I have dabbled with tv capture before and the quality was poor, i can only imagine that the quality has improved a lot. i am looking to purchase a new tv card with "freeview" DVB Channels and would like it to be compatable with GB-PVR
Could you suggest Which supported card is the best, Which card did you use for the red cap screen shoot, and in the tv guide there are digital channels which card did you use for this as i would like to record digital channels on "Freeview"?
Is anyone using the ATI Remote Wonder with GB-PVR?
Does anyone have an ATI plug-in created for this remote? I tried to get the Girder Plug-in to work but GB-PVR would not respond. I could see that the remote signals were getting to Girder.
just wondering if anyone's had a similar problem with a Hauppauge pvr-350 card to me, and more importantly, has managed to fix it!
The problem is that the card gets more and more out of sync with real time the longer it's used - I realise there always has to be a buffer between the live TV signal and what's shown through the PVR application, but it "loses" about a second of time for every 2 minutes the application is running - i.e. after a couple of hours, the displayed picture is out of sync with reality by a full minute - obviously this is fairly useless in terms of trying to schedule recordings a few days away. And even in "live TV mode", you can fairly quickly work out something's up - changing the channel on my cable box takes ages to actually happen through the PVR.
Anyway, this problem exists outside of GB-PVR insofar as it does the same thing in SageTV and Hauppauge's own WinTV2000 application, but I thought I'd ask on here, as there seems to be a fair amount of knowledge of this card.
I've been thinking about this for a while now and it could be very easy to impliment a parallel port control of all the features in GBPvr.
This would allow the electronics people like me to build interfaces to control GBPvr without needing to worry about the software side of things for home entertainment systems.
Without going into too much detail, we could use the 8 data lines for outputs to strobe 5 input lines giving us a 5x8 matrix (with 8 diodes to prevent any ports getting damaged). This would give us the ability to control up to 40 functions using switches or optoisolators.
A unit could be built for less than $20 with the 40 switches and components etc or you could use RF telemetry to make your own remote control.
I would like to see GBPvr being able to remap any of these switches to control any of the functions within the software.
Things I would especially like to see as an addon to this are i.e.
Switch 1 = instant recording of composite 1 until switch 1 is released - this would allow UK users with SKY Digiboxes to automatically start recording from the composite input when the box goes into autoview mode. The sky box outputs a voltage on one of the scart pins when an autoview program is selected and watched.
Switch 2 (or more switches) = timelapse recording from input x - this would be useful for security applications
A general time lapse option to record x frames per second between certain times (with programs given priority for recording) - we've had 10 cars vandalised down our street in the past month or so and it would be nice to use the slack time on GBPvr to record the goings on
Thats all off the top of my head - any comments on the above ?
Dom
P.s. Sub - if you want to get hold of me email me at gbpvr@picbits.com
What I have seen so far of GBPVR it is (to be) a great program (guide, recording etc.).
I have a Hauppauge pvr 350 in my Pundit-R.
The problem I am having is that certain dutch channels are not tuned correctly. I used the TuningAssistent which gives me the numbers necessary. But 5 channels or so are just a bit more or less these numbers, resulting in only images and no sound. (for the dutch among us: I live in Rotterdam and this is happening to RTL4, RTL5, Veronica, Discovery, TV5).
Is this a hardware problem with the pvr 350 or can I adjust something in GBPVR/Windows? In case of thelatter, will GBPVR have a fine-tuning possibility in the future? Or the option to enter frequencies (as displayed by TuningAssistant) instead of channel numbers?
OK, so it was working. Finished recording and later came back and got the message that it 'failed to communicate with the GB-PVR recording service.This software is possibly not running. After rebooting, try again."
Rebooted and still the same message.
Thanks again,
When does the list of pending recordings get updated?
I have 4 'record season' items and noticed that one stopped being recorded. Also there was no corresponding item in pending, yet the others had pending items.
I restarted the service, no change.
I deleted the 'Reoccuring' entry and re-made it, restart service - no change.
How can I tell if it will record tomorrow or not?
BTW - the show is 'Oprah Winfrey', which is a daily weekday show.
The ability to season-record Oprah is how I sold the idea of a PVR to my wife.
