PVR350 owner that gets system lockup?

[PVRNewbie]

I'll second that emotion. I never have problems with lockups while watching recordings, but trying to change channels or exit Live TV will almost always lock me up. I'm like jsouza, I'm not really even interested in the Live TV capability, so it's not such a big deal to me.

If I set my OSD to "Overlay" mode then Live TV is much more stable, but it still locks up.

Good Luck!

[jsouza]

Quote[/b] ]And that works without problems for you? So, now I basically need a foolproof way of not hitting the "live tv" button ;-)

Yes, with version 22266 of the PVR-350 drivers, my system is working well for recording and playing back recordings, just not live TV. Note, however, that I will have problems with recording, if the GB-PVR UI is active at the time (as this uses the OSD code of the PVR-350 driver), so I've learned not to leave the GB-PVR UI running when the system is unattended (and recording shows).

[stefan]

jsouza, have you tried this lately, with new drivers, I mean. I've been trying to do all sorts of stuff while recording, and I cannot get it to hang. I've tried messing with the gui, watching another previosly recorded show, rewinding, ff:ing, you name it. Even tried watching the show that is recording, before it's finished recording. Rewinding and ff:ing in it, too. No lockups :-) What boggles my mind is that I can't figure out how the latter case differs from watching a live tv show. Isn't that exactly what you do then? Record a file and start watching it before it stops recording?

[jarodl]

Quote[/b] (stefan @ Nov. 02 2004,08:06)]Even tried watching the show that is recording, before it's finished recording. Rewinding and ff:ing in it, too. No lockups :-)

How are you doing this? Are you using another application to watch the show while it is recording, like WinTV 2000? Or is there a way to watch it in GB-PVR while it is recording? If I could watch a program while it is recording, that would be ideal. Then I could schedule all the shows for recording that I want to watch for the night, and watch them while they are recording. That would be better than using WinTV 2000 for live TV, because you can't change channels while you are watching live tv. In other words, if I have paused one show for a half hour, another show may start on another channel before I finish watching the first show, and I miss the beginning of the second show.

I am using a PVR350.

[stefan]

I've checked this out closer now. It seems you can start watching a file while it's recording in gbpvr. What you do is you go to "recordings" -> "pending" and there you see the show recording, having status "recording". You choose that show, then you get the option to watch it. However: you cannot watch more than has been recorded when you start watching :-(

Let's say you've recorded 15 minutes of a 1 hour show. This is when you start watch it while it's still recording. When 15 minutes have passed, gbpvr think's the show is over, and sends you back to the menu. What you'd have to do then is to start watching the show again, skipping to the point where you were...

My guess is that what you get to see is a copy of the show recorded so far?

Btw, I think I saw in a post somewhere something about a resume function? I haven't seen anything like that in the application? Did I dream this up?

[reven]

the resume is an option in the config app. a popup window appears when you watch a previous watched file asking if you want to resume from point of exit or start again.

not sure if it works on recordings thou, in progress i mean

[jarodl]

I don't think GB-PVR is making a copy of the "in progress" recording, because that would take a while for a file in the Gb range. I could be wrong, though.

Sub,

Is there any way you could modify the way "in progress" recordings are played back so that the end (or size) of the file is continuously updated so that the playback doesn't end when it reaches the end of the file (that is, the end of the file when the playback started)?

[sub]

GB-PVR will play the entire recording in the next release.

[Guest]

i am trying to install the PVR 350 .

So i downloaded the drivers listed on this thread.

I installed it and it says
"Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II (Encoder/Decoder)"
which i realize is that same as the PVR 350.

Now i tried running GBPVR and i get an error message "No PVR 350 Found"

then
i tried to just run winTV and i got "hcwchan.dll not found" so i isntalled that dll then i got another error that another dll was not installed. Besides manually dling all these DLLS is there a way to get this card working?

[jsouza]

You can follow the instructions here to manually install the drivers and related DLLs:

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support_pvr250-350.html