my TV via my Xcard.

Thanks.

hi sub

here a wish

I would like to listen to say an audio ( be it audio cd or mp3 collection) and surf the channels at the same time..

before you say it's impossible usinging hardware cards such as sigma... I say not at all very easy...

here is an example graph

<GRAPH version="1.0">
<FILTER ID="Video_Renderer" clsid="{70E102B0-5556-11CE-97C0-00AA0055595A}">
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="Sigma_Designs_MPEG_2_hardware_decoder" clsid="{4E3ABD41-458E-11D1-917E-00001B4F006F}">
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="Sigma_Designs_MPEG_Stream_Splitter" clsid="{BD6FD780-B1DC-11D1-8BE4-00A0768008A8}">
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="Sigma_Designs_PCM_Swapper" clsid="{1236F6AF-1A72-4A62-9B2B-C5F7B62C6B1C}">
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="Source_0" clsid="{9B166502-47B8-423D-9EE5-3354487D96E0}">
<PARAM name="src" value="D:\VIDEO\no program_005D01-05-2005T18_22.mpg"/>
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="MPEG_Layer_3_Decoder" clsid="{38BE3000-DBF4-11D0-860E-00A024CFEF6D}">
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="MPEG_I_Stream_Splitter" clsid="{336475D0-942A-11CE-A870-00AA002FEAB5}">
</FILTER>
<FILTER ID="MP3_Source_1" clsid="{E436EBB5-524F-11CE-9F53-0020AF0BA770}">
<PARAM name="src" value="F:\MUSIC\Nek - Si S que Te Tengo a T.mp3"/>
</FILTER>
<connect direct="yes" src="Source_0" srcpin="Output" dest="Sigma_Designs_MPEG_Stream_Splitter" destpin="Input"/>
<connect direct="yes" src="Sigma_Designs_MPEG_Stream_Splitter" srcpin="Video" dest="Sigma_Designs_MPEG_2_hardware_decoder" destpin="Video In"/>
<connect direct="yes" src="MP3_Source_1" srcpin="Output" dest="MPEG_I_Stream_Splitter" destpin="Input"/>
<connect direct="yes" src="MPEG_I_Stream_Splitter" srcpin="Audio" dest="MPEG_Layer_3_Decoder" destpin="In"/>
<connect direct="yes" src="MPEG_Layer_3_Decoder" srcpin="Out" dest="Sigma_Designs_PCM_Swapper" destpin="Input"/>
<connect direct="yes" src="Sigma_Designs_PCM_Swapper" srcpin="Output" dest="Sigma_Designs_MPEG_2_hardware_decoder" destpin="Audio In"/>
<connect direct="yes" src="Sigma_Designs_MPEG_2_hardware_decoder" srcpin="Overlay Out" dest="Video_Renderer" destpin="In"/>
</GRAPH>


it plays the video of a movie and the audio is inserted from the mp3
now to get a relatively uninterrupted signal. it fairly easy i broadcast the audio local machine local port.
basically broadcast both streams the audio and video

one graph broadcast the audio at a local port address
the second broadcast the video at port address

the third graph renders both media through the sigma filters..
as the video drops out the audio keeps playing uninterrupted. then as the video comes back it continues to play..


well just a thought if you wanted to add a nice feature to your program...

since you do not need audio sync you can use the upd dshow from moonlight found on the same page as lame encoder..

Ever since I installed the newest build, my EPG will be fine for a week and then it stops working. My channels will be listed in the capture source window, but in the app under TV Guide, it's empty. I update the epg and it works for a while. There is no real consistency to the problem. I scanned the forum, but found nothing on this. Ideas??

I bought an ahanix Imon and I can't get anything to work as far as changing channels and whatnot. I could really use some help as far as how I could get this to work. Any help is more than welcome.
thanks

heres setup:
2 Hauppauge Pvr-150 mce's
athlon xp 2500+
512 Mushkin ram
geforce fx 5200 128
ahanix Imon remote
80gig wd spec editon HD
Running gbpvr 23.13
and latetest .net runtime

I run a fanless HTPC of a 70 Watt power supply (it might be 90 I will have to check). I am really pleased with it. It also runs a P2P program in the background.

However it is starting to struggle with live TV playback with dropping of the old frame. It plays DIVX/XVID flawlessly.

I currently have an Radeon 7000 as my graphics card which I very much want to replace. What I am hoping is that someone could recommend another graphics card that meets the following criteria.

1.Fanless
2.Have a similar power consumption
3.Gives me as much hardware decoding as possible so to reduce the load on my CPU
4.Give a better quality image on my SDTV (PAL – I live in the UK)

I don't want to go down the xcard/PVR350 route as all my DVD's are backed up in OGM format. I have read reviews on the Volari V3XT and was very impressed but I have yet to see one for sale. So I was thinking of a FX5200.

Please could I ask people who have been in a similar position for their opinions on what to buy.

Thanks

I can not figure out if there is a way to power on an external tuner via a serial cable before recording. I have GBPVR setup to use girder to change channels like a champ. Girder uses a serial command to send channel info to my Directv receiver. Now I would like to power on the receiver before recording and turn it off when finished. Is there a built in command to do this? Is there a different way to do this altogether? Thanks for any info or suggestions.

Pete

following are comments and questions regarding a setup of gb-pvr (latest release) with the hauppauge 150:

when selecting any menu option that goes to tv, a new "active" window pops up, thus giving me 2 windows for gb-pvr. this becomes a problem because the menu screen turns black, and the new window has the tv picture and is in focus. thus disabling me the ability to use my remote. in order to get my remote working again, i have to re-focus the now black screen.

when pressing the next button on the remote, it seems to make the volume louder. i can go back and forth between two settings of volume. not sure if this is exaclty a feature or not. seems odd to me.

i can get my remote to work only when the gb-pvr app is in focus in windows. if it isn't, my remote works on the focused app. in my gb-pvr settings, i have the setting for the remote to be forced to gb-pvr set.

is it possible to get the remote # buttons to change channels. the only way i can change channels is by going to the program guide.

is there such thing as "live tv". this might be the way the hauppauge 150 works... as in it is always capturing and thus you are always viewing a capture (hence the few second delay). but does anyone know if you can simply view a straight stream w/o it recording? i guess this defeats the purpose of the pvr software .

thanks in advance for anyone who responds to this. i'd love to get these issues figured out.

Just wanted to toss this out to those developing actual GBPVR plugins. I'm going to implement a set of Helper classes for the External Recording Manager so that the manipulation of the XML file will be easier. Here is what I'm thinking of:

1. getPriorityRecording
2. setPriorityRecording
3. sortPriorities
4. savePriorities
5. loadPriorities
6. createPriorityRecording
7. removePriorityRecording

What I need from people developing Recording Managers (i.e. XRecord, Video Archiver, and My Video) are what is going to be most useful for you.

I had thought about implementing the IScheduleHelper class, the structure is a bit different and some of the features you would need aren't there in that class. I could always extend that implementation and add the missing features.


What features do you need to make as little impact to you as possible. I'd like to keep as much physical management away from you as possible, that way if I change the underlying structure you aren't affected.