Trying to find direction

[possum]

Hi everyone! I am new to the PVR PC concept and just ended up getting my feet wet. I have a Celeron D330 2.6G processor, a gig o ram, and a ATI Radeon 9250 vid card that i've been using the SVideo output to a television for a while now. My girlfriend recently bought me a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR150(merry x-mas to me!). I've been getting used to the setting up of GBPVR and i love it. it blows the regular software clean out of the water. Anyway, i was wondering what kind of settings in the config you could recommend. I have it set up now, but it seems that sometimes the video is a little choppy(only sometimes) and that the pictuire seems "softer" than it should. The picture quality seems better on the WinTV software. I dont know anything about this. Maybe i need to be using a different decompression codec or something, but when i started playing around with that stuff, i just ended up with video/sync issues. Also, off the topic, directed to sub(as i may erronously believe is the brains around here), is there a way to keep GBPVR open resident and be able to open it up with a push of a button on the Hauppauge 45 button remote? The original software had the option to just push the TV button and it would load the software. It seemed very nice. Anyway, just a thought/question/possibility for future development. Maybe i'm just stupid. I pressed the "fix for haup remote" button or whatever. Oh yeah. 1 last thing. Some channels have no audio Any suggestions?
-thanks
-possum

[sub]

Also, off the topic, directed to sub(as i may erronously believe is the brains around here), is there a way to keep GBPVR open resident and be able to open it up with a push of a button on the Hauppauge 45 button remote?

The recording service always runs in the background. How to start GB-PVR with the remote has been discussed a few times in the past, so a search should turn up the details.

Oh yeah. 1 last thing. Some channels have no audio Any suggestions?

This is quite common with NTSC PVR150's (rev C199). The neweest drivers at http://www.shspvr.com/smf address this.

[possum]

thanks for all your help and the speedy response sub. i am however, extra stupid and can't find my answers via the search function(i went there 1st). I found entries sayin i can't start GBPVR with the remote and i found threads that say i can when editing .INI files(which isn't beyond me, as long as i know what change). The direct access to remote button doesn't seem to have any effect, seeing as the remote does nothing when IR.EXE isn't running. but i think i read something about the 45 button remote isn't gonna work because of drivers, etc. i'm sorry that i seem like a total noob about these things, but this is the most configuration that i've ever had to deal with in any 1 program. On the flip side i think this is honestly the single coolest program/utility i think i've ever used. 3 New Years Cheers for sub!
thanks again

p.s. am i wasting resources by leaving that "direct access" button on and using IR.EXE?
sorry i'm so dumb

[sub]

You shouldnt be using the 'direct access to remote' feature with a PVR150. This function is only for PVR250/350.

I cant be arsed searching the forums for you, but the steps have been described many times in the past. It is also briefly mentioned on this page of the wiki: http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manual/Irremoteini