Woohoo

[paulrking]

Finally after much digging in cupboards to find the correct combinations of cables and a little vb.net to get the redrat3 working I now have a *fully* working GBPVR  

Just for the record I have the following hardware etc..
AMD Athlon XP2500+, 512MB PC2700, 2x160GB hdd
Hauppauge PVR350
ATI Radeon 9600SE
redrat3 usb infrared adaptor
PACE SkyMinibox
Response Video Sender / Receiver

Issues
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The UK version of the PVR350 ships with a 9 pin din to scart connector which caused me a few problems. The 9 pin din end has a stereo jack on it which I was trying to use to ship the audio from the pvr350 to the sound card so that I got audio from both TV/Video and NetRadio/MP3. This did not work. I had to use the other 9pin din connector that has svideo, audio L+R and composite video outs. Take the audio L+R into a stereo jack (one cable which was hiding in the cupboard) and then into the line in of the sound card. Now take the line out of the sound card from stereo jack back to audio L+R (another cable which was hiding in the cupboard). Add that to the composite video out and convert back to scart (yup another cable!!!. Simple huh!!!!

Second issue - using the redrat3 out of the box should have been simple as they provide a command line exe to change channels. However, when I tried to run the darn thing I kept getting this error.... An unhandled exception of type 'System.Runtime.Serialization. SerializationException' occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: BinaryFormatter Version incompatibility. Expected Version 1.0. Received Version 1008738336.1684104552. Searched MSDN and all I could find was some garbage about IIS and webservices. So knocked up a little command line exe that simplay accepts the {channel} input from gbpvr and sends it onto the PAC box using ir signals stored in an xml file. I might get round to tidying it up enough to give to subs (work permitting this week!!

That's about it really - I added one more complication by sending the output round the house using Response Video Sender / Receiver. This sends the video and stereo sound to the receivers and allows the IR back to the transmitter. So set my all-in-one to emulate a hauppauge remote and viola control of gbpvr from all over the house.

I might be tempted to have a look at the Media MVP but I'm not sure how it handles live-TV etc. subs can you enlighten?

A big thanks to all on the forum for their help either directly or indirectly and esp. to subs for writing a #### fine piece of software.

Regards
PK

[sub]

Thats great news, congratulations.

If you get a chance to check out an Media MVP, do it. I think they're excellent. LiveTV also works very well with them (including support for FF/RW in livetv buffer). They're a great device for the price, and a nice silent addition to the home theatre setup.