Hi all,

I have GB-PVR set up, and it is running really well - I can schedule recordings both via the front-end and via the web interface.

However, when I come to watch the recordings, after a few minutes the sound and video get out of sync. It starts off fine, but then gradually gets worse until the sound gets extremely "choppy".

I get this watching through the GB-PVR front-end, and also with Media Player 9.

When watching with WMP9, when things start to get bad, if I click on the bar at the bottom to jump to a specific point in a recording (even it is approximately the same point), things are fine, but then gradually start getting out of sync again.

I have searched the internet, but can't seem to find any relevant info.

My current set-up is: -

Shuttle SK41G (VIA KM266 chipset)
PVR250
XP2400
512MB
Win 2k

Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks.

I have two sources set up on the 350. One is the internal tuner, the other is the s video in on the 350. I have channels 1-100 set up on the internal tuner a the everything above 100 is set to use the s video. When I change channels with the remote it works properly, ie. if I type channel 241 it goes to s video like it should. If I schedle a recording through the guide on channel 241 it records the wrong channel. It appears it does not change channels. What should I look for?

Hi Sub,

Yesterday I wanted to install the software for my new touchscreen. However, the installer didn't start even after several retries with different versions. As I was also fiddling around with my vtplus scripts I stopped the recordingservice to let vtplus run. Then suddenly the touchscreen installer started several times! So apparantly the v017 recordingservice does more than only prevent vtplus from starting.

I really hope you can look into this and solve it.

Greetz,
MaBo

Hi,
Yesterday I finally received my touchscreen that I like to use to control my HTPC. When playing around with it, I noticed that a touchscreen is handy with GBPVR. But there are a couple of points where some minor modifications would make it a lot better in combination with a touchscreen:
- add an arrow button on the EPG screen to move further and backwards in time and up and down.
- ensure there are back and main-menu buttons on all sub-menus. For the standard gbpvr modules this is well done, many plugins lack these buttons.
- in particular for the jukebox plugin: a button to move up one folder, and a stop button. Now I have to start another piece of music from within the music library and stop that one to stop the jukobox (or use the remote).
- pictures plugin: tap the screen to advance one picture
- volume up and down controls on the main menu(?)
- when playing a movie (I use the tv-out of the pvr350) it would be convenient to leave buttons to start/stop/pause/FFW/FBW/Vol-up/Vol-dwn on the monitor output (now only black with a message in it).
- queue button on the menu of the music library. Then I can select a song and press queue to have it appended.

I assume more ideas will pop up when playing with it further.

Greetz,
MaBo

Hey,

Im going to buy some of this hardware and setup a system for my house.

My main question is whats the difference between the PVR350 and the PVR250? Is the 350 really worth the price difference?

Ill also probably get a MediaMVP for the scart interface etc.. Will this thing decode divx streams? It says explicitly that it only does MPEG but if you use the GBPVR software does that really matter??

Thanks for your help
mafro

Hi.

I have a PVR 350 and trying to install GB-PVR 0.17 fresh.
It does not seem to install the recording service (not in my services list).
How can I install it manually? So I can fix this problem.
Thanks for all the help and this what looks like to be a great program.

Hi all,

Just a quick question - what kind of system requirements are we looking at for a GB PVR MediaMVP Server???

I have an old Celeron-850 lying around with 384mb RAM.

I was hoping to keep this in the garage and control GB-PVR from a Hauppauge MediaMVP situated in my lounge.

Does anybody know if this is acceptable?

Also, looking forward, is it possible yet to connect multiple MVP's to the same host?

Cheers.

If anyone is interested in writing a plugin to support additional capture devices (HDTV, DVB etc), and would like to write their own capture device plugin, let me know.

Theres not too much required. You ultimately need to implement a class which implements the following interface:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
using System;

namespace GBPVR.Public
{
/// <summary>
/// Interface implemented by all recording sources.
/// </summary>
public abstract class IRecordingSource
{
public enum RecordingStatus
{
RECORDING_IN_PROGRESS,
RECORDING_FAILED,
RECORDING_COMPETED
};

abstract public void startRecording(int qualityLevel, string suggestedFilename, int sourceChannel, bool useStreamBufferEngineIfAvailable);
abstract public RecordingStatus getRecordingStatus();
abstract public void stopRecording();
abstract public string getFinalFileName();
}
}
[/QUOTE]
There is a couple of addition steps required to implement a configuration form, but let me know if anyone wants to write their own plugin and I'll help you out with this stuff.

What are the keyboard or 'remote control' controls?

Information on controlling GB-PVR with either a remote control control or the keyboard can be found here:http://www.gbpvr.com/QuickStart/shortcuts.htm


I get the 'Failed to communicate with the GB-PVR Recording Service' message?

If the GBPVR Recording Service is running, this probably means you've not fully configured your capture source. Edit the Capture Source and click on each of the Settings buttons and confirm the settings are correct. Even if you know the defaults match your settings, you should view the settings as its only at this stage the defaults are applied.

You can also get this error if you installed the Microsoft .net v1.1 runtime after you installed GB-PVR. If this is the case, uninstall GB-PVR and (re)install.


When I view Live TV or attempt to play back an MPEG-2 video file, a separate window with the title &quot;ActiveMovie&quot; popups. Whats happening?

I know of one situation which can cause this. I get this if I have selected to use VMR and my preferred decoder (or system default decoder) is the PowerDVD Cyberlink decoder. This is occurring because the Cyberlink decoder does not support VMR. To stop it happening, either configure GB-PVR to use Overlay instead of VMR, or select another preferred MPEG-2 decoder


How can I get channel icons in my TV Guide like those shown in your screenshots?

If you're using XMLTV and the xml contains the url of the channel logo, GB-PVR will automatically download and use a copy of the image. Otherwise, GB-PVR looks for channel logos in the c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\media\ChannelLogos directory. It looks for a file with the same name as the channel + the extension .jpg or .gif.

A good place to download high quality channel logos is http://www.satlogo.com

Does anybody have the skills to help this community with coming up with some good skins for GBPVR and the Xcard? I wish I had these abilities, but I don't. It looks to me like a very simple background or a solid color is needed, then using the transparent menus we could get a pretty decent looking one.
Mike