Im new getting into this PVR thing. Ive seen where people have to use a USB-UIRT to get channels from their cable box without haveing to use the cable box remote. What I want to know is if I could use a serial cable (I saw this on another site) to change the channels on my box. Does Gp-PVR support it?
Another question. When using the MediaWVP can you playback DVD's throught GB-PVR smoothly?
One more nonrelated to GP-PVR, but does the MediaMVP help with picture quality on sdtv's?
I have a problem with the newest release V0.019. I uninstalled the V0.018L. And installed the new version. As recommended.
My problem is that the USB URIT setting on the configuration program of V0.019 do not seem to be working correctly. I set a new definition for my DirecTV remote using the USB-UIRT CHANNEL CHANGER CONFIGURATION menu. The only new change I noted was the addition of the "OK" or "ENTER" after you were prompted the numbers 1 thru 0 which I entered and then named DirecTV. I chose not to check any of the options Zero pad channel, Send ENTER/OK after transmission, or Use three digit channel numbers. This setting worked fine with V0.018L and would change the channels on my DirecTV receiver and allow the GR-PVR to record the correct programs.
But on the new release V0.0.19 it seems to change the channel only one time then stop. I can record the first program schedule to be recorded the recording scheduled after that will not change the channel setting on my DirecTV receiver. The USB URIT will flash like it is sending the signal but the channel stays the same. I also tried to use the manual record to see if the channel changer would work but no luck there it will not change the channel but will flash like it is sending a signal. At first I thought it was a problem with my USB URIT or the driver for the USB URIT so I uninstalled my driver thru the DEVICE MANAGER in WinXP. Then plugged the USB URIT back in and installed the driver again. I also went in to the GR-PVR Configuration menu and went to USB-UIRT CHANNEL CHANGER CONFIGURATION and was going to create a new definition for DirecTV receiver I click on the NEW to config a new definition.
Here I believe is the problem when I do that now the window comes up and you are to enter the numbers the program will cyclic though all the numbers and the enter key or OK with out me pushing the keys on my remote then it is prompting me for then ask me for a name for my new profile.
I tried several time the its the same the Prompts are displayed and ask you to press a key number and it says to release number and going to the next all with out me pressing any keys at all! It act as the program is stuck in a loop. Then asks for a name for your new profile!
The USB URIT worked fine in the V0.018l and can reinstall it so I can record programs. But I really like you new V0.019 and the fast forward and reverse works for me in this release.
Well, I have devolped a skin, problem is it doesnt work when i try to open it with GB-PVR. All I did was draw over the red sky theme. Could someone look at it for me and see if they can get it to work, ill be happy to zip and send.
Sub, great release.  Love that video  & audio don't get out of sync on the MVP now.
Manual Recordings: Whenever I create a manual recording, I can then no longer go into the Pending recordings section, I get: Â Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Â The recording does actually happen, though. At least the first one. Not sure if they get correctly repeated.
Season recording by timeslot: I've noticed the 4 hour window it gives for timeslot flexibility. Â However, I think some problems occur when dealing with the midnight. Â Whenever I create a Season-Timeslot recording between 10:00pm and 2:00am, the entry is put in the database, but the shows are never scheduled to actually record... Nothing is shown in Pending for the schedule.
I like the 4 hour window-- is this something that could be configured per schedule (preferred), or just by generic configuration?
By the way, it looks like the playback_position table in the .19 release isn't empty.
An antenna where I can recieve 5 channels.
A set-top-box which can recieve about 50 channels.
TWO hauppauge 250 cards.
Now, here is the problem: The set-top-box can "deliver" the recieved signal on either SVGA or "emulating a channel" on the antenna cable (bad quality).
How do I "tell" GbPvr about this setup. I would like to loop the antenna-cable to BOTH my tuner-cards, and the SGVA output from the set-top-box to (i guess) only one of them.
I start with only one hauppauge 250 board:
I have tried to make two capture-sources both pointing to the same "board", one using "internal tuner" the other using "external tuner - svga". But now there is no conflictchecking - GbPvr allows me to schedule two recordings using the same board (but different capture-sources).
So back to my original question:
How to setup "half antenna" and "half set-top-box" (the latter utilizes channel selector)
Is then anyway to turn that pesky screensaver off which appears built in to the MVP? It wouldnt be so bad if it was a little more interesting and did'nt kick in so quickly!
I have an annoying problem when I start instances of GVPVR for MVP automatically before logging onto my machine. If the instances of GBPVR for MVP start up before I log onto my machine, the processes fail to start and when I do log on I get the error "VMR9 does not appear to be supported on your machine..." X number of times for each instance. I assume this is something to do with display drivers that are loaded at the point you log on. Of course once logged on I can then start GBPVR for MVP and GBPVR successfully.
Kind of a wish I guess as I don't think that there is a solution to this but as the VMR9 and Overlay etc are not applicable to the MVP could future releases get round this, or isn't it that simple?
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