2006-10-22, 06:53 PM
Hello,
after trying out several PVR solutions (Cyberlink PowerCinema, Terratec HomeCinema) i ended up with GBPVR because the others ... dont work for me ... to make it short.
I bought a Terratec Cinergy Hybrid T XS USB, Card which is (like the name says) a Hybrid DVB-T / Analog Receiver USB Stick.
I still have some problems using gbpvr with the Cinergy hardware, some of them solved themselves by installing the latest updates (like german "umlaut" characters were missing in the program guide but are there now - great!).
One error which took me some time to figure out but is easy to fix if you know the problem, is that the filter names for the Terratec in BDA.INI are wrong, at least for the newest updates of the drivers for the Card. Using Graphedit, i figured out that these are the correct names for the filters:
[TerraTec Cinergy HT USB XS DVB-T]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=Cinergy HT USB XS Digital Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=Cinergy HT USB XS Digital Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
But the main problem i have is still unsolved: The Recording Service seems to stall quite often, especially when trying to record the second scheduled show since startup. It happens quite often that the first show is recorded fine, but the second time the tray icon is switches to green the file stays at 0 KB, and CPU usage is as high as IF it was recording, but nothing is written to the capture file.
Occasionally also the recording service seems to stall without recording anything. Tray Icon is white, but opening the context menu by right click takes a lot of time. If you manage to Toggle the "Restart Recording Service" usually everything is fine afterwards... Is there anything i can do to make things more reliable with that ? I am not saying it is GBPVR to blame, it could also be the BDA Driver but i dont know how to figure this out.
Another thing which is not a bug, rather a question: The DVB-T EPG behaves strange i have (short) but complete data for some channels and nothing for others... Also compared to what the Terratec Software shows in the EPG the Infos in GBPVR are very brief as if it only reads the synopsis but discards all the additional data which must be available somehow...
Perhaps anyone can give me some hints?
cheers,
till
after trying out several PVR solutions (Cyberlink PowerCinema, Terratec HomeCinema) i ended up with GBPVR because the others ... dont work for me ... to make it short.
I bought a Terratec Cinergy Hybrid T XS USB, Card which is (like the name says) a Hybrid DVB-T / Analog Receiver USB Stick.
I still have some problems using gbpvr with the Cinergy hardware, some of them solved themselves by installing the latest updates (like german "umlaut" characters were missing in the program guide but are there now - great!).
One error which took me some time to figure out but is easy to fix if you know the problem, is that the filter names for the Terratec in BDA.INI are wrong, at least for the newest updates of the drivers for the Card. Using Graphedit, i figured out that these are the correct names for the filters:
[TerraTec Cinergy HT USB XS DVB-T]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=Cinergy HT USB XS Digital Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=Cinergy HT USB XS Digital Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
But the main problem i have is still unsolved: The Recording Service seems to stall quite often, especially when trying to record the second scheduled show since startup. It happens quite often that the first show is recorded fine, but the second time the tray icon is switches to green the file stays at 0 KB, and CPU usage is as high as IF it was recording, but nothing is written to the capture file.
Occasionally also the recording service seems to stall without recording anything. Tray Icon is white, but opening the context menu by right click takes a lot of time. If you manage to Toggle the "Restart Recording Service" usually everything is fine afterwards... Is there anything i can do to make things more reliable with that ? I am not saying it is GBPVR to blame, it could also be the BDA Driver but i dont know how to figure this out.
Another thing which is not a bug, rather a question: The DVB-T EPG behaves strange i have (short) but complete data for some channels and nothing for others... Also compared to what the Terratec Software shows in the EPG the Infos in GBPVR are very brief as if it only reads the synopsis but discards all the additional data which must be available somehow...
Perhaps anyone can give me some hints?
cheers,
till