I'ved checked my local Fry's, eBay, and all over the 'net, but i can't find a vendor that has the PVR-350 in stock. Does anyone know of a vendor that has them?

Thanks,
Joe

Hi Sub,

How close is H+ support?

P.

I'm about to order a PVR-350, and I've read that their software is pretty much crap. Are any of the Hauppauge drivers or software necessary or will the GB-PVR software handle all this for me?

Thanks,
Joe

Is there a way to manually enter the codes for the USB UIRT for the channel numbers? My remote is very picky on learning codes and it would be WAY easier to manually enter them (I have the codes from Girder).

Thanks,
Paul

I just installed gbpvr i havent use it much but I have to say it is perfect for what I need. I do have one small question. It says in the the Operation documentaion

"There is no limit to the number of recordings that GB-PVR can manage.  The only limiter is the amount of disk space you have available to store the MPEG files."

Does gbpvr delete the oldest show to make room for the next recording?

Great work on the software, I'm looking forward to future releases.

Bill

Hello all. I am new to this group and have some questions regarding GB-PVR. My basic setup includes a Video Server in my office that has about 300 gigabytes of harddrive space dedicated to video recording, a Hauppauge PVR-250 Card (Comcast Cable - Analog Channels), AMD Athlon 1500+, 256 Megabytes PC-2100 DDR ram, Windows XP Professional, and currently using SageTV as my PVR App.

Out on my home entertainment center which includes a Mitsubishi 55" Diamond Series Hi-Def capable television, Hauppauge MediaMVP device, RJ-Tech DIVX capable DVD player, VCR, Comcast Digital Cable, etc.

When I first got started looking at PVR applications, I was taken by Snapstreams BeyondTV 3. I purchased the software and realized it wasn't what I was looking for (anyone want to buy a copy of BeyonTV 3 cheap?). The fact that it could not stream MPEG2 or DIVX across the network (only WMV) was a downer. ANd I had problems with recording...it just seemed to not record the programming that I asked it to record. So then I started looking at SageTV. I liked SageTV very much. The fact that it could stream MPEG2 video across the network to it's client on any PC was an excellent feaure. And from what I can tell, if you have the approproate codecs installed, you can literally stream just about anything.

Enter the Hauppauge MediaMVP device. I love this device...no noisy computer in the entertainment center. The only pitfalls with it is it currently cannot decode anything but MPEG-2 Video. If Hauppauge can write their code to transcode the video on the fly from the video server and play it through the MediaMVP, I think they'd have a winning device. I would have bought the Pinnacle Showcenter at three times the price of the MediaMVP, but not after reading the Pinnacle chat groups and all the problems people have been having with the Showcenter.

Ok, so I guess I should get to my questions. I have not settled on a PVR app yet (haven't purchased SageTV yet). I'm considering going with GB-PVR solely based on the fact that it supports the MediaMVP as a client. I would absolutely be willing to support the author of GB-PVR in any way I can if development for the MediaMVP continues. For those of you that have been using GB-PVR with the MediaMVP device as a client, how has it worked for you? Even more importantly, how does GB-PVR currently compare to other PVR apps such as SageTV? Does GB-PVR support features such as network streaming of video and intelligent recording? And finally, is it the author's intention to ultimately make this a commercially available product that will be available for purchase?

Appreciate the information and thanks for taking the time to read all of this.

Best Regards,
Chris Thompson
"MediaMVP"

When i try to playback mpeg's recorded with my pvr-350 i get an error "Error: msg=0x202 (WM_LBUTTONUP) hwnd=......" when i click on "Play". If i copy the file to my "Video Library" and click on "Video Library" in the menu and then choose the file and click "Play" there is no problem.

I have been using the software for a few days now and I am very impressed so far. ( good job sub! ) I like its simplicity and and interface. Keep up th good work. I am admitting my ignorance here but I am not sure if what I am seeing is an error or the present state of things with Beta software. but anyways...

I can get My xmltv file to work and I have a working tv guide, now I am very new to xmltv too so maybe my blunder is there, but I woke up one morning and found nothing in my TV guide. OK I need to run a fresh xmltv file. Did that (after I realized I had to update my epg in the config program), but now the Season recordings dont seem to be create any "scheduled" recordings in the recording list as they did with the last file. If I delete the season recordings and then put them back my "scheduled" recordings come back.

Am I doing things right here? I want to use xmltv automate but its not really automatic when I have to go and update the epg manually. Is there a way to automate that?

BTW anyone have any good xmltv help links? (Iwant to add imdb)

First off, thanks for such a great program. I really like the user interface and the integration of all the features. I have a few issues I would like to try to work out.

Initially I could not get LiveTV working, but after reading the forum and registering those files suggested in another thread LiveTV started working. When I try to pause LiveTV, a few issues come up. Pausing works fine, but if I restart playing and then try to fast forward the file seems to restart playing at the point I paused. If I hit play while fast forwarding it again goes back to the pause point and starts playing normally from there. Occasionally, I will lose the audio stream as well. Playing a prerecorded file seems to work fine.

The second issue is in regard to the Hauppauge remote. I do not normally use the Hauppauge remote software. From the documentation it appeared that GB-PVR would handle the remote interface without the Hauppauge software running. For me, the remote only works if I run the Hauppauge remote software. Is this normal or is this feature not implemented yet? Maybe I did quite understand what was being said in the documentation.

I have been using this program for less than a day so I apologize if I have missed some obvious things, but I browsed and searched the forums and haven't seen anything related posted. Thanks for the help.

-PeteT

Okay, you've seen Newbie posts.  Well, I am the newest of the newbies.  I don't have a tuner card, I don't have any software in relation to dvrs, I don't have Tivo, have never had Tivo, nor have even seen Tivo.  Yes, I am the one. But I'm not a total dimwit, I do have some skills, and I think I can pull this off.

The whole concept of Tivo has puzzled me for a while.  Being a programmer, and also working in IT with hardware, I couldn't quite understand why a subscription was needed to pull this off (recording). So, I'm quite happy to have found this forum, and the gbpvr website.

So, my question is, what steps do I need to take to get started building a dvr from ground zero, with very little knowledge of Tivo-like software and hardware?

I have a spare computer and a 80GB drive in it. What is the recommendation of processor and video card (I was going to be purchasing a motherboard, cpu, and video card this weekend to rebuild this machine anyway)? I would like to use this machine as a dvr.

I can install Windows 2000 Pro or XP (Is the Home edition okay), whichever is recommended. And from what I've read, the Hauppauge PVR350 is the card of choice?

Once I have the machine built, is my next step going to be to  download the beta-version of GBPVR, and follow the setup instructions? What then?

We have DirecTv as the source of our televisions.  My goals are to build a Tivo like machine and to gain a better understanding of this technology works.

Thanks in advance, Tex.