_Ken
p.s. Thanks to sub for all the hard work, I have been involved with a project like this and know the effort involved!
I can't seem to get live tv to work and get the message "VIdeo is playing back using tv out Press home to return to the menu". Obviously, something isn't set up right and I don't know what it is. I've played with the config so much, still nothing. I'm using the Hauppauge 350.
Can someone send me in the right direction?
Thanks
I'm having trouble watching Live TV after upgrading to 0.227. Â The error I get when I select Live TV is: "Error: Failure playing back file". Â I did screw up updating my zap2it listings the first time, so I formatted my hard drive, installed Windows from scratch, tried it again but I got the same error. Â Strangely enough, I can still record programs and watch them later, I just can't watch live TV.
My specs:
Windows XP Pro w/SP2
Microsoft .NET 1.1 w/SP1
Hauppauge PVR-250 Model 976
Video: Â Geforce 4 MX 440
Sound: Chaintech AV-710
I've also got Comskip 0.50 in the gbpvr directory.
Here is my gbpvr.exe.log file (I can supply the others if you wish):
17/10/2004 6:13:37 PM.890 VERBOSE [2] installDirectory is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\
17/10/2004 6:13:37 PM.890 VERBOSE [2] configurationFile is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\config.xml
17/10/2004 6:13:37 PM.921 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString
17/10/2004 6:13:37 PM.921 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString : Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=".\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
17/10/2004 6:13:37 PM.921 VERBOSE [2] databaseConnectionString is Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
17/10/2004 6:13:37 PM.921 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DontAntiAlias
17/10/2004 6:13:37 PM.921 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/DontAntiAlias : false
17/10/2004 6:13:37 PM.921 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/LoggingLevel
17/10/2004 6:13:37 PM.921 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/LoggingLevel : Debug
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.125 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/MiscMediaDirectory
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.125 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/MiscMediaDirectory : .\media
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.234 INFO [2] Starting
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.234 VERBOSE [2] Direct Playing:
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.234 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/UseSBE
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.234 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/UseSBE : true
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.234 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/Renderer
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.234 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/Renderer : VMR9
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.234 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/HardwareDecoder
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.234 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/HardwareDecoder : None - use software decoder
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.234 VERBOSE [2] Initializing renderer: VMR9
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DirectRemoteAccess
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/DirectRemoteAccess : false
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/PreferredDecoder
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/PreferredDecoder : NVIDIA Video Decoder
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue cached value: /settings/PreferredDecoder : NVIDIA Video Decoder
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/WindowedMode
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/WindowedMode : false
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.609 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/RootSkinDirectory
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.609 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/RootSkinDirectory : .\skin\
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.609 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/ActiveSkin
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.609 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/ActiveSkin : Blue
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.843 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/ShowButtons
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.843 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/ShowButtons : TV Guide,Search Guide,Live TV,Net Radio,Recordings,Music Library,Video Library,Exit
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.843 VERBOSE [2] GuideMenuTask created
17/10/2004 6:13:38 PM.984 VERBOSE [2] RecordingsMenuTask created
17/10/2004 6:13:39 PM.109 VERBOSE [2] LiveTVMenuTask created
17/10/2004 6:13:39 PM.109 VERBOSE [2] NetRadioMenuTask created
17/10/2004 6:13:39 PM.187 VERBOSE [2] FMRadioMenuTask created
17/10/2004 6:13:39 PM.265 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/FMRadioStations
17/10/2004 6:13:39 PM.265 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/FMRadioStations : 91 ZM~91000000|Munt FM~88500000|Channel Z~94700000|
17/10/2004 6:13:39 PM.281 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/EnabledPlugins
17/10/2004 6:13:39 PM.281 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/EnabledPlugins : Comics,DVD Ripper,Jukebox,Picture Library,Weather
17/10/2004 6:13:39 PM.531 VERBOSE [2] JukeboxTask created
17/10/2004 6:13:39 PM.546 VERBOSE [2] AddMusicDir: C:\
17/10/2004 6:13:39 PM.546 VERBOSE [2] AddMusicDir: topMusicDir C:\
17/10/2004 6:13:39 PM.718 VERBOSE [2] WeatherTask created
17/10/2004 6:13:40 PM.750 VERBOSE [2] CustomTaskSettings.loadAll()
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.968 VERBOSE [2] DvdMenuTask created
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.968 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/ShowDVDButton
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.968 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/ShowDVDButton : true
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.968 VERBOSE [2] Checking for Lnkx Files in: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Lnkx
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.968 VERBOSE [2] ExitMenuTask created
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.968 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/ButtonOrdering
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.968 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/ButtonOrdering :
