Waking up and Client/Server

[nippywiffle]

Hi,
I have a couple of questions.

1. If a recording is scheduled, but the PC goes into standby or hibernate, will the PC wake up to perform the recording? If so does it wake up a few minutes early / are there settings for that?


2. I'm trying to set GBPVR up so that I have 1 server in my attic with the HDTV antenna attached, and then have a PC in 2 other rooms set up as clients, getting everything from the server.

I tested this out using a laptop connected by by ethernet cable (100Mb/s). I set the laptop up using the "Act as a client" option, and chose Streaming.

When I went to live analog TV, it said "switching to timeshift mode" and waited there for about 15-20 seconds. The live TV then worked. It also waited about 15-20 seconds when switching channels. I could see the video file being created on the server in my tv buffer/recording folder.

When I did this with HD channels, it said switching to timeshift mode, but the laptop never displayed any TV, but I could see the file created on the server getting larger and larger.

My question is, is there any setting to reduce the buffer, so that Live TV switches quicker on client machines? Or is it maybe just my hardware that's making it slow? Also, is there something else I need to do, to stream HD channels?


My server is: Athlon XP 3200+, 768MB, 2 x 200GB HDD (100GB free on recording drive), Hauppauge hvr-1600, Nvidia 6800GT AGP card, Nvidia Purevideo decoder.

Client is: Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, 2GHz celeron, 384MB, 20GB free HDD, Intel onboard video, Nvidia purevideo decoder. (This is just for testing)

Thanks,
Dan

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1. If a recording is scheduled, but the PC goes into standby or hibernate, will the PC wake up to perform the recording? If so does it wake up a few minutes early / are there settings for that?

It asks Windows to start 1 minute prior to the pre-padding was supposed to kick in.

2. I'm trying to set GBPVR up so that I have 1 server in my attic with the HDTV antenna attached, and then have a PC in 2 other rooms set up as clients, getting everything from the server.

I tested this out using a laptop connected by by ethernet cable (100Mb/s). I set the laptop up using the "Act as a client" option, and chose Streaming.

When I went to live analog TV, it said "switching to timeshift mode" and waited there for about 15-20 seconds. The live TV then worked. It also waited about 15-20 seconds when switching channels. I could see the video file being created on the server in my tv buffer/recording folder.

When I did this with HD channels, it said switching to timeshift mode, but the laptop never displayed any TV, but I could see the file created on the server getting larger and larger.

There are known problems for ATSC users trying to use LiveTV on a client PC. It'd only work for you if you're using the Cyberlink or ATI mux, but these do not work well for ATSC users.

[nippywiffle]

Thanks for the reply.

Apart from the ATSC - is there any way to speed up the channel switching on the client, for normal analog TV?

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I'm not sure why its quite that slow. It takes about 4-5 seconds to change channels here, which is about what I'd expect on a client PC.

If its a BDA capture source being used, the ATI mux adds an additional 2 second, the Cyberlink mux an additional 4 seconds.