GPVR running fine on 600MHz PIII

[bdgbill]

HeartburnKid

I'm still running this old PIII. I have the same experience with the remote sometimes not responding. It seems to "save" all the button presses for 30 seconds or so, then send them all at once.

I do not use live tv but the few times I have checked it out, channel changes take about 5 seconds, video can be choppy at times but it's definitley watchable.

Menus are a little slow and GBPVR locks up on me once in a while but I never miss recordings and playback is fine.

My best advice is to strip XP down as much as you can - no antivirus, disable multi user etc.

I use GBPVR everyday with this machine. It works so well that I just haven't gotten around to upgrading my hardware.

[kmoore]

I've got GBPVR running on an old HP Celeron 400 with 256MB of RAM on Win2k Server. PVR-350 (obviously). Live TV stutters once, and only when I unpause. The OSD doesn't phase it and even fades in and out smoothly. Channel changing is slow but that's not a big deal. Digital cable, TiVo, et al are slow, too. This might be the slowest with GBPVR, but I have heard of slower with MythTV and a PVR-350. I think I saw a dual Pentium 166MMX machine in a list somewhere. Yikes.

[erik]

Win2k would indeed be better for GBPVR, less processes running, much less memory being used.

[K.S.]

It seems to "save" all the button presses for 30 seconds or so, then send them all at once.

that's the behaviour i had with WinLIRC, after switching to girder/IgorPlugin response times got in the range of acceptable/useable

[nitrogen_widget]

that's the behaviour i had with WinLIRC, after switching to girder/IgorPlugin response times got in the range of acceptable/useable

What OS are you running?
I was using the free version of Girder on XP & it kept randomly crashing on me.

[K.S.]

What OS are you running?
I was using the free version of Girder on XP & it kept randomly crashing on me.

XP pro SP2 with latest hotfixes (only exception: still IE6), never had any crashes

[teejay_c]

I've been running GBPVR on a mini-itx M9000 board for almost 3 years. I think it was a post from tipster that came up in a google search years ago that put me onto GBPVR. I had been using the board as a firewall for a little company before they decided a firewall was pretty useful and they suddenly found enough money to buy a real one. I was looking for a new use for the funky little board. After some extensive research and trial and error I got it to pass the WAF and it's now a permanent living room fixture. I've caught my wife shopping online for a new media case recently. I may have to find a new use for the funky little board again...

[HtV]

I've caught my wife shopping online for a new media case recently. I may have to find a new use for the funky little board again...

Do you see any possibility to have your wife connect mine.

[teejay_c]

If your wife belongs to any online support groups for "wives of terminal geeks" we may be able to get them together

[K.S.]

Do you see any possibility to have your wife connect mine.

ROTFL can i give you the phone number of my wife too? must get rid of that ugly box in the living room