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.968 INFO [2] Initializing InputDeviceManager
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.968 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/RemoteType
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.968 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/RemoteType : Default (Hauppauge)
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.984 VERBOSE [2] VideoPlaybackManager created
17/10/2004 6:13:41 PM.984 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbsbbtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbsbbtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.031 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbrwbtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbrwbtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.046 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbpausebtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbpausebtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.093 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbffbtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbffbtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.109 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbsfbtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbsfbtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.140 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbmenubtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbmenubtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.156 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbsbbtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbsbbtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.171 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbrwbtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbrwbtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.171 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbplaybtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbplaybtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.187 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbffbtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbffbtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.187 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbsfbtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbsfbtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.187 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbmenubtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbmenubtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.187 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\recordbtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\recordbtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.203 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\watchbtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\watchbtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.234 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\resumebtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\resumebtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.250 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\restartbtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\restartbtn-selected.png
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.281 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/PromptForResume
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.281 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/PromptForResume : false
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.281 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/SkipInsteadOfFFRW
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.281 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/SkipInsteadOfFFRW : false
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.281 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DefaultSkipSeconds
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.281 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/DefaultSkipSeconds : 60
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.281 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/ManualSkipTimebase
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.281 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/ManualSkipTimebase : Seconds
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.343 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:13:42 PM.531 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:13:45 PM.734 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:13:46 PM.296 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:13:46 PM.703 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:13:47 PM.406 VERBOSE [2] SourceConfigurationContainer.LoadAll()
17/10/2004 6:13:47 PM.515 VERBOSE [2] About to connect to remote recording service
17/10/2004 6:13:47 PM.531 VERBOSE [2] RecordLiveTV: 9
17/10/2004 6:13:49 PM.312 VERBOSE [2] playLiveTvFile(3 CFCN)
17/10/2004 6:13:49 PM.328 INFO [2] playFile(3 CFCN)
17/10/2004 6:13:49 PM.328 VERBOSE [2] About to play file: D:\buffer\livetv-1-0.mpg.sbe
17/10/2004 6:13:52 PM.328 ERROR [2] Error: msg=0x100 (WM_KEYDOWN) hwnd=0x1027a wparam=0xd lparam=0x1 result=0x0  :  Failure playing back file  :   at NativeUtilities.MediaHelper.playVideoFile(String filename, Form form)
 at ai.a(String A_0, String A_1)
 at ai.a(String A_0, String A_1, Int32 A_2)
 at ai.q()
 at q.e()
 at m.a(Object A_0, KeyEventArgs A_1)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyEventArgs(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyMessage(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmKeyChar(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
 at m.a(Message& A_0)
17/10/2004 6:13:52 PM.328 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:13:52 PM.406 VERBOSE [2] StopLiveTV()
17/10/2004 6:13:52 PM.750 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:13:58 PM.343 VERBOSE [2] HideMouse ref=-1
17/10/2004 6:14:25 PM.484 VERBOSE [2] ShowMouse ref=0
17/10/2004 6:14:31 PM.343 VERBOSE [2] HideMouse ref=-1
17/10/2004 6:15:01 PM.906 VERBOSE [2] ShowMouse ref=0
17/10/2004 6:15:02 PM.812 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:15:09 PM.375 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:15:10 PM.187 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:15:10 PM.390 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:15:10 PM.796 VERBOSE [2] Rendering HomeMenu
17/10/2004 6:15:11 PM.343 VERBOSE [2] HideMouse ref=-1
17/10/2004 6:15:11 PM.812 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/NetRadioBufferSize
17/10/2004 6:15:11 PM.812 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/NetRadioBufferSize : 96000
17/10/2004 6:15:11 PM.812 INFO [2] NetRadio buffer size is: 96000
