2005-08-22, 03:58 PM
I stumbled on to this little trick while I was trying to get my MVP up and working.
In my home network setup I have two computers set up with GBPvr running. I have my primary PVR which is a lower spec'ed machine that is located in the living room. I also have my Photo/Video/Audio machine located in my basement office(I had to relocated when my son was born). Main computer has enough horsepower to preform the transcodeing needed for avi play back (I'm still working on sync issues). But my PVR does not.
So (where the hell is this going?) I wanted to be able to switch my MVP between my PVR and my main desktop. I found that If I run the GBPvr Mvp client via autostart or in the window mode, I can switch from one to the other by pressing the green remote buttton(MVP power standby). It doesn't always work but its pretty consistant. 90% of the time I would be connected to my PVR but since I do all my video converting on my main desktop, its nice to be able to watch without having to map drives or manuall start and stop the MVP services on each PC.
According to Sub when it comes out of stanby, it looks for the first server it can find. For some reason when you go to standby it has a tendancy to grab the other server. It works really, well for my application. Sort of a bonus. It might work to let you swich between the MVP software and the GBPvr Software. Not sure. This might be my fix for my AVI playback issues.
Hope someone finds this useful.
In my home network setup I have two computers set up with GBPvr running. I have my primary PVR which is a lower spec'ed machine that is located in the living room. I also have my Photo/Video/Audio machine located in my basement office(I had to relocated when my son was born). Main computer has enough horsepower to preform the transcodeing needed for avi play back (I'm still working on sync issues). But my PVR does not.
So (where the hell is this going?) I wanted to be able to switch my MVP between my PVR and my main desktop. I found that If I run the GBPvr Mvp client via autostart or in the window mode, I can switch from one to the other by pressing the green remote buttton(MVP power standby). It doesn't always work but its pretty consistant. 90% of the time I would be connected to my PVR but since I do all my video converting on my main desktop, its nice to be able to watch without having to map drives or manuall start and stop the MVP services on each PC.
According to Sub when it comes out of stanby, it looks for the first server it can find. For some reason when you go to standby it has a tendancy to grab the other server. It works really, well for my application. Sort of a bonus. It might work to let you swich between the MVP software and the GBPvr Software. Not sure. This might be my fix for my AVI playback issues.
Hope someone finds this useful.
GBPVR Server:
AMD Sempron 3300+, 1gb DDR, 100, 200 & 500gb HDDs, DVD -/+RW PVR150 RETAIL, PVR150MCE.
GBPVR 1.0.16, SKIN'S = Default Blue, PLUGIN'S = None
MediaMVP
AMD Sempron 3300+, 1gb DDR, 100, 200 & 500gb HDDs, DVD -/+RW PVR150 RETAIL, PVR150MCE.
GBPVR 1.0.16, SKIN'S = Default Blue, PLUGIN'S = None
MediaMVP