2008-05-28, 05:05 PM
Two quick questions for people who know more about this than I:
One of my usages of GBPVR is to have a stock of childrens shows on hand, so that when my kids want to watch TV, we can have some nice control over what they're watching. As such, I record a number of kids shows, and have a small issue I'd like some help with.
When I go to record a specific show, and choose all episodes on this channel, on any day (or whatever the verbage is) I get a "Failed" message, yet the recurring event does show up, and some episodes are flagged to record and show up in my pending list. These seem to be episodes that have not yet had episode-specific information delivered.
Now that GBPVR supports a more granular level of transcoding, I would like to start over with recording some of these shows, record at a higher quality setting, and then have GBPVR work its magic to make me XVIDs overnight.
Given all that, here's what I'm wondering about. I presume that under-the-covers, there is some way that GBPVR knows what it has recorded in the past, episodic information,etc. So I would like to keep the recordings I have now (maybe not episodic information, but want to keep them available). So I guess the question is, is there a way to purge the episode-specific information about specific shows, to allow re-recording of these episodes?
Second question - I'm finding myeslf in codec hell. I'm trying to get my codecs in order. I have some old DIVX files (not XVID) available for the kidlets. I had AC3Filter installed, after reading wiki, i've uninstalled it and gone with FFDSHOW. I'm using VMR9 (I think, I've been playing with the settings) with ffdshow as codec for both video and audio decoders. I have a license for Nvidia PureVideo (or whatever that codec is called) so I could use that, I've tried different combinations with little success). I was having an issue with sound only coming out of the right channel, so I switched to WaveOut which solved that problem, but it seems to have created another. As the video progresses, the video and audio synch gets progressively worse. Earlier today it was so bad that my 4-year old asked "me to fix the TV, its broken". Any suggestions?
Wow I'm a bit rambling today, sorry about that
-Blu
One of my usages of GBPVR is to have a stock of childrens shows on hand, so that when my kids want to watch TV, we can have some nice control over what they're watching. As such, I record a number of kids shows, and have a small issue I'd like some help with.
When I go to record a specific show, and choose all episodes on this channel, on any day (or whatever the verbage is) I get a "Failed" message, yet the recurring event does show up, and some episodes are flagged to record and show up in my pending list. These seem to be episodes that have not yet had episode-specific information delivered.
Now that GBPVR supports a more granular level of transcoding, I would like to start over with recording some of these shows, record at a higher quality setting, and then have GBPVR work its magic to make me XVIDs overnight.
Given all that, here's what I'm wondering about. I presume that under-the-covers, there is some way that GBPVR knows what it has recorded in the past, episodic information,etc. So I would like to keep the recordings I have now (maybe not episodic information, but want to keep them available). So I guess the question is, is there a way to purge the episode-specific information about specific shows, to allow re-recording of these episodes?
Second question - I'm finding myeslf in codec hell. I'm trying to get my codecs in order. I have some old DIVX files (not XVID) available for the kidlets. I had AC3Filter installed, after reading wiki, i've uninstalled it and gone with FFDSHOW. I'm using VMR9 (I think, I've been playing with the settings) with ffdshow as codec for both video and audio decoders. I have a license for Nvidia PureVideo (or whatever that codec is called) so I could use that, I've tried different combinations with little success). I was having an issue with sound only coming out of the right channel, so I switched to WaveOut which solved that problem, but it seems to have created another. As the video progresses, the video and audio synch gets progressively worse. Earlier today it was so bad that my 4-year old asked "me to fix the TV, its broken". Any suggestions?
Wow I'm a bit rambling today, sorry about that
-Blu
PVR Setup:
Dell GX270 LP/P4 2.6gHz HT/768Meg PC3200
MSI NX6200AX-TD128LF/Hauppauge PVR150LP/Seagate 250 gig
XP-Pro/GBPVR v1.2.13/MCE Remote/HIP/SchedulesDirect Listings
Dell GX270 LP/P4 2.6gHz HT/768Meg PC3200
MSI NX6200AX-TD128LF/Hauppauge PVR150LP/Seagate 250 gig
XP-Pro/GBPVR v1.2.13/MCE Remote/HIP/SchedulesDirect Listings