MVP Model Numbers

[srhutch]

Cant see what difference the capture source would make, as digital or analogue it's converted to mpeg or divx etc, which is what the MVP uses.

[sub]

Cant see what difference the capture source would make, as digital or analogue

It depends what you're trying to use it for. Playing recordings is typically fine with files from either digital or analog capture source. For live tv, digital vs analog does have an impact, with digital having much slower channel change times (due to few extra seconds added by mux).

it's converted to mpeg or divx etc, which is what the MVP uses.

The device doesnt natively support divx. It only plays MPEG1/MPEG2/MP3 files. Any other file type, like divx, is converted to one of these supported types on the fly for playback (which means no skipping beyond the transcoding position etc).

[mvallevand]

For video, the MVP only supports in hardware SD MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 program stream files with mp2 or mp3 audio. All the digital captures are actually transport stream files which are not supported and need to be muxed to a mpeg ps format. This is not a function of Windows, nor is it provided by GBPVR, and there is no freeware mux, but many people do use a specific mux that can do a decent job in some SD content.

Here in North America there is no solution for digital captures SD or HD because of the lack of AC3 support in the MVP.

Don't be fooled by the Hauppauge web site divx support is by transcoding.

Edit: curses beaten again!

Martin

[Elmo Putney]

Do you mean HD? I have two MVPs doing a great job showing the output from Nova-T 500's (freeview)

Interesting that you are doing ok setup, I have the same setup even down to the Nova t 500 and I get very frequent lockups when channel changing. This often requires me to re-boot the server otherwise I get the "no capture devices" warning.

[ACTCMS]

Are you using mvpmc?

[srhutch]

OK, so I have learnt something new, and that is you can watch live TV thorugh this box.

I assume you can watc live TV through NMT.

[Elmo Putney]

At risk of highjacking the thread:

Are you using mvpmc?

Yes I am, with the standard dongle I got very corrupted audio/video on certain channels.

What version of the mvpmc are you using?

[ACTCMS]

What version of the mvpmc are you using?

The one dated 5th april 2008

[srhutch]

Well I have just bought a PCH with 200GB HD, so hope it works better than the Philips unit I have. Should have it Tuesday/Wednesday

[SFX Group]

The MVP is pretty old now. I'd probably be looking at the Popcorn Hour myself.

Does this device work like MVP able to pull menus and everything?

It looks nice, like the HDD so it streams to it and uses it as a cache (cure network issues)....

I assume you will be integrating this in to the "media server" part of GBPVR?