2009-01-04, 12:02 PM
zed Wrote:No, I don't use it for live TV (that's what the TV is for). I mostly record, watch later, and delete...nothing fancy.
The HD-PVR is connected to an HP box that's used exclusively for a video server, running GB-PVR. It does only capture and lives in a spare bedroom, out of sight. I have a cable STB dedicated to it. It also has an ATSC capture card (Twinhan) that I record stuff off the air with sometimes.
I usually play back using the Popcorn Hour (PCH) box connected to a Mitsubishi 65" HDTV. It works quite well and you don't have to dink around with video card, drivers, codecs, renderers, etc. Highly recommended...
I also have a PC GB-PVR client system connected to a 32" Viewsonic HDTV that I sometimes use (when the wife is watching the big TV). It has an ASUS motherboard (I forget exactly which one...M-78something) running an Athlon 5000+ dual-core cpu with the on-board HDMI output (essentially an ATI 3200) and it works pretty well (after a lot of dinking with codecs, rendereres, drivers, etc.). I run GB-PVR on XP on it with the EVR renderer and the Cyberlink H.264/AVC Decoder (PDVD8) for video and the ArcSoft Audio Decoder for audio.
Geez, I bet you can just smell the money in your house, haha. Nice setups though. While we are talking about it. I have XP installed on 2.66ghz core 2 duo, 2 gigs kingston hyperX, and nvidia 9600GS, displaying to a 50" Samsung DLP HDTV.
The PCH sounds very nice. I have a network attached storage PC I built using FreeNAS boasting 1.3TB of usable space. Its in a raid 5 configuration so I have some redundancy if a drive fails. I stream all my vids/music/pics to the living room from it to GBPVR. I also have a modded xbox running XBMC in the bedroom on a 42" Samsung enhanced def Plasma(samsung fanboy here you can see).
smajor Wrote:Whoops, sorry I'm late to the party, holidays and all!
zed is correct, it was only an example: C:\channel -f -a0 2 300
...would tune to channel 300, I'd recommend making sure this works with your stb via the Command prompt before going with GB-PVR, once that is working, replace 300 with {channel} and GB-PVR will do the rest. I'm successfully using it for Live TV and recording.
Also, of note, the "2" in my example is my 4250's AV/C Panel Device in my device list. If you have OTHER tuners, yours could be 3, 4 or any other number. You can find it at the Command Prompt by typing: channel -v
Look for your device ID in the list and use it's number. If you ever remove/add/rearrange tuners and your channel changing breaks, it's likely it has a new number.
The -f (force) and -a0 flags were important to make the 4250 work for me.
As for AV, make sure you're using the latest Hauppauge drivers and that your audio type matches what GB-PVR is expecting (aac vs. ac3) - there are a bunch of threads around here that discuss that.
smajor, dont sweat it, hope your holidays were as awesome as mine were. partys everywhere, haha. I eventually got it working with zeds help. i have the dch3200 moto set top and it showed up as device 2 as well.
Ill go searching for the aac/ac3 threads asap, im not even sure where to configure that in GBPVR but Im sure it will turn up. Thanks for the help though!!!
paf077 Wrote:I can't even get the firestb package installed. msiexec keeps saying "the installation package could not be opened. verify that the package exist and that you can access it". What am I missing here.? I even put it in the root of C drive.
Thanks
Paul
When in doubt, reboot, redownload, reinstall. If you are on Vista, make sure you run as admin. Not sure how else to help you on that one..... Anyone?