v0.0.9 BETA available for download

[AndyCherry]

mikejaner,

If you're only going to use gbpvr and no other programs with the remote control, you can get rid of IR.EXE - gbpvr links directly to the remote control if IR.EXE is not running (and currently only when you are using TV out). This means that if you lost the focus of gbpvr on the PC while watching a video etc, you can still use the remote control. I've had it working that I've been using gbpvr on our TV while my wife used the PC for MS Word and I can still navigate through the menus!

Cheers,
Andy

[mikejaner]

DOH!!, I guess I should have installed the Hauppauge IR software before I installed GBPVR. A reinstall did it. Oh and thanks for the tip AndyCherry, that's even better!
mikejaner

[MaBo]

Again, a short test report of me using 009f (Using a pvr350, tvout, trying not to use the computer monitor)
First I like to say that it felt a lot more stable than 008d. I really like that GBPVR can be controlled when it is minimized. This way, the computer can be well used for something else! Thanks for the tip! Now it would be great if GBPVR could be started minimized. I tried that with minimized start in the windows startup folder, but the gbpvr window came up on the tv monitor.

Playing music is much better!!! But when I played a m3u file, then went to the main menu and pressed stop, lots of errors were generated.

Manual recording looks nice, but when it is done I couldn't play it from the recordings window. Switching to the folder it had been recorded into and then playing worked just fine.

LiveTV -> skip backwd and forward! Great!! But then the TV-out disappeared, only the main menu on the monitor remained and GBPVR hung.

I still have some lip-sync issues when using live and/or pause tv. And with pausing a file that is played. Perhaps this is a hauppauge driver issue, but it is very annoying.

A question: what happens with the live-tv?.mpg files? Are they deleted sometime? (Not very critical, just like to know)

A suggestion would be to not include black.mpg in the installer package. I suppose it takes a fair bit of the 3+MB download. When I'm using a modem to download it I could use the black.mpg from an old install instead. (I know this is very minor).

Anyway, I get to like gbpvr more and more!
Maarten

[MaBo]

My wife has played with GBPVR now a bit, and she had several hangs. Yesterday I looked into it, and it appeared that when having played a video file, the program starts eating lots of CPU-time (80+%) and memory (increasing to over 200MB) as reported by windows taskmanager.
It does listen to the remote (IR.exe is not running), but very slowly. Keypresses may have effect after several minutes. This looks, for the normal user (=my wife) as an application hang.
BTW, this also appeared with 008 release.

Any ideas?
Maarten
---config:
ASUS pundit
Celeron 2600
512MB
160GB HD
PVR350

[Beowulf]

Hey Mabo.. Asus Pundit? Lol, we have the same config but for 2 things. I have a PIV 2600 and a 120 Gig HDD.
Was it also so hard to get the Hauppauge card in the Pundit?

[MaBo]

Quote[/b] ]Was it also so hard to get the Hauppauge card in the Pundit?

I don't know!
It was done for me  

The main use of this system is a HTPC, therefore I chose not to use a PIV, but save some money and put that into the PVR and a LARGE HD  

BTW: do you have problems with the PVR (sound but no picture, both in wintv2k and GBPVR) after waking from suspend? I have. I use the 21288 hauppauge drivers...

I didn't mention it in the sig, but I also have a NEC1300 multisystem optical drive. It reads fine, haven't been up to writing though.
What optical drive do you have?
Greetings,
MaBo

[colin]

Mabo,

is it the NEC ND1300a DVD writer you have? What firmware are you using on the drive? I have one of these and so far as long as you get good media to write to this has been pretty successful.

I also read the rpc1 which is a good place to learn more about these things,

Cheers,

[Sotto]

Hello,

I was trying to install gbpvr 0.0.9 on XP Prof, but I cannot start the installation script. .NET is also installed.
The script crashed with with the report sending dialoque to Microsoft..

Do I have to remove the WinTV2000?


What else is recommended?

[AndyCherry]

You don't need to remove WinTV2000... could you post further details about what you have on your machine h/w and s/w wise? Also if you have any security set - e.g. group policy settings or not set up as administrator.

Cheers
Andy

[Beowulf]

Hi Mabo,
well..I started with the Leadtek TV card and DivX recording, thus I decided it needed the horsepower.
Ofcourse..now it is using 20% with the Hauppauge :-)

I am just using a DVD reader, the Lite-on.
No burner, I have that as a separate external one via USB2 (Freecom FX10, which actually is the NEC1300 :-) )
But that drive is mostly connected to my normal PC.

I do not have any problems with sound and video. But have you updated to the latest Pundit BIOS? 1.005 I believe, it contained a fix for the TV out, so that it conflicts less with other TV cards and such.
Check the BIOS number.

cheers