Upgrading Htpc (pvr350) with a pvr 500mce recording setup question.

[blackmoon]

(not sure this belong on this thread, feel free to move it if not and sorry for the inconvenience if so).

Hello all, (first time on this forum)

First of all Sub a BIG THX for this fine peace of software, tried sagetv, meedio but gb-pvr for me beats them all I love it (until now :p ), so to the facts.

I'm curently upgrading my htpc with a pvr 500mce, the main goal is to be hable of recording 3 shows via cable ( I live in belgium btw, I know i saw the movie hrhrh), since i don't watch live tv(never at home when interesting things air ).

I know by the reading so far on this forum that gbpvr will handle this setup very well, but that's not the bottom of the case.

So this is it, i'll be adding to this setup 2 sat receivers so i could in theory record:

3 shows via cable (tuners entry on the cards) supported by gbpvr.

or 2 shows via cable and 1 via sat (supported i think).

or and this is the triccky one 1 via cable and 2 via the sats receivers( i would buy the optional bracket for the 500mce a/v inputs).

The question is will gbpvr support the third option:

1. via 1 USB-UIRT, in other words command 2 sat receivers with one of those?

2. or should i buy 2 USB-UIRT (does gbpvr support this kind of setup)?

2. or this kind of setup is simply put "impossible"?

If possible with the first case (one USB-UIRT), would it be better that the 2 sat receivers be from different manufacturers?

Many thanks to all for your time.


ps: And guys those of you with multi tuners in htpc and sat receivers, could you share any of your experince regarding this matter. thx

[sub]

would it be better that the 2 sat receivers be from different manufacturers?

Thats definitely the easiest option.

Otherwise you need look at isolating the IR signals so they dont interfere with each other, and look into manually edit the USB-UIRT files to use multiple zones. This has been discussed here in the past, but you'd probably find more details on the USB-UIRT forums.

[blackmoon]

Thx Sub for the quick answer.

I have read on different topics about the MCe REmote who comes with 2 ir blasters, would those be usable with gbpvr? because i can have that remote easily than the USB-UIRT in belgium.

Thx.

[sub]

GB-PVR doesnt support the MCE IR blaster, so you'd need to look at using 3rd party software like girder, but I'm not sure if it would meet your needs or not.

[blackmoon]

Thx again Sub, i think i'll go with the USB-UIRT using it as transmiter only and use my remote wonder as i do now, since i'm not that skilled(at all :p ) in all the programing thing with girder or all programing for short.

[blackmoon]

Hey Sub,

In this post you say you would support at least 1 win nova in gbpvr.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...TV-NEXUS-s

But since it is a old one i wonder if now you would support 2 Win-NOVA-CI-s (hability to enable descrambling of pay chanels with the right subscription) because this would resolve all the issues of tunning external sat receivers with ir blaster at least for me.

Thx.

[sub]

Yes. One guy here has four Nova-T's in his machine. It wont support a CI module though, so you can only get FTA channels.

[blackmoon]

I don't know if you understood me i was talking about the Win-NOVA-CI-s, who is a satellite card with a CI module integrated. It seems that you are talking about the Win-NOVA-T that is for terrestrial FTA only. But once again maybe it's me that don't understand you well .

Btw wich sat bda devices (with a CI or not) work fine on gbpvr, i ask this because yous mencioned on the folowing post, that you own some that don't give you any trouble:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ht=firedtv

successfully" might be a bit strong, but my FireDTV CI/S certainly doesnt make my machine reboot.

My device generally works well, but occasionally wont lock onto a channel (even though signal strength is good) for some unknown reason. I dont get this behaviour on the other BDA devices I have.

This maybe will help me to narrow my search for the device that will best fit my needs. (btw the FireDTV CI/S look very impressive, is this a hardware encoding device or the mpeg2 encoding is done by the PC?)

Thx again.

[sub]

I don't know if you understood me i was talking about the Win-NOVA-CI-s, who is a satellite card with a CI module integrated. It seems that you are talking about the Win-NOVA-T that is for terrestrial FTA only. But once again maybe it's me that don't understand you well

Yes, sorry I missed-typed, but its still the same comment. GB-PVR will not support the CI module on your Nova-CI-S. You'll only be able to view FTA channels.

successfully" might be a bit strong, but my FireDTV CI/S certainly doesnt make my machine reboot.

My device generally works well, but occasionally wont lock onto a channel (even though signal strength is good) for some unknown reason. I dont get this behaviour on the other BDA devices I have.

This maybe will help me to narrow my search for the device that will best fit my needs. (btw the FireDTV CI/S looks very impressive...

My comment about the FireDTV still stands. I wouldnt recommend it for use with GB-PVR at this stage.

I currently use a Twinhan DVB-S device, and it works well.

I also used to use a Hauppauge Nova-S. This device also worked well (with TechnoTrend BDA drivers), but when I changed development machines it causes my AMD64 machine to blue screen everytime I try to install the drivers, so its now in a drawer gathering dust.

btw the FireDTV CI/S look very impressive, is this a hardware encoding device or the mpeg2 encoding is done by the PC?

With DVB the MPEG2 encoding is done by the broadcaster before it is transmitted. GB-PVR is effectively just saving the already encoded stream.

[blackmoon]

BIG thx Sub for your patience and kindness, to support me all this time. Hope you the very best.