i followed the direction on how to configure GB-PVR. When i run the program and click Live TV it gives me an error: failure playing back file.

can anyone help?

Setup software recently to test. Do not have a compatible tuner card installed, want to evelaute software before comitting to purchase anything new. Have pretty much everything working that is functional without a card, but can not get DVD to play. Software recognizes, brings up menu, can do setup ops from menu but when I hit play it freezes up there. Plays fine in cyberlink power DVD. Any ideas? I have all the DVD playback options set to use Cyberlink apps.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks to GBPVR, after trying out SageTV, WinTV and others, I settled down to this one because this one delivers with no fuss ( and free as of now ).

I have PVR 350, a good machine, connected to TV ( no monitor ). so far I am using remote from Hauppauge ( I will end buying Tira or USBUIRT ). Have the following questions, sub/everyone - please answer each of them ( thanks for the patience )

1. medium quality - nothing else : even if I set any other type, it always goes back.
2. how do I enter the channel directly : I can incr/decr channels, but if I type the numbers ( for ex: 472 channel on dish ), it doesn't respond to the number pad.
3. net radio - how to add more stations - there are some radio stations that are not listed here. Can I add them manuallly ?
4. How to schedule the tasks inside PVR ? Apart from Recording of programs, I want to schedule shutdown/music play and etc. Can I do it ? If not, can I do it via Girder ?
5. epg download - takes a long time. If it is cancelled in the middle, it should retain the stuff downloaded so far.
6. can we record live tv while playing back some other archive video ? Also, can I pause live tv while watching something else ?
7. Love the plugins, installed all of them. But then the main screen showed all of them in one column,exceeding the screen limit. Would be ideal if we can categorize them or show in multiple columns.

thanks in advance
gvram

Hello Sub!

I like the changes you have made to GBPVR!

Is there any way to currently view the file date in Video Library? I am using my MVP to watch my videos from Sage and when I have more than two files with the same show name I can't tell them apart. I used to look at the file date at the bottom of the screen when a file was selected in the MVP software.

Thanks!
Mike

I installed GB-PVR for the first time a couple of nights ago, and I almost have it working. Now I am having a problem with the guide. I signed up for zap2it, but when I display the guide, it is an hour off. For example, Wheel of Fortune is on at 7:00 pm, but the guide says it is on at 6:00 pm. I have tried changing my timezone to a couple other time zones in EPG Source Settings, but this doesn't seem to affect anything. When I check the listings on http://www.zap2it.com, they are correct (I'm not sure if the two websites use the same data). Any help would be appreciated.

I've got GB-PVR up and running and love it!  I really like the way the service will wake the PC from standby and start recording automatically.

Now, is there any way to wake the PC from standby with the Hauppauge remote?  This would be a complete solution - able to wake a sleeping PC, select some shows to record, and then set back to standby until the service needs to wake again for recording. I'm running Win2K.

Thx.

I have approx 6 shows that are on "Season-Record". I don't monitor when it's recording. I try to look at what's been recorded every couple of days. I noticed today that nothing recorded for a couple of days. I started poking around and noticed the EPG was empty.

Has anyone else noticed this? I'm using Zap2it. I went into the Configuration Tool and ran an "update epg" and all appears fine now. I checked the Windows Scheduler and did NOT see an entry for the EPG to run (I don't remember if this is how it runs anyway). Anyone have any ideas? It's v17i

Thanks
John

For those that want to view DVDs from their hard drives on their MVP or PVR350, below was a post from another forum that I thought some people would be interested in knowing about.

There is so many tools out there, that its often difficult to find the exact one you need for a task like this, so here it is in nutshell:

[b Wrote:Quote[/b] ]Step 1: I rip the DVD's with SmartRipper to my hard drive. I set SmartRipper to rip the movie to one big file.

Step 2: I then import that file into Womble MPEG Video Wizard and select Export. I only change the AC-3 audio to MPEG Layer II and hit Start. Only the audio is re-encoded.

The entire process is very fast and the resulting file is of excellent quality and plays just fine through the hardware decoder of the PVR-350

If a DVD has no copy protection I wont even use SmartRipper. I import into Womble direct from the DVD and proceed with Step 2.

I just installed GB-PVR (v0.18l).  When I try to watch live tv, I get the error message "Failed to Communicate with the GB-PVR Recording Service".  I checked the task manager, and GBPVRRecordingService.exe is running.  I tried restarting the recording service from the start menu, but that didn't help.

I am running Windows XP Home Edition with an Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350.  I live in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Thanks in advance.

Actually, I just found the problem. I had set it up for Capture Device #2. When I changed it back to #1 it worked. Sorry.

I get nothing but static on all channels within Live TV. I can't seem to find any settings to tune these. I have had the same problem in anumber of other programs as well. I fear it is either a M$ issue or my drivers are just no good. The bundled software appears to be based on the Honestech Capture software and the card tunes just fine in that program.
Anyone had similar problems and overcame them?