General support question

[possum]

I've been using gbpvr for a few years with a PVR150 analog card and my cable provider switched the majority of their basic lineup to digital broadcast. I upgraded to a HVR1600 card and have had a bit of a nightmare setting it up. I've got my capture source set up correctly(I believe) and my EPG seems to be up and running, but I think I'm having decoder issues. A lot of times I have sync issues, freeze ups, and flickering screens. Anybody have a rock solid decoder/mux combo they use? Also, do the advanced codecs have an influence? Most of the channels I tune in are 480i, but some of them are 720p and some are 1080i.

I have a AMD x2 processor 2.6 ghz
Diamond Radeon pcix16 HD 3650 with a 512mb i think
Haupaugge hvr-1600 tuning digital

any input would help

[Snooze]

MPC video and audio on playback, AC3 Filter on the AC3 selection with SPDIF pass thru for AC3 and DTS. DVD tab using PDVD8 and AC3 Filter, DVR-MS BDAmux works the best for me with the 1600 on charter and comskip not modified. VMR9 Custom was somewhat satisfying, but I was trying to get EVR work to eliminate tearing, which is really an improvement on XP. It seems to work the best for me all except navigation in DVD/ISO. I seem to have broken my VMR9 Custom (need it or EVR for custom plugins so I cant turn back now) Other than the DVD/ISO navigation I am really happy.

[possum]

where do you get the MPC codec?

[whurlston]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpc-hc/files/

You want the "Standalone filters (x86)" package. Register the filters you want to use. For MPEG2 video, you want to register "Mpeg2DecFilter.ax" and it will show up as "MPC - MPEG-2 Video Decoder (Gabest)".

[possum]

Is there more of you out there that successfully use this codec? Also, with cable providers, how often are you guys having to do a rescan?

[whurlston]

I use it successfully. It's a continuation of the MPV decoder that is recommended a lot on the forum.

I rescan all the time for debugging support but I rarely have to remap my channels.

[imagn]

I use this codec successfully,

I dont have to rescan that often, I think i have done it twice in the last 6 months, with comcast in MD

[dennit]

You want the "Standalone filters (x86)" package. Register the filters you want to use. For MPEG2 video, you want to register "Mpeg2DecFilter.ax" and it will show up as "MPC - MPEG-2 Video Decoder (Gabest)".

Whurlston, can you explain why I don't see those standalone filters in the MPC non-standalone packages? Will they be installed anyway, if MPC-HC is installed?

[whurlston]

Whurlston, can you explain why I don't see those standalone filters in the MPC non-standalone packages? Will they be installed anyway, if MPC-HC is installed?

MPC-HC has the filters compiled internally into the program similar to VLC. You can't use them in other applications like GBPVR unless you install the standalone versions.

You can install the MPC-HC package + the standalone filters package if you want to have the player and use the decoders in GBPVR.

[dennit]

MPC-HC has the filters compiled internally into the program similar to VLC. You can't use them in other applications like GBPVR unless you install the standalone versions.

You can install the MPC-HC package + the standalone filters package if you want to have the player and use the decoders in GBPVR.

I've been under the impression that MPC-HC used DirectShow the same way that GBPVR does, while VLC uses internally compiled filters. It sounds like that's not correct. When GBPVR has trouble playing something, I expect MPC to have the same trouble. As far as I've seen, whenever I've tested it, that's been true, but now it sounds like it's merely coincidence. I suppose I should stick to playing the file in Graphedit when I want to do that test.