newbie problems with Live TV and DVD

[hutch]

Hi,
First off I love this app - sooooooo much better than M$ MCE - well it would be if I could get it working . Im sure t must be my configuration as others seen to be having no probs. I have trawled the forums but still no joy.

First problem is Live TV. Using older Hauppauge drivers WinTV would work but GBPVR wouldn't, some nice chappy on forum suggested to someone else that they should upgrade the drivers and it fixed it for them so I have done the same. Now live TV does work but it takes over 50 seconds to display the picture, then after 45 seconds it returns me to the GBPVR menu. WinTV display pics immediately.

Second problem is the DVD player app. My DVD drive is my e:\ drive so I change this in config but if I try to select DVD from the GBPVR menu the app hangs and I have to end task it.

I have a 2Ghz P4 machine with PVR250 card
Hauppauge PVR PCI II driver v1.18.21.22266
Intel 82845G graphics driver v6.13.10.3510
Hitachi DVD RAM GF-2000 drive driver v5.1.2535.0

This is on Windows MCE with SP2 (with Media Centre Scheduler service and Media Centre Reciever service both stopped and set to manual).

Any help is appreciated.

[cginzel]

Hutch,

I believe the initial delay is because GB-PVR actually queues the live TV to a file on the hard drive and then displays that... I'm not sure why sub has it implemented that way... maybe it is easier to handle the pause/rewind.

As to why it won't play for more than 45 seconds, could be drivers or network settings. I just found that setting my host NIC from auto to 100 MB Full duplex helped me with Live TV over my wireless to my MediaMVP, but I guess you're watching it on your computer right?

-Charles

[hutch]

Hi, yip for the moment I am watching on my monitor.

Forgot to mention there is a 6 sec pause also when I change channels.

[Guest]

Same problem here =(

Is this normal ?

My setup is pretty limited: PIII 800 Mhz... (but pvr 250 + xCard) Could this be the reason ?

l8er, Cesto

[luckycat]

How do you change channels ?

[Guest]

Well for me it take more like 3 secs...
I change channels using my keyboard (arrows).

Any idea ?

[hutch]

i am using the hauppauge remote to change channels. i can use this remote on wintv and the change is immediate.

I am not so concerned about the channel switching delay at present its the 50+ secs to get a picture then the returning to the menu thats the real problem for me - makes this great app practically unusable.