Download Link

[LPC]

Greetings,

I'm new so please forgive me if this has already been covered. I looked around and didn't it see it anywhere so here goes.

When I click on the Download link on the main page I'm taken to a page with giberish on it. I would dearly love to download this program so if anyone has any idea as to what's wrong please don't hesitate to let me know.

[sub]

Must be something wrong with your browser. It works fine here. Try right clicking on the "download" link and select "save as".

[LPC]

Quote[/b] (sub @ Dec. 11 2004,21:46)]Must be something wrong with your browser. It works fine here. Try right clicking on the "download" link and select "save as".
sub,

Thank you very much for the extremely quick reply.

I tried right-clicking and selecting download but the file extension was .msi so I figured it wouldn't work since I thought it had to be an .exe file. However, I eventually tried it and sure enough it's the installation file. I'm going to try installing it in a bit with a Hauppauge 150MCE.

Wish me luck!

[jquinlan]

Yes, .MSI is a Microsoft install package. You may be using another browser besides IE or an older version without the .MSI reference for downloads. You may want to update your IE or add a download reference to your browser just like the .EXE reference so it will handle it. Other sites also use .MSI files now for downloads.

Good Luck.

[rtiangha]

I find that if I click on the download link using Firefox, it opens it up in a new page as an ASCII file. I need to use Internet Explorer to download it properly. Annoying, but Microsoft, eh? (yup, I'm Canadian )

[jipe]

Finally a subject I knows something about! The problem is that the server sends the content-type "text/plain" as part of the http headers, as can be seen here

All Mozilla-based browsers essentially chooses to believe this (as per the specs), and therefore tries to display the file as though it were ordinary text data.

Internet Explorer, on the other hand, ignores whatever content-type is sent by the server, and instead just decides on its own. In this case meaning that it correctly interprets the file as binary data.

To fix it just instruct Apache to send the content-type application/octet-stream for all files with the extension msi. I think the appropriate command to put in a .htaccess configuration file is something like this:
AddType application/octet-stream msi

[LPC]

Quote[/b] (rtiangha @ Dec. 11 2004,23:10)]I find that if I click on the download link using Firefox, it opens it up in a new page as an ASCII file. I need to use Internet Explorer to download it properly. Annoying, but Microsoft, eh? (yup, I'm Canadian )

I'm also using Firefox so you're not the only one for whom it is a slight annoyance.

Now that I've downloaded and installed I'm having channel tuning issues (which I also have with Hauppauge's WinTV 2000 sofware). I attempted to update the EPG but the "Updating EPG" window stays open for a very long time (well beyond "several" minutes that's it's supposed to take). I added some channels manually but when I open the program I get a black screen with some control buttons and what looks like a time bar. I have a digital box plugged into my TV card (through the composite plug) so I selected "Composite External Tuner" as the source and I at least got a picture. However, it was choppy and the sound wasn't very good (this is exactly what happened with Sage TV).

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[sub]

Quote[/b] ]I attempted to update the EPG but the "Updating EPG" window stays open for a very long time (well beyond "several" minutes that's it's supposed to take).

Just be patient, some people with slow network links, or slow computers, or huge channel line ups (or all of the above) have reported the first update can take 30 - 40 minutes. Subsequent updates are only grabbing one day of data and are much quicker. You may want to edit you zap2it line up on their web site so it only includes channels you're interested in.

Quote[/b] ] However, it was choppy and the sound wasn't very good (this is exactly what happened with Sage TV).

Sound like you've either got a crappy PC, or crappy MPEG2 decoder installed.

GB-PVR doesnt do the MPEG2 encoding (during recording), this is done by the capture devices on board MPEG2 hardware. GB-PVR doesnt do the playback itself, it hands this off to an MPEG2 decoder installed on you PC. You can change the MPEG2 decoder on playback tab of the Config app.

[LPC]

sub,

I edited my channel line-up to only three channels and the update took no more than a minute. I then opened the program and tried viewing some of the channels but all I get is a snowy black screen. The guide, however, seems to work and actually allows me to set the timer.

Speaking of which, are there different recording formats (i.e., VCD or SVCD) available?

I also changed the MPEG2 decoder setting as you suggested but the video signal from my digital box continues to be choppy and the sound still produces static. I view my digital box through WinTV 2000 (the program from Hauppauge) with no such problem so it might not be my system nor the MPEG2 decoder.

Thanks for your reply.

[sub]

Quote[/b] ]Speaking of which, are there different recording formats (i.e., VCD or SVCD) available?

With GB-PVR, the conexant devices(Hauppauge PVR250 and its close relatives) can only record to MPEG2, the GO7007SB devices (Plextor PX-TV402U etc) can record to MPEG1/MPEG2/MPEG4/DivX. I have no interest in VCD or SVCD, so something like WinTV2000 may be a better product for you if these are something you require.

Quote[/b] ]I then opened the program and tried viewing some of the channels but all I get is a snowy black screen.

If you use the tuning assistant, does it find all your channels? What country are you in?

Quote[/b] ]I also changed the MPEG2 decoder setting as you suggested but the video signal from my digital box continues to be choppy and the sound still produces static. I view my digital box through WinTV 2000 (the program from Hauppauge) with no such problem so it might not be my system nor the MPEG2 decoder.

Whats the specs of your machine, and what MPEG2 decoder are you using? If you select to use the Intervideo NonCSS decoder on the playback tab of the config app, then GB-PVR video playback should be *exactly* the same as WinTV2